In a move to ease tensions with its northern neighbour, South Korea has started to allow more access to North Korean state-run media. Walid Bin Siraj reports...
Lots of chuds seething and coping in the comments section.
Similar stuff has happened in the past. In the cold war the USSR and USA exchanged propaganda magazines (“Soviet Life” and “Amerika”) with around 30-50,000 issues each at peak.
The DPRK/ROK have done some softening/tightening of cross-parallel restrictions every now and then depending on the global tension, so not surprising really.
There are major segments of South Korea who want peace, cooperation, and even unity with the half of their country not occupied by the United States military. They have some sway over the ruling political party.
These papers used to need explicit state approval, and even under the new rules you’ll only be able to access them in certain libraries. Not exactly gonna be a mass proletarian moment unfortunately.
Why? Pretend to be democratic? Get something from DPRK? Monitor everyone that takes an interest in it?
SocDems/Libs in SK have some weird agreement with the DPRK. Both sides (mostly SK) stops propaganda stuff against eachother for a while.
Similar stuff has happened in the past. In the cold war the USSR and USA exchanged propaganda magazines (“Soviet Life” and “Amerika”) with around 30-50,000 issues each at peak.
The DPRK/ROK have done some softening/tightening of cross-parallel restrictions every now and then depending on the global tension, so not surprising really.
Readers can be identified as undesirables, not committed enough to maximising value for the Chaebol who owns them.
There are major segments of South Korea who want peace, cooperation, and even unity with the half of their country not occupied by the United States military. They have some sway over the ruling political party.
These papers used to need explicit state approval, and even under the new rules you’ll only be able to access them in certain libraries. Not exactly gonna be a mass proletarian moment unfortunately.