Who’d have thought Riley Reid and Johnny Sins* would be the secret weapon against communism? McCarthy would be turning in his grave.
It’s an old trope to depict communist leaders railing against the ‘decadent West’, but it’s not just a joke. Maoist revivalist Xi Jinping is leading a crackdown on China’s sex industry, most especially internet pornography. He’s got quite a job, er, on his hands, given that China previously accounted for nearly a third of the globe’s porn online consumption. But, he’s going at it like a trooper.
Across the border in North Korea, though, internet use is even more rigid. Now, though, so are a great many of its soldiers.
Thanks, of all things, to the Ukraine war.
North Korean military men who joined the war front in Ukraine on behalf of Russia have unfettered internet access for the first time – and may be using it to watch tons of pornography, according to a report that a Pentagon official was unable to confirm.
When Kim promised Putin his most hardened soldiers, that’s probably not what he meant.
According to Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman, military personnel from North Korea are blowing off steam after duty by surfing the web for adult videos. With internet access not generally available in their home country, these soldiers are seemingly using a trip to Russia as an excuse to wreck their internet history and watch a stream of X-rated content.
In a post to X/Twitter, Rachman said: “A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on pornography.”
Somehow keeping a straight face, the Pentagon can neither confirm nor deny that the commies are holding their guns rather than their rifles.
“As entertaining as that sounds, I can’t confirm any North Korean internet habits or virtual ‘extracurriculars’ in Russia,” Defense Department spokesperson Army Lt Col Charlie Dietz told outlet Task and Purpose.
“We’re focused on the more serious aspects of North Korea’s involvement, if any, in Russia’s military operations. As for internet access, that’s a question best directed to Moscow. Right now, our attention remains on supporting Ukraine and addressing the more significant regional security concerns.”
That military publication reports that second-and third-order effects of exposing psychologically and culturally sheltered North Korean troops to the world of graphic internet pornography are not yet known.
It must be quite the battle of the bulge.
*I had to look them up, honest. It’s research, Susan!
