Summary

Kim Jong-un has introduced stricter laws in North Korea, sending both spouses in divorcing couples to labor camps for up to six months, with women often receiving longer sentences.

The regime views divorce as anti-socialist. Previously, only the spouse who initiated the divorce was punished.

Rising divorce rates since COVID-19 lockdowns have persisted despite public humiliation and threats of expulsion from the Korean Workers’ Party.

Reports indicate labor camps house dozens of divorcees, mostly in their late 30s, under harsh conditions.

  • @shottymcb@lemm.ee
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    236 months ago

    It’d be a little harder to make stuff up if they were more open and transparent to journalists. For some reason they really don’t want journalists to be able to travel and report freely though.

    • @Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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      106 months ago

      That is bully thinking.

      An asinine article is posted from a decidedly and historically bullshit source, and somehow the slandered subject of the article is at fault?

      • acargitz
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        226 months ago

        What a ridiculous line of reasoning.

        What they told you is the literal truth: if they want the truth to come out, they should allow people to go find out the truth. A state does not get rights to privacy for what their literal laws are.