North Korean athletes undergoing ‘ideological evaluation’ for Olympic selfie
It was a heartwarming moment that captured the Olympic spirit, but North Korea’s table tennis champions may be punished for joining a selfie with their opponents from the South.
Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, who won silver medals, are said to be undergoing “ideological evaluation” along with other athletes who returned from the Paris Games.
The assessment is a standard procedure to “cleanse” the team from “exposure to contamination” abroad, the Daily NK reported.
North Korean athletes were reportedly given “special instructions” not to interact with South Koreans or other foreign athletes in Paris, under threat of repercussions.
Since returning from France, the Olympic team is believed to be in the process of a three-stage ideological assessment process by the country’s ministry of sport.
It is said to last about a month, with the intention of purging any lingering influence of “non-socialist” culture.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/08/23/north-korea-athletes-ideological-evaluation-paris-olympic/Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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it's incredible how it is possible to enslave an entire nation. these poor people.
Thanks for actually delving into the sources. Telegraph already isn't the best source and it seemed hard to believe.
The Workers' Paradise of North Korea is clearly just trying to protect itself from the Globalhomo menace /s
Yup. Also, they're happy and fine. Everything you hear to the contrary is just western propaganda.
Why the hell do we allow North Koreans to join us in anything internationally? Brutal dictatorships should not be enabled in any way
Precisely for the togetherness that you see in that picture...and NK had to see it as a threat, of course.
Lmao NK tankies must tongue scrub the toes of other tankies
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/sports/2024/08/600_381093.html
PS: found the article they cite https://www.dailynk.com/chinese/%E6%9C%9D%E9%B2%9C%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8%E5%91%98%E5%9C%A8%E5%A5%A5%E6%9E%97%E5%8C%B9%E5%85%8B%E8%B7%9F%E9%9F%A9%E5%9B%BD%E9%80%89%E6%89%8B%E5%AC%89%E7%AC%91%E8%87%AA%E6%8B%8D%E8%80%8C/
Good, probably fake news then, the rest of the world, including China, was glad to see it, so hopefully it is also shown and seen positively by NK. But nobody knows what happens in NK through official channels, "fake news" from anonymous sources is all we have.
Do you want north Korea itself to report these news? Of course reporting them is those that are interested in reporting these news.
It doesn't mean that the news are real, but it doesn't mean that they're fake either.
Yeah, it's pretty weird that they're banning (rightly but not thoroughly enough) Russia, but North Korea, Israel, and China get to participate as equals with the countries that AREN'T currently committing genocide, starving millions, and doping like there's no tomorrow.
It's almost like the ACTUAL reasoning of the IOC is nonpublic and laundry based.
I'm pretty sure Russia only got banned because they had a state-sponsored doping system. Long as you don't get caught with that, you can be as authoritarian as you want.
That and war aggression
If that was true, how come China's allowed to compete with no restrictions after having 8 of their swimmers test positive in Tokyo and more just weeks before the games?
I'm no expert. But probably there just isn't enough evidence yet to accuse China as a whole of systematically doping its athletes. I'd imagine they err on the side of "allowing participation" with this kind of stuff.
If true, it's sad.
They must have been exposed to too much light in Paris. It is the city of light after all.
I know it seems extreme but the best thing Paris can do for these poor souls is keep them indefinitely.
Related: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31434/brief-history-olympic-defectors
Kidnapping is based with North Koreans if it means giving them a better, happier and healthier life and a chance to let these particular athletes escape what will inevitably be a death sentence for taking a picture with the South Koreans. Are you just clueless or what? Kim has enslaved their entire nation with an iron fist.
Lol yeah, I do feel it's justified. You are welcome to disagree, and that's 100% ok. If you're expecting me to respond and debate this, it's not going to happen. Have a nice day!
Don't know, don't care.
And of course The telegraph has been informed by the North Korean authorities what they’re doing to those athletes…. Propaganda!!
Seriously, how would we even know this? I thought this was the onion or another satirical publication at first.
I mean... Many are indeed starving or going through hardships in the country side. The part about the train seems silly.
"Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked."
"Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked."
Fun. When the news came first time, the comments were all mansplaining to a guy that said "hope they will be okay" that the athletes definitely are not going to get in trouble for this. I don't understand where people think their educated guesses are worth spreading like gospel when they aren't experts at all on the question
Contamination via Selfie? I hope, they recover well....
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