it's incredible how it is possible to enslave an entire nation. these poor people.
Table tennis champions said to be in ‘cleanse from exposure to contamination’ following podium picture with opponents
Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, who won silver medals, are said to be undergoing “ideological evaluation” along with other athletes who returned from the Paris Games.
the Daily NK reported.
Citing anonymous official sources in Pyongyang, the news outlet, which specialises in North Korean affairs
Hmmm...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_NK
Daily NK is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy,[4] an NGO funded by the U.S. Congress. Daily NK's president is Lee Kwang-baek.
The organization is part of a consortium with the Unification Media Group, which is a South Korea–based non-profit organization that produces and delivers radio content into North Korea via short-wave radio broadcasts.
So it's a NED funded propaganda network controlled by Lee Kwang-baek
https://www.dailynk.com/english/author/lee-kwang-baek/
Lee Kwang Baek has served as Daily NK's president since 2014 alongside his role as president of Unification Media Group. He is an advisor to the Korea Hana Foundation
https://koreahana.or.kr/home/eng/contents.do?menuPos=2
The Korea Hana Foundation(KHF) is a non-profit public organization established by Ministry of Unification in 2010. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Unification
The Ministry of Unification (Korean: 통일부; Hanja: 統一部) is an executive department of the South Korean government
So the source for this story is another story citing "anonymous sources", and that original story is from a US-South Korea joint propaganda project?
Nice.
Thanks for actually delving into the sources. Telegraph already isn't the best source and it seemed hard to believe.
The Workers' Paradise of North Korea is clearly just trying to protect itself from the Globalhomo menace /s
Yup. Also, they're happy and fine. Everything you hear to the contrary is just western propaganda.
Why the hell do we allow North Koreans to join us in anything internationally? Brutal dictatorships should not be enabled in any way
Precisely for the togetherness that you see in that picture...and NK had to see it as a threat, of course.
Yeah, it's pretty weird that they're banning (rightly but not thoroughly enough) Russia, but North Korea, Israel, and China get to participate as equals with the countries that AREN'T currently committing genocide, starving millions, and doping like there's no tomorrow.
It's almost like the ACTUAL reasoning of the IOC is nonpublic and laundry based.
I'm pretty sure Russia only got banned because they had a state-sponsored doping system. Long as you don't get caught with that, you can be as authoritarian as you want.
That and war aggression
If that was true, how come China's allowed to compete with no restrictions after having 8 of their swimmers test positive in Tokyo and more just weeks before the games?
I'm no expert. But probably there just isn't enough evidence yet to accuse China as a whole of systematically doping its athletes. I'd imagine they err on the side of "allowing participation" with this kind of stuff.
If true, it's sad.
They must have been exposed to too much light in Paris. It is the city of light after all.
I know it seems extreme but the best thing Paris can do for these poor souls is keep them indefinitely.
And of course The telegraph has been informed by the North Korean authorities what they’re doing to those athletes…. Propaganda!!
Seriously, how would we even know this? I thought this was the onion or another satirical publication at first.
North Korea is the ultimate "big bad" for the west.
Just say literally anything bad you want about them and the people at large will eat it up because they have already been primed to do so.
I mean, people genuinely believe that north Koreans are both starving having to live on grass and bugs, but also that they have to manually push trains around...logic doesn't exist.
I mean... Many are indeed starving or going through hardships in the country side. The part about the train seems silly.
"Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked."
"Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked."
Fun. When the news came first time, the comments were all mansplaining to a guy that said "hope they will be okay" that the athletes definitely are not going to get in trouble for this. I don't understand where people think their educated guesses are worth spreading like gospel when they aren't experts at all on the question
Contamination via Selfie? I hope, they recover well....
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