If you get a divorce in North Korea, you and your spouse will be sent to a labor camp for one to six months to atone for your “crimes,” residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.

Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act, and is generally frowned upon in Korea.

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Isn’t this source funded by the CIA?

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No, it’s funded by Congress, but that hardly means anything.

You need to go learn what editorial independence is. Journalists for RFA aren’t being sentenced to 3 generations of there family being out into concentration camps for disagreeing with the US govt.

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Why is congress funding it?

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I mean it’s pretty much our version of the BBC.

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Congress holds the checkbook. Nothing any part of the federal government does is funded by anyone unless they write the metaphorical check.

News about the world is important to have without it coming from private money, just as news from private money is important to have so it isn’t all coming from the governments money.

Other instances of money being used in this way is PBS. So, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Arthur, The Magic School Bus, Wishbone… all aired on TV for the American populous because Congress wrote a check.

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Journalists for RFA aren’t being sentenced to 3 generations of there family being out into concentration camps for disagreeing with the US govt.

Careful. If Trump could read, he’d think that was a brilliant idea.

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lol, we all know the organisation running radio free Asia to spread its propaganda… lol 😂😂😂

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Radio Free Asia

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The most “reliable” source possible

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Isn’t the whole North Korea just a big labor camp?

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Coming soon to a Republican house bill near you…

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North Korea is too pro-woman’s rights for Republicans

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But only if its the woman who wants the divorce… And then only if the man’s income is above $1000000 otherwise they are poor and therefore should be in a labour camp/work for Amazon anyway. If they are same sex they go to the camp anyway.

Not sure if /s is appropriate cos I am a “right ponder” and don’t know how close to the truth I am…

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Yeah, or they make a fine rule “For 100.000$ you can buy you out of the camp or send an immigrant to take your place.”

Because of course Trump, his cronies and all these idiots still want the option to get rid of their (35+) “aging” wife’s and make sure the 20 year old they bought cannot run away that fast.

I fully expect a “you cannot leave the country without your husband’s approval” app like in Saudi Arabia at some point.

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