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Seems reasonable but it's not as if no one speaks Korean outside North Korea to verify what's being said.
by AlecSchueler 7mo ago
Seems reasonable but it's not as if no one speaks Korean outside North Korea to verify what's being said.
- kdheiwns 7mo agoPeople don't believe native speakers of their own language when they're told things that conflict with their political world view. Why would they trust someone who says "that's not an accurate translation" if that collides with their political opinions?
- ben_w 7mo agoFor any outsider telling me about North Korea, including South Koreans, I can't tell if I've been pranked with e.g. the South Korean version of The Onion, let alone something milder like I'm being told about this by someone who takes their version Breitbart more seriously than their version of The Wall Street Journal.
- AlecSchueler 7mo agoYou can translate it yourself with automated tooling nowadays. You can ask a second opinion from a different Korean.