Mr Choe was executed after he 'expressed discomfort against the young leader's forestation policy'
― The Tony Hart Land (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
Close to 70 officials have been killed under Kim Jong-un's rule, Yonhap says.
― drash, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150513104648-01-kim-jong-un-0513-exlarge-169.jpgKim stands on the snow-covered top of Mount Paektu in North Korea in a photo taken by North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun on April 18 and released the next day by South Korean news agency Yonhap. Kim scaled the country’s highest mountain, North Korean state-run media reported, arriving at the summit to tell soldiers that the hike provides mental energy more powerful than nuclear weapons.
― drash, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
No, this is a great look. The government wouldn't have allowed it to be released if it wasn't.
http://i.imgur.com/kcn9byj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/M7uO8Mr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/LKSqiyl.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
v dapper, with the unbuttoned jacket, henley shirt, hands rakishly in pockets, straw fedorareal misery on little guy’s face :(
― drash, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
Is he standing on a landmine in that last pic?
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
lil general
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
hmmm
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/684564391782518785
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link
thought maybe this was about a nuclear natural disaster like fukushima (tho presumably much worse bc north korea is a basketcase) but apparently "Officials at the Korea Meteorological Administration in Seoul reported a magnitude 4.2 tremor and said that the tremor pattern looked “artificial,” not likely to have resulted from a natural earthquake."
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:16 (eight years ago) link
oh boy!
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
Successful h-bomb test, apparently
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:47 (eight years ago) link
That would put them ahead of much of the nuclear club.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nknews.org/2016/01/north-korea-says-it-tested-hydrogen-bomb/
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:25 (eight years ago) link
officially non hilarious
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link
Officials and analysts in the South say that the estimated yield, or energy, from the explosion appeared to be too small to be that of such a weapon. - NY Times
so, prob just a really beansy entree
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
Chinese still finding North Korea hilarious.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Friday, 8 January 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
The hashtags "Fourth Korean Nuclear Explosion" and "Another DPRK Nuclear Test"
汉字 always seems like so much fun
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 January 2016 13:17 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/world/asia/north-korea-american-arrested.html
The University of Virginia student, Otto Frederick Warmbier
heading over to Great Real Names now
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 22 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/12135252/North-Korea-bombards-South-with-used-toilet-paper.html
― how's life, Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
A government spokesman described the North's psychological warfare methods as "immature".
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 February 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
learned Stalin's lessons well:http://news.yahoo.com/north-koreas-army-chief-staff-executed-report-005503170.html
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
No new friends
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/12/04004192.jpg
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
haha
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
north korea was the only realm from Game of Thrones that survived to the modern age
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 11 February 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Is it just me, or does it seem like DPRoK's saber rattling is getting less traction than it ever has?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/north-korea-praises-trump-and-urges-us-voters-to-reject-dull-hillary
― King Nagl (Eazy), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Awesome
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
the Dennis Rodman of American politics
― am0n, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
interesting:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/satellite-imagery-suggests-china-is-secretly-punishing-north-korea/2016/06/30/8638d8d6-3ee8-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html
― Mordy, Sunday, 3 July 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/08/louis-cole-vlogger-north-korea
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/asia/north-korea-executes-deputy-premier.html
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has executed his deputy premier for education and purged two other senior officials, sending them to re-education camps, the South Korean government said on Wednesday.Jeong Joon-hee, a spokesman for the South’s Unification Ministry, said at a news briefing that the South Korean government had used various means to confirm the execution of Kim Yong-jin, the deputy premier, and the purge of Kim Yong-chol, the head of the United Front Department of the ruling Workers’ Party, which handles relations with, as well as spying operations against, South Korea. Choe Hui, a deputy chief of the party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, was also banished for re-education, Mr. Jeong said.
Jeong Joon-hee, a spokesman for the South’s Unification Ministry, said at a news briefing that the South Korean government had used various means to confirm the execution of Kim Yong-jin, the deputy premier, and the purge of Kim Yong-chol, the head of the United Front Department of the ruling Workers’ Party, which handles relations with, as well as spying operations against, South Korea. Choe Hui, a deputy chief of the party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, was also banished for re-education, Mr. Jeong said.
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
should send my resume to the agitation department
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 1 September 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/who-is-kim-jong-un/
iirc this piece goes over a lot of the same ground as the one published on NK in the LRB last year, with the same conclusions (i.e. what an incredible fuck-up). Except it gives Jong-Un a good review, of sorts.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
It seems he is actually pretty good at the old totalitarian dictator game. A few pieces I have read in the past seem to have overstated the importance of his gift economy game without even mentioning his frequent liquidations of top brass and clever playing of S Korea's fear of regime collapse to his own advantage.
― calzino, Thursday, 1 September 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
could regime collapse really be any worse than it is right now? are there really worse actors than kim?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
regime collapse = millions of destitute north koreans pouring into south korea
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
you may be aware of situations in which bordering countries wish to keep our immigrants from poorer neighbouring states?
this thread title bums me out
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Can't it get changed to "North Korea: Still Bizarre," or something like that?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
you may be aware of situations in which bordering countries wish to keep our immigrants from poorer neighbouring states?― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, September 1, 2016 6:13 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, September 1, 2016 6:13 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
never heard of it
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
does SK really think of north koreans as foreign refugees? i know that there are still a lot of divided families w/ ties that go to before the division. wouldn't they be happy for an opportunity for reunification? and doesn't kim jong-un being overthrown suggest an opportunity for that? (i really don't know i'm just theorizing)
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Z34DuOf.jpg
(Except without the cars, I guess.)
― pplains, Friday, 2 September 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
does SK really think of north koreans as foreign refugees?
Yes, absolutely. Definitely from a practical perspective of health issues, integration into education, sustained employment, etc but increasingly from a 'national' perspective as well. It's partly generational - a higher proportion of older than younger Koreans think of people from the DPRK as being the same nationality as them, according to surveys. There's a social stigma in being from the North - and that's with refugee numbers in the tens of thousands rather than 25m.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 2 September 2016 07:46 (seven years ago) link
Half-brother (the one always in pajamas and gambling in Macau) assassinated.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
Kim Jong-Un's gained like 100 pounds in the last few years, wtf
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
A fatal poison you can spray on someone at an airport ... hilarious and not scary at all.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
It must be some scary shit when you've got your family potentially coming after you (see also Robert Durst's brother)
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
It sounds like he was apolitical and no kind of threat. Some mild criticism of it being a third gen succession regime in his history but not much else.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/STcom/status/831765067091865606
There are reports both suspects are dead.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 09:07 (seven years ago) link
That image is strangely fascinating and creepy
― calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link