North Korean authorities are doing everything they can to stop the spread of South Korean pop culture, or hallyu.
  • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    25 days ago

    Daily NK is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy,

    lmao, lol

    extremely reliable propaganda you’ve got here

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      I’ll take it over the literal slop of propaganda that comes out of NK, it’s definitely more reliable than that at the least.

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        22·
        25 days ago

        I’ll take it over the literal slop of propaganda that comes out of NK, it’s definitely more reliable than that at the least.

        lol, we’ve upset the libs who have to hate our designated enemies

      • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        25 days ago

        oh and just as a quick addendum, i feel compelled to point out that the daily nk is literal propaganda slop. that is its actual purpose!

        The organization is part of a consortium with the Unification Media Group, which is a South Korea–based non-profit organization that produces and delivers radio content into North Korea via short-wave radio broadcasts.

        like it’s not even pretending to be subtle. even the fucking wiki page admits it.

      • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        20·
        25 days ago

        i’m sure you would, but that doesn’t really say anything about the veracity of the claims presented. it just tells us where your biases lay. did you know that under SK’s National Security Act it’s functionally illegal to say anything positive about the north? like, this is a real verified law that we know exists and does (more or less) what the article says the north is doing. meanwhile the article gives us gems like

        According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong province recently, four people in their twenties were arrested in Chongjin by local state security officers for talking like South Koreans.

        wow, extremely verifiable! the daily nk is run out of seoul, takes CIA cutout (NED) money, and relies exclusively on anonymous sources, so it simply must be believed.

        a question for you to ponder: if i asked all the people who most hated you and wished to see you dead what their opinion on you was, and then formed my opinions exclusively on their word, would you consider that fair? would you consider it “definitely […] reliable”? you don’t need to answer, but do give it some thought.

        • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          16·
          25 days ago

          dastardly north koreans have tunneled into my basement and are tapping out propaganda on the floorboards in morse code. please someone help kitty-cri

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        24 days ago

        Could you even FIND any “NK” propaganda if you tried, or are you just considering anything outside the US imperial propaganda sphere (the biggest and most pervasive in history) to be “enemy propaganda”? Seriously, I want to know where in the english-speaking internet you think people are even encountering northern perspectives at all. Because this seems to me like the laziest, most ridiculous “no u”.

        Tell me where you see this “slop of NK propaganda”, and if you say “from hexbearberdly-smug” We’re going to bully you for being God’s most Predictable Redditeur.

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      24 days ago

      This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas.

      The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumour campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.

      "Christ, we can’t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”

      “I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitchh deny it.”

      not-immune-to-propaganda

      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        yeah, kind of crazy seeing as only upper class and government officials are even allowed to leave NK. that’s their team, huh?

        EDIT: oh wait, I also forgot that the NK lower class is allowed to leave to die in Ukraine for a country they don’t even live in, oops, my b