― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Monday, 2 May 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
i don't think that's *completely* true. a number of journalists have managed to get in and get some information out despite having to be herded around by government "translators."
i sort of imagine there not being any public dissent, at all. as for private dissent, well... i get the sense that the people of north korea have been fed a very strict regimen of limited info for over 50 years and thus don't really have much sense of the outside world, or other ideologies they could counterpose to that of their nation's. so if there is private dissent i'm guessing it takes a weird intra-ideological form that we wouldn't recognize or be very happy with.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
He left to Japan. His wife was kidnapped from Japan in the 1970s along with about a dozen others. She came from a town next to the Japan Sea, and she was abducted by North Korean agents and whisked back to North Korea. It's another completely bizarre episode.
The American was in the army serving in South Korea in the 1960s. He claims that he was afraid of being sent to Vietnam, so defected to the North. The U.S. army convicted him of dissertion a few months ago, and he served a very lenient sentence that was like community service.
He did an interview with Japanese TV and described his life in North Korea in general terms. His most memorable quote was saying, "I lived like a dog." He also blasted the North Korean government for all the obvious reasons.
― supercub, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― supercub, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― supercub, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link
(ok, I'll stop now)
― supercub, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― supercub, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― supercub, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I assume this is the Harper's piece mentioned upthread. It's a pretty hard read.
― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/welcome_to_north_korea.htm
This is good - it's from 2001 so some may have already seen it.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 16 July 2007 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
also good:
http://www.yhchang.com/CUNNILINGUS_IN_NORTH_KOREA.html
― c sharp major, Monday, 16 July 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
N. Korea Says It Is Holding Reporters
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea confirmed Saturday that it had detained two American journalists on charges of “illegally intruding” into the North through its border with China.
The journalists, Laura Ling, a Chinese-American, and Euna Lee, a Korean-American, both working for Current TV, were on a reporting trip along the border when they were detained by North Korean border guards, according to human rights activists and a South Korean news report. Their colleague, Mitch Koss, and their Chinese guide were reported to have been detained by Chinese border guards.
“A competent organ is now investigating the case,” the North’s official news agency, KCNA, said.
― skamokawa WA (jergins), Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/2667/jong.jpg
http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-koreas-kim-jongil-a-skilled-and-ruthless-ruler-20090405-9t1l.html
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 5 April 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Getting less hilarious.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8066615.stm
― Super Cub, Monday, 25 May 2009 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
This used to have many good photos, but they've all gone. Can anyone dig it up?
― ambience chaser (S-), Monday, 25 May 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
um this http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755
Good North Korea pictures here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/peering_into_north_korea.html
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 25 May 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh oh.
They're going to blow the shit of Seoul, aren't they?
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Isnt it Japan and the US they're shaking their fists at more, though? Bit disconcerting either way I gotta say.
― chk chk BOOM! (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/nkorea_04_24/n25_18563365.jpg
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
North Korea's military says it considers South Korea's participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction tantamount to a declaration of war against the North.The communist North's military said in a statement Wednesday that it will respond with "immediate, strong military measures" if the South actually stops and searches any North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.The statement, carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency, said North Korea no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War, as a protest over the South's participation.South Korea announced its participation in the anti-proliferation program Tuesday, one day after the North conducted a nuclear test.
The communist North's military said in a statement Wednesday that it will respond with "immediate, strong military measures" if the South actually stops and searches any North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.
The statement, carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency, said North Korea no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War, as a protest over the South's participation.
South Korea announced its participation in the anti-proliferation program Tuesday, one day after the North conducted a nuclear test.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh.
― chk chk BOOM! (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Did anyone see that lolVice TV travelogue thing through N. Korea? It's pretty interesting: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1438428757
― Oym a cripe... Oym a weer-dew... (circa1916), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
A colleague of mine went to North Korea last year. He described it as an unpleasant experience.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 05:54 (fourteen years ago) link
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A war of nerves over North Korea should not be allowed to grow into a military confrontation, a Russian official said on Wednesday in a clear reference to Pyongyang's decision to drop out of an armistice agreement."We assume that a dangerous brinkmanship, a war of nerves, is under way, but it will not grow into a hot war," Itar-Tass news agency quoted an unnamed foreign ministry source as saying."Restraint is needed," the source added.The foreign ministry often uses statements sourced to unnamed officials leaked through official news agencies to lay down its position on sensitive issues.
"We assume that a dangerous brinkmanship, a war of nerves, is under way, but it will not grow into a hot war," Itar-Tass news agency quoted an unnamed foreign ministry source as saying.
"Restraint is needed," the source added.
The foreign ministry often uses statements sourced to unnamed officials leaked through official news agencies to lay down its position on sensitive issues.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Despite being lambasted by the capitalists for years as a dangerous but undeveloped rogue country, the DPRK's outstanding achievements this year have shown that she certainly does have the technical capability to do whatever she wishes.
http://www.korea-dpr.com/cgi-bin/simpleforum.cgi/simpleforum.cgi?fid=01&topic_id=1243238064
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Those pictures are outstanding, thanks for that.
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
N. Korea is steampunk!
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mnftiu.cc/blog/images/war.108.gif
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/sep/12/kim-north-korea?picture=337564436
this picture does not look real in any way
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
NK Ministry of Propaganda needs better shop fu.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda amazed the Chinese are so blase about North Korea... if any war breaks out, China's gonna have a flood of refugees to deal with.
― Wrinkles, I'll See You On the Other Side (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 28 May 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
No, still hilarious.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"...shifting an entire brewery it bought in Great Britain to North Korea"
I'd like to think Kim Jong Il towed it through the air on cables attached to his presidential jet.
― chap, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/08/04/ba-nkorea_journa_0500447422.jpg
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yep
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Last known photograph.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
one looks healthy and happy, one is somber and sullen
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
both look like they're in a 16-bit videogame
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
lol that guy going aggro was as choreographed as a Jackie Chan movie. But I do love the idea of Kim thinking anyone would really find that intimidating. Like, oh shit, this guy broke a concrete bar with a flying headbutt! Better not mess with North Korea.would have been better if it was Kim doing the head butting though.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BareBaggyLiger-max-1mb.gif
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
imo, the NK military putting on that show in front of Kim was not meant to intimidate SK or the USA nearly so much as to show their dear leader how unflinchingly loyal they are to him. they are saying, "see how we will gladly butt through walls with our foreheads and have rods broken across our backs for you." which explains why Kim was kind of bored by it, since that kind of fealty is demonstrated to him constantly.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Yet also demanded by him constantly. Be careful what you wish for, I guess!
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
But I think the display is part of a larger PR campaign about NK's military might.. like all these boss new gadgets:
https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/north-korea-shows-off-new-weapons-at-mil-idUSRTXIGLY4
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Just wait until North Korea reveals it's got the atomic elbow.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
The way they loop the applause in all these videos is a lot like laying down in glass.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXZF60EPdMlil palate cleanser
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
this is just bollocks isn't it https://t.co/yDEYlL0LGo— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) November 25, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 November 2021 09:36 (two years ago) link
This looks like an FBI photo of a Serbian gangster outside his stone mason shop in Wicker Park, 1978 @ericzieg https://t.co/Jdwa0D0j8n— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) March 10, 2022
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
Surprisingly high production value for NK:
BREAKING: North Korea's state-run television shows edited footage of Kim Jong Un guiding the test-launch of what the country referred to as the Hwasong-17 ICBM.Latest story: https://t.co/belL7EdPUl(Video: KCTV) pic.twitter.com/APifRhtJVr— NK NEWS (@nknewsorg) March 25, 2022
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 March 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
All I can think of is "Elvis impersonator, with missles"
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 March 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
The bit with the watches can't be real!
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 25 March 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
Well having been extensively exposed to NK video productions when visiting back in 2015 (?), it looks completely legit to me, just with fancier cinematography and better picture quality.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 March 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
I seriously can't stop watching it.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 March 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
If they are calling it an ICBM, the implication is that it can reach other continents. I suppose they could be cheating slightly, if it can only reach Australia.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 25 March 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
NK is quite a bit closer to North America than to Australia, though. "Only" the remoter bits of Alaska, granted.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
Ok
I CANT BREATHE 😭😭😭😭😭😭she had to come up with something real quick pic.twitter.com/6uVnDX1QDY— Dame Fagatha Christie, PhD (@FagathaGagatha) May 10, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 May 2023 13:08 (eleven months ago) link
We had to buy replacement badminton shoes or a racquet or something, and the salesman told us they weren't available anymore. We asked what happened, and he said the company got busted working with North Korea or something!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 May 2023 13:27 (eleven months ago) link
A person who said they witnessed the event and was part of the same tour group told CBS News they had just visited one of the buildings at the site when "this man gives out a loud 'ha ha ha,' and just runs in between some buildings."
I guess someone still thinks the place is hilarious.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 16:26 (nine months ago) link
Defecting soldiers used to have some propaganda value during the Cold War, and a few settled down in the North. But I imagine now this is more of a headache than anything else for the North.. the guy probably doesn't have a lot of intelligence value, but maybe some diplomatic value if they want something from us. But I don't think he's going to be pampered like they were in the past
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:05 (nine months ago) link
It was either this or go back to Texas.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:08 (nine months ago) link
Lol
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link
I wish they would let Google street view cars in there
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 19:20 (five months ago) link