Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lmfamao@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s literally propaganda. For some reason I subjected myself to watching the BBC video that the article referenced and screenshotting the Korean text that the BBC video purports is autocorrecting terms in real time. Below are the findings

  The only correct claim they make is “comrade” translation, but they could just have set the autocorrect in the phone’s settings before making the video lmfao

  Completely baseless claims and frankly pathetic attempt. Crazy how this shit spreads like wildfire

  
  Based on the provided files, here's the translation analysis: 
  
  1.  **IMG_0283.png:**
      *   Korean Word: **South Korea** (There is *no* Korean word present in this file. "South Korea" is the English caption).
      *   Caption Correct? **N/A** (No Korean word to translate).
  
  2.  **IMG_0282.png:**
      *   Korean Word: **동지** (dong-ji) - Found in the `[file content begin]` section near the bottom ("Comrade / 동지").
      *   English Caption: **Comrade**
      *   Caption Correct? **Yes**. "동지" (dong-ji) directly translates to "Comrade". It's a term often used in socialist/communist contexts or historically in leftist movements in Korea.
  
  3.  **IMG_0281.png:**
      *   Korean Word: **동지** (dong-ji) - Found under "Comrade".
      *   English Caption: **Comrade**
      *   Caption Correct? **Yes**. (Same translation as above).
  
  4.  **IMG_0284.png:**
      *   Korean Word: **Puppet state** (There is *no* Korean word present adjacent to "Puppet state" in this file. "Puppet state" is the English caption).
      *   Caption Correct? **N/A** (No Korean word to translate). The Korean term for "puppet state" is "괴뢰 국가" (goe-roe guk-ga), but it's not present here.
  
  **Summary of Korean Words & Translations:**
  
  *   The *only* Korean word appearing in the provided files is **동지** (dong-ji).
  *   Its English caption, **Comrade**, is **correct**.
  *   The files labelled "South Korea" and "Puppet state" contain *only* those English phrases and the long lists of numbers. There are no Korean words adjacent to them to translate or verify in this data.
  *   The extensive numbered lists (1-509, 1-684, etc.) appear to be unrelated to the captions or Korean words and seem like placeholder or menu item listings.
  

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• Culf@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have seen a video where they show the phone and the text censoring and screenshots being taken. I can’t remember where but might have been BBC’s YouTube channel or something like that.

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the first link in the article

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    • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So the source on this is a western state-funded journalism media company using a phone which they claim they got from North Korea somehow?

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It appears so. The commenter said they saw a video, I said it was the first link in the article. I didn’t post a video nor make claims to its validity.

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    • Culf@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol just read the recap here so didn’t see that

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