They found a North Korean phone.. It's scary
Credibility score: 52/100 — Mixed Credibility. Several questionable claims detected. Watch with healthy skepticism.
BSmeter analyzed "They found a North Korean phone.. It's scary" and rated it 52/100 for credibility (a BS score of 48/100 — mixed credibility), on 2026-06-03. Its weakest claim — "North Korea claims they invented the cheeseburger" — scored 10/100 and was flagged as bs. 27 claims were checked against the video transcript. Scores are produced by BSmeter's AI analysis of the transcript, not independent human verification.
Claims analyzed
North Korean phone names return zero Google results — Dubious (45/100)
Zero results is a stretch — the phones have names in reports now.
"Oppa" (boyfriend) gets auto-corrected to "comrade" — Dubious (45/100)
Single source, no independent confirmation yet
Mere app requires government ID and SIM, tracks everything — Solid (70/100)
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North Korean phone activity is fully traceable — Solid (75/100)
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Only access to state-curated intranet with propaganda — Solid (80/100)
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NK phone speeds 2-33 Mbps, 14x slower than South Korea — OK (60/100)
Numbers plausible but no recent public data
North Korean flagship phone released 2023 for ~$1000 — Dubious (45/100)
Price sounds high for NK economy — unverified
North Korean phone looks like 2021 Huawei model — OK (60/100)
Visual similarities noted but no side-by-side proof shown.
Phone made in China like Huawei devices — Dubious (45/100)
IMEI hidden so origin is just a guess.
Either Huawei secretly supplied it or Samson copied design — Opinion (50/100)
Pure speculation with zero evidence for either theory.
North Korean phone has terrible camera quality — Personal Story (50/100)
Subjective test on one unit — not a review.
North Korea will collapse within our lifetimes — Opinion (50/100)
Pure speculation dressed as insight 🙄
North Korean phone features are literally from 1984 — Just Vibes (50/100)
Funny line — not a real claim 🎭
North Korean phone uses parts from a Chinese company called WHO — OK (60/100)
Plausible supply chain detail — unverified 🤷
Older tech is easier for regimes to control — Opinion (50/100)
Classic control-vs-innovation take 🤔
North Korea gets China to manufacture phones using stolen designs — Opinion (50/100)
Speculation about Chinese manufacturing — plausible but unproven from the evidence shown.
North Korea stole Amazon Prime Arsenal doc and slapped their logo on it — Sketchy (35/100)
Title swap is obvious but proving Amazon origin needs receipts — none shown.
North Korea's phone has surprisingly modern online gambling features — Opinion (50/100)
Gambling app exists — whether it's "cutting edge" is subjective.
North Korean phone has Indian movies because they're exotic but non-threatening — Opinion (50/100)
Theory from Daily K — no hard evidence shown
Phone has app dictating family law and marriage rules — Solid (75/100)
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North Korean apps expire and require paid renewal every 6-12 months — Dubious (45/100)
Only one device examined — hard to know if this is standard policy
Says newer North Korean phones have untraceable OS-level censorship that auto-deletes foreign files — Solid (70/100)
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Red Flag app is almost certainly sending all data straight to the government — Opinion (50/100)
Reasonable suspicion but pure speculation — no hard proof shown
South Korean media distribution treated same as drug crimes — Dubious (45/100)
Sounds dramatic — no clear evidence of formal equivalence.
Kim Jong-il scored 18 hole-in-ones in one round of golf — Sketchy (20/100)
Re-scored to 20/100 after evidence check.
Sources: Behind Kim Jong Il's Famous Round of Golf, Pyongyang Golf Course - Wikipedia, 38 days until golf: That time Kim Jong Il made 5 aces in a round* | theScore.com
North Korea claims they invented the cheeseburger — BS (10/100)
Classic regime myth — zero evidence, pure propaganda 💀
North Koreans taught US occupies most countries and is main enemy — OK (60/100)
Standard regime propaganda line — matches known patterns.
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