Summary

Kim Jong-un has introduced stricter laws in North Korea, sending both spouses in divorcing couples to labor camps for up to six months, with women often receiving longer sentences.

The regime views divorce as anti-socialist. Previously, only the spouse who initiated the divorce was punished.

Rising divorce rates since COVID-19 lockdowns have persisted despite public humiliation and threats of expulsion from the Korean Workers’ Party.

Reports indicate labor camps house dozens of divorcees, mostly in their late 30s, under harsh conditions.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    4 days ago

    Fun fact: His dad divorced and married his mother instead.
    Fun fact 2: His dad did not get sent to a labour camp.

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      3 days ago

      The dude has a haircut which no one else is allowed to have. The fact that Dear Leader gets to do things you don’t isn’t an embarrassing secret, it’s a pillar of their society!

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Why hasn’t Joe Biden freed North Korea yet and installed a fully functioning democracy?!? That’s IT!! I’m voting for Trump and/or 3rd party! Am I right fellow lemmy users?? Clearly none of you are stupid enough to fall for shit like this! Right… RIGHT??

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    4 days ago

    Wonder what the domestic violence situation is like there. Does that also get you sent to camp?

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    3 days ago

    And if you jack off too much, they surgically remove your cock and balls and place the Dingus on your back right in that spot where can only reach with a back scratcher stick. Baby making would be mostly up to the woman because she would have to bounce on your back pretty without killing you. Oral sex would be pretty convenient actually.

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      3 days ago

      Cool. What unbiased source is reporting freely from the DPRK? I would love to see some honest, independent reporting about this topic. Take your time, I’ll wait.

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        3 days ago

        What did I say that you disagree with? I never said I had an unbiased source as to what is going on in North Korea lol. I only pointed out the above article is blatant propaganda.

        Not sure why you’re being sassy stranger. I don’t know who hurt you but I promise it wasn’t me lol

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      2 days ago

      It was a cia mouthpiece from 1951 to 1955. Its modern iteration is far removed from that. While we could really get into the weeds about RFA as a source, the fact that you’re citing random cia docs from 1953 without either realizing or indicating that the CIA program was defunded 2 years later leads me to believe you aren’t interested in legitimate debate about this.

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    4 days ago

    Ah yes, Radio Free Asia. The CIA cutout that successfully convinced a bunch of people that North Koreans were getting sent to labor camps for getting the wrong haircut.

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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      For the downvoters: regardless of your opinions on the US, the CIA, North Korea, etc…, RFA has been a historically unreliable source when it comes to reporting on countries like North Korea. The reporting is often sensationalised, unclearly sourced and because of that often later disproven (often by North Korean defectors).

      That doesn’t necessarily mean that this news item is incorrect, fabricated or otherwise false, but given that RFA is an unreliable source and there are no other outlets reporting on this without deferring to RFA as their source, I’d take this with a grain of salt.

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      4 days ago

      It’d be a little harder to make stuff up if they were more open and transparent to journalists. For some reason they really don’t want journalists to be able to travel and report freely though.

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        4 days ago

        That is bully thinking.

        An asinine article is posted from a decidedly and historically bullshit source, and somehow the slandered subject of the article is at fault?

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          What a ridiculous line of reasoning.

          What they told you is the literal truth: if they want the truth to come out, they should allow people to go find out the truth. A state does not get rights to privacy for what their literal laws are.

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          3 days ago

          There was a way for you to make this point without defending Kim Jong-un as a bullied victim lol.