Redditors having a normal one about the DPRK again

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.

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.

No sound, no original subtitles, no one talking, shown by the BBC.

Source: My balls

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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.

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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.

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

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

god I hope I wasn't ever this fucking stupid in the past

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.

Baking the blurriest jpegs harder than Q.

This looks like a school auditorium, 90% chance it's some sort of explanation of the judicial process

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.

There is litteraly nothing in this clip that indicate what they are being convicted of, where the fuck are they getting that from? Also, am I the only one to think it's a little sus that this video doesn't have any audio?

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. kim-salute

I wonder why the audio was cut. No way what is actually going on is different from the reporting, surely!

Americans try not to make up unhinged lies about the victims of their genocidal psychosis challenge: Impossible difficulty.

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?

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

There’s no sound so it’s proof of nothing. Very cool.

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This just looks like a shitty ass drawing.

Kim Jung Un must have already executed all the talented drawers. pepe-silvia

Uncritical support to DPRK, but that's a creepy looking room.

It's like the room you would find and the end of the backrooms, and you're confronted by t h e m

literally can't find any information at all about the "South and North Development Institute," but I wouldn't know where to look on the Korean internet. Just how full of shit are they?

Ok but did it triple compared to the pre-covid numbers or is this compared to the post-covid numbers?

Serious question since DPRK lockdowns will have drastically reduced the number leaving the country. Thus any increase being framed as "tripled" may just be a return to normal levels.

well someone's gotta take a stand

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It looks like the two people in the center were hand-drawn

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