• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    7 months ago

    North Korea is the Hermit Kingdom like Alcatraz was a hermit island.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      le me guess "real politik but it's leftist so it's good akchually"

        • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          I'm just amazed it's finally getting better, stuff like their brokering the detente between Iran and Saudi is promising

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    This is something I'm confused about, I read somewhere that Qatar apparently hired North Koreans for labor?

    My English and (lived in America for over a decade) Qatari colleagues inform me though that most likely because the DPRK have their families hostage, they won't attempt to flee or seek asylum so I'm sure that's the reason. Also they probably all have like the same haircut because North Korea only allows like one haircut or something.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      The DPRK / China border is soft. Travel backwards and forwards over it happens every day with trade going back and forth. There is no need to go through some obscure Qatar exchange to get out of the DPRK.

      Lib article: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-road-trip-on-the-edge-of-north-korea

      But the 1,420 km (880 mile) long border with China is a real challenge.

      Just like many reporters, I've visited places on it before, and got a few pictures here and there. But this time we did what I had always wanted - we drove from its south to its north end. In eight days we drove through mile after mile of nothing, guarded by no-one.

      Nothing guarded by nobody is actually a wonderful story, especially if you are in the mood to really look.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      7 months ago

      lmao wtf are you talking about, learn to read liberal

      Strengthens the ban on providing work authorizations for DPRK nationals by requiring Member States to repatriate all DRPK nationals earning income and all DPRK government safety oversight attachés monitoring DPRK workers abroad within their jurisdiction within 24 months from 22 December 2017. Member States are required to submit a midterm report after 15 months from 22 December and a final report after 27 months from 22 December to the Committee of all DPRK nationals that were repatriated based on this provision;

        • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          living in North Korea is in itself a humanitarian issue

          I hope the UN didn't cause this

            • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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              7 months ago

              So heavy economic sanctions on industrial and agricultural resources has no effect on a country's economy? That's seriously your claim?

              • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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                7 months ago

                my favorite part about that is that there's literally a fucking memo from the state department in the 50s where an undersecretary is like "yeah basically we're going to starve cuba to force regime change" in, you know, not those words. Like they fucking say it.

                so yeah sanctions have no effect (but the people doing the sanctions have literally said "we're going to put the screws to the people to make them so desperate, diseased, and plagued by death that they revolt")

        • CommieCretzl [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          The DPRK is not a far right dictatorship. If you want to call them a far left dictatorship I've got problems with that too, but at least you're in the right ball park.

        • Maoo [none/use name]
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          7 months ago

          A communist that doesn't read and spreads liberal brainworms?

          Sure buddy.