The Snopes article you linked to quotes several sources. The Guardian quotes a North Korean government controlled newspaper and a South Korean paper that has a network of informants in North Korea.
If you want an independent source from North Korea, there is no such thing. Everything is government controlled.
I see nothing racist about this, nor is it propaganda to report on how people live in a dictatorship.
I notice most of your comments are political and anti-western, and several are aplogoism for China and North Korea.
In order to call it "Confirmed" or "Debunked", it looks like they were looking for the original first-hand source, North Korean or not, and couldn't find it/any, hence they call it "Unproven". I think that's pretty fair.
> We have been unable to find the original North Korean source detailing the specific nationwide ban on skinny jeans, relying instead on the Guardian report, and older reporting from South Korean media. Like many things out of North Korea, such reports rely on second-hand sources. As such we rate this “Unproven." We will update this rating if we receive pertinent information.
Disclaimer, I don't care for China or North Korea, and this isn't a defense of either, no matter how many of my previous comments are political.
The BBC going at it, as usual. They've been on a roll the last couple of years, a step up though compared to "Gaddafi's soldiers are high on Viagra all the time!!" [1]
> a step up though compared to "Gaddafi's soldiers are high on Viagra all the time!!" [1]
That's a much more serious article than TFA (which sure is one of their clickbaity gossip rag kind); what it actually says is:
> Mr Moreno-Ocampo also said some witnesses had confirmed that the Libyan government was buying containers of Viagra-type drugs to carry out the policy, and to "enhance the possibility to rape".
Going at what? You clearly just have an axe to grind, it's pretty cringe to bring war rape in North Africa into a discussion about censorship of images of jeans in North Korea.
It's no surprise to find literal pro-fascism, pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine nonsense in your comment history. Strange fella.
> "You couldn't send Dad's Army, as it is about war. But Teletubbies could be an option, or The Good Life, with a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen".
The Good Life? I mean... I remember it as being quite political; it's about a suburban middle-class couple who renounce consumerism and turn their house into a farm, to the annoyance of their irritating social-climbing neighbours. Now, maybe that is political in a manner appealing to North Korea, but it's hardly just a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen.
The Good Life was genuinely a fantastic show. Both sides of the ideological spectrum had to make compromises to fuel their respective lifestyles, and both were better off for it.
> Current leader Kim Jong-un, himself a fan of voluminous legwear, is reportedly irked by skinny jeans and T-shirts bearing Western logos which are popular in South Korea.
This all feels a bit tawdry to me. I feel like I rarely see this kind of content on HN, and tbf I’d kinda rather not see it at all.
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[ 7.0 ms ] story [ 54.3 ms ] threadIf you want an independent source from North Korea, there is no such thing. Everything is government controlled.
I see nothing racist about this, nor is it propaganda to report on how people live in a dictatorship.
I notice most of your comments are political and anti-western, and several are aplogoism for China and North Korea.
> We have been unable to find the original North Korean source detailing the specific nationwide ban on skinny jeans, relying instead on the Guardian report, and older reporting from South Korean media. Like many things out of North Korea, such reports rely on second-hand sources. As such we rate this “Unproven." We will update this rating if we receive pertinent information.
Disclaimer, I don't care for China or North Korea, and this isn't a defense of either, no matter how many of my previous comments are political.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13705854
That's a much more serious article than TFA (which sure is one of their clickbaity gossip rag kind); what it actually says is:
> Mr Moreno-Ocampo also said some witnesses had confirmed that the Libyan government was buying containers of Viagra-type drugs to carry out the policy, and to "enhance the possibility to rape".
It's no surprise to find literal pro-fascism, pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine nonsense in your comment history. Strange fella.
The Good Life? I mean... I remember it as being quite political; it's about a suburban middle-class couple who renounce consumerism and turn their house into a farm, to the annoyance of their irritating social-climbing neighbours. Now, maybe that is political in a manner appealing to North Korea, but it's hardly just a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen.
This all feels a bit tawdry to me. I feel like I rarely see this kind of content on HN, and tbf I’d kinda rather not see it at all.