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@Gork@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months ago

Kim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treason

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Kim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treason

www.nzherald.co.nz

@Gork@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months ago
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Act of treason: Kim Jong-un's bizarre new ban for North Koreans
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It's one of the most popular items around the world. Now it's banned in North Korea.

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Not the hotdogs!

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    Based on what? That you don’t know it?
    https://www.rfa.org/english/

    I don’t see anything particularly wrong with it on the surface.

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

    The service, which provides editorially independent reporting,[6][7][8][9][10][11] has the stated mission of providing accurate and uncensored reporting to countries in Asia that have poor media environments and limited protections for speech and press freedom.

    6 references to the Independent reporting part! Seems pretty OK to me.

    • @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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      7•4 months ago

      Imagine defending RFA

      • @kescusay@lemmy.worldM
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        Please provide backing for claims that this story is fake and that Radio Free Asia is not credible.

        • @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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          The facts –

          • Radio Free Asia was involved in anti-vaxx campaigns in the Philippines

          • Radio Free Asia is associated by Radio Free Europe, a CIA operation to smear anti-USA regimes.

          • RFA staff are appointed by the government of the USA, known to be hostile to North Korea

          • Also, the story is just silly on the face of it and common sense says it’s made-up.

          • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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            Source for anti-vax claim?

            You do know where DW, the one source you provide, gets its money?

            • @TurtleOnASkateboard@lemmy.ml
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              The comment thread from this point down is useless.

              Source for anti-vax claim?

              • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia#Controversies_and_disputes

              You do know where DW, the one source you provide, gets its money?

              • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle

              There, wasn’t that easier than debating “whose job” it is to look up Wikipedia?

            • @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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              Source for anti-vax claim?

              Buffalox already posted it.

              • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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                ? I’m not going to hunt down whatever you’re referring to.

                DW money?

                • @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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                  Brandolini’s law moment.

                  You want me to “hunt down” the DW background? I’ll do the labour if you do, ok?

                  • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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                    I know the DW background, I live in the country they’re based in. I’m asking if you know the background of the source you use.

                    Also, still waiting for anti-vax source.

                  • @needanke@feddit.org
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                    Dw is founded entirely by the German culture&media ministry: https://corporate.dw.com/de/wer-finanziert-die-deutsche-welle/a-279073

                    The point made was probably that it is ironic you wold use them as a source for RFA being government-founded insinuating that makes them inherently biased.

                    Now you go.

          • @kescusay@lemmy.worldM
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            Ah. So you don’t actually have any credible citations to back up your contentions about RFA, you just don’t like them saying true things that put North Korea (!) in a negative light.

            Weird to go to bat for an insane dictator, but hey, you do you.

            Or rather, I should say, you do you somewhere else. Not here. Bye.

            • @Porcupine@lemmy.ml
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              removed by mod

              • @StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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                They banned them for being a dedicated propaganda account for complying with their request. This shows two things:

                1. Propaganda is when someone says things you disagree with.
                2. The moderator here lacks integrity.
                • @Renfield@lemmy.ml
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                  The moderator here lacks integrity.

                  psycho killer: kescusay

                  • @StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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                    Good thing I’m from the “safe instance”. Apparently two people with similar opinions from the “bad instance” constitutes brigading. If my eyes rolled any harder, they’d pop.

                • @KevinFromSpace@lemmy.ml
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                  removed by mod

                • @kescusay@lemmy.worldM
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                  Every pro-North Korea post was coming from a group of accounts that all post to the same anti-Western and pro-fascism subs on .ml. I’ve banned the lot of them, and don’t feel the slightest twinge of remorse about it.

    • @Porcupine@lemmy.ml
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      removed by mod

      • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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        The DW source (which @Lumidaub@feddit.org casts doubt on)

        lolno I didn’t. Don’t put words in my mouth.

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