James Heenan, head of the UN Human Rights Office for North Korea, told a Geneva briefing that the number of executions for both normal and political crimes had increased since COVID-era restrictions.
An unspecified number of people had already been executed under new laws imposing the death penalty for distributing foreign TV series, including the popular K-Dramas from South Korea, he added.
If we find you watching Alien: Earth, we will take you out.
dont these ppl also say they don’t have electricity? how r they watching things?
There is one TV they all share that’s hooked up to a giant hamster wheel that they take turns running on. If the person on the wheel stops running they are executed and fed to the rats that the children eat.
kim jong un is corralling people into the public squares to watch TV on big projectors, after which they are immediately executed
they have to find a tourist who has a laptop and plug in one of the USB flashdrives South Korea airdrops over the border and then hope the flashdrive isn’t just filled with anti-North Korea propaganda on it…
I heard that they passed around one flashdrive that had James Cameron’s Avatar (2008) on it like the holy grail until Kim’s daughter caught wind of it and executed them as part of her 5th grade graduation ceremony.
My first ever encounter with North Korea as a concept, was when I was a little kid, and there was a thing set up at the local library by some reactionary NGO, “donate your old flash drives” for exactly that purpose.
I’d like to say I went home and looked up North Korea and found information that doesn’t come from the CIA and their assets, but I gotta tell ya, I was like eight, and I pretty much stopped thinking about it after my mum and I left the library building. Like any seven or eight year old would. I suspect I only remember it because they had it set up with little slots on the big board to plug sticks into, and each slot was overlaid with a photo of the country’s leader so it looked like the sticks were stuck into his mouth, and that’s really freaking funny no matter whose mouth it is, when you’re seven or eight years old and find that kind of humor to be the height of comedy.
So yeah, lots of reactionary nuts do this. Or at least, it was super common back then.
these guys lmao they had a stand at def con right next to the nsa a few years back
Oh my gosh, yep, that’s them! I never thought I’d see that again! I’d convinced myself that 8 year old me must have misremembered the installation… nope, that splash page looks exactly what I remember from the public library that day! I can’t believe they’re still around!
(I kind of wish someone would do that kind of “counter the constant state propaganda!” campaigns with communist theory and decolonial stuff in Western countries. That’d certainly be more useful than this.)
the problem with the western professional class they have nothing to gain from not being shitlibs and the treats to lose. if you stumble across tiktoks about north korea half the comments are about how they don’t actually care about the truth except if it’s bad. if they accepted that kim jong un isn’t going around telling people he doesn’t have an asshole they might have to accept that they benefit from the worst crimes on earth. that’s a hard pill to swallow, especially when it means you might have to reconsider buying a new car every year. i kind of think these flash drives are useless idealism (in the philosophical sense) there, and they’d be idealism here
Yeah, that’s a good point. I’m just kinda all out of good ideas for how to actually convince Western liberals, especially politically unconscious victims of the Red Scare, that ML theory is simply the best way to look at the world because it offers the most correct analysis, and that they should be communists, not for any moral reasons, but because it is correct and inevitable. So sometimes I have wild fantasies of just stealing propaganda tactics from lib idiots like these.