TurtleOnASkateboard
Marvelstani
just negotiate a peace already ffs
Pyongyang is not North Korea. It’s a Potemkin village designed to present a false image to the rest of the world.
You are going down a rabbithole of increasingly improbable beliefs. First you say hotdogs are banned; then you support that by saying sushi is banned; then you support that in turn by saying that a city my friends have been to is a lie. This city.
Surely at some point you'd realise, "Wait I've been fed lies." Nobody can seriously believe that Pyongyang is a propaganda piece.
Reminds me of the Wikipedia edit war where people were trying to claim that a shared bicycle scheme "is propaganda".
In the linked DW-article it says the administration hired/fired stuff. Which is arguably different then them doing it directly, although that is a bit pedantic I guess
Look the the headline of the thread we are in. It begins KIM JONG-UN BANS HOTDOGS
a well-documented history of atrocities and bizarre, freedom-limiting proclamations..... it's well-known for banning foods that it considers contrary to its culture, such as sushi
"well-documented".... then a link to worldpopulationreview.com without a mention of their source??
You are coming across as someone who believes things they read on the internet.
People have done a good job in the more upvoted comments of showing you why you're jumping to conclusions, but you keep doubling down like you have something to prove.
The point made was probably that it is ironic you wold use them as a source for RFA being government-founded insinuating that makes them inherently biased.
He didn't claim that tho? DW started being discussed here – https://lemmy.world/comment/14345095 – where it talks about Trump/Biden hiring/firing staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
Are you saying Trump/Biden did not in fact hire/fire staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)?? Coz that's the only reason you'd bring up DW's credibility. Otherwise you're just diverting.
The comment thread from this point down is useless.
Source for anti-vax claim?
You do know where DW, the one source you provide, gets its money?
There, wasn't that easier than debating "whose job" it is to look up Wikipedia?
Reddit also censoring people who question the RFA story: https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/worldnews/comments/1hvbo9i/kim_jongun_bans_hotdogs_for_north_koreans_cooking/m5s1grw
And none of them back those claims up.
"those claims" meaning that RFA is linked to US intelligence/politics?
Are you saying RFA isn't a branch of US interests? I have never heard anyone make that claim before.
See 1st paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media
38north.org is a pretty decent source on North Korean news.
Or actually attack the credibility of the story.
You have the burden of proof backwards: WHY would anyone believe that "hot dogs are banned in North Korea". It simply makes no sense. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.
There's no reason to think the story is credible. I've searched it and it appears RFA posted it in November, then The Sun picked it up 3 days ago. Then various repeaters.
It's a weird lacuna of the English language, there's no official word for estadounidense.