Current Events > North Korea reportedly publicly executed man for listening to K-Pop

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https://twitter.com/dailyloud/status/1806726546259952075?s=46

Damn don't let them learn about Lil' Wayne

ironman2009 posted...

Damn don't let them learn about Lil' Wayne

Imagine if Kim listened to a Wiz Khalifa song.

More reliable source.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/28/north-korea-execution-man-k-pop-human-rights-repor

A 22-year-old North Korean was publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, a new report claims, highlighting Pyongyangs desperate attempts to stem the flow of outside information and culture.
The case, detailed in the 2024 Report on North Korean Human Rights released by South Koreas unification ministry on Thursday, compiles testimonies from 649 North Korean defectors.

According to an unnamed defectors testimony, the young man from South Hwanghae province was publicly executed in 2022 for listening to 70 South Korean songs, watching three films, and distributing them, falling foul of a North Korean law adopted in 2020 that bans reactionary ideology and culture.
The report details extensive efforts by North Korean authorities to control outside information flow, especially targeting the youth.
Other instances of crackdown include punishments for reactionary practices such as brides wearing white dresses, grooms carrying the bride, wearing sunglasses, or drinking alcohol from wine glasses all seen as South Korean customs.
Mobile phones are also frequently inspected for contact name spellings, expressions, and slang terms perceived to be of South Korean influence, the report claims. While both Koreas share the same language, subtle differences have emerged since the division after the Korean war of 195053.
The ban on K-pop is part of a campaign to shield North Koreans from the malign influence of western culture that began under the former leader, Kim Jong-il and intensified under his son Kim Jong-un.
In 2022, the US government-funded Radio Free Asia said the regime was cracking down on capitalist fashion and hairstyles, targeting skinny jeans and T-shirts bearing foreign words, as well as dyed or long hair, it said.
Experts say that allowing South Korean popular culture to seep into North Korean society could pose a threat to the ideology that demands absolute loyalty to the infallible Kim dynasty that has ruled the country since it was founded in 1948.
Despite such harsh measures, the influence of South Korean culture, including recent television shows, appears unstoppable, according to a recent North Korean defector.
The speed of South Korean culture influencing North Korea is seriously fast. Young people follow and copy South Korean culture, and they really love anything South Korean, a woman in her early 20s who defected from North Korea told reporters at a briefing in Seoul.
Even with the border to China largely sealed off after the outbreak of Covid-19, information is still seeping through and being distributed through informal networks.
In recent weeks, North Korea has sent thousands of balloons over the border containing waste, retaliating against the launch of balloons from the South whose cargo includes anti-Pyongyang leaflets, dollar bills, and USB sticks loaded with K-pop and K-dramas.
After watching Korean dramas, many young people wonder, Why do we have to live like this? I thought Id rather die than live in North Korea, the defector told reporters.
The woman, who escaped from North Korea on a wooden boat last October, also shed light on the hidden resentment against the regime.
Of course we cannot say anything bad against Kim Jong-un publicly, but among close friends, lovers or family members, we do say those words, she claimed.

I'll never understand why NK wants to be so fucked up the rest of the world won't deal with them. They're losing billions from tourism alone.

Real life dystopia.

No capital punishment.

No exceptions.

You're not allowed anything from outside of North Korea, so this kinda tracks with their authoritarianism.

It's also why we shouldn't have a President who's in love or admires their leader.

LeoRavus posted...

I'll never understand why NK wants to be so fucked up the rest of the world won't deal with them. They're losing billions from tourism alone.

Yeah, this. The elites would be better off for it too; sure, they might not have as many people (pretending to be) kissing their ass 24/7, but who cares about that when they're like 58 times richer?

Just wait until they hear about Drake.

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Trumble posted...

Yeah, this. The elites would be better off for it too; sure, they might not have as many people (pretending to be) kissing their ass 24/7, but who cares about that when they're like 58 times richer?

Why would they care about tourism? Kim Jong Un is the king. He can never be removed from power, it's his birth right. It'll be his child's birth right.

These countries are all pyramid schemes where everything flows to the top, so there's no worry for Un to do anything as long as he continues to feed his soldiers and shield the community from the outside world.

Trumble posted...

Yeah, this. The elites would be better off for it too; sure, they might not have as many people (pretending to be) kissing their ass 24/7, but who cares about that when they're like 58 times richer?

It's about maintaining whatever feeble power they have. It has nothing to do with prosperity. Despots don't care about prosperity.

How much do you want to bet this'll happen in America if Trump wins? Just replace K-Pop with anything else and that is what'll happen.

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

How much do you want to bet this'll happen in America if Trump wins? Just replace K-Pop with anything else and that is what'll happen.

North Korea didn't get this bad because of a leader like Trump. They had a massive famine. The first world countries at the time refused to help and the Communist countries were not in a good position to help, typically struggling with their own famines.

The only difference is, correct me if I'm wrong, but the famine in NK wasn't man made, and a military autocracy was set up to maintain order.

So no I don't think people will be executed for listening to shit like Medias Touch in the US even if Trump wins. The situation is bad but that's a whole different level of unrealistically bad.

LeoRavus posted...

I'll never understand why NK wants to be so fucked up the rest of the world won't deal with them. They're losing billions from tourism alone.

The one thing that NK leaders care about is maintaining their grip on power.

They think exposure to the outside world would threaten that. And they may well be correct about that. A population without hope of better is more easily controlled.

Tyranthraxus posted...

North Korea didn't get this bad because of a leader like Trump. They had a massive famine. The first world countries at the time refused to help and the Communist countries were not in a good position to help, typically struggling with their own famines.

The only difference is, correct me if I'm wrong, but the famine in NK wasn't man made, and a military autocracy was set up to maintain order.

So no I don't think people will be executed for listening to shit like Medias Touch in the US even if Trump wins. The situation is bad but that's a whole different level of unrealistically bad.

the original kim was a brutal dictator, but the country has become much more oppressive over the years as the kim family has consolidated power. as technology has advanced the regime has become more isolationist in seeking to keep the north korean people in the dark and control every thread of information.

north korea used to depend on the ussr a lot more, but as the 80s rolled around and the communist regime in the ussr failed that support dried up. nowadays china is the only benefactor for north korea (maybe russia somewhat in the last year or so), and china keeps them at arms length and basically just uses them as a buffer against the west.

LeoRavus posted...

I'll never understand why NK wants to be so fucked up the rest of the world won't deal with them. They're losing billions from tourism alone.

Tourism will just make it easier for the people who want to leave, leave.

Plus, it'll just invite a lot of smuggling...that one kpop video? They'll have way more than that if tourism becomes a thing.

ClayGuida posted...

You're not allowed anything from outside of North Korea, so this kinda tracks with their authoritarianism.

It's also why we shouldn't have a President who's in love or admires their leader.

The chuds are slobbering over the idea of America turning into NK.

Guardian link is https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/28/north-korea-execution-man-k-pop-human-rights-report

He was showing South Korean films to people.

It is misinforming CE to say this happened because he listened to k-pop.

Difference between a drug dealer and a drug user.

ReiRei89 posted...

The chuds are slobbering over the idea of America turning into NK.

The Leopards eating faces party tracks.

so was he listening to crinxe bts or based shinee

Other instances of crackdown include punishments for reactionary practices such as brides wearing white dresses, grooms carrying the bride, wearing sunglasses, or drinking alcohol from wine glasses all seen as South Korean customs.
Mobile phones are also frequently inspected for contact name spellings, expressions, and slang terms perceived to be of South Korean influence, the report claims.

I don't have the mental capacity to comprehend this insanity.

the first thing the article says is

A 22-year-old North Korean was publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, a new report claims

so i'm not really sure why people in here are up in arms about misinformation because TC and the tweet left out "and watching movies," as if somehow that's supposed to be the "ohhhhhhh" moment, like that changes anything

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I literally quoted out of #4.

Is it that easy to spread misinformation here?