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.
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.