Executions for consuming foreign media rise under Kim Jong-un (www.telegraph.co.uk)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 12:51
https://lemmy.nz/post/37019306

North Korea has increased its use of the death penalty to target those consuming foreign media, especially from South Korea, since the Covid pandemic.

The number of executions and sentencing increased by nearly 117 per cent after Pyongyang closed its borders in January 2020 compared with the five years before, according to a report by the South Korea-based Transitional Justice Working Group.

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Zexks@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 13:21 next collapse

Lol now lets watch all the ml users justify this and twist it into “true” freedom to die for looking at something.

dubyakay@lemmy.ca on 28 Apr 14:59 next collapse

How about a non ml user?

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Telegraph is trash.

Zetta@mander.xyz on 28 Apr 16:18 collapse

Poor hexbear and ml users can’t even speak the truth out here without down clicks, gotta get the .ca to post for them so it gets up clicks. Preach brother!

BestBouclettes@jlai.lu on 28 Apr 16:24 collapse

Meh, North Korea probably sucks ass, but we’re also spoon fed tons of propaganda about it.

EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 18:21 collapse

My favorite lies I’ve heard are the ones where people push trains around, though the ones where they’re killed for watching movies is also good.

There’s also the one where hungry kids eat rats, get sick and die, and are then eaten by rats. 😂

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 28 Apr 23:22 collapse
Gsus4@mander.xyz on 28 Apr 13:31 next collapse

We have epic movies at home, man!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=VRq8etRvzSs&pp=ygUJcHlsZ2Fz…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari

Ferrous@lemmy.ml on 28 Apr 14:19 next collapse

Laughably unreliable source. First, does the article even link to the report?

The report blatantly states that it only pulls from two sources: defector testimony and “North Korea focused news outlets”

Included in their sources are Radio Free Asia, Freedom Chosun, and Daily NK lol. Propaganda sources.

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On top of that, defector testimony is useless when trying to understand the country.

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?

Elilol@fedinsfw.app on 28 Apr 14:58 collapse

YEAH WE NEED PROOF! Is this people really dying? how come people believe that in a military state with a lot of censorship and executions they are killing people?

… Moron.

They said the same about Venezuela… and yet, we kept dying… and foreign leftists telling us they knew better than us, that the system worked… FUCK YOU.

Tolc@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 20:48 collapse

military state with a lot of censorship

Quick, google korean war and what america did there (they dropped more tonns of bomb on north korea than they did in whole WW2), you will understand why they are like that

the system worked

Surely the govt has changed after US invading your country, kidnapping official head of state, and controlling all your natural resources for benefit of their corporations, how supporting the imperial invasion turned out to be?

Elilol@fedinsfw.app on 28 Apr 21:41 collapse

what america did there.

No, What I care is whats happening there right now, If your house burns and you dont save the presidents mandatory portrait, YOU DIE! by excution.

Surely the govt has changed after US invading your country, kidnapping official head of state, and controlling all your natural resources for benefit of their corporations, how supporting the imperial invasion turned out to be?

Already the clean water delivery system works better, same as the hidroelectric system that they are fixing in order to be able to “steal our natural resouces” winny baby noises, also they are fixing the oileries that have gone 25 years without maintenance, the inflation has been somewhat halted…

DONT YOU FUCKING DARE TELL ME IF IM BETTER OR NOT!! AntiAmericans are as blind as Maga dogs, mind you.

perestroika@slrpnk.net on 28 Apr 18:40 next collapse

Nothing new about it. But information about it arrives incredibly slow, because reporting about it is likely also punishable by death.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Capital_punishment_in_North_Ko…

GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca on 28 Apr 19:05 next collapse

Can you imagine a world where watching fox news gets you executed? i can’t even think about it. that’s why you gotta live for today

Tolc@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 20:44 collapse

according to a report by the South Korea-based Transitional Justice Working Group

Ok Ill pass