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Kim Jong-un orders divorcing couples to labour camps under tough new rules (uk.news.yahoo.com)

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Kim Jong-un has reportedly ordered that divorcing couples be sent to labour camps for up to six months, with women potentially facing longer sentences.

The North Korean leader has declared that ending a marriage demonstrates anti-socialist sympathies and warrants punishment.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Doesnt the source of this make it pretty likely to be fake though? We should be atleast a bit suspicious of the news that comes out about NK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Does it? All I see are people spreading FUD but not giving any evidence as to why this isn't true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Radio Free Asia is known to spread propaganda and iirc is a cia front but im not positive on that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Let me be clear, I am not a tankie, north korea is an evil, authoritarian state that needs to go down

but radio free asia is literally just nonsense for clicks, and funded by the US government as a propaganda mill. Their source for this is "some guy said"

They don't have any video of kim jong un saying it, they don't have any proof at all, actually follow the primary sources in this article, there's absolutely nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia

^^ please read this, it makes it clear what this organization is. I hate this because it muddies the water when we're talking about actual problems, because of radio free asias constant barrage of nonsense, it's almost impossible to know when north korea/china/whatever actually does something fucked up. This is a serious problem and they need to go down.