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  • You can call independent journalism private as an epithet all you want, but I’m still not going to trust North Korean BBC to report truthfully about North Korea the same as I’m not going to trust actual BBC to report truthfully about Britain. States are gonna state.

    The video you linked is a fun watch, but it also starts from a pov assuming that I automatically believe what corporate and state media in the imperial core has told me about the DPRK and I already don’t. The first 10 minutes are just talking about the U.S. media talking about NK, then there’s less than 1min of footage actually in North Korea, the majority of which is just b-roll, and not a single interview with a Korean, then the rest of the video is just a pretty good discussion about why the kinds of things western countries do and the kinds of things that the DPRK does are just the kinds of things that countries do. Which again, I agree with all of that, but a good discussion.

    What I’m not seeing is any kind of actual North Korean talking about their daily lives, or things they like or dislike about where they live, ways they want to participate, the people in their lives they love, or anything else really.


  • It’s not a distrust of socially owned media, it’s a distrust of states. I don’t trust any government to give me facts about what’s happening in their own country. In a place where people are allowed to independently investigate and publish their own findings or even their own opinions, I can at get an idea of how a variety of common folks I’ve and feel within their systems. I can’t find a source like that for DPRK





  • It’s not a line. I need a combination of multiple sources in order to properly sus out the truth. There is independent journalism. That exists. I don’t know if it exists in North Korea, which is why I’m asking for a source to add to my rss feed. Nobody has given me one yet. All I want is a news source so I can stop getting my information from the imperial core, and no one has given me one yet.