Today my father hit me with this shit, yeah the oldest source is RadioFreeAsia, tho I found a very slightly more credible source saying legally marrying and divorcing is a burocratic pain in the ass
In North Korea if the people want to divorce they must push the divorce train by hand uphill through the Mountains of Matrimony and into the Tunnel of Trial Separation. If they roll doubles twice in a row they lose a turn.
before the divorce is finalised each partner must eat a rat and get a state-approved haircut.
I am trying to decide if this is more or less ridiculous than the time when westerners believed that a person will be sent to a prison camp for both having and not having the same haircut as Comrade Kim Jong-un
All North Koreans simultaneously are and are not in prison camps until directly observed, it's basic quantum mechanics sweaty
If you do what the US State Department do and just say the entire country of North Korea is a prison camp, then every piece of propaganda you produce that says people get sent to prison camps is technically true!
“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”
It's always morbidly funny to see "Korea bad" or similar sentiment over things that Christian westoids would be absolutely thrilled to have at home.
Isn't this literally what a large chunk of Americans want though? What's next north korea sentences those who get abortions to death?
Westerners would probably call it by a different term, like reproductive reprisals, and then feign moral indignation, the same way they do when they talk about the credit system.
As opposed to the USA where divorces are usually really simple, fast, and easy. They definitely don't take months or years to finalize and drag everyone's shit out in front of the courts.
I've heard about these labor camps for all my life but I've still never seen one.
Lol, quick glance at images and the look suspiciously similar to Colin Powell's WMD presentation at the UN
meanwhile Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) is a "correctional facility"
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If you're wondering why it's named after a country in Africa, well take a guess...
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Labor Camp is a word USians and Westerns use to describe a normal Prison in the Global South.
CIA propaganda fed to you through a Br*tish tabloid, average Western reporting on the DPRK.
Wow that's as believable as that everyone must have a
haircut propaganda from a few years backAES states has almost always meant great advances for women's rights. Troughout the Cold War, women in countries like Poland and democratic Germany had far better access to childcare, abortion and divorce than western women. Today Cuba has the world's most progressive code of family law. Feminism is baked into communist ideology.
However, I could imagine that social progress in Korea could have been hinderes by being under brutal siege for generations. I would need a credible source to draw any conclusions.
Swapping out the grandpas pulling trains for divorced dads will greatly increase their speed, this is just smart.
