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True Scarcity (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by vampire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] athlon@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

She genuinely looks terrifying (whoever she is).

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

she's a north korean defector influencer/griter. She makes her money by telling absurd stories about North Korea to gullible westerners

[+] El_Rocha@lm.put.tf 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Things like North Korean parents feeding their children mud, or Kim Jong-un personally executing an orchestra conductor in front of a crowd.

North Korea is not a complete black box. Americans are banned from the country, but most Europeans can visit on guided tours.

Millions of North Koreans work abroad in China. If anyone actually wanted to know what life was like in North Korea, you could just ask them. But no-one with the money to hire a translator and head to Beijing is really interested in the very boring truth; that North Korea is a poor, imperfect country where the vast majority of people live normal lives.

The documentary "Loyal Citizens of Pyeongyang in Seoul" has a few interviews with North Korean citizens who went to the South for better economic opportunities before having their passports seized and prevented from going home to the North.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago

America bans Americans from visiting the country, the DPRK does not.

Land of the free and all

[-] ru5ty@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

It's changed in recent years - the BBC did an excellent documentary about what life has been like in DPRK recently by interviewing people inside, and it's become a lot worse now. People starving to death, no more trade with China, the lot.

[-] RatzChatsubo@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago

Now this meme I can get behind

[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Can someone explain me where this mend comes from? (Comments already said she is a NK deflector, but what she said originally? Also is that the Joe Rogan podcast?)