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
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
pic no 23 - winter olympics or bust!
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
The "reckless U.S. provocative insanity"
for some reason i read that as the "reckless U.S. procreative insanity"
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Reckless North Korea proactive insanity.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― Treeship, Thursday, 26 June 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
North Korea are the trolls of the world. I love it.
― Dreamland, Thursday, 26 June 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
north korea: i'm lovin' it
http://img1-azcdn.newser.com/square-image/143736-20120410101109/150k-held-in-secret-north-korea-gulag.jpeg
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
this one might be the most terrifying of all, from that photo series:
http://i.imgur.com/zlbeQRt.jpg
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/kju061714/s_k19_RTR3P4LV.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NCUcJQ4jA4
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/naB5wai.png
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
kim jong un more like kim jong ill
suffering from "discomfort"?
― the late great, Friday, 26 September 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
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
― busted (art), Friday, 26 September 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
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...
― polyphonic, Saturday, 27 September 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29563837
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 10 October 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
Weird.
― how's life, Friday, 10 October 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
In NYC and trying to decide whether to stay feet, blocks, or miles away from Sunshine Cinema on Thursday night.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 December 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
WPLG Local 10 News @WPLGLocal10 -- #BREAKING (AP) -- North Korea suffers massive Internet outages; US official declines to say if it is responsible.
us bein' coy.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
should offer joint investigation to uncover the culprit
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
i nominate james franco to chair the blue-ribbon panel convened to get to the bottom of this fiasco.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
i'm confused - how can north korea possibly have hackers w/ better skills than, idk, ur average 2600 subscriber?
― Mordy, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Comment from the Guardian..
"Ah, South Korea changed their wifi password."
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 22 December 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Back online
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
If thats the best our govt can do I'm a little disappointed. Can we kill kju w a drone or something
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
whole thing was kinda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DItgw1mU9Us
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 03:43 (nine years ago) link