Man Caught Smuggling Squid Game into North Korea, Sentenced to Death by Firing Squad

[lazerface]

https://variety.com/2021/politics/news/squid-game-north-korea-death-sentence-1235119064/

What a batshit crazy story, it's insane that shit like this happens in 2021.

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[TaySan]

Unbelievably cruel to sentence someone to death over a tv show.

 

[Rendering...]

Sick of this evil fucking regime destroying lives with impunity. Wish it were possible to depose and imprison every power abusing asshole.

 

[Tukarrs]

I doubt the story is real.

News coming out of North Korea is unreliable at best (remember those stories that Kim died like 3 times during the pandemic?) , and there's a lot of politically motivated elements wanting to paint North Korea in the worst possible light.

 

[Catshade]

...didn't they just praise Squid Game for portraying South Korea as corrupt, decadent capitalist society?

 

[Bremsstrahlung]

This sounds fake as hell? Like "Kim Jong Un is dead" levels of fake.

 

[Squarehard]

This is too cartoon evil, while North Korea government, is just evil.

 

[KillLaCam]

Not sure if this one is real.

...didn't they just praise Squid Game for portraying South Korea as corrupt, decadent capitalist society?

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But at the same time the punishment for sneaking in foreign media has always been pretty harsh, I think. I saw a documentary like 10 or 15 years ago that mentioned this situation.

Even though this can happen I'm feeling like this specific example is fake

 

[lazerface]

I doubt the story is real.

News coming out of North Korea is unreliable at best (remember those stories that Kim died like 3 times during the pandemic?) , and there's a lot of politically motivated elements wanting to paint North Korea in the worst possible light.

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This sounds fake as hell? Like "Kim Jong Un is dead" levels of fake.

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Tons of outlets are reporting this, but I guess it could be bullshit.

 

[Moppeh]

I doubt the story is real.

News coming out of North Korea is unreliable at best (remember those stories that Kim died like 3 times during the pandemic?) , and there's a lot of politically motivated elements wanting to paint North Korea in the worst possible light.

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Yup. I'm not one of those hyper-tankie types that thinks North Korea is a secretly a good place or whatever but this stuff should always be taken with a grain of salt.

Boots Riley came out of Twitter retirement to comment on this which is how I first heard about it. I'll post the thread below:

 

[MIMIC]

Like, how do we even find out about this stuff?

"U.S.-headquartered independent news agency RFA reported, quoting sources...."

Huh?

 

[Bremsstrahlung]

Tons of outlets are reporting this, but I guess it could be bullshit.

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Searching the story on Google, all the articles I could find only reference Radio Free Asia, which apparently got their info from "an unnamed source". There doesn't seem to be any corroborating reports. So yeah, I'm leaning towards fake news in this case.

 

[qaopjlll]

I doubt this story is real...apparently the original source is a propaganda outlet that releases fake news stories about North Korea all the time.

 

[B-Dubs]

If another source corroborates then make the thread.

EDIT: It should be noted though, that ANY stories coming out of North Korea will have anonymous sources due to the government and how they treat things like freedom of the press.