Redditors having a normal one about the DPRK again

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

I never watched Squid Game (because I am a little contrarian) but is the show really pro-DPRK or just anti occupied Korea?

The North Korean defector character cannot answer and remains silent when asked whether it would have been better to stay in North Korea. In South Korea it’s illegal to share any opinion on TV that shows DPRK positively, so this is literally the most pro-DPRK they could be without breaking the law.

Just anti capitalist Korea. It’s illegal to show support for DPRK in the South. There’s been policing actions as recent as 2019 over displays of Kim Il Sung.

Realistically, it’s as much pro-DPRK as it can get before the writer gets summoned for police/CIA questioning.

It’s not pro DPRK lol. The girl was asked if South Korea was any better or different than the north. She remained silent. That’s not praise of North Korea, that condemnation of the south for being as bad or worse than whatever people imagine the north to be.

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

pirated K-dramas are ubiquitous in the DPRK and no one gives a shit

To the potential lurking liberals, that’s what a resonable claim about North Korea looks like, unlike your idea that they execute ayone caught watching drama because they’re so evil which is peak liberal idealist nonsense.

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.

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

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

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?

They will beleve the most ridiculous nonsense as long as it’s compatible with their unshakable assumptions that [country liberals don’t like] is literally 1984.

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.

no communist can withstand contact to the perfected craft of tweezerman cosmetic tools.

are they fucking serious

That DPRK defector’s name was Mai-Ass

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