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North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies
- sushzbdbehsh 4y ago>SOURCE: RADIO FREE ASIA, LIBERTY TIMES
- esailija 4y agoI.E. US State Department
- 41tor 4y agoSo to clarify, what's your issue here? Do you think they weren't executed? Or is it that you think executing them is totally normal and cool?
- pigsty 4y agoIf you were to believe them, Kim ate too much cheese and it forced him to disappear, and he died several times. Also he killed an uncle with an anti-aircraft gun, and he reappeared, so he fed him to dogs, then he reappeared again. (These are things they literally reported) Anyone who enjoys their reporting may also have an interest in Weekly World News.
- kcatskcolbdi 4y agoThey weren't executed.
- ShivShankaran 4y agoMost of these news coming out of north Korea are eventually proven fake. Not condoning NK but most stories are just exaggerated nonsense https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apart https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-k...
- gammalost 4y agoThe issue is that Radio Free Asia isn't a trustworthy source.
- 41tor 4y agoSource?
- gammalost 4y agoOne classic example is this https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/haircut-03262014163017.html/ampRFA https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/... And the fact that it's US sponsored media targeted against an ideological enemy
- dry_soup 4y agoRadio Free Asia has repeatedly put out exaggerated or sensational claims about North Korea, at least some of which have turned out to be false. Nobody is endorsing NK, executions, etc.
- signatoremo 4y agoCan you list an example? Not that I don’t believe you, but RFA why biased is nevertheless boring and often not known for clickbait.
- MrRiddle 4y ago
- uo21tp5hoyg 4y agoI'm glad you specified in your first comment on this site that you're not CIA otherwise I would have been suspicious.
- ShivShankaran 4y agoMinistry of Truth™
- tjpnz 4y agoSo because two sources you have a problem with contributed to the story it never happened, right?
- ShivShankaran 4y agoYes I can guarantee it never happened. Most tabloids keep publishing these click bait because they keep getting... Clicks. Brb spinning up some blogs about north Korea
- sushzbdbehsh 4y agoyes
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoYou can not educate your youth like the boss was educated, thats decadent.
- kleiba 4y agoA drastic reminder of the pure luxury we're allowed to live in in the West, and a call to arms against all those trying to threaten our democracies.
- AuthorizedCust 4y agoI’m reluctant to use “luxury” to describe these rights, and even more reluctant to suggest the west shares them well. The former sets up an argument that these rights are superfluous, and the latter fails to recognize areas where the west does poorly at upholding rights, especially the limitations on speech imposed by many western governments.
- matesz 4y ago> the limitations on speech imposed by many western governments Ok enough I quit hacker news
- LegitShady 4y agoThe list of people who care about you being here is empty while people concerned about the trajectory of free expression is a significant portion of several democracies. Good luck on Reddit or Slashdot or whatever is next for you.
- wholinator2 4y agoThen go. The quality of your comment is extremely poor and is the exact kind of talk that will eventually turn this place into reddit, echo chamber devoid of actual discussion and difficult ideas. Here, the goal is to say something meaningful and extend the conversation, not stop discussion with vague appeal to emotions about frustrations with the "wrong opinion". I'd've actually been on your side in a discussion if it had continued rather than being stonewalled by attempting to set up a barrier between who's allowed to post and who's not. By commenting that you're implicitly pushing this place towards a culture that throws its hands up and plugs its ears whenever a "difficult" idea is presented. If you cannot handle that, then this isn't the place for you. But who knows, maybe if you'd genuinely asked and heard them out instead of going all, "we don't like your kind here", you might've found yourself agreeing with them. Who knows, but this is about the genuine and free discussion of ideas, not baiting flame wars. Edit: this is a long comment. It's the first one I've posted after seeing growing number of anti-discussion, reddit-like behavior. It's personally frustrating to me because this is where I go to get away from stuff like this. I hope this isn't too angry or judgy, and I hope everyone's doing okay.
- dtx1 4y agoAt some point we have to accept that this is the People of North Koreas fault. They are very aware that their country is massively worse off than the rest of the world, yet they don't murder their kings.
- notRobot 4y agoLmao. > They are very aware that their country is massively worse off than the rest of the world That's not necessarily true. They don't have access to the internet or foreign media. Only propaganda. > yet they don't murder their kings If it was that easy, every country would be a democracy.
- 41tor 4y ago>That's not necessarily true. They don't have access to the internet or foreign media. Only propaganda. That's wildly inaccurate, read "Nothing to Envy" then educate yourself on advancements in censorship circumvention since then -- they regularly get movies and films on USB paired with broadcasts into border regions.
- dmitriid 4y agoThere are currently people in Russia with near-unlimited access to internet (and until quite recently with near-unlimited access to travel) who sincerely believe that the West is hell on Earth. You greatly underestimate the power of propaganda.
- 41tor 4y agoSpeaking as an American... they can stay in Russia then, more power to them. I remember seeing a video of two guys just walking holding hands and the entire town basically ready to jump them, not knowing there was a camera going. If they want to live like victims, fine, that's a choice you can make, I just don't want them exporting their insanity.
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- 41tor 4y agoRest in power. Death to totalitarians.
- throwaway122122 4y ago>source: Radio Free Asia, Liberty Times Every time. And as usual, only unnamed sources. Other great hits include: - Every citizen must use the same haircut as Kim Jong-un - NK government announced that they found a "unicorn" - NK official was executed for bad posture - Kim Jong-un's uncle was eaten alive by starving dogs - Kim Jong-un labels DOG MEAT a 'superfood' - North Korea tells parents to give kids patriotic name like 'bomb', 'gun' and 'satellite' - North Korea bans sarcasm because Kim Jong-un fears people only agree with him ‘ironically’ It's not like North Korea is paradise. It's certainly not. It's another poor third world nation, not unlike many of the ones currently on the western side of things where the same sort of life happens. But, of course, you won't hear a word of (unless it's Cuba, Venezuela or Nicaragua, that is).
- fyresala 4y agoI doubt you can find any named source in NK OK...maybe Kim Jong-un himself? At least we can consider him as an authoritative source.
- DoItToMe81 4y agoNorth Korea has had thousands of foreign workers, mostly aid workers, in its borders, and businessmen from neutral countries that have not signed up to sanctions are given privileged access to the country. They are more reliable sources on how the country operates than any "unnamed source". The big name I can think of is Felix Abt, who wrote about life in Pyongyang. Bad, but much safer than most of the other comparable capitals he did business in. He's biased in favour of ending sanctions and sanitizes some of what he said, but "A Capitalist in North Korea" confirms some of the negative assumptions about the country while criticising the more extreme claims.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoYou're not going to get reports about executions taking place on airfields in Hyesan from people who are stuck in Pyongyang.
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- DoItToMe81 4y agoIsn't this sourced from the same people who claimed North Korea made propaganda about colonizing the sun?
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- pfoof 4y agoOut of context but TVP is national polish TV full of authoritarian leaning party political bias
- iJohnDoe 4y agoA lot of these comments are really disgusting. Kudos to the few trying to call then out. There have been many firsthand accounts of those that have escaped North Korea and shared what it’s like to live there. Concentration camps, starving, torture, chemical warfare experiments on prisoners, famine. A firsthand account from a female that escaped from North Korea shared that the North Korea government will shutdown the power grid without notice and then raid homes looking for DVDs stuck in players (because no power to eject) and will kill those people responsible. Those that escape North Korea across the river to China are caught and put into sex trafficking. China is complicit in supporting the horrible treatment of the North Korean people. At least one source. https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/71/ https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/71/