Kim Jong-un has reportedly ordered that divorcing couples be sent to labour camps for up to six months, with women potentially facing longer sentences.

The North Korean leader has declared that ending a marriage demonstrates anti-socialist sympathies and warrants punishment.

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    7 days ago

    This information makes it much more plausible, sure, but it still doesn’t prove anything.

    Yes. Getting hard information from a very closed country requires more time. And I’m sure that does tempt people with inventing news about North Korea, so I understand your skepticism.

    Over time, news tend to get confirmed or refuted, so in a few weeks or months, one should find out with a high degree of certainty.

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      7 days ago

      There’s also the fact that this source does that systematically for funding, there is no less reliable of a source, if radio free asia told me the sky is blue in NK I wouldn’t buy it.