Asia Kim Jong Un's North Korea

[Cmarsh]

Just a reminder of what a top bloke the dear leader is.

North Korean teenagers sentenced to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-pop

The footage, released by an organisation which works with North Korean defectors, shows the two 16-year-olds in Pyongyang convicted of watching South Korean movies and music videos.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Chief]

12 years hard labour for watching and sharing South Korean movies and k-pop.

Poor kids. And their poor parents.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

If you break the law you pay the penalty.
Just because it's not our ideal way, it doesn't mean it's wrong.
I don't see any problem with it.

 

[owen87]

If you break the law you pay the penalty.
Just because it's not our ideal way, it doesn't mean it's wrong.
I don't see any problem with it.

I reckon 12 years for K-Pop is a little harsh personally.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

I reckon 12 years for K-Pop is a little harsh personally.

So don't live in NK.
Pretty simple really.
If you are a citizen of a country you are bound by thier laws.

 

[owen87]

So don't live in NK.
Pretty simple really.
If you are a citizen of a country you are bound by thier laws.

I'm sure many North Koreans would live elsewhere if they had the choice.

 

[Cmarsh]

So don't live in NK.
Pretty simple really.
If you are a citizen of a country you are bound by thier laws.

Please tell us more about how the people of North Korea can just up and leave if they don't like it there.

 

[owen87]

Please tell us more about the people of North Korea can just up and leave if they don't like it there.

Chances he's confused North Korea with South Korea?

 

[Sqotty from office works]

I'm sure many North Koreans would live elsewhere if they had the choice.

Yeah that's bad luck.

 

[Zidane98]

I reckon 12 years for K-Pop is a little harsh personally.

Should have been 24 IMO. PSY is annoying.

 

[Chief]

Yeah that's bad luck.

Weirdest line of argument.

If you don't like prison, you should just walk out?

 

[Blue1980]

Weirdest line of argument.

If you don't like prison, you should just walk out?

Sounds like the slavery is a choice line of thinking from Kanye

 

[Sqotty from office works]

I think most people in NK know thier laws.
They broke the law they get goal.
Pffffft move on.

 

[Cmarsh]

Chilling reading.

'It would've been better to be dead': Survivors detail atrocities of North Korean prison

www.google.com

 

[owen87]

I think most people in NK know thier laws.
They broke the law they get goal.
Pffffft move on.

Section 12, subsection 13, clause a: Listening to BTK shall result in a prison term of no less than 12 years.

 

[Cmarsh]

Section 12, subsection 13, clause a: Listening to BTK shall result in a prison term of no less than 12 years.

*BTS

I guess I would be sent to a labour camp for life in NK for knowing that.

 

[owen87]

*BTS

I guess I would be sent to a labour camp for life in NK for knowing that.

I've been spending too much time watching true crime docos!

 

[Chief]

I think most people in NK know thier laws.
They broke the law they get goal.
Pffffft move on.

But you said they should leave if they don't like it.

Explain how people leave North Korea.

 

[The Sultan]

what are the chances that the GOP are frantically taking notes..

 

[Sqotty from office works]

But you said they should leave if they don't like it.

Explain how people leave North Korea.

Think not.

 

[Chief]

Think not.

Again: bizarre line of argument in the face of minors being sent to a gulag for listening to K-Pop.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

Again: bizarre line of argument in the face of minors being sent to a gulag for listening to K-Pop.

It's NK laws.
Sad but true.
I'm not arguing, just agreeing that although sad it's a country that imposes those laws and has every right to.
I would say breaking those laws is suicide.

In Australia most laws broken get you a slap on the wrist, in Queensland breaking laws as a teenager gets you the opportunity to steal cars every day until your 18. Reckon a lot of cultures would think we are crazy.

 

[Chief]

 

[spinynorman]

Yeah, look, I think the way North Korea is portrayed in the west is a contradictory caricature, both the embodiment of evil and hilariously bumbling, and with zero reflection on how it got to be in the situation that it’s in and our role in it.

But obviously you can’t defend kids getting hard labour for watching certain shows, and I’ve no idea why someone’s bothering to here.

 

[Cmarsh]

Yeah, look, I think the way North Korea is portrayed in the west is a contradictory caricature, both the embodiment of evil and hilariously bumbling, and with zero reflection on how it got to be in the situation that it’s in and our role in it.

But obviously you can’t defend kids getting hard labour for watching certain shows, and I’ve no idea why someone’s bothering to here.

I'd be eager to hear your explanation as to how this is the West's fault, or at least it's contribution.