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Video: Interview of middle school students in Pyongyang (English)
https://streamable.com/9zjnqiFull video is mainly in Korean, but in this portion, they are interviewing students during English class.
Full video is mainly in Korean, but in this portion, they are interviewing students during English class.
Korean title: 아름다운 청년 전태일 (Beautiful Youth, Jeon Tae-il); English title: A Single Spark. YouTube video has subtitles in various languages available. ... read full post
@5:50 is where he arrives in the mountain village if you mainly want to see that. (Before that is him and the taxi driver trying to find it.)
(Article is from August 11) Excerpts: ... read full post
A clip from a south Korean broadcast, filming events in DPRK on Childrens' Day in Pyongyang, and visiting Kaesong. I thought the video was nice and wanted to share. ... read full post
It's a 2018-2019 series shown on JTBC (JTBC's page), I haven't seen English subtitles for it, but I think it is still worth watching for a non Korean speaker even just to see some nice footage of DPRK that doesn't show it with eerie music or purposely film in dim and cold weather, etc. but rather just presents each city nicely. ... read full post
Webmaster: "Ever since someone dumped a trove of old newspaper issues onto the Internet Archive in October 2021, I have been slowly translating and posting select articles to share my findings with the wider community. I am a US-educated Japanese person concerned about the spread of historical misinformation by Japanese far-right activists supporting revisionist and denialist viewpoints about the history of Imperial Japan, especially with respect to war crimes and atrocities. I hope that this blog will help combat historical misinformation about Imperial Japan on the Internet, and that professional historians will be inspired to start an online resource like this one, but on a much larger scale." ... read full post
The name has been almost permanently ruined. Whenever people hear of it, they always think of no food, 1984, worshipping the leader, getting your entire family arrested for not doing so, all that stuff. And if you say otherwise, they just call you a propagandist who is hiding the truth. And even if Korea's government does anything like build a water park, people say that it is just to "fool the world into believing they are good". Like they can't even build an entire village without people saying that they are just building it to deceive people. ... read full post
"Has the alliance between South Korea and the US, presupposed by the existence of a common enemy, run its course?" ... read full post
A very interesting and informative talk. One of the many side effects of the weakening of US global hegemony is that conflicts which have been frozen for a long time may be starting to heat up again. ... read full post
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1181841
People are the Sky is an excellent documentary that I've still never heard referenced when talking about DPRK docs so here you go, I'll leave this up for you comrades for a few days :) Follows a Korean-American making a return visit to her homeland. Not perfect, but very good 💙
We made a viral thread about Yeonmi Park on Twitter (https://twitter.com/prolewiki/status/1666904605085630465) and in it, I said that the SK defectors who flee to the DPRK exist, but are not really covered. ... read full post
한국어 배우는 게 위해 작년에 조선에서 이사했어. 그때 동안 아주 좋은 생활을 샀고 친절한 친구들을 만났고 대박한 한국어 선생님들 몆 명 있었어. ... read full post
As of this moment, Chosonclip and ChosonSocial are currently down. Due to inconsistent billing practices of the current hosting provider of Chosonclip, the VPS running Chosonclip/ChosonSocial was shut down in early May and thus due to architectural flaws the services went down. Access to the user database has been regained and the current contract with the Polish provider will be discontinued in favor of 1984 Hosting of Iceland. ... read full post
When so many people think of a real life example of 1984's Oceania (fuck you anyway, orwell), the most common one is North Korea.
So how could one easily disprove all these claims?
Full 2hr video (with narration in French): 제13차 세계청년학생축전
A panel discussion hosted by Nodutdol (@nodutdol) on March 1 [2022] (삼일절) with past participants of our Korea Education and Exposure Program (KEEP) trips. They speak to their first-hand experience traveling to North Korea. We hope to provide an alternative narrative about the North Korean people, promote peace, and share work on the campaign to lift the travel ban to North Korea. More info https://nodutdol.org/ ... read full post
Part 1 - Talks about Korea's modern history before the division. Discusses the Japanese colonial period and independence struggle, and the beginning of US occupation. ... read full post
