Pyongyang is not North Korea. It’s a Potemkin village designed to present a false image to the rest of the world.

You are going down a rabbithole of increasingly improbable beliefs. First you say hotdogs are banned; then you support that by saying sushi is banned; then you support that in turn by saying that a city my friends have been to is a lie. This city.

Surely at some point you’d realise, “Wait I’ve been fed lies.” Nobody can seriously believe that Pyongyang is a propaganda piece.

Reminds me of the Wikipedia edit war where people were trying to claim that a shared bicycle scheme “is propaganda”.

In the linked DW-article it says the administration hired/fired stuff. Which is arguably different then them doing it directly, although that is a bit pedantic I guess

Look the the headline of the thread we are in. It begins KIM JONG-UN BANS HOTDOGS

a well-documented history of atrocities and bizarre, freedom-limiting proclamations… it’s well-known for banning foods that it considers contrary to its culture, such as sushi

“well-documented”… then a link to worldpopulationreview.com without a mention of their source??

You are coming across as someone who believes things they read on the internet.

People have done a good job in the more upvoted comments of showing you why you’re jumping to conclusions, but you keep doubling down like you have something to prove.

Here’s Vice saying many Pyongyang residents love sushi.

The point made was probably that it is ironic you wold use them as a source for RFA being government-founded insinuating that makes them inherently biased.

He didn’t claim that tho? DW started being discussed here – https://lemmy.world/comment/14345095 – where it talks about Trump/Biden hiring/firing staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

Are you saying Trump/Biden did not in fact hire/fire staff at US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)?? Coz that’s the only reason you’d bring up DW’s credibility. Otherwise you’re just diverting.

The comment thread from this point down is useless.

Source for anti-vax claim?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle

You do know where DW, the one source you provide, gets its money?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia#Controversies_and_disputes

There, wasn’t that easier than debating “whose job” it is to look up Wikipedia?

Reddit also censoring people who question the RFA story: https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/worldnews/comments/1hvbo9i/kim_jongun_bans_hotdogs_for_north_koreans_cooking/m5s1grw

And none of them back those claims up.

“those claims” meaning that RFA is linked to US intelligence/politics?

Are you saying RFA isn’t a branch of US interests? I have never heard anyone make that claim before.

See 1st paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media

38north.org is a pretty decent source on North Korean news.

Or actually attack the credibility of the story.

You have the burden of proof backwards: WHY would anyone believe that “hot dogs are banned in North Korea”. It simply makes no sense. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.

There’s no reason to think the story is credible. I’ve searched it and it appears RFA posted it in November, then The Sun picked it up 3 days ago. Then various repeaters.

Call me stupid but I don’t understand what it is you’re arguing.

That it is a well-known fact that Radio Free Asia is a branch of the USA’s government that exists to smear the USA’s geopolitical rivals.

if they ever answer, it’ll be dismissive about how all western media is biased against china/nk/Russia. That’s as close to an explanation of “why it’s fake” as you’ll get.

Look through the modlog for Removed Comments. The answers kesucay is removing talk about how it’s a CIA-linked org with staff appointed by Washington.

Everybody on the leftist web has prior knowledge of Radio Free Asia.

Even just look at Wikipedia: "Based on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…with the stated aim of “promoting democratic values and human rights”, and countering the narratives and monopoly on information distribution of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as providing media reports about the North Korean government.… Radio Free Europe was a Cold War anti-communist outlet, “Founded during the Cold War, RFE began in 1949 targeting Soviet satellite states,[8] while RL, established in 1951, focused on the Soviet Union. Initially funded covertly by the CIA…”… Both are owned by “USAGM… considered an arm of U.S. diplomacy.”