It is a difficult task to find news and videos that see and present North Korea, as a country. An actual place where people live and North Koreans as a people, not as a herd of complacent sheep under the thumb of a “despot”.
The film “Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul” addresses the common view of North Korea head-on and asks a very simple question, is any of it true?
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“Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul” or “LCPIS” gives insight into how the war has affected those in the South and those in the North. What’s more important is that the narratives of the two “former” North Korean Citizens is completely alien to what is commonly said about North Korea.
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South Korean human rights lawyer Jang Kyong-ook, is the first testimonial of the film and speaks to a variety of abuses that the South Korean government has committed and continues to commit. His explanation of the National Security Act, or NSA for short shows South Korea in a much different light than the West presents it.
Often the South is said to be the good half of Korea, it was the one to embrace democracy and economic liberalism after all. The reality is, the South was ruled by numerous dictators, committed dozens if not hundreds of war crimes in the Korean War, and as mercenaries during the Vietnam War is an often “forgotten” fact.
Mr. Jang, speaks to the creation of “spies” by the NSA where they coerce false confessions and testimonials from defectors to continue the narrative of the North being a proverbial hell on earth.
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After Mr. Jang, the North Korean “defectors” are given time to speak. The most notable thing about both of them is that they both wish to return to the North. With the South so often being portrayed as a land of milk and honey when compared to the North the fact that the “defectors” wish to return, expeditiously, does again speak to the narratives about the North not being wholly accurate.
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It has become a bit of an open secret that defector testimonials are dubious at best. As reported by the Guardian, many of the stories about the North fall apart with a bit of scrutiny. Many stories about the North come from Radio Free Asia which receives funding from the U.S. government and often publishes the most outlandish stories from the North with little to no pushback in the media landscape. And that’s the big thing about the film.
It speaks to the nature of truth in the face of a machine, an empire, that wants the world to believe one thing. It’s a bit bittersweet upon viewing LCPIS. A common notion in the West is the truth will come out. It may be slow but when it arrives it will win. But the nature of propaganda, especially when it has strong financial backing, shows that truth in the modern age is as valuable as the screens it’s read on.
I have people arguing the US is as bad (or worse) than China on human rights and freedoms. The US is going the wrong way, but China has been there for decades. People get so upset about injustices under capitalism and liberal democracy that they misjudge the scale of horror under alternative economic and political systems.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world
on 24 Oct 19:55
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No one said that. You said that. Why did you say that?
okuyasu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 24 Oct 23:49
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why does captcha have so much trouble figuring out my locales and what am I supposed to do in this one?
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 24 Oct 19:48
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Even if you knew what to do I find those captchas for archive links never work. It will just make me keep completing them forever and never show me the site.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
on 24 Oct 22:20
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It’s easy - you just mark all the zonks that contain an ezinamabhasi.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Oct 23:00
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BakerBagel@midwest.social
on 24 Oct 20:55
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My dad grew up in St. Louis in the 70’s and 80’s. He never heard his parents say “I love you” to each other or even kiss. This is because in America, love for anything other than the accumulation of wealth is forbidden. And definitely not because my grandparents were a terrible marriage.
Yeonmi Park spends her time tourring far-right podcasts and conventions. You might as well talk to Cubans in Miami about Cuba.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 24 Oct 21:08
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Hasn’t she been somewhat discredited as a propagandist?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
on 24 Oct 21:21
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This is because of capitalism.
-Some communist idiot.
"North Korea did some things right, but our brand of Communism will be much better."
Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul
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I have people arguing the US is as bad (or worse) than China on human rights and freedoms. The US is going the wrong way, but China has been there for decades. People get so upset about injustices under capitalism and liberal democracy that they misjudge the scale of horror under alternative economic and political systems.
No one said that. You said that. Why did you say that?
Dont drink and comment
Lol what?!
Without illegal cookie wall: archive.ph/O8Pjj
thanks but…
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why does captcha have so much trouble figuring out my locales and what am I supposed to do in this one?
Even if you knew what to do I find those captchas for archive links never work. It will just make me keep completing them forever and never show me the site.
It’s easy - you just mark all the zonks that contain an ezinamabhasi.
I mean do you have a vpn on?
That shouldn’t matter, your browser already sends a Accept-Language header to every website exactly for this purpose.
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Yeomni Park recounts in vivid detail how she was sold to a mentally ill family in China as sex slaves by a gang of human traffickers
My dad grew up in St. Louis in the 70’s and 80’s. He never heard his parents say “I love you” to each other or even kiss. This is because in America, love for anything other than the accumulation of wealth is forbidden. And definitely not because my grandparents were a terrible marriage.
Yeonmi Park spends her time tourring far-right podcasts and conventions. You might as well talk to Cubans in Miami about Cuba.
Hasn’t she been somewhat discredited as a propagandist?
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It didn’t read as a joke at all. It’s just quotes.
Her book is wild.
This is USA, 20-30 years from now.
I genuinely think that’s optimistic at this pace. Not trying to be a downer.