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What North Korea Is Really Afraid Of
PJ Media ^ | 10 Feb 2026 | Sarah Anderson

Posted on 02/10/2026 10:29:17 AM PST by Rummyfan

For the last 24 hours, I've had to listen, ad nauseam, to people debate and virtue-signal over the Super Bowl halftime show, and I'm over it. It was 15 minutes of our lives that we'll forget about next week. But the thing is, as annoying as it has been, none of us has died over it. You liked the Bad Bunny show? Great. You preferred the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) version? Good for you. You want to argue about it? Go for it. Donald Trump will never have you executed for watching, liking, disliking, or debating any of it.

If we lived in North Korea, that might not be the case.

In 2025, Amnesty International conducted in-depth interviews with a group of people who were lucky enough to escape Kim Jong Un's little hellhole between 2019 and 2020, just before the pandemic led to tighter border restrictions. Most of them were teenagers and young adults at the time, and some of the things they had to say will — or should — make your blood boil.

Though I'm sure there is some Democrat member of Congress out there reading the report and thinking it sounds like a dream world.

Anyway, one of the biggest crimes you can commit in North Korea is consuming international entertainment, especially if it comes from South Korea. The escapees confirmed that if you do, it can land you in a labor camp or even get you executed. That goes for children, too. Several media outlets have also confirmed this in the past, but the interviewees say they saw it firsthand: High school students were executed for consuming South Korean media.

This might mean listening to K-Pop, which is short for Korean popular music, or watching television shows like Squid Game, Crash Landing on You...

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1 posted on 02/10/2026 10:29:17 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

He looks like he has a “Carb heavy” diet


2 posted on 02/10/2026 10:35:01 AM PST by suasponte137
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This should be yet another lesson on how terrible and evil communism is.

“Oh no,” say American communists. “This time it will be different!”

But of course it won’t be.


3 posted on 02/10/2026 10:39:41 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: suasponte137

fried lice


4 posted on 02/10/2026 10:40:35 AM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: Rummyfan

I can’t wait until his heart explodes and his psycho sister takes over. Then the real fireworks start. An Alpha Karen in charge of nukes….


5 posted on 02/10/2026 10:41:24 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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...watching television shows like Squid Game...

I am surprised that you can watch television, in North Korea.

6 posted on 02/10/2026 10:45:26 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Rummyfan

Imagine risking dying to listen to a rock band.


7 posted on 02/10/2026 10:53:04 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: suasponte137

Unlike most North Koreans, he gets plenty to eat.


8 posted on 02/10/2026 10:57:32 AM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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There is a great SK action film about a NK soldier’s escape with a great speech near the end.

Escape https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31898445/


9 posted on 02/10/2026 11:13:05 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: VanShuyten

I’ve heard it said multiple times and from multiple sources that his sister is expected to b worse than him in many ways if she ever assumes control.
No tickee, no shirtee.


10 posted on 02/10/2026 11:18:21 AM PST by desertsolitaire (hite sea. My grandfather shouted warning to anyone who would listen that the Titanic was going to st)
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To: Rummyfan

I heard a rumor...not sure how true it is, but in North Korea, you dont hear or see any birds chirping, because everyone ate them all.


11 posted on 02/10/2026 11:26:36 AM PST by suasponte137
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Why is this?
The communist propaganda feeds their own people lies.
The biggest lie is that they live in one of the best countries in the world. The other countries are full of starving unemployed people being abused by police and the rich.
Listening to the foreign media make people realize how they are being lied to.
So they have to close all outside information channels and severely punish violators.

All communist countries had similar policies.
BTW, Nazis had these policies too!


12 posted on 02/10/2026 11:28:28 AM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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13 posted on 02/10/2026 11:57:53 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: AZJeep

I’d put small balloons in the air drop in the north. Pn the balloons I’d put in 12(one) small cannabis cookie. Maybe throw in a blue viagra pill. They’ll see what they’re missing.


14 posted on 02/10/2026 11:59:19 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: suasponte137

That was in a NK movie about...us. We also live on snow.


15 posted on 02/10/2026 12:00:51 PM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: VanShuyten

Only as psycho as the Chinese think is useful.


16 posted on 02/10/2026 12:02:47 PM PST by greenbrier
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To: Rummyfan

North Korea should have been eradicated a long time ago.


17 posted on 02/10/2026 12:54:49 PM PST by SpaceBar
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North Korea has been controlled by intelligence agencies for decades.

Nothing is as it seems.


18 posted on 02/10/2026 12:56:26 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Rummyfan

That’s the garbage that had its half-brother and uncle executed because they were reform-minded.


19 posted on 02/10/2026 1:14:30 PM PST by ClarityGuy
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To: Rummyfan
For the last 24 hours, I've had to listen, ad nauseam, to people debate and virtue-signal over the Super Bowl halftime show, and I'm over it. It was 15 minutes of our lives that we'll forget about next week.

I can't fathom how conservatives can continue to tacitly support "Bad Bunny" by watching it. True conservatives would boycott the Super Bowl - and perhaps football as a whole - in order to cause it to crash and burn.

Why don't they? Are they so addicted to the sport?

Regards,

20 posted on 02/10/2026 1:49:25 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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