A detailed video account, published by Ukrainian special forces, described how the soldier refused to lay down his food, while one of his compatriots tried to kill himself by running into a pillar.
They later asked to watch Korean romance films, the Ukrainians said.
“He was lying there, with his head and an arm wounded. He had a grenade, a knife and a sausage on him,” one of the soldiers of Ukraine’s 95th Air Assault Brigade said in an interview published on Tuesday.
“I asked him to drop everything, but he refused to drop the sausage because it was food, so we let him keep it.”
I feel a bit sad for the NKs, you really have to wonder how much the world they know and if they’re really aware of what they’re even doing over there.
how much the world they know
I heard some of them are able to have South Korean TV shows and movies smuggled in on flash drives. I only know this, because there are also stories of people being caught watching/in possession of the media and being sentenced to prison. Most recently I think 2 teenage boys were given 12 years hard labor
The ones they let out of the country are probably die hards that would turn in a friend who had one of those
from what im aware of those who are slightly more wealthy or live in border cities are more aware than ones who live off in the middle of nowhere. many of the North Koreans who live closer to the chinese border are related to or know a person whose greenlit to do business in China and return. Even theough chinas reletive censorship, its hard to not be able to learn about the rest of the world.
Usually the ones sent to war are poor people
Here’s an interesting perspective that might answer those questions:
North koreans vacation in China and Russia.
I doubt that a large portion of north koreans is spending any time outside the country. It sounds to me like only the elite gets to spend time in foreign resorts.
Everybody is coming from their own little North Korea. How much do you actually know about the world? Do you know everything about everything you’re a part of? More than some, less than others.
Empathize with the man, but remember empathy is borne of understanding. Pity is borne of contempt.
I have access to the Internet, can communicate freely with people elsewhere, travel freely, and have not been force fed propaganda to the same degree.
It’s not really the same, all they know is what they are told. I am free to explore truths and oppose my state.
All true and all good things. And you spend a lot of time opposing your state? You avoid supporting oligarchs who profit from slavery and ecological exploitation? Your government fights for freedom and your representatives act in your best interest? Everything you buy is ethically sourced, and all the information you consume is unbiased? Your food is fresh and free of microplastics? You’ve traveled to every destination you’d like?
Suffering and oppression is not a competition. Yes, North Korea is ruled by a third generation megalomaniac who censors all speech and makes life hell for his people. North Koreans starve to death without understanding the larger world around them. That’s bad, and the world would be better with fewer tyrants.
My point is that the lesson here is not that North Korea is the one bad place. The lesson is how easy it is to be indoctrinated, to be exploited without knowing more than they want you to know. You see him and think how much better off you are because you have Google and a frequent flyer credit card. You should be thinking how much you have in common, because it is a lot more than you would expect.
Youve been force fed plenty of propaganda, you just don’t realize it.
to the same degree.
Finish reading the sentence.
But how could they totally own you if they have to read what you’re saying?
Don’t downplay NK’s isolation. It’s incomparable to most nations’.
I’m not downplaying anything.
Yes, you are. You’re comparing their insane policies to the comparatively okay ones in the rest of the world.
No, I’m pointing out that they are analogous to the rest of the world, and that none of it is okay, comparatively or otherwise.
Cultural ignorance is different to being forcibly isolated from the modern world by a dictatorship.
I’m not talking about cultural ignorance, either.
Are you American? You sound like one.
… while one of his compatriots tried to kill himself by running into a pillar.
Quite the act of desperation.
Yeah that’s kinda depressing.
And yet, it sounds like it could be a scene from Dr. Strangelove.
If I was North Korean, I wouldn’t want to waste food, either.
You might have a gun, but I have a sausage… The Sausage is real!
But the cake is a lie.
fuck I lost the game
winning
Iona Cleave is a former Sun ‘journalist’ so I’d take any articles written by her with a grain of salt.
And this is from the Telegraph, a right-wing newspaper. Unlike the Sun, though, it is an actual paper and not the kind of garbage you find stuck to the bottom of your shoe like the Sun.
My buddy recommended I watch this show because they knew I was interested in how North Koreans lived. I’ve read a few books in the past. It is very romance based, but it’s supposed to be somewhat correct on how they lived when you read about interviews from defectors. It’s a long drama, fr drama, so buckle up if you decide you want to go there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Landing_on_You
If she wasn’t basically a princess, she would have been raped and shot.
That’s not too far off from what the defectors were saying. Just like in the US and other militaries, there are rapists and murderers in every single one. We don’t know how deep that goes? Maybe you do. It’s pretty opaque to us.
Mostly I’m making a comment on class. Even when accidentally crossing into enemy territory, they can say “but I’m rich” and get out of anything.
