North Korea enforces an anti-shorts law - but it's only affecting women
North Korea enforces an anti-shorts law - but it's only affecting women
The Asian nation is well known for their bans, but the forbidding of shorts might be the oddest one yet - especially during a heatwave.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1517933
Archived version: https://archive.ph/soqYt
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230816125643/https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/15/north-korea-enforces-an-anti-shorts-law-but-its-only-affecting-women
Radio Free Asia, a broadcasting service which aims to get the bottom of propaganda put out by totalitarian countries, interviewed an anonymous resident.
Goddamnit
34I always blindly trust CIA New International
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The source for this? Radio Free Asia interviewed one (1) anonymous person.
28How long until an article comes out saying it's mandatory to wear shorts in the DPRK?
27Supreme Leader of North Korea Mandates Shorts
Dec. 15, 2023
A recent report by Radio Free Asia states all citizens are required to wear shorts despite the cold weather. According to the anonymous source, famed news presenter Ri Chun-hee was quoted as saying, "They're comfy and easy to wear." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet responded to interview requests.
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in north korea our clothing must cover our entire legs, and if we wear shorts they cut your lower legs off so that now your legs are just as short as your shorts!25Is that why she's also wearing a long sleeve shirt and turtle neck?
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This sounds extremely fake.
23So the CIA interviewed a single anonymous person who probably doesn't even exist. Cool journalism!
20Video uploaded August 14 by a north Korean showing Koreans wearing shorts.
I am a more qualified journalist than Saskia O'Donoghue it seems.
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3The Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was amended August 19th.
You’re apparently a shit journalist.
-4August 19 is in the future
5Post the law's text from an official source then.
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If you read this “journalism” uncritically you are literally the npc meme.
What the actual fuck is leaking into brains that makes people read this shit and make them completely forgo the “is this propaganda” question.
18The CIA would never lie to me, and I'm offended that you'd imply otherwise.
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BrikoX you posted Radio Free Asia. 💀
14Good. Short content is brain rotting
10Counterpoint: shorts are hot
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I hate north korea as much as the next guy but this don't sound too real to me brotha imma be honest
9You shouldn't! Here is a link to a podcast about Korea, I highly recommend listening to it although I warn you the content is pretty heavy.
Furthermore, the DPRK is democratic (whereas the ROK was not for the first 37 years of its 70 year existence - and now it's "democratic" the way the US claims to be)
6ROK is also not democratic
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"I hate this dictatorship as much as the next person, but I find it extremely hard to believe that it would impose arbitrary rules that marginalise women"
What world do you live in where misogynistic dress codes imposed by a patriarchal society (so essentially all of them) are somehow "unbelievable"?
Like, this isn't even accusing them of the serious crimes they commit, why are you people so quick to defend an oppressive state? (E: especially considering the flag in your profile which should mean you think all states are oppressive, which makes the whole thing even more bizarre)
-3Why are you so quick to believe RFA propaganda?
7why are you people so quick to defend an oppressive state?
Seriously? Doubting a ridiculous article about fashion with absolutely no sources is "defense of an oppressive state"? Is critical thinking now considered wrongthink here?
3I think this is fake because it's stupid af
1Because tankies can’t accept that these regimes aren’t actually good for the people living under them.
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7This is the best summary I could come up with:
Radio Free Asia, a broadcasting service which aims to get the bottom of propaganda put out by totalitarian countries, interviewed an anonymous resident.
Although the regime in North Korea demands total loyalty to Jong-Un, one ‘subject’ told the radio station that 10 women had been arrested in the country, simply for wearing above-the-knee trousers.
At the time, a north Pyongan resident revealed that two women had been fined for smoking outside while they ate and were warned that if they were caught again, they could be imprisoned at a disciplinary labour centre for a month.
In Japan, authority figures have long imposed strict regulations on what school students can wear - down to the colour of their underwear, the length of their socks and even hairstyles.
Girls are banned from wearing their hair in ponytails as it’s thought, bizarrely, that exposing the nape of their necks could ‘sexually excite’ male students.
Some schools are so tough on the latter that they demand photographic proof from students of their natural hair colour and texture, if it isn’t strictly black and straight.
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6So is this article another one that uses Radio Free Asia as a source?
'cos I don't know shit about North Korea but I don't trust any news source that is owned and run by the CIA.
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Radio Free Asia, a broadcasting service which aims to get the bottom of propaganda put out by totalitarian countries, interviewed an anonymous resident.
Called it.
4Tankies are out in full force today I see..
I'm as anti American as they get, but to go from that to pretending that any and all reports about places that happen to be anti-American (but in no shape or form pro anyone but the dictator and his minions) must be false because "CIA" (who actually do legit horrific things but tankies sleep during those) is the most not only ridiculous (and so so fucking western, which is ironic af), but actively counterproductive stance I could imagine taking.
3I understand why people are skeptical. The source is Radio Free Asia which is literal US propaganda. I’m not super familiar with their reporting standards though. Even propaganda can have different levels of trustworthiness.
Edit: looks like they editorialize but reporting is largely factual, assuming this source is accurate: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/radio-free-asia/
7Bro is so brainwashed they think North Korea banned shorts 💀
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They also banned skinny jeans in 2021 for the same reason:
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/may/26/north-korea-bans-skinny-jeans
Can't keep their authoritarian bullshit going without brainwashing and extreme control of those poor Koreans.
3A don doesn't wear shorts
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