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
Bro Squid Game is obviously pro capitalist, they pay you money if you win
And winning is good and money is good, so obviously capitalism is good
This was the argument of the reality game show spinoff show runner. It’s not actually anti-capitalist because it shows how people can all compete equally with each other and those that work the hardest are rewarded the most. Absolute clown
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
Can you blame them? They only have Nokia brick phones in North Korea, and 95% of them are used for remote nuclear missile detonation because they can’t afford to build an on-impact warhead.
No sound, no original subtitles, no one talking, shown by the BBC.
Source: My balls
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Why is the content ubiquitously pirated if it’s legal and totally acceptable in NK?
I could imagine someone unfamiliar with America saying “weed is ubiquitous and nobody gives a shit”, but that’d be a massive oversimplification given we have a metric fuckton of people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.
Could it not be the case that in NK that pirating and watching foreign media is both extremely common and against the law/lands people in prison?
And if that is the case, then even if this one case happens to be fabricated, there’s likely a ton of cases where people are actually imprisoned for breaking the law, since that’s usually how breaking laws goes. I don’t think it should be against the law to watch foreign media.
Why is the content ubiquitously pirated if it’s legal and totally acceptable in NK?
This is speculation, but I’m gonna take a wild guess and say South Korea refuses to license media to the DPRK so they literally have no other choice but to pirate it. Like if you tried to obtain a PS1 game in the West right now, Sony isn’t selling the vast majority of them any longer so your best bet is to download it from a ROM site.
Thanks for at least giving a plausible explanation instead of tightening your asshole and throwing insults because someone suggested that there might be a flaw with the mighty DPRK like the other commenter who responded to me.
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Lol, even why we are civil and provide detailed answers to you Libs who wander in here you still end up bitching about how mean we are to you.
Why is the content ubiquitously pirated if it’s legal and totally acceptable in NK?
Do you pay for content??
Could it not be the case
there’s likely a ton of cases
I don’t think it should be
Thank you for your feels based analysis
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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.
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
Nope, in North Korea entire towns share the communal nail clipper or if they dont have that they get the guy with the most teeth to bite them off for them
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?
This almost feels real. Like maybe a small oversight on production lines due to sanctions and the like.
But now Real Korea has their own “Legos”, so who the fuck cares, really.
are they fucking serious
no communist can withstand contact to the perfected craft of tweezerman cosmetic tools.
That DPRK defector’s name was Mai-Ass
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:
What do you mean? They were selected as a “designated donation organization” in 2019, presumably by someone who knows their shit, they seem like real deal
This is 100% a CIA front website for spies and defectors in North Korea lol. Hide in plain site I guess. Wonder how long before some south Korean patriot accidentally leaks the list of agents while donating money
Apparently it’s the “South and North Development Institution” but I can’t find anything on it either
SAND Institute
Libertarian think tank nº 1692356874
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.
I always think this one is a good jumping off point
Looking at the make-up of the two governments was big for me too; one led by freedom fighters and the other by Japanese collaborators. Guess which was which?
excvse me, commvnist, but general dovglas “nvke the entire 38th parallel” mcarthvr and his band of merry fascist collaborators were the real freedom fighters and don’t yov forget!
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
Gowan’s Patriots, Traitors, and Empires
Blowback Season 3
god I hope I wasn’t ever this fucking stupid in the past
Baking the blurriest jpegs harder than Q.
I thought it was an artist’s rendition for a second.
north korea really does look like a PS2 cutscene
has a Metal Gear game that no westerner will ever get to play
I definitely thought this was a shot from a bootleg anime at first glance.
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 could be a korean name with a longer history…
That’s a reasonable assumption, but the website Trudge linked to in this thread has a timeline of SAND’s history that starts in 2017 and ends in 2019 (although the “research” section of the website has links to, like, seminars and shit they’ve done since and they’ve maintained a presence on Twitter since 2022, so it’s likely they just haven’t updated the timeline).
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
