I am North Korean who lives in NK AMA

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Have you considered making posts on Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net ? Both of those instances are pro-DPRK and would have many users very interested in an AMA.

[shimitar@downonthestreet.eu]

Does the subway on Pyongyang actually work outside the stops where tourists always go?

[chillburner@lemmy.ml]

I'm confused how you accessed the outside Internet.

Just to ask, tho, why do you post from the instance sh.itjust.works?

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

They are currently actively answering on the Lemmy.world version of this post, apparently they picked SJW because it doesn't require any verification.

[frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml]

He said it's coz Lemmy works on Tor

[frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml]

There was a story 3 months ago saying hot dogs are banned

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/kim-jong-un-bans-hotdogs-for-north-koreans-cooking-them-an-act-of-treason/TKN3HJF3HRHZZHCCJ5L7EPF66Q/

Is this true?

[davel@lemmy.ml]

Not OP, but I find it dubious in the extreme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idcJsAFfieU&t=1796s

Western media cook up cartoonish anticommunist narratives all the time. It’s a lucrative business.

[chillburner@lemmy.ml]

goddamn it, they deleted it. Apparently, they use Tor and it works on lemmy.ml. What a compliment

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

It's back up on Lemmy.world.

[flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works]

As a kiwi, can I table the suggestion that nothing from the herald I'd trustworthy?

I have mixed feelings about my countries loss of trust in our media - these guys did nothing to help themselves

[dubyakay@lemmy.ca]

Now that I have read all his comments on the other thread, I don't think they are genuine. There are some words and phrases that a beginner to intermediate English user would not be able to use. That, along with certain statements about perceived dissing on North Korea make me believe they are fake.

[goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Number 5 is the most shocking

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Sure, but not a lot of countries have this same global reputation.

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Sure, but that also means there are tons of myths and fabrications told about the DPRK that people accept uncritically just because there's so little real information coming from there.

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Regardless of believability, without verification it should be taken with a large heaping of salt to begin with.

[song00661@sh.itjust.works]

저도 여러분의 의심을 이해합니다. 하지만 거짓말을 하려는 사람이 이렇게 많은 시간과 노력을 들이겠습니까? 처음부터 저를 믿으실 거라고 생각하지 않았습니다. 다만 이해가 되지 않습니다.

제 영어 실력이 좋지 않은 것도 알고 있습니다. 하지만 최선을 다해 명확하게 소통하려고 노력하고 있습니다. 영어로 제대로 표현하기 어려운 부분이 있어 번역기를 몇 번 사용했습니다.

I understand your skepticism, but what I do not understand is why you would believe someone who wants to lie would put so much time and energy into this. I never expected you to believe me to begin with, but I am just confused. I understand that my English skills are not very strong, but I am doing my best to communicate clearly. I have used a translator a few times because there are some things I don't know how to express properly in English.

[song00661@sh.itjust.works]

I can not prove ... What do I have to do ?? I can not take pictures . It is not safe . I have to conecct to pc .

A lot of people have not ever talked to NK people ... I want to talk ... explain .

I use REDDIT ... I use TOR too ... The reddit site is bugged ... I can use it but no account . It is banned because of TOR . I hear of Lemmy on Reddit . It is not bugged on Tor . I can make accounts too !!

[song00661@sh.itjust.works]

I do not know the instances ... I will think .

[song00661@sh.itjust.works]

I have not seen this . I did not eat hot dog recently ... and I think it is not the truth .

[song00661@sh.itjust.works]

We learn EN in NK ... Some schools . Mine school is one example !!