North Korea claims 1.4 million apply to join army amid tensions with South

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/16/north-korea-claims-1-4-million-apply-to-join-army-amid-tensions-with-south

29 Comments

  1. By apply they mean that they are forced to and have no other choice. Lol that’s a good one.

    What do you think the punishments would be if they didn’t?

  2. nakedundercloth on

    Let’s take this with a grain of salt.

    Under a dictatorship people don’t “apply” to anything, they either join or watch their family members suffer.

  3. 1.4 million malnourished, unhappy, and miserable Koreans forced to join the army to continue to be malnourished, unhappy, miserable soldiers.

  4. **Apply*^. 

    Ok your entire family won’t get tortured and starved yet…this 
    … but you’d great aunt is kinda hot… if we could get sine fucking socks…I might make unicorns Dawn. 

  5. “apply”.
    Isn’t almost their entire county already in military? Spending decades in service.

  6. Probably the best way for them to get a meal. Imagine how many will defect when they are able to escape the country

  7. Propaganda: the most effective tool to keep people oppressed. .. How come we don’t have any tools to combat it effectively ?