• 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Is there any merit to either story or are they both just bullshit? I assume the rfa story is most likely BS?

      • Salamander@mander.xyz
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        2 years ago

        From reading the articles I would conclude the following:

        • RFA, a US-funded asian 'news broadcaster', very likely has created this piece of propaganda as an attempt to use the popularity of the Squid Games to disseminate mis-information about North Korea

        and

        • North Korea did pass a law that specifies death as a possible penalty for distributing South Korean content

        So... everyone sucks.

          • Salamander@mander.xyz
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            2 years ago

            That NKnews site is also American. I thought that something like this would be easy to verify, so I have tried to find a bit more information, and according to this site:

            https://www.38north.org/2021/11/north-korea-intensifies-war-against-foreign-influence/

            While the text of the law was not made public outside of the North, anecdotal reports since indicate that this has prompted a widespread crackdown on foreign content and influence in the country.

            So, perhaps it is not as simple.

            • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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              2 years ago

              Yeah NKNews links back to RFA in a lot of cases, and they often just blatantly make shit up on their own w/ "unspecified sources"