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Re: North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies

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Post by hericium »

phelm wrote: post #52
throwaway122122 wrote: post #22

>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 na…

there are quite a lot of accounts from people who have left

Were they allowed to leave?

Re: North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies

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Post by BurningPenguin »

icare_1er wrote: post #119
BurningPenguin wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, one of France's neighbours here: Nobody gives a damn about you talking about dumb shit, as long as it doesn't endanger one or many people. What we actually care about, is a bunch of people - who coincidentally seem to come from the same political spectrum - using a public space, to artificially push unfounded conspiracy theories, and trying to rile up society, so they can seize power and abolish democracy as a w…

"unfounded conspiracy theories, and trying to rile up society, so they can seize power and abolish democracy as a whole" >> Yeah yeah i know. That's pretty much copy-paste what any totalitarian regimes says when they shutdown the internet, cf. Iran lately. And no thanks, I don't need you to decide for me if a content is rubbish or not, I can work it out for myself... By the way, you wanna talk about how "unfounded" t…

I'm talking about the EU part of your nonsense. I don't follow that Biden-Ukraine stuff. All i know is that there is still no proof for that and the only people whining about his alleged "corruption" are known to project their own corrupt ways onto others.

What i do see all the time here in Germany, are a bunch of bots and funny accounts with random numbers artificially pushing primarily far right topics on Twitter trends and other social media. And that is a problem indeed. As we have seen with those incidents, like that guy at a gas station being shot in the face for demanding the customer to wear a mask...

Re: North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies

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Post by lajosbacs »

thiagoharry wrote: post #86
lajosbacs wrote: post #34

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For me, the only metric is: can people leave from there? People cannot leave North Korea, ergo it sucks.

There are several North Koreans that leaves to work or study in Russia and China, their neighbour countries.

Yes, they can do that but cannot stay, the collateral being their family in NK.

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Post by largepeepee »

osigurdson wrote: post #107
largepeepee wrote: post #103

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The problem with extremist takes like yours, is they remove any nuance, to the point of covering for other equally "anti-human" acts that eventually pop up. Take the falun gong cult, or Scientology of the east for instance. They were protected and given special status in New York and now spend a large amount of their time spreading nonsense propaganda about not just China but supporting extremists right wing parties…

If you like dictatorial regimes, please state it plainly.

Go spread your thinly veiled propaganda elsewhere.

Even the mods notice how blatantly bullshit the post was and flagged it.

Re: North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies

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Post by vdnkh »

icare_1er wrote: post #119
BurningPenguin wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, one of France's neighbours here: Nobody gives a damn about you talking about dumb shit, as long as it doesn't endanger one or many people. What we actually care about, is a bunch of people - who coincidentally seem to come from the same political spectrum - using a public space, to artificially push unfounded conspiracy theories, and trying to rile up society, so they can seize power and abolish democracy as a w…

"unfounded conspiracy theories, and trying to rile up society, so they can seize power and abolish democracy as a whole" >> Yeah yeah i know. That's pretty much copy-paste what any totalitarian regimes says when they shutdown the internet, cf. Iran lately. And no thanks, I don't need you to decide for me if a content is rubbish or not, I can work it out for myself... By the way, you wanna talk about how "unfounded" t…

The fact that this comment isn't flagged and downvoted shows the absolute state of HN.

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Post by ShivShankaran »

wil421 wrote: post #56
ShivShankaran wrote: post #50

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You will hear more than a word of any foreign entity when the US has started plans to invade them while their enemies will be called stunning and brave... eg Taliban, Kurds, vietnamese, Ukrainians.... Irony of calling north Koreans brainwashed

The Kurds and Ukrainians are the US’s enemies?

I meant they are enemies of states that the US wants to attack. Once they are used up, US will throw them out to the dogs. Like how US greenlighted turkey to attack kurds this week.

Re: North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies

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Post by ShivShankaran »

fyresala wrote: post #59
ShivShankaran wrote: post #50

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You will hear more than a word of any foreign entity when the US has started plans to invade them while their enemies will be called stunning and brave... eg Taliban, Kurds, vietnamese, Ukrainians.... Irony of calling north Koreans brainwashed

Replacing US with NK, the comment will never be allowed to post in NK. They don't have an Internet though. Also your comment is a counter-example for the US's brainwash, if that holds.

The irony of you commenting on a brainwashed article proves my point. in NK you can publish nothing, in US almost everything published is deceptive. See my point?

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Post by imwillofficial »

kasey_junk wrote: post #118
smcl wrote: post #114

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HN is a wild place where there are plenty of credulous Americans who will swear blind that the BBC is propaganda along the same lines as KCNA is in North Korea and Pravda was in the USSR ... while declaring that Radio Free Asia is just an independent news agency.

The point isn’t that it’s an unbiased news source. The point is you don’t have to make up some shadowy CIA/State Dept. story about it. It’s right there in the public mission of the governmental agency that actually runs the RFA. You can see the budget, strategy directives etc. The RFA is unapologetically an arm of the US government. Judge it for what it is without dramatizing it.

Well this is awkward…

“One of the C.I.A.'s first major ventures was broadcasting, Although long suspected, it was reported definitively only a few years ago that until 1971 the agency supported both Radio Free Europe, which continues, with private financing, to broadcast to the nations of Eastern Europe, and Radio Liberty, which is beamed at the Soviet Union itself.

The C.I.A.'s participation in those operations was shielded from public view by two front groups, the Free Europe Committee and the American Committee for Liberation, both of which also engaged in a variety of lesser‐known propaganda operations.“

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...

Re: North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies

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Post by imwillofficial »

kasey_junk wrote: post #90
imwillofficial wrote: post #75

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Radio Free Asia is literally a State Department propaganda front and should be treated as such.

No it’s not “literally” a State Department front. It’s a news agency funded by the US government via the US Agency for Global Media, which is an independent agency of the US government. The Secretary of State used to be on the board of directors by rule but that changed in 2017.

I trust the New York Times reporting on the subject.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...

Re: North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies

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Post by osigurdson »

largepeepee wrote: post #124
osigurdson wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you like dictatorial regimes, please state it plainly.

Go spread your thinly veiled propaganda elsewhere. Even the mods notice how blatantly bullshit the post was and flagged it.

What is my thinly veiled propaganda? I think NK sucks (not the people but the government naturally).
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