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James Heenan, head of the UN Human Rights Office for North Korea, told a Geneva briefing that the number of executions for both normal and political crimes had increased since COVID-era restrictions.
An unspecified number of people had already been executed under new laws imposing the death penalty for distributing foreign TV series, including the popular K-Dramas from South Korea, he added.
If we find you watching Alien: Earth, we will take you out.
From a subsequent interview with James Heenan on methodology:
So 'civil society' organisations (meaning political think tanks, USAID fronts etc) come and say "oh yeah, we work with some people who escaped North Korea in the last ten years, want us to hook you up with the some testimony".
So they interview the people provided by these groups (who are also often providing them money, housing, travel documentation in exchange for giving these testimonies) who tell them whatever they think they want to hear.
And then guys like James go, 'well it sounds kind of crazy but since we can't go to North Korea to verify it, I guess it must just be true! How terrible.'
From :yeonmi-park: & co? People whose livelihoods depend on support from the South Korean state and NED fronts? Who are threatened if they refuse to provide the “correct” testimony? Whose testimonies are entirely excluded if they contradict the narrative and are determined by the “researchers” to be the result of brainwashing?
For some reason I doubt that the DPRK has published anything claiming to have executed people for watching the Ben Shapiro Show.
What “data” are we talking about? This could encompass basically any information from almost any source. Since this is the UN though it’s probably info cooked up by the CIA and funneled through multiple fronts.
Can anyone explain to me how it’s possible to determine that people were executed for watching the Ben Shapiro Show using satellite imagery?
You mean the NED fronts staffed by South Korean fascists who cook up stories about the DPRK? That you take at face value?
“We let the not-CIA pick and choose which defectors from the designated bad country we spoke with, they were definitely all actual defectors and we can definitely take everything they say at face value, stop asking questions.”
The last one is the most egregious. “The Adolf Hitler Institute for Jewish Studies provided us with multiple individuals who testified that Jews fed innocent Auschwitz guards to imported alligators from Florida, Auschwitz was a luxury resort before Stalin killed all the guests and blamed it on Hitler” etc.
Specifically posting for the footnotes. It's been a while, but I believe this is where I got it from.
Good pull. I'm too hungover to do actual referencing today so it's appreciated.
Welcome. It's unsurprising info, but nice to know. I keep meaning to see if someone has done a deep dive of what groups are connected to what thinktanks and billionaires, but I imagine the Kochs and Mercers are involved, as they often are.