This, after high level, high profile visits last year of South Korean pop singers and other big stars for public "Peace on the Peninsula" concerts in Pyongyang--but nothing aired on regular NK TV. Just a show for invited privileged cadres of the Workers Party. Nobody outside the Party nor Pyongyang for that matter could or would see such a concert.
Ping!
(For “TigerLikesRooster”....if you are still out there).
If Fat Boy has all North Koreans convinced they’re living in Utopia, what’s the problem with ‘’slumming’’?
Since when is South Korea considered “western”?
Evil fat little bastard.
My friends who lived in East Germany prior to the wall coming down told me that they were threatened not to listen to Western radio stations.
One told me how they would hide in fear just to listen to the radio. The same person told me that the most painful thing was when the wall came down all the lies that they were a world power were unveiled. The governments ego identity was destroyed.
Bkmrk.
IIRC years ago during apartheid, So. Africa didn’t allow any TVs at all.
You can be killed for watching Wheel of Fortune?
I think we need to adopt this.
Firing squad is actually relatively human by North Korean standards - they’ll pull out the anti-aircraft guns when they really want to make a point.
“Firing Squad” is a little extreme, but he sound like a good dad otherwise.
"Manipulate the frequencies"? In other words, change the channel. Sorry, this looks like yet another CIA hit piece to attempt to derail the unification effort.
Ahhh the utopia of communism. I can see why democraps are pushing it
Good Lord. Could you imagine being executed for watching the crap that is on TV these days?
They just beat you and publicly harass you here in the USSA.
Well, if South Korean TV is anything like US TV, what with Fake News and “entertainment” consisting of adultery, fornication, violence, every kind of social pathology, then maybe Fat Boy is on to something.
Kim Jung Un is Right to identify the Western Media as an evil malevolent force bent on destruction, but in his paranoia he presumes that it means to destroy him.
In reality, it means to destroy us.
At least when Kim makes a law, he backs it. The US makes laws every day but they aren’t enforced so why bother.
This has been going on for only, like, fifty years.
Each generation thinks everything started with them.
I remember when the Russians used to have a “tweak” in their TVs so their populace could not watch Western TV channels.
Short Wave radio used to have lots of “jammers” on some frequencies.