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| Japanese DVD pornography a big hit among North Korean teenagers |
| 2010-10-19 |
| Foreign pornography is spreading in North Korean market, Radio Free Asia in the U.S. reported Friday. They don't have internet, so it's not spreading that way. Quoting a North Korean source, the radio station said the regime is trying to clamp down by distributing players that will only play North Korean-made DVDs and replacing parts of foreign players to stop them from being compatible, but an increasing number of people are looking for foreign videos. DRM = Digitial Rights Management. It won't stop the flow, it never does. Why buy an intentionally crippled player? The bestsellers in the market are pornography from Japan, a resident in Hyesan, Yanggang Province, said. And many of the customers are teenagers. Well, I can't argue with their taste there. Japanese girls are the most beautiful in the world, and the themes of these DVDs are highly titillating. A source in North Pyongan Province said, "It's easy to buy a smuggled Chinese video player, and it's possible to reproduce DVDs at home with Chinese-made burners. Foreign porn has spread so widely that any home with a player usually has one or two porn DVDs." Parents in the North are concerned because there is no video ratings system in the North nor proper sex education for children, RFA added. Socialist morality. No sex except for procreative purposes. Funny how the Left conveniently forgot this part of their very recent past. "It's difficult for North Korean residents to watch foreign TV programs, but not a few enjoy foreign porn as well as South Korean soap operas on DVDs," a North Korean defector said. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #5 Just one or two DVD's. My God, the poverty there is much worse than I could have ever imagined! |
| Posted by: Iblis 2010-10-19 12:49 |
| #4 The bestsellers in the market are pornography from Japan, a resident in Hyesan, Yanggang Province, said. And many of the customers are teenagers. Recalling an TOS Star Trek episode where a prior starship had left behind a book about the mobs of Chicago circa 1920s. The entire society of the planet devolved/evolved upon that narrative. One could only shutter on what will happen to the next generation of Nork leadership and society. On the other hand, they already may be there. If that's the case, stop negotiating with food and start negotiating bribes with adult DVDs and players. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-19 11:13 |
| #3 Yes indeed, a serious preoccupation with day-to-day survival leaves little time for DVD collecting, whahaha. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-19 09:11 |
| #2 The obvious story behind the story is who among the Norks can afford a DVD player. This means that it is the upper classes that are doing it, since most everyone else are far more interested in not starving to worry about entertainment. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-10-19 09:05 |
| #1 Japanese porn? YUCK! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-10-19 08:53 |