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Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:33 pm
by Fargo
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:45 pm
by jamcc
Alvin Flummux wrote:If there's one thing dictatorships like NK are great at, it's creating strawberry floating awesome buildings.
You like it? I think it looks horrible.
Does look evil though, so suits NK.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:46 pm
by Lotus
Some of those photos are really interesting. Must be quite depressing growing up there, but I guess if they don't know any different...
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:50 pm
by That
NickSCFC wrote:
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:53 am
by Trelliz
That massive building is a hotel that was never finished, and is subsequently shopped out of most official photos of Pyongyang.
It's probably been posted in this thread, but as always cracked.com have a relevant article:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17165_6-reasons-north-korea-funniest-evil-dictatorship-ever.htmlDid a study during my MA on North Korea's WMD program and future political developments, and its a truly mad country, essentially the worst parts of 50's Soviet Russia put together.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:52 am
by Preezy
Hasn't the hotel recently been finished? I mean it's probably never going to even have 2% occupancy, but I'm pretty sure they did finally get it finished.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:13 am
by Xeno
Lotus wrote:Some of those photos are really interesting. Must be quite depressing growing up there, but I guess if they don't know any different...
As far as they are aware the rest of the world is in worse state than them, mass starvation, floods, earthquakes and every other disaster known is happening to the world yet NK seem to be stead fast and livin the dream.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:17 am
by Tafdolphin
Preezy wrote:Hasn't the hotel recently been finished? I mean it's probably never going to even have 2% occupancy, but I'm pretty sure they did finally get it finished.
Apparently an Egyptian telecommunications company financed the completion of the exterior as they want to use it as a broadcast tower. The building itself is said to be structurally unsound due to dodgy materials used back in the 80s so I don't think it'll ever be occupied.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:28 pm
by St Nick
Anyone seen this propaganda online newspaper from North Korea.
It's good stuff.
http://www.rodong.rep.kp/InterEn/
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:33 pm
by NickSCFC
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:11 am
by No:1 Final Fantasy Fan
NickSCFC wrote:http://www.rodong.rep.kp/InterEn/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2012-01-16-0013
omg. Can't someone just mysteriously fly a fast plane across N.Korea dropping newspapers from the outside world so these poor people aren't lied to any longer.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:19 am
by Qikz
No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:NickSCFC wrote:http://www.rodong.rep.kp/InterEn/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2012-01-16-0013
omg. Can't someone just mysteriously fly a fast plane across N.Korea dropping newspapers from the outside world so these poor people aren't lied to any longer.
They already do that. AFAIK anyways.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:26 am
by NickSCFC
StayDead wrote:No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:NickSCFC wrote:http://www.rodong.rep.kp/InterEn/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2012-01-16-0013
omg. Can't someone just mysteriously fly a fast plane across N.Korea dropping newspapers from the outside world so these poor people aren't lied to any longer.
They already do that. AFAIK anyways.
Yup, they launched balloons full of news and photos of the outside world from across the DMZ the day KJU's succession was announced.
PS - I HATE YOU!
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:04 am
by Dolph Wiggler
NickSCFC wrote:StayDead wrote:No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:NickSCFC wrote:http://www.rodong.rep.kp/InterEn/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2012-01-16-0013
omg. Can't someone just mysteriously fly a fast plane across N.Korea dropping newspapers from the outside world so these poor people aren't lied to any longer.
They already do that. AFAIK anyways.
Yup, they launched balloons full of news and photos of the outside world from across the DMZ the day KJU's succession was announced.
The South Koreans did?
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:57 pm
by NickSCFC
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:10 am
by Squinty
The U.S.A at the end. Amazing.
I watched a documentary on this country last night. I find anything to do with it incredibly fascinating in a grim way. They did a visit to a hospital and spoke to one of the patients, who was quite obviously an actor. Perfectly made up, looked the picture of health, actually spoke a little of the language that the reporters were fluent in. Interviews with ridiculously indoctrinated people. Incredible music playing children who wear creepy smiles.
I don't think you can easily solve this situation. There would be civil unrest if you took out Kim. It showed footage of his father's funeral, where the crowds were absolutely hysterical. Really disturbing footage.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:20 am
by degoose
Squinty wrote:The U.S.A at the end. Amazing.
I watched a documentary on this country last night. I find anything to do with it incredibly fascinating in a grim way. They did a visit to a hospital and spoke to one of the patients, who was quite obviously an actor. Perfectly made up, looked the picture of health, actually spoke a little of the language that the reporters were fluent in. Interviews with ridiculously indoctrinated people. Incredible music playing children who wear creepy smiles.
I don't think you can easily solve this situation. There would be civil unrest if you took out Kim. It showed footage of his father's funeral, where the crowds were absolutely hysterical. Really disturbing footage.
What was the film, it also intrigues me. I watched one on Netflix called The Propaganda Game and there is one other on Netflix i'm going to watch some time soon.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:26 pm
by Squinty
degoose wrote:What was the film, it also intrigues me. I watched one on Netflix called The Propaganda Game and there is one other on Netflix i'm going to watch some time soon.
Actually just found it on YouTube. I have not watched this one before. You might enjoy it.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:38 pm
by Lagamorph
I remember a documentary a while ago about an eye doctor who went to North Korea and did a few hundred cataract operations in two or three days, pretty much saving the eyesight of every patient. Pretty much none of the patients thanked the doctor, instead they all bowed down to thank a portrait of one of the Kims.
Re: Inside North Korea
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:47 pm
by degoose
Squinty wrote:degoose wrote:What was the film, it also intrigues me. I watched one on Netflix called The Propaganda Game and there is one other on Netflix i'm going to watch some time soon.
Actually just found it on YouTube. I have not watched this one before. You might enjoy it.
Cheers Squinty, not seen that one before.
