Original story by Chosun Ilbo :check mark button:
Sourced to single anonymous defector :check mark button:
Bullshit so ludicrous that any half-way legitimate reporter can't even be bothered to disprove it :check mark button:
Its Monday boys, time to manufacture another North Korea story for the stupid Westerners. :smiling face with sunglasses:
this is what I don't understand about these Korean/Chinese/Taiwanese/HK rightwing propaganda outlets that spread racist stereotypes against Asians for their Western audience, they are either oblivious to the racist attitudes against Asians or they live a bubble existence in their gated communities and have their servants do the shopping so they never have to experience real life racism.
I think its more a case of right wing South Koreans being racist to North Koreans and then Western media picking up on the story becuase it fits a racist portrayal of Asian people in the West.
Like Chosun Ilbo publishes these stories once a week, they are all absurd and most traffic in some kind of South Korean stereotype about North Koreans, but the only stories that eventually get picked up in the West are the ones which play on broader Asian stereotypes understandable to more Westerners. For example, some racist screed about North Korean workers stealing stuff at the Kaesang Joint Industrial project might circulate in South Korea but would be unintelligible to people in the US due to the specific subject matter and becuase racist South Korean stereotypes about the North don't line up with American stereotypes.
When will tankie come to their senses and condemn this evil man who once cruelly killed all his generals and relatives by feeding them to piranas, then used his power over the dark art of Juche Necronism to ressurect them so he could kill them again with anti-aircraft guns.
Imagine how easy the job of a person reporting about North Korea must be. Just search the internet for racist jokes and report them as news, spend the rest of the month jerking off.
yes, i will unquestioningly believe anything about the DPRK from a media apparatus that has reported their current head of state's death no fewer than three seperate times
i am the height of liberalism
I saw them kissing and making babies and then a baby fell out and it looked at me.
North Korean dictator Kim Kong-un has ordered
This is a parody article, right?
Not making shit up and playing into racist tropes, nope not at all. Western media is a fuck.
So this is the story they cite as the source:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/08/12/2020081200634.html
Sadly, my Hangeul isn't very good, so I can't verify it's on the Korean site as well, but let's assume it is, and it's a close enough translation of the same.
According to a source, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued a ban on pet ownership in July, denouncing it as "a 'tainted' trend by bourgeois ideology." (Emphasis mine)
This is it. This is the entire article's foundation for factual accuracy. In the very final sentence, it then states:
One defector said these clampdowns are usually enforced without great enthusiasm but seem to be more severe this time.
As we all know North Korean defectors are well known for having stories that hold up very well
I love how it's just blustering and shouting to no apparent end. US empire is either just shouting into the wind to make them feel good about themselves, or workshopping different stories to manufacture consent for their next Vietnam that they DESPERATELY need right now. But I'm like 90% sure that it's the former.
what the fuck even is this site lmao, does it even pretend to offer any sort of real world information or is it just all nonsense
So this is total bullshit, right? But if it were true, I'm not sure what sorta picture they're trying to paint. They're making three claims:
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There's an ongoing economic tailspin
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The people with dogs are the wealthy
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As a result of the tailspin and crop damage, there's food shortages
So if all their claims are true, Kim Jong-Un is forcing rich people to give up their dogs to alleviate a famine. Forcing the rich to give up luxuries to help others is a good thing.
Again, if this were actually true, there'd of course be (rightful) debate over the consumption of meat itself, but otherwise this story is bullshit, and makes the DPRK look based af
The story is from Chosun Ilbo which is a notoriously unreliable (but still very prominent) conservative tabloid in South Korea. They really do just make up these kinds of stories every couple of days to rile-up old people and to export it into the Western press who publishes this shit unquestioningly. Almost always they will get an anonymous defector to act as a "source". At best these stories are an extreme exaggeration of actual NK policy but more often then not its just made up.
Previous fake stories from Chosun Ilbo (edit. and other rightwing outlets in SK) include multiple reports of Kim Jong Un's death, North Koreans are becoming zombies becuase of nuclear testing, everyone in North Korea is forced to have the same haircut, North Koreans are forced to believe Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger, North Korea executed their Olympic soccer team becuae they lost ... and so on. Just a few I can remember off the top of my head.
Most people in South Korea (except for their version of Fox News grandpas) knows this is bullshit and don't consider Chosun Ilbo a legitimate news source. But invariably the Western press will repeat these stories verbatim and source Chosun Ilbo, who their readers don't know is South Korean Breitbart.
Placing more value on an animal life over a human life is liberalism.
I think I actually meant to reply to the top level comment in regards to
Again, if this were actually true, there’d of course be (rightful) debate over the consumption of meat itself
In a situation where the crops have been mostly destroyed for a season, and people are starving now, I don't think its much of a choice whether to eat meat or die watching crops grow.
But this is all far off in super hypothetical realm of what kind of famine there is, the scale, whats available, etc. Which isn't applicable to this article which just states they're taking rich people dogs to serve at rich people restaurants.
I just have an issue with moral arguments of veganism that disregard context. I agree that it makes more sense to grow crops, and that its much more feasible to feed large populations with plants. But I also won't put the value of an animal's life over the value of a human's life.
This really depends on the environment. It's easy to put a bunch of goats on a mountainside that would take a lot of effort to prepare for crops.
Killing a bunch of dogs to stick it to the rich is psychopathic
Not saying spiteful dog killing is good.
I'm saying incorporating a lesson on veganism during a famine is bad. There's a certain privilege involved in choosing not to eat certain things.
It isn't incorporating a lesson on veganism during a famine, the story is fake and as far as I am aware, there is no famine in the DPRK currently.
It also isn't choosing not to eat certain things, it's choosing to kill members of someone's family for food when other sources are available
It definitely takes fewer resources to raise squash than it does to send the police to confiscate dogs from (almost certainly) belligerent owners. Like, there's a reason animal control wears bullet proof armor.
This is psychotic. This story isnt even true, you dont have to torture a rationale for how "it's actually woke to eat people's pets if you think about it."
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