A woman reads a book as commuters make their way through a subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea... The people were told to read at least 30 pages every day and to keep personal reading journals, summarizing the key feelings and thoughts from what they read.
Billions must read.
Also North Korea arrests 5 Christians during underground church service
It is one of 17 countries identified to be involved in or condoning systematic, continuous and serious violations of freedom of religion and belief, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2023 annual report.
When the CIA cites itself lmao
Well the average American has like a sixth grade reading level
I guess that’s the price of freedom :mission-accomplished:
Instead of reading 30 pages a day the burger watches 6-8 hours of fox or cnn daily.
Excuse me, I watch 6-8 hours of YouTube videos ranging from old technology explainers, fighting game sets, Chinese apartment tours, skateboarding video parts, and NotJustBikes, thankyouverymuch
lol how would they even enforce this? Do :lmayo:s think the country's giving its entire population exams every year?
To them, the DPRK exists in a quantum state of imminent collapse where there is simultaneously no food or resources to support a society, yet infinite labor power to monitor every single person and enforce nonsensical laws.
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2023 annual report
Why aren't you letting insane American cults run amok on your soil?????
Authorities have imposed punishments, including public executions, for distributing or watching South Korean media, which is derided by the ruling Korean Workers’ Party as examples of “reactionary thought and culture.”
wheres the lie?
You'd think there would be at least one leaked recording somewhere of all these public executions...
:yeonmi: north korean smart phone technology is just two cans with an electrified cable between them, when the call is over a soldier steps up to shoot the one who had read less propaganda
The people were told to read at least 30 pages every day and to keep personal reading journals, summarizing the key feelings and thoughts from what they read.
Educated citizens, the horror 😱
2 hours of reading a day at most?
Why aren’t they spending 40 hours a week staring at excel :frothingfash:
I swear to fucking god every single North Korean hit piece comes down to cultural differences. It is very acceptable for your boss to tell you to do whatever the fuck, it is not acceptable for the gubmint to tell you to do anything
Why aren’t they spending 40 hours a week staring at excel
Why do that when you can spend 40 hours a week in a bullshit job pretending to stare at excel?
The article itself backtracks from saying all of NK was ordered to read books to "a singular group in one province was asked to read books and submit summaries". Even if this does have any basis in truth, it sounds like a women's org has just been asked to do some presentations on books? Not that this is a legal order on threat of death, nor is it to all of NK.
Sounds incredibly mundane and also citizen-inclusive.
“The workers are all saying that the books in North Korea are nothing but propaganda that our great leader is the best, so we are not interested in reading them,” said the source. “If the books were as fun to read as South Korean movies are to watch, wouldn’t we be reading them all night long?”
Can't argue with that
Cracking down on Aum, Japan :sicko-yes:
Cracking down on Aum, DPRK :sicko-no:
