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.
Fun fact: His dad divorced and married his mother instead.
Fun fact 2: His dad did not get sent to a labour camp.The dude has a haircut which no one else is allowed to have. The fact that Dear Leader gets to do things you don’t isn’t an embarrassing secret, it’s a pillar of their society!
Why would the West force the DPRK to do this
/s
Why hasn’t Joe Biden freed North Korea yet and installed a fully functioning democracy?!? That’s IT!! I’m voting for Trump and/or 3rd party! Am I right fellow lemmy users?? Clearly none of you are stupid enough to fall for shit like this! Right… RIGHT??
More than anything else, I’m surprised divorce as a concept even exists in North Korea.
So they’ve made it into a religion, huh. Not like that wasn’t a case before, but still.
It’s been the case since the 1970s.
Huh, didn’t know the name of it. Interesting
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.
Let’s ask Otto Warmbier what he thinks
I heard labor camps are a great place to pick up chicks.
pick up sticks
Wonder what the domestic violence situation is like there. Does that also get you sent to camp?
Is it so they can work out their problems
They can work, but they can’t out. That’s their problem.
Another stain on the world that needs to be bleached out
Strong feeling that this may not be true
I don’t get it. Why not just remove divorce from the courts?
This sources it’s information from Radio Free Asian(RFA) which is a known propaganda arm of the USA… If you don’t believe me the would you believe the CIA?
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000846953.pdf
Weird wonder why they need to fund propaganda against North Korea 🤔
Cool. What unbiased source is reporting freely from the DPRK? I would love to see some honest, independent reporting about this topic. Take your time, I’ll wait.
What did I say that you disagree with? I never said I had an unbiased source as to what is going on in North Korea lol. I only pointed out the above article is blatant propaganda.
Not sure why you’re being sassy stranger. I don’t know who hurt you but I promise it wasn’t me lol
Yeah but the mbfc source they love so much says RFA is credible and unbiased
It was a cia mouthpiece from 1951 to 1955. Its modern iteration is far removed from that. While we could really get into the weeds about RFA as a source, the fact that you’re citing random cia docs from 1953 without either realizing or indicating that the CIA program was defunded 2 years later leads me to believe you aren’t interested in legitimate debate about this.
Super loaded comment. Who said anything about a debate?
My source wasn’t random in mentioned RFA being funded by name? What?
Why do you think the USA stopped funding RFA? They didn’t…
https://apnews.com/article/radio-free-asia-close-bureau-hong-kong-eb5dcb279c29fcca223e2dabcca6d9b4
Please just be a nice normal person.
I don’t understand how anyone can support this regime when they do such horrendous things like in the video.
Two fingers to you too, mate.
Worth it.
/s in case anyone doesn’t notice. I’ve never been married.
