Seoul police are investigating how a North Korean defector who fled south ended up back in the North. Appearing tearful in a North Korean television interview, Lim Ji-hyeon told viewers she had escaped a capitalist hell.
Comrade initial point was, as I’ve understood it, that quotes were deliberately pulled to seem (to the western audience) co-erced and obvious lies (?), and he would like to see the full video (?). it doesn’t seem like revisionist ploy :meow-tankie:
That's what they're telling you they meant now, though it's contradicted by their later comments where they suggest that the quotes in question suggest coercion. This is their brain recognizing anti-communist propaganda and then... actually ending up justifying it. You can see the various interactions about what it means to be on TV as a defector and their imaginative thinking on what the quote on eating well means.
I'm happy to cordially assume they didn't mean to do that and instead meant to say, "here's something that looks like propaganda playing up tropes" and then aggressively bumbled their way through responses, though.
Hmm, maybe it’s language barrier, that is how I initially read it: two comments are designed to seem coerced, and are obviously either untrue (cause she is minor tv thingy) or mistranslated or whatever context. Than some posts about definitions of tv celebrity, blah blah, and then you are calling each other names :sadness:
That's an interpretation I entertained initially until I read the deeper comments where they start speculating about starvation and being a regular on certain TV shows. It's also why I didn't reply top-level - the next chain down is where things start going off the rails. No language barrier, your reading of that first bit is valid.
Unfortunately they seem to prefer insults and belligerence as a smokescreen, something I'm happy to return because this isn't a debate it's a leftist forum where a modicum of anti-imperialism is the very least we can ask from obviously Anglo comrades.
Comrade initial point was, as I’ve understood it, that quotes were deliberately pulled to seem (to the western audience) co-erced and obvious lies (?), and he would like to see the full video (?). it doesn’t seem like revisionist ploy :meow-tankie:
That's what they're telling you they meant now, though it's contradicted by their later comments where they suggest that the quotes in question suggest coercion. This is their brain recognizing anti-communist propaganda and then... actually ending up justifying it. You can see the various interactions about what it means to be on TV as a defector and their imaginative thinking on what the quote on eating well means.
I'm happy to cordially assume they didn't mean to do that and instead meant to say, "here's something that looks like propaganda playing up tropes" and then aggressively bumbled their way through responses, though.
Hmm, maybe it’s language barrier, that is how I initially read it: two comments are designed to seem coerced, and are obviously either untrue (cause she is minor tv thingy) or mistranslated or whatever context. Than some posts about definitions of tv celebrity, blah blah, and then you are calling each other names :sadness:
That's an interpretation I entertained initially until I read the deeper comments where they start speculating about starvation and being a regular on certain TV shows. It's also why I didn't reply top-level - the next chain down is where things start going off the rails. No language barrier, your reading of that first bit is valid.
Unfortunately they seem to prefer insults and belligerence as a smokescreen, something I'm happy to return because this isn't a debate it's a leftist forum where a modicum of anti-imperialism is the very least we can ask from obviously Anglo comrades.