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Concerning. Looking into it!
Yeah this popped up on the BBC and as usual it was just "video from years ago", "appears to show" and then some quotes from defectors saying "they shoot you if they catch you watching squid game". Just hilarious levels of make-believe.
Which is hilarious because Squid Game is implicitly pro-DPRK
Yo what if fucking Squid Games is like fucking NORTH KOREA and how evil Kim Jong UN is?
Holy shit man. Mind == blown
It's a shame they weren't able to smuggle the sound out of the country as well. Especially with how widely spread this video was.
the footage is rare but the audio is legendary foil
I read an account by a DPRK defector once. He had been given fingernail clippers that were made in the USA. They were so well made, and cut such neat clean lines that they made him despondent, because he knew the DPRK could never make anything that well.
Wtf they're nail clippers. If you can manufacture AKs you can manufacture nail clippers. Literally 3 bent and cut bits of polished spring steel, a rivet, and a retaining pin
Keyser Soze style 
Are there still nailcliplers made in America? I don't believe I ever bought one not Chinese.
Funny, I just experienced the inverse of this. Saw a tweet from a Russian about how due to remnant industry from the USSR they can get some specialized machinery for $10 there and it costs $1000 in the US.
Who would win in a fight, a country building atom bombs or a pair of snippy bois?
Gotta scroll down ten comment threads to get to the first one that's critical of the narrative being presented.
You can just overlay any text over a video and people believe it.
Fucking TRUE
Yeah my coworker tried showing me this. There's no audio and nothing to indicate what's actually going on. I don't know what trials in the DPRK like, but do they really look like this? The audience looked like they were in a stadium or auditorium or something. For all I know this could be a theater and everyone on that stage is an actor.
I don't even think watching dramas are illegal in the DPRK lmao. I'm pretty sure nearly everyone in the DPRK watches pirated media they buy on USB drives and no one cares.
Yeah they sell them on the street, government owned vendors do it. Jaka Parker filmed it
what in the everloving fuck is the SAND Institute? they make it sound like a legitimate organization, but literally the only mentions I can find of it anywhere are either quoting the BBC article or the article itself
these fuckers can just outright make shit up and there's going to be some rube who'll buy it, zero questions asked
It's just rare footage bro you wouldnt have seen it. She goes to a different school
she used to at least, before she was caught watching K-dramas and shot with an AA turret by Dear Leader
Unfortunately without the ability to understand Korean I can't Google any info on funding, but if I had to guess I would say NED or US state department.
lmao, I'm checking out the website with google translate and it's absolutely breaking my CIA meter, this shit looks like one of these fake websites the CIA used as fronts for spies in Iraq
look at their history section, lol
also, in the SAND activities page, there's a tab that goes into their vast social contribution:
I know that google translate does not give perfect results, but this is hilarious to me lol a completely empty shell of an organization that just sprang up out of seemingly nowhere and somehow has enough credibility to be taken seriously by the BBC, the supposed bastions of quality journalism... get the fuck outta here
SAND in my asscrack :kelly:
Apparently it's the "South and North Development Institution" but I can't find anything on it either
BBC: They are being sentenced to a life of hard labor for watching tv
Reality: Me and the boys interrupting the adults to ask if we can buy a Fortnite skin
I swear that educating people on the history of Korea since the war is one of the most effective ways to radicalize them. As soon as you understand why there even IS a North Korea and a South Korea, suddenly all these stories about K-dramas and unicorns are revealed to be the embarrassing fiction that they are.
Where can I read some info about the DPRK, that isnt trying to blame them for everything wrong in the world at every sentence? I just read the wikipedia page and its full of blaming the north while forgetting the south puppet dictatorship
god I hope I wasn't ever this fucking stupid in the past
Baking the blurriest jpegs harder than Q.
Yo, any folks on here got info about this SAND institute that sourced this video.
Trying to look them up only gives me the BBC article about this video which has this to say about them "This video was provided to the BBC by the South and North Development (Sand), a research institute that works with defectors from the North."
Something deeply sus about this, if you don't mind me donning the tinfoil hat a sec.
This looks like a school auditorium, 90% chance it's some sort of explanation of the judicial process
Would people really do that, just use ambiguous footage of something and make up a whole lie about north korea to tell on the internet?
I was thinking a play, but that makes more sense.
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
It has to be fake, the guy sitting with his legs spread would have been shot on the spot if this was real.
Reddit is no different than the elderly sharing Facebook memes.
Gen question, is there any policy against watching foreign media or is it an access issue because of the sanctions?
There’s restrictions on the internet like in China (more strict though), but there is access to foreign media, like with the Pyongyang Int. Film Festival (annual). The reason there are internet restrictions is risk of attack/surveillance and anti-DPRK propaganda, although there is also the angle of access given the DPRK’s development, not to put it down but some areas don’t have much technology.
Every morning, when I wake up, the first thing I do is drink a big glass of leaded gasoline because I'm an American and it's my right. The next thing I do is wonder how horrible it would be to live in a country that regularly imprisons children.
They can just make up whatever they want and everyone believes them
The DPRK is beheading babies who are caught watching k-porn!! Just trust me, that is really happening, guys!!!!
lmao these stupid fucking redditors are too lazy to even look up a source
they see some military lookin people put obviosuly prop handcuffs on a kid and they're like "OH MY GOSH!!!!!1!1!!" and don't even look up that this "SAND Institute" is barely even existent
other treasures i found when spelunking in the disgusting sewer known as """reddit""":
people saying the prop handcuffs were used because "they can't afford anything else" even thought the DPRK has fucking ballistic missiles
people saying the prop handcuffs were used because the citizens were too hungry to break them, or that the armed guards would shoot them if they tried to run, in that case, why the fuck are the handcuffs even there in the first place
people saying that pro dprk people would say kids deserved that, and then go watch a western movie (???)
