If you get a divorce in North Korea, you and your spouse will be sent to a labor camp for one to six months to atone for your “crimes,” residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.

Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act, and is generally frowned upon in Korea.

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    Isn’t this source funded by the CIA?

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      No, it’s funded by Congress, but that hardly means anything.

      You need to go learn what editorial independence is. Journalists for RFA aren’t being sentenced to 3 generations of there family being out into concentration camps for disagreeing with the US govt.

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        Journalists for RFA aren’t being sentenced to 3 generations of there family being out into concentration camps for disagreeing with the US govt.

        Careful. If Trump could read, he’d think that was a brilliant idea.

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          Congress holds the checkbook. Nothing any part of the federal government does is funded by anyone unless they write the metaphorical check.

          News about the world is important to have without it coming from private money, just as news from private money is important to have so it isn’t all coming from the governments money.

          Other instances of money being used in this way is PBS. So, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Arthur, The Magic School Bus, Wishbone… all aired on TV for the American populous because Congress wrote a check.