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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
    713·
    2 months 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?

      • Tolc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 months 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?