North Korea

Inside the Tale of North Korea Execution by Ravenous Dog

There is no end to shocking stories from North Korea, many involving the myriad cruelties of the brutal police state as reported by defectors. But the latest tale — a news media report that the young North Korean leader might have had his uncle torn apart by ravenous dogs while he watched — may say less about the North than what outsiders have come to expect of it.

Here’s how it all started. More than three weeks ago, a Hong Kong newspaper, Wen Wei Po, published an article saying the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had ordered his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, to be stripped naked, then thrown into a cage where he and his five closest aides were set upon by 120 dogs that had been not been fed for days. The men were completely devoured in front of Mr. Kim, the Hong Kong report said, without naming any sources.

The death-by-dog story got more traction online starting Dec. 24, when a commentary published in The Straits Times, based in Singapore, said the fact that Wen Wei Po ran such a lurid article was a sign of the Chinese Communist Party’s “displeasure” at North Korea. It called Wen Wei Po the party’s “official mouthpiece” in Hong Kong. The writer of the commentary, Ching Cheong, was a journalist for Wen Wei Po before joining The Straits Times. In April 2005, while employed by the Singapore newspaper, he was detained by Chinese security officers during a reporting trip in southern China. Despite protests by other journalists and human rights organizations, Chinese officials imprisoned him for three years on charges of spying for Taiwan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ko4VvuObU

The worst part of the whole Rodman/Former NBA stars tour of NKorea is that the US team lets the NKorea team win every time by a significant margin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/world/asia/lets-stop-all-the-insults-north-korea-says.html?hp

Mr. 100%:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kim-jong-un-wins-100-votes-north-korea-election-n49011

Decreases barber small talk.

http://hayabusa3.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1395672976/19

Not new, but related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2XVNFzNlZ8

we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'

Also, for those who find this thread in The Future, another must-read thread concerning ilxor quincie's visit to NK.

https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xJl7v7lg.7QaPS34T9n2xA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTgwMDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz0xMjc1/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-31T052816Z_1512288749_GM1EA3V0XG001_RTRMADP_3_KOREA-NORTH.JPG

that's...beautiful?

you think it's hilarious now, but just wait until the exploding assholes attack the west coast.

Also, for those who find this thread in The Future, another must-read thread concerning ilxor quincie's visit to NK.

― I wear the fucking pin, don't I? (Aimless), Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:26 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

link doesn't work

It's on 77

I need to update! I have specific things to post about but I want to do them justice so I have put it off.

The thing about visiting NK, for me, was like "Army of 1 million Holy Shit"

But honestly, after being there, this place is no threat to anyone. It just isn't. And they know it, and that makes them scared, puts them on the defensive, and results in a lot of sword-rattling bullshit that is just super sad.

I mean when I talk to people who visited the USSR during the Cold War, so many of them say the same thing: the USSR threat was vastly overplayed in Western politics to achieve specific political ends, i.e. massive defense expenditures that were far in excess of the actual threat.

I mean I'm no NK scholar, and not a betting woman (OH WAIT yes I am). *It* (whatever *it* is) will happen in Kim Jong Un's lifetime. There won't be another Kim dictator, is what I feel in my gut after being there.

I think the fears about NK are a lot less that they'd launch a traditional military attack and more that they'd destabilize things? If they attacked anyone in an effective manner it'd be a dirty bomb/terrorist-style attack and not their ridiculous missiles. If they completely collapsed in a short period, the aid effort needed from China/USA or the world community would be huge. China's afraid of a ton of refugees/immigrants.

Yeah, in a fair situation it would be "FUCK U RUSSIA NOW *YOU* HAVE TO FIX THIS." And god, for South Korea it would be a disaster. Reunification under an actual democracy would be like 10000X worse that East/West Germany.

In the end, it is the North Koreans who will suffer most. I think about this every day.

Barber guys OTM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27038723

We've got Miley, they've got...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html

― The Bridges of Witchy Woman (Eazy), Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:06 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guess she's back?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/world/asia/north-korean-performer-reported-executed-appears-on-television.html?hp

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/22/us-northkorea-firing-idUSBREA4L09Q20140522

A year in pictures of the tyrant, including him inspecting a biscuit and bollocking the meteorological dept for their "many incorrect forecasts".
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/kim-jong-uns-busy-year/100759/

i hate this thread title

those photos are beautiful

Not much hilarity in death camps, starvation and fear I just went for the most active thread without thinking.

"kim jong un gives thread guidance" etc.

i wz born in the rong dictatorship

http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2014/06/25/north-koreas-take-on-new-us-movie-act-of-war

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is warning that the release of a new American comedy about a plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong Un would be an "act of war."

If the U.S. government doesn't block the movie's release, it will face "stern" and "merciless" retaliation, an unidentified spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in state media Wednesday.

He didn't mention the movie by name but was clearly referring to "The Interview," which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as a producer and talk-show host who land an exclusive interview with the North Korean dictator and are then asked by the CIA to assassinate him.

The "reckless U.S. provocative insanity" of mobilizing a "gangster filmmaker" to challenge the North's leadership is triggering "a gust of hatred and rage" among North Korean people and soldiers, the spokesman said, in typically heated propaganda language.

The film's release would be considered an "act of war that we will never tolerate," he said.

We didn't stop him when he wrote short stories...we didn't stop him when he opened his art show...and now he's ending Western Civilization as we know it...

He is 5'9".

http://i62.tinypic.com/6to49i.jpg

the one with the nurses and the babies is the most horrifying

Holy shit at the number of movies I consider acts of war. Kim Jong Un clearly has dad's movie buff genes. He should move to LA and exercise some real power.

pic no 23 - winter olympics or bust!

The "reckless U.S. provocative insanity"

for some reason i read that as the "reckless U.S. procreative insanity"

Reckless North Korea proactive insanity.

"reckless... provocative insanity" - North Korean Foreign Ministry could be a good blurb for this movie. not a bad phrase when the ill-placed "U.S" is removed.

North Korea are the trolls of the world. I love it.

north korea: i'm lovin' it

http://img1-azcdn.newser.com/square-image/143736-20120410101109/150k-held-in-secret-north-korea-gulag.jpeg

this one might be the most terrifying of all, from that photo series:

http://i.imgur.com/zlbeQRt.jpg

I found that meteorological dept one quite chilling, it is one of the rare pics where he isn't surrounded by the military or WPK people and they look terrified.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/kju061714/s_k19_RTR3P4LV.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NCUcJQ4jA4

http://i.imgur.com/naB5wai.png

kim jong un more like kim jong ill

suffering from "discomfort"?

read somewhere he's got gout which is pretty lol for a guy so young as he is. though i guess organ meat is probably a pretty reliable source of meat in nk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2769462/Is-really-Un-Fears-health-North-Korean-dictator-weeks-without-public-appearance.html

It has been claimed that Kim has been putting his health at serious risk due to his dangerously high consumption of Emmental cheese...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29563837

Weird.

In NYC and trying to decide whether to stay feet, blocks, or miles away from Sunshine Cinema on Thursday night.

So the entire nation's internet infrastructure is currently offline, or has been taken down? Hmm.

Also, apparently the reported number of NK IP addresses is a paltry 1024. Total. Not shocking but still wow.