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Rare footage shows North Korean teens being sentenced in front of hundreds of their peers, getting 12 years of hard labour for watching South Korean videos (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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In 2020, however, Pyongyang enacted a law to make watching or distributing South Korean entertainment punishable by death.

A defector previously told the BBC that he was forced to watch a 22-year-old man shot to death. He said the man was accused of listening to South Korean music and had shared films from the South with his friend.

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[–] Radicalized@lemmy.one 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I don’t want to deny the horrific living situation of NK’s citizens, but after some of the outrageous propaganda we’re fed in the west, mostly by SK media groups, I am reluctant to believe anything about that country that is presented in this way.

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@Radicalized

What sources do you trust if I may ask?

[–] Radicalized@lemmy.one 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t really know, tbh. But I do know a lot of the stuff the corporate media in the west reports on about NK are verifiably flat out lies. Stuff like “every male citizen is forced to get the same haircut as KJU”. That was a story invented whole cloth by a broadsheet rag in SK, then picked up by western media sources and reported to us as fact.

There is a financial element to this: saying outrageous things about NK leads to tidy profits. Even NK defectors have been caught lying about the place. What’s her face was touring Americas right wing talk shows recently, saying things that either just aren’t true or wildly exaggerated. She’s made a good career of it.

So don’t trust immediately. Verify. Every media source has a bias and recognize that whenever you view one.

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

It just puzzles me that you don't know which media you trust. How do you verify then? What do you read?