Sorry, are you suggesting that North Korea is actually a nice place, where they’re not brainwashed, and where people aren’t put into forced labor camps if their family members defect, but I’ve just been misled by CIA propaganda? Attached to a story about North Koreans being ordered to kill themselves rather than be captured?
North Koreans are “controlled and exploited through an extensive and multi-layered system of forced labour” directed toward the State’s interests rather than the people’s, the report authors concluded.
Note that this was the first result from my search, so I can only assume that means you never even tried to find any information yourself, yet you still disbelieved it.
It’s notable that their only source are some defectors who escaped. Sounds kind of like a Yeonmi Park situation. Whether or not that is true, it should be noted that forced labor in prisons in the US is rampant:
Sorry, are you suggesting that North Korea is actually a nice place, where they’re not brainwashed, and where people aren’t put into forced labor camps if their family members defect, but I’ve just been misled by CIA propaganda? Attached to a story about North Koreans being ordered to kill themselves rather than be captured?
Indeed. Again, where are you getting this information about “forced labor camps”?
Here’s one UN source.
Note that this was the first result from my search, so I can only assume that means you never even tried to find any information yourself, yet you still disbelieved it.
It’s notable that their only source are some defectors who escaped. Sounds kind of like a Yeonmi Park situation. Whether or not that is true, it should be noted that forced labor in prisons in the US is rampant:
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1210564359/slavery-prison-forced-labor-movement
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/us-prison-labor-programs-violate-fundamental-human-rights-new-report-finds