I couldn't find anything on it when I looked it up, sounds like fake news

It's clearly a screenshot from Instagram

maybe??

gofrixty.com/north-korea-impos…

Any North Koreans* here who can confirm?

North Korea Imposes Death Penalty for Promoting Zionism - gofrixty

North Korea has announced a strict new policy: anyone found promoting Zionist ideas can face the death penalty. The Korean Central News

^{Ahmed Raza (GoFrixty)}

You can just visit KCNA's website, it's a normal website. I'm disappointed to see communists spread this type of disinformation. Yes, Israel is an illegitimate state. No, North Korea is not so fragile and dire that they can't afford to humanely and non-punitively re-educate the like one weirdo Zionist they might have.

::: spoiler This 'news' probably spawned from this article published 07/06/25. It doesn't talk about the same thing at all.

Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) -- Israel's "war machine" which plunged the whole area of Gaza in blood is running madly.

The Gaza area has already turned into a "ground hell" where the human existence environment was completely destroyed due to the war that has been going on for nearly two years.

Since October 2023, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army has increased at least 56 000 and all the inhabitants in the Gaza Strip are facing food shortage. Of them, 470 000 are in "fatal hunger", the worst stage in the international index on the food situation.

Even in the present situation that the humanitarian crisis has reached its extreme phase, Israeli murderers are constantly expanding military attacks in the Gaza Strip, which was turned into ruins, updating the record of genocide every day.

Where is the end of bloody massacre and destruction, indeed?

The Zionists have justified their unethical atrocities in the Gaza Strip under the pretext of the "hostage rescue" and "sweeping of Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement of Palestine)" and have so far misled public opinion as if they were the end of bloodshed.

In the early days of the Gaza crisis, the prime minister of Israel asserted that Israel had no thought for permanently occupying Gaza or making the civilians emigrate from it, and that "the aim is to sweep away Hamas in Gaza and obtain hostages' release."

In contrast with this, the sweeping of Hamas has already turned into massacre of civilians, total destruction of existence environment and forcible exile of the inhabitants in Gaza and the release of hostages has been placed in the back long ago.

Voices to demand for ending war and realizing the humanitarian ceasefire are growing in Israel, saying that "sweeping of Hamas", the main goal of the war, has not been achieved and the release of hostages is not feasible without negotiation. But the Zionists are persistently divorcing from this reality.

It is proved by the acts of the Israeli warmongers who deliberately broke the ceasefire which had been difficultly created through the mediation of the international community in the past and gradually expanded the war, thus fling away the opportunity to exchange thousands of Palestinian prisoners for their hostages.

The Israeli prime minister, who has recently become more upbeat under the patronage of his American master, is openly saying that there is no way to stop the war even if Israel brings hostages, swinging from his previous attitude of giving priority to the release of hostages.

The Israeli military warmongers' rhetoric is more direct. They asserted that "we will act with all our efforts and will not stop action until all the goals are achieved, including the voluntary immigration plan of the Gaza residents" and "unlike in the past, the Israel Defense Forces will not withdraw from the seized areas (although the Gaza war ends)," openly agitating full occupation and annexation of the Gaza Strip.

The reality clearly shows that even if all the hostages are released, the bloody military atrocities in Gaza will continue with no reason and justification, and that only the result of the complete annexation of Gaza is the ultimate goal pursued by Israel and its behind-the-scene forces.

After all, the Zionists are committing heinous crimes, regarding not only the lives of Israeli hostages but also the lives of millions of Palestinians as victims of the Jewish state's wild ambition for territorial annexation and hostages for realizing their ambition to dominate the Middle East.

The Jewish state's crime to make peace in the Middle East and the rest of the world a sacrifice for realizing its expansionist ambition can never be tolerated. -0-

kcna.kp/en/article/q/389b4b6d4…
:::

Not sure if I have the right website this is what Duck search gives

This is why people block your entire instance.

This is why people reject Lemmy, as a project.

Wrong ethnicity gets you killed

YAY!

Search gives this unknown site saying it is true.
gofrixty.com/north-korea-impos…

They claim the source is "The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)" though they don't link the report itself so I'm not sure if this is true or false.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released a statement calling Israel an illegitimate state, deepening the country’s already strong opposition to Israel.

North Korea doesn't recognize Israel though.

North Korea Imposes Death Penalty for Promoting Zionism - gofrixty

North Korea has announced a strict new policy: anyone found promoting Zionist ideas can face the death penalty. The Korean Central News

^{Ahmed Raza (GoFrixty)}

Shock? Absolutely not, the man was a galaxial treasure.

Work and stability for millions. Freedom for all, unless they are traitors. He even rid us of a scary magic sect that kidnapped children.

Propaganda against the rightful emperor by some terrorists.

The 'forced volunteer work' was done based on a choice system(not their choice of course) and we can simply not help that the racial background of our most problematic demographics match nonhumans that much, although it does give food for thought.

Fundamentally there can be no progress unless imperialism is tackled, and movements against capitalism and towards socialism begin. Otherwise, as long as imperialism is the dominant means by which the US economy functions, it will continue to decay, wither, and die, with those at the top violently retaining their plunder internally and externally. The DNC is a bourgeois party, ergo they cannot stop this process of imperialism. Both parties represent decay. It isn't regression, but progression towards capitalism collapsing under its own weight.

To frame the DNC as "miniscule progress" means that if blue is voted every single time, the laws governing imperialism and capitalism will magically alter at a fundamental level and the US Empire will be able to last forever. This is wrong, of course. It's also why the working class needs to build its own parties (such as PSL), overthrow the existing system, dismantle imperialism and settler-colonialism (at home and abroad), sieze the large firms and key industries, and gradually work towards the sublimation of property into a collectivized economy run along a common plan. The alternative is to go the way of Rome, a long, drawn-out collapse while the global south suffers the most.

This is current reality.

Imperialism - ProleWiki

Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...

^ProleWiki

To frame the DNC as "miniscule progress" means that if blue is voted every single time, the laws governing imperialism and capitalism will magically alter at a fundamental level and the US Empire will be able to last forever.

This is discrediting the time and effort people have put in to create the positive change we have seen in America over the past 100 years.

You cannot dispute the fact that America has improved over the last century. We are currently not where we need to be, but there has been improvement.

I am for a co-opting of the blue party to create an America that we can be proud of. My reasoning is that there will be less suffering and a more controllable outcome than some nebulous "revolution".

Until we see the results of Zohran Mamdani's run for mayor and what he does after, I believe it is possible.

What I am doing to act on that belief is volunteering for my local DSA chapter.

To be clear, this is not a rhetorical question:

What real life actions are you taking to affect change in the direction of your beliefs right now?

Edit: For anybody interested in the topic of changing America, nothing will happen if you do nothing. Get out there and do something!

It isn't discrediting the time and effort of activists at all. If you look at the last century, real change has come from directly organizing against the system, not through voting blue. Further, I will not say the US is overall getting better. Some areas like queer rights are better, but the US became world hegemon in the last 70ish years, the economy is run on plunder and genocide. You entirely glossed over imperialism in my points, is it because you don't think it's as big an issue as I believe it is, or is it that you agree with me, but think we can keep running on the imperialist system and change it from within?

I am for a co-opting of the blue party to create an America that we can be proud of.

Utter fantasy, unfortunately, considering the DNC is a bourgeois party that exists due to bourgeois consent and feeds off of bourgeois donations. They cannot be taken over. Revolution is both more feasible and controlled than working within the palms of the bourgeoisie and dancing to their tune.

As for the DSA, that's better than nothing, I suppose, but for its size the DSA gets very little done. PSL does more work per member because they have a coherent and unified line, something the DSA desperately needs in order to maintain relevance to the working class instead of functioning as a pressure valve.

What real life actions are you taking to affect change in the direction of your beliefs right now?

Not going to dox myself, including party affiliation as well as the degree of that affiliation. Is this an appeal to your own authority, ie you presume you have more organizing experience and wish to wield that as a cudgel, or are you genuinely wondering what I am suggesting you yourself do?

real change has come from directly organizing against the system,

As we are seeing right now, Red parties are more willing to recklessly act against protestors, who are exercising their first amendment rights, with impunity. I am not saying that blue parties will be the ones making the direct change, but blue parties make collective action more viable to perform.

the DNC is a bourgeois party that exists due to bourgeois consent and feeds off of bourgeois donations.

Correct, which is why having publicly funded, grassroots candidates can create change in the party.

Is this an appeal to your own authority, ie you presume you have more organizing experience and wish to wield that as a cudgel, or are you genuinely wondering what I am suggesting you yourself do?

Nope, just hate it when people say the only path forward is a full on revolution, then take zero real action to make the world a better place.

Blue parties do not make collective action easier. In any instance where there has been genuine risk, both parties take the mask off. This has happened throughout history, from the older CPUSA (before it became revisionist), to the Black Panther Party, to the Civil Rights movement, and so forth. The DNC is a pressure valve, when that doesn't work they take the mask off just as quickly.

Secondly, you didn't at all explain why grassroots funded candidates can take over the DNC. The DNC is set up to begin with as a bourgeois party, its continued existence comes from satisfying the bourgeoisie. It cannot be taken over, either the party will pressure or expell radicals or the bourgeoisie will front its own other parties, even relying purely on the GOP.

As for hating when people talk about revolution without organizing, that doesn't do anything at all for the logic of the arguments at hand. If someone thinks the solution to climate change is praying for it to go away, and someone else points out the fundamental issues tied to capitalism and overconsumption, that doesn't mean the person praying has a leg up for taking action. If the action doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Finally, again, you dodged the matter of imperialism. Do you just think it doesn't matter, or do you think we can fundamentally pivot away from it without revolution? What does that look like in practice, in your eyes?

My friend, you seem to be misunderstanding what I have been saying.

You keep on talking in absolutes. I am talking about chances. If it is 0.00001% safer/easier to perform collective action under a blue party, it is still easier/safer.

The primary message I am trying to get across is to use the system that is currently implemented in this country to create an opportunity for change.

Discouraging people from voting or encouraging people to vote for a party that has no chance is doing damage to both of our agendas.

Correct me if I am wrong, but your position is to perform a full correction of the system. I wish you the best of luck with that and if you succeed, I will celebrate.

We can work both inside and outside the system to create change.

On the topic of Imperialism, yes, I do believe America is an Imperial country and I think it is bad.

I gave several examples of bipartisan effort to crush left-opposition, then you argue for entryism on the basis of the DNC being 0.00001% better (with no evidence, I might add). This is just wrong, the DNC lets the GOP do whatever it wants to, and works hand-in-hand when it genuinely gets dangerous. The primary rebuttal to your strategy of reformism is that we cannot use the political tools created by and for the bourgeoisie to retain their power in order to flip it on them.

What's necessary is revolutionary party building, which requires a combination of direct action, activism, engaging in the political system as its own unit, and showing just how incapable the system is of getting the working class what it needs. Not working with the system, legitimizing and relying on it.

Correct me if I am wrong, but your position is to perform a full correction of the system.

Capitalism cannot be corrected. What needs to happen is socialism, we need to move beyond private ownership as the principle aspect of the economy into one where public ownership is. If public ownership becomes the basis of the economy, the bourgeoisie loses its dictatorial control, and imperialism no longer becomes a necessity to keep the dumpster fire of capitalism burning.

We can work both inside and outside the system to create change.

The extent to which we can work within the system is driven by our ability to front worker parties like PSL that show a legitimate alternative, not by treating the DNC as a representative of proletarian interests. It cannot be unless forced through outside pressure.

On the topic of Imperialism, yes, I do believe America is an Imperial county and I think it is bad.

Great, so you understand that in order to end imperialism, we need to move beyond capitalism and into socialism, which requires revolution.

Not working with the system, legitimizing and relying on it.

If you truly believe that you cannot work alongside the people who are working inside the system to change America, I think we are done here.

I hope you are successful in creating the change you are talking about.