Act of treason: Kim Jong-un's bizarre new ban for North Koreans
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It's one of the most popular items around the world. Now it's banned in North Korea.

North Korea wants to ban corn dogs because of western decadence or something?! That's horrible!

Let's check out the sources.

According to reports, Kim has banned North Koreans from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture slowly oozing its way into the hermit nation.

"Reports". Well, not super convincing so far...

According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), North Korea has also banned steamed rice cakes tteokbokki which is a popular street food in South Korea.

Oh hey, there we go, Radio Free Asia! What a great unbiased source/CIA front propaganda operation. Aren't they the same people who said something like everyone in NK has to have their leader's haircut? Or was forbidden to have his haircut? I think they said leather jackets were banned there once? Or that someone was executed for smuggling in Squid Game?

Food isn’t the only thing the hermit nation is cracking down on. Reports emerged in December that claim people who get divorced in North Korea are facing one to six months in labour camps for their “crimes”.

More "Reports".

According to RFA, a divorced woman claimed she served three months of labour and said that women receive harsher sentences than the men.

So ya, it's basically just RFA.

Beautiful.

  • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    If anyone else has explanations on why Radio Free Asia sucks, I'd appreciate the extra counterpropaganda ammunition. But suffice it to say that even a couple comments in reddit when they actually read the article and saw the sources, didn't believe it, although they had to couch it in extremely liberal terms to prove their "not a tankie". Still, that proves how biased that source is even to diehard liberals.

    Of course, they were vastly outnumbered by the people who believed this at face value, but that's Stormfront for you.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      What's amazing is that many subreddits with block any posts from RFA. Of course, r/,worldnews isn't one of those.

      • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        It's incredible that this shit can not only make it to the front page, but also to the top of their biggest international news sub. What a joke that sub has become.

    • ikilledtheradiostar [comrade/them, love/loves]
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      2 days ago

      has explanations on why Radio Free Asia sucks

      Prima facie. North Koreans do not speak a secret untranslatable language. If hot dogs were banned there would be documentation of it. This documentation would need to be mass disseminated so north Koreans know not to eat hot dogs. Surely a person telling a reporter that hot dogs were banned could also give them this document. CIA funding does not need to be shown to understand why RFA is garbage.

      • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        You'd think so, but mods in lemmy.world were apparently saying RFA is a legitimate source and are either independent, or they are part of the US government but it doesn't matter because they still have a good history of journalism and check their facts. Then banning everyone who disagreed.

        I think they even used MFBC, which is hilarious once I read it. No failed fact checks for 5 years? How is that possible? And they report them as factual and left-leaning by taking two to three random stories? I thought everyone new RFA was biased as hell, but I shouldn't under estimate US propaganda I guess.

        • ikilledtheradiostar [comrade/them, love/loves]
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          2 days ago

          Then I suppose just saying "wow RFA has quoted 'some guy' what excellent journalism". Would be enough to point out how crap they are. Idk, trying to prove a source is untrustworthy is a fools errand since with some media literacy you can just see it. Once you have the eye the curtains are pulled back quickly. I would rather turbolibs get media literacy than them just dismissing RFA as the dumpster-fire it is.