Current Events > Kim Jong Un: K-pop is a vicious cancer that merits work camp, execution

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https://nypost.com/2021/06/11/kim-jong-un-k-pop-is-a-vicious-cancer-merits-execution/

Kim Jong Un is cracking down on DPRK-pop fans. Amid increasing cultural influence from South Korea, the 37-year-old North Korean leader is imposing harsher penalties on citizens caught listening to perverse K-pop music. The secretive anti-K-pop campaign came to light through internal documents smuggled out of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) by the Seoul-based news source Daily NK, the New York Times first reported Friday. These were then made public by South Korean legislators. The newly slimmed-down DPRK despot had dubbed the southern cultural imports a vicious cancer corrupting North Korean youths attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviors la the dancing in the 80s movie Footloose but with a much darker bent.

In an apparent bid to launch his own brand of cancel culture, Kim introduced new laws in December stipulating that anyone caught watching or possessing South Korean content could be sentenced to up to 15 years of hard labor. The previous maximum punishment for fans of popular acts such as BTS was five years. If that wasnt harsh enough, K-pop smugglers could even face execution while those caught singing, speaking or writing in a South Korean style could be sentenced to two years at a work camp, per the smuggled documents. This past May, a citizen was killed via firing squad for hawking bootleg South Korean music and other entertainment. This isnt the first time Kim has cracked down on so-called anti-socialist tendencies. This past April, the mushroom-haired dictator infamously outlawed mullets and skinny jeans in an attempt to cut off decadent Western-style fashion trends.

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Fair opinion

oh shit, Kim Jong Fat about to feel the wrath of k-pop fans! lay it on him boys and gals!!

Kim Jong Un redemption arc?

Kim Jong Un has Kpop on his zune

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Hasn't Pyongyang hosted K-Pop concerts before?

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wasn't there a rumor that his wife was an abducted k-pop star?

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Doe posted...

Hasn't Pyongyang hosted K-Pop concerts before?

I think so, and that previous article about their dear leader only allowing two or three haircuts was completely fabricated. Dude is obviously bonkers, not sure why we need onion-esque articles adding to it.

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Man has a point

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SSJKirby posted...

Kim Jong Un has Kpop on his zune

Almost all of these despots are fully guilty of what they are persecuting and killing their citizen s for.

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People who dislike K-pop are fascist dictators confirmed.

noliesdetected.mp4

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He's not wrong, I mean have you heard Butter by bts?

K-pop is defeating North Korea. Kim Jong Un is scared now. Nukes mean nothing next to the power of those catchy tunes.

he sounds like a 15 year old boy that hates Justin Bieber because all of the girls at his school like him
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Chaingangnam Style

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StarDestroyer posted...

K-pop is defeating North Korea. Kim Jong Un is scared now. Nukes mean nothing next to the power of those catchy tunes.

Imagine if BTS and the #BTSArmy parachuted into NK.

Kpop stans flooding over the boarder to retake Pyongyang

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He's just mad he can't get the BTS meal at McDoge

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He's just bitter because no one wants his fatass.

https://i.imgur.com/FWYg8z5.gif
https://i.imgur.com/VeFDEFL.gif
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Correct.

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Derwood posted...

Fair opinion

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if you believe this news story is real, I have a bridge to sell you

Shotgunnova posted...

Chaingangnam Style

*slow exhale*

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Finally, something I can agree with.

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Kim Jong Un:

K-pop is a vicious cancer.

When he's right, he's abso-FUCKING-lutely right.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Most news about North Korea tends to be questionable at best, especially coming from sources like the Post

the source is even worse than the post. the source is Daily NK, which per wikipedia,

Daily NK is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy, an NGO run by Carl Gershman and funded by the U.S. Congress.

this is just straight up fake propaganda

It's New York Post (you know, the only news source that was willing to put out the Hunter Biden laptop "story") so I'm going to just assume anything they say is a lie unless I see more reputable sources saying the same thing.

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action52 posted...

It's New York Post (you know, the only news source that was willing to put out the Hunter Biden laptop "story") so I'm going to just assume anything they say is a lie unless I see more reputable sources saying the same thing.

Yeah it's not accurate at all, but hell who cares it's an opinion about kpop from a dictator fucking lmao wtf

Anyway

You know south korea blares kpop across the border to troll them? Always thought that was funny

Anyway I dunno why he's mad when he's a Red Velvet stan

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i thought he died

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Shotgunnova posted...

Chaingangnam Style

omg lol

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But what does his sister think?

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somebody needs to bring dennis rodman in skinny jeans and a blonde mushroom cut karaoking to loop music.

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action52 posted...

It's New York Post (you know, the only news source that was willing to put out the Hunter Biden laptop "story") so I'm going to just assume anything they say is a lie unless I see more reputable sources saying the same thing.

It is from NY Times but they have a paywall so no point in posting their articles here

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1403290921718923266

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Doe posted...

Hasn't Pyongyang hosted K-Pop concerts before?

Yes, he even met and praised K-Pop girl group Red Velvet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMVSGHQRDiQ

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Someone didn't learn from Xinnie the Jinpooh. Time to photoshop Kimmy dancing into a whole mess of k-pop videos. Let the boy band parodies begin.

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I believe Hitler did something similar.

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ImagineUsngAlts posted...

People who dislike K-pop are fascist dictators confirmed.

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Snip-N-Snails posted...

I believe Hitler did something similar.

oh? What was it? And was it actually real unlike this?

no cap

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The Soviets used to smuggle music on discarded xray film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribs_(recordings%29

StarDestroyer posted...

K-pop is defeating North Korea. Kim Jong Un is scared now. Nukes mean nothing next to the power of those catchy tunes.

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fuming posted...

oh? What was it? And was it actually real unlike this?

The New York Times article says the source is North Korean state media. Their news reports have pretty crazy over the top stuff like that in them. It's not necessarily serious though.

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ssjevot posted...

The New York Times article says the source is North Korean state media. Their news reports have pretty crazy over the top stuff like that in them. It's not necessarily serious though.

ive literally talked about the source in this topic already.

fuming posted...

ive literally talked about the source in this topic already.

No you didn't. You talked about a bunch of third party sources. Yes North Korean State Media says a lot of bombastic stuff, but it's just quoting what their official media said. It's not really possible to verify if there are any possible consequences because of the nature of North Korea.

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I talked about the literal source. Im sorry that upsets you.

fuming posted...

I talked about the literal source. Im sorry that upsets you.

The literal source is North Korean state media. You talked about some propaganda sites or whatever. The NYT article includes translated quotes from North Korean media. That's a primary source. You talked about other places reporting on it, those aren't relevant.

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Based.
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