.ml users rushing to defend NK
… Whom would be promptly executed by their fat dictator daddy if they ever showed that kind of image in North Korea.
executions are carried out by firing squads in public to instill fear in people
Charlie Kirk would have approved (CW: reddit)
The very first thing he says is the most damning.
He wanted to use the death penalty against the people who stood up to Trump’s fascist insurrection.
Dude got what he earned.
Imagine your local movie ninja leaves you the portable DVD player beneath the usual log at the edge of town. You bundle it up inside of your goods and inconspicuously bring it home. That night you gather your husband and three children to partake in the wonder that is western cinema. You blow out a few candles and remove a small brick from the hearth, retrieving the portable player from within and popping in your two counterfeit Enjerjizer D-cell batteries. There in the gloom of your commonspace the disc whirrs to life, and the gentle glow of the Morbius menu screen illuminates the faces of your awe-stricken children. It is like magic.
The following afternoon you kneel solemnly in the town square, looking down at their bodies. The distant croon of a raven can be heard.
“모비우스 재미있게 보셨나요?”, the stern-faced soldier asks, the barrel of his pistol planted firmly at the base of your skull. “나는 닌자에게 내일 가져오라고 부탁했습니다.”
It’s the last thing you ever hear.
Word is that it’s actually really hard to obtain Morbius, as Glorious Leader checks out the only copy nearly every single week.
It’s Jong’in time!
This is poetry
Weird. They mass produce copies of censored Western films and then distribute them at little kiosks. I’m assuming they’re talking about uncensored content?
It’s the BBC. 'm assuming they’re talking out their ass.
The report, which is based on more than 300 interviews with people who escaped from North Korea in the past 10 years,
Refugees from DPRK have been found exaggerating negatives to garner more sympathy/support
maybe you should go there and verify.
People did. Let me see if I can find it:
Edit: fount it https://youtu.be/y5DNJfB73N8
The BBC mildy misrepresented this situation. People have gone there and visited them in person. They consume Western films. They just need to be censored. That is NOT okay, but it’s the reality in North Korea.
Why would anyone want to goto London?
To experience a surveillance state with severe human rights abuses
That’s okay, I already live in the US thanks
they’re talking out their ass.
Yes, which is par for the course.
What is behind the inconsistencies?
Cash payments in return for interviews with North Korean refugees have been standard practice in the field for years.
Initially, the payment was to cover the cost of meals and local transport, which was approximately $30 in the late 1990s when I first began interviewing in China and South Korea. However, the fees had risen to $200 per hour by the time I attempted to interview people from North Korea in May 2014.
A government official from the South Korean ministry of unification told me the range of fees could vary wildly, from $50-500 per hour, depending on the quality of information.
But this practice raises a difficulty: how does the payment change the relation between a researcher and an interviewee, and what effect will it have on the story itself?
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I wonder what shows are the most popular
Just how many North Koreans are left?
Just for watching movies.
Fuck.
Please tell me it was for watching The Big Bang Theory 🙏
Friends (1994) and Game of Thrones (2011)
Last few seasons of GoT, I assume 😉
Haven’t they been through enough?!
They probably turned themselves in after watching the last episode
That dude is a shorty.
When the current leader Kim Jong Un came to power in 2011, the escapees who were interviewed said they had hoped their lives would improve, as Kim had promised they would no longer need to “tighten their belts” – meaning they would have enough to eat.
IIRC from past reading, he did try to increase the amount of meat available, which for North Korea is a big deal.
kagis
While North Korean diets have historically been plant-heavy, there have been efforts to increase the availability of protein sources, especially since 2005. Despite these efforts, structural and practical limitations prevent major protein farming expansion, including the competition for food stocks, resources and land allocations, much less the ability to acquire seed animals and raise them.
Prior to 2000, except for North Korea’s elites, the country subsisted principally on vegetarian diets. To have meat as few as two to three times a year was the apparent norm. Under Kim Jong Il, that began to change as efforts to expand the availability of animal protein to more of the population began around 2005. Under Kim Jong Un, there has been an even greater emphasis on animal husbandry, including poultry, pig, rabbit and larger grazing animals such as sheep, goats and cattle.
You know, you can do the search before posting the comment and without announcing it to everyone…
Even if I don’t agree with their methodology, as they are a walking kagi advertisement, I still appreciate their comments for providing further insight. I’ve called them out on it before, but they keep going strong and the comments are often in depth and well researched regardless.
Think of them as a placeholder akin to forums.
Does anyone with half a brain actually buy Western media’s “news” about North Korea? lol
I have a very hard time believing this is a widespread thing. And not a soul on here is questioning it for fear of being pegged a tankie.
yeah some of it
Why doesn’t China do anything?
I doubt China gives a single fuck.
North Korea was aligned with the Soviet Union after the Sino-Soviet split. All China needs is a buffer state with the United States and its forces stationed in SK, but it wasn’t interested in turning NK into a vassal state after the Soviet collapse. In short, it doesn’t have as much pull as people might assume, and it’s none too interested in intervention.
They are NK’s #1 trading partner, they have plenty of influence.
This is the future dictator dan wants
