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North Korea has increased its use of the death penalty to target those consuming foreign media, especially from South Korea, since the Covid pandemic.

The number of executions and sentencing increased by nearly 117 per cent after Pyongyang closed its borders in January 2020 compared with the five years before, according to a report by the South Korea-based Transitional Justice Working Group.

  • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Laughably unreliable source. First, does the article even link to the report?

    The report blatantly states that it only pulls from two sources: defector testimony and “North Korea focused news outlets”

    Included in their sources are Radio Free Asia, Freedom Chosun, and Daily NK lol. Propaganda sources.

    On top of that, defector testimony is useless when trying to understand the country.

    Cash payments in return for interviews with North Korean refugees have been standard practice in the field for years.

    Initially, the payment was to cover the cost of meals and local transport, which was approximately $30 in the late 1990s when I first began interviewing in China and South Korea. However, the fees had risen to $200 per hour by the time I attempted to interview people from North Korea in May 2014.

    A government official from the South Korean ministry of unification told me the range of fees could vary wildly, from $50-500 per hour, depending on the quality of information.

    But this practice raises a difficulty: how does the payment change the relation between a researcher and an interviewee, and what effect will it have on the story itself?

    • Elilol@fedinsfw.appEspañol
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      16 hours ago

      YEAH WE NEED PROOF! Is this people really dying? how come people believe that in a military state with a lot of censorship and executions they are killing people?

      … Moron.

      They said the same about Venezuela… and yet, we kept dying… and foreign leftists telling us they knew better than us, that the system worked… FUCK YOU.

      • Tolc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        military state with a lot of censorship

        Quick, google korean war and what america did there (they dropped more tonns of bomb on north korea than they did in whole WW2), you will understand why they are like that

        the system worked

        Surely the govt has changed after US invading your country, kidnapping official head of state, and controlling all your natural resources for benefit of their corporations, how supporting the imperial invasion turned out to be?

        • Elilol@fedinsfw.appEspañol
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          9 hours ago

          what america did there.

          No, What I care is whats happening there right now, If your house burns and you dont save the presidents mandatory portrait, YOU DIE! by excution.

          Surely the govt has changed after US invading your country, kidnapping official head of state, and controlling all your natural resources for benefit of their corporations, how supporting the imperial invasion turned out to be?

          Already the clean water delivery system works better, same as the hidroelectric system that they are fixing in order to be able to “steal our natural resouces” winny baby noises, also they are fixing the oileries that have gone 25 years without maintenance, the inflation has been somewhat halted…

          DONT YOU FUCKING DARE TELL ME IF IM BETTER OR NOT!! AntiAmericans are as blind as Maga dogs, mind you.