Summary
Kim Jong-un has introduced stricter laws in North Korea, sending both spouses in divorcing couples to labor camps for up to six months, with women often receiving longer sentences.
The regime views divorce as anti-socialist. Previously, only the spouse who initiated the divorce was punished.
Rising divorce rates since COVID-19 lockdowns have persisted despite public humiliation and threats of expulsion from the Korean Workers’ Party.
Reports indicate labor camps house dozens of divorcees, mostly in their late 30s, under harsh conditions.
Ah yes, Radio Free Asia. The CIA cutout that successfully convinced a bunch of people that North Koreans were getting sent to labor camps for getting the wrong haircut.
For the downvoters: regardless of your opinions on the US, the CIA, North Korea, etc…, RFA has been a historically unreliable source when it comes to reporting on countries like North Korea. The reporting is often sensationalised, unclearly sourced and because of that often later disproven (often by North Korean defectors).
That doesn’t necessarily mean that this news item is incorrect, fabricated or otherwise false, but given that RFA is an unreliable source and there are no other outlets reporting on this without deferring to RFA as their source, I’d take this with a grain of salt.
It’d be a little harder to make stuff up if they were more open and transparent to journalists. For some reason they really don’t want journalists to be able to travel and report freely though.
That is bully thinking.
An asinine article is posted from a decidedly and historically bullshit source, and somehow the slandered subject of the article is at fault?
What a ridiculous line of reasoning.
What they told you is the literal truth: if they want the truth to come out, they should allow people to go find out the truth. A state does not get rights to privacy for what their literal laws are.
There was a way for you to make this point without defending Kim Jong-un as a bullied victim lol.
Yes.
Seven words in… looks back to check TLD… yup.
Why is this guy being down-voted? This is true by the CIAs own admission and it’s the only source for the news article
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000846953.pdf
Let’s ask Otto Warmbier what he thinks