Kim Jong-un orders divorcing couples to labour camps under tough new rules
Kim Jong-un orders divorcing couples to labour camps under tough new rules
The North Korean leader has declared that ending a marriage demonstrates anti-socialist sympathies and warrants punishment
Summary
Kim Jong-un has introduced stricter laws in North Korea, sending both spouses in divorcing couples to labor camps for up to six months, with women often receiving longer sentences.
The regime views divorce as anti-socialist. Previously, only the spouse who initiated the divorce was punished.
Rising divorce rates since COVID-19 lockdowns have persisted despite public humiliation and threats of expulsion from the Korean Workers’ Party.
Reports indicate labor camps house dozens of divorcees, mostly in their late 30s, under harsh conditions.
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Ah yes, Radio Free Asia. The CIA cutout that successfully convinced a bunch of people that North Koreans were getting sent to labor camps for getting the wrong haircut.
For the downvoters: regardless of your opinions on the US, the CIA, North Korea, etc..., RFA has been a historically unreliable source when it comes to reporting on countries like North Korea. The reporting is often sensationalised, unclearly sourced and because of that often later disproven (often by North Korean defectors).
That doesn't necessarily mean that this news item is incorrect, fabricated or otherwise false, but given that RFA is an unreliable source and there are no other outlets reporting on this without deferring to RFA as their source, I'd take this with a grain of salt.
It'd be a little harder to make stuff up if they were more open and transparent to journalists. For some reason they really don't want journalists to be able to travel and report freely though.
That is bully thinking.
An asinine article is posted from a decidedly and historically bullshit source, and somehow the slandered subject of the article is at fault?
What a ridiculous line of reasoning.
What they told you is the literal truth: if they want the truth to come out, they should allow people to go find out the truth. A state does not get rights to privacy for what their literal laws are.
There was a way for you to make this point without defending Kim Jong-un as a bullied victim lol.
Yes.
Seven words in… looks back to check TLD… yup.
Why is this guy being down-voted? This is true by the CIAs own admission and it's the only source for the news article
*from 1951-1955 when it was defunded. The modern iteration is far removed from this project and your line of argument is disingenuous at best.
RFA is still funded by the USA...
https://apnews.com/article/radio-free-asia-close-bureau-hong-kong-eb5dcb279c29fcca223e2dabcca6d9b4
Ok? Can you try rereading what we both wrote and explain how that is at all relevant? The BBC is funded by the UK, does that inherently make it an unreliable source/ MI6 propaganda outlet? 🤡
Why are you so angry? You ok dude?
If you don't understand how the RFA is still being funded by the USA in 2024 is relevant to where you said funding cease in 1955 then I don't know how to help. Unless you only read that article's headline and not even the first sentence... I'm just trying to provide sources for you since you thought the funding stopped.
That iteration, as I claimed literally exactly, was defunded in 1955. A quick Google search shows this.
Expect that they still receive funding even today....
Mind providing some sources like me instead of talking out your ass?
here's the us agency for global media's site telling you they're are still funding it.....
https://www.usagm.gov/networks/rfa/
Again got any sources or just more shit out your ass?
Edit: since you're so slow here's another source about how RFA has spread blatant Bullshit in the recent past. From another western source... See how it's easy for me to find these?
Let's ask Otto Warmbier what he thinks