Yo, any folks on here got info about this SAND institute that sourced this video.
Trying to look them up only gives me the BBC article about this video which has this to say about them “This video was provided to the BBC by the South and North Development (Sand), a research institute that works with defectors from the North.”
Something deeply sus about this, if you don’t mind me donning the tinfoil hat a sec.
That’s a reasonable assumption, but the website Trudge linked to in this thread has a timeline of SAND’s history that starts in 2017 and ends in 2019 (although the “research” section of the website has links to, like, seminars and shit they’ve done since and they’ve maintained a presence on Twitter since 2022, so it’s likely they just haven’t updated the timeline).
Yo, any folks on here got info about this SAND institute that sourced this video.
Trying to look them up only gives me the BBC article about this video which has this to say about them “This video was provided to the BBC by the South and North Development (Sand), a research institute that works with defectors from the North.”
Something deeply sus about this, if you don’t mind me donning the tinfoil hat a sec.
there could be a korean name with a longer history…
That’s a reasonable assumption, but the website Trudge linked to in this thread has a timeline of SAND’s history that starts in 2017 and ends in 2019 (although the “research” section of the website has links to, like, seminars and shit they’ve done since and they’ve maintained a presence on Twitter since 2022, so it’s likely they just haven’t updated the timeline).