My gfs sister was telling me that a lot of Japanese and Korean makeup brands are just rebranded Chinese products because they wouldn't sell in the west otherwise
Absolutely not, for the sole reason that DPR Korea isn't a real entity in the minds of liberals. It's the boogeyman, the place with no democracy, subzero freedoms, more arrests and executions than births and so on. They can't fathom there being a real, physical thing where DPR Korea is on the map, unless it's desolate wasteland or the DMZ.
Not sure. This is the original Tumblr post, but it's exactly what you see in the OP so that's not terribly helpful. If you recognize the platform the screenshot is from that might help with tracking it down (a simple verbatim Google search turned up nothing).