• Trudge [Comrade]
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    10 months ago

    I was curious and looked a bit more into this. So looking up public information regarding the org in Korean, there’s 0 employees. The registered address is in a residential apartment building directly facing the head office of seoul metropolitan office and two blocks away from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1

    These are their web presence Youtube Webpage Twitter

    It seems to be an evolution of NK defectors association. But I didn’t look much into it because I got sidetracked by the South Korean Ministry of Reunification that I stumbled upon while looking into SAND. The planning regarding the forced privatization of North Korean land is wild.

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      10 months ago

      If I was a spy risking my life and my family’s life and my family’s subsequent 25 generations to sneak a video of evil go the heroes, I’d maybe spend an extra second to also capture sound lol

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      Thanks for the links comrade.

      Can’t speak Korean myself so I’m having to rely on the little robot in my phone to tell me what that website says.

      Having a little read about though, and it’s kinda what I expected - some of the articles on it seem to be arguing for a tighter surveillance state to root out communists and the rest are your typical unsourced defector stories.

      Edit: whole lotta reposts of BBC articles.

      Edit again: including a story eerily similar to the recent one.

      Edit once more: and in contradiction, this.

      1/5 of North Koreans have publicly stated they watch K-dramas a crime executable by death and/or hard labour.