bad to be a bad uncle
― mh, Saturday, 14 December 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
North Korea: still Eerie
― brimstead, Saturday, 14 December 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
don't know if the horrific details of thaek's execution were previously known:
unlike previous executions of political prisoners which were carried out by firing squads with machine guns, Jang was stripped naked and thrown into a cage, along with his five closest aides. Then 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called "quan jue", or execution by dogs.
http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 3 January 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
jfc
― sleeve, Friday, 3 January 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
hoax?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/03/no-kim-jong-un-probably-didnt-feed-his-uncle-to-120-hungry-dogs/?hpid=z3
― sleeve, Friday, 3 January 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
Hilarious that anyone believed it
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
surely all the cats and dogs (and horses and cows and chickens and pigs and rats and squirrels) have been eaten already
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
believable considering we live in a world where regimes and drug cartels have done even worse things, but the lack of other reporting and the specific number of dogs should have given it away. : |
anti aircraft guns seem a bit OTT too.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Can't they just use lethal injection like a civilised nation would do? Barbarians.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
During one of the previous purges it was reported that the official was tied to a pole in field and a mortar shell was fired at him
I don't recall any news outlet disproving that one
― 龜, Friday, 3 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I kind of wonder if the insane execution stories are less about outsiders being all "you crazy for this one Kim" and more posturing by the NK regime to keep people in line.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I remember that story too xp
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 3 January 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
Like, each story seems so outlandish that it provides more support for the next, even more outlandish one
Like how 100s of people were machine gunned in public sports stadiums for watching South Korean soap operas, while their compatriots were made to watch?
Was that real?
― 龜, Friday, 3 January 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Ravenous dogs seems a bit old hat for a progressive forward thinking Maoist regime to be using.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 3 January 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
If I were North Korea, I would be very happy having something this ridiculous hanging out there.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 January 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
i had an angle on this
― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Friday, 3 January 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
it's somewhere around here, i swear
― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Friday, 3 January 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
I mean, the Korean language does have a name for this type of execution...
― tbd (Eazy), Friday, 3 January 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 4 January 2014 08:31 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ko4VvuObU
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 4 January 2014 08:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/world/asia/lets-stop-all-the-insults-north-korea-says.html?hp
― Mordy , Friday, 17 January 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
Mr. 100%:http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kim-jong-un-wins-100-votes-north-korea-election-n49011
― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 10 March 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
Decreases barber small talk.
― That's So (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
http://hayabusa3.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1395672976/19
― zxc, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
Not new, but related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2XVNFzNlZ8
― DDD, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
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), Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
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
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 31 March 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
that's...beautiful?
― gbx, Monday, 31 March 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
you think it's hilarious now, but just wait until the exploding assholes attack the west coast.
― pplains, Monday, 31 March 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
― 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
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 01:04 (ten years ago) link
It's on 77
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
Barber guys OTM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27038723
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
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
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
― how's life, Monday, 19 May 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/22/us-northkorea-firing-idUSBREA4L09Q20140522
― Mordy, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
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/
― xelab, Friday, 20 June 2014 07:14 (nine years ago) link
i hate this thread title
those photos are beautiful
― Kevin from Blechgium (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 June 2014 07:19 (nine years ago) link
Not much hilarity in death camps, starvation and fear I just went for the most active thread without thinking.
― xelab, Friday, 20 June 2014 07:24 (nine years ago) link
"kim jong un gives thread guidance" etc.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 20 June 2014 07:28 (nine years ago) link
i wz born in the rong dictatorship
― Kevin from Blechgium (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 June 2014 07:32 (nine years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
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...
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
He is 5'9".
http://i62.tinypic.com/6to49i.jpg
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
the one with the nurses and the babies is the most horrifying
― Nhex, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link