Inside North Korea

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **emilythestrange** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:38 pm

Fascinating, thanks for sharing that Fargo.

Everything in that was just unbelievable and terrifying in equal measure. A dance to celebrate building a dam...wow.

Also, I wonder if anything happened to that 59 year old man, after he slipped up about the food on display in his house?

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Moggy** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:55 pm

Preezy wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Preezy wrote:
Pedz wrote:
StayDead wrote:It didn't show her getting shot, an obvious scare tactic because it's not as if they'll ever get to the border before getting shot anyway.

I'm sure I saw something where people were shot trying to cross a river.

If you did see that, which I don't doubt by the way, would have been North Korean guards shooting North Koreans trying to escape into the South.

Surely the guards must sometimes think, "we've been ordered to shoot people trying to escape our own country, maybe we're kinda bad"

I doubt that they realise they are the "baddies". They would view people trying to get to South Korea as traitors to their country and their Glorious Leader.

Reminds me a bit of this

I think Mitchell and Webb did a similar sketch about the Nazis as well. :lol:

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Preezy** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:25 pm

They did Moggy, something like "Look at our hats, they've got skulls on them. I think we might be the bad guys" :lol:

edit: here you go

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **SEP** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:07 pm

Preezy"
[quote="No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:The world isn't as simple as how you think it is Preezy

I'm well aware that acting isn't that simple, but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't act, or even shouldn't want to act.[/quote]

Then you get a whole load of bitches protesting that "it's not our fight", and that we have no business being there.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Qikz** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:02 pm

Preezy wrote:They did Moggy, something like "Look at our hats, they've got skulls on them. I think we might be the bad guys"

edit: here you go

Pirates are fun!

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Xeno** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:11 pm

If true this is horrific, an interview with an ex guard at camp 22.

There are 9 parts in all, just look them all up. Part 3 covers the hereditary rule where your children, grand children will all be punished for an political offence you may have done.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Qikz** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:26 pm

Wow, that was horrible.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Preezy** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:27 pm

That's some horrific stuff right there. How this is any different to what the Nazis or Stalin did is beyond me.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Qikz** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:29 pm

Preezy wrote:That's some horrific stuff right there. How this is any different to what the Nazis or Stalin did is beyond me.

I think it's the fact it's in their own country which nobody else has any control of, they're doing it to their own citizens and under his rule he can make it a law that he's allowed to do that.

Just the fact they have Nukes and are not afraid to use them to end many innocent lives if they are targeted themselves is bad enough, everywhere in the world is just powerless to stop them.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Preezy** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:30 pm

Wish I was Dr. Manhattan, I'd pop over there and crack some skulls.

What a sadistic mindset these people have, utterly barbaric.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Exxy** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:51 pm

Anyone got a link to a good article about North Korea? Not a news piece and preferably from a decent source (one of the big papers/BBC/something similar). Need one for some work at school tommorow and decided to do this at it links to a subject I'm working on. Thanks

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Red Devil** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:28 pm

Exxy wrote:Anyone got a link to a good article about North Korea? Not a news piece and preferably from a decent source (one of the big papers/BBC/something similar). Need one for some work at school tommorow and decided to do this at it links to a subject I'm working on. Thanks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/f ... 711355.stm

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **John Galt** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:29 pm

Exxy wrote:Anyone got a link to a good article about North Korea? Not a news piece and preferably from a decent source (one of the big papers/BBC/something similar). Need one for some work at school tommorow and decided to do this at it links to a subject I'm working on. Thanks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/g ... 6994/html/

Hope that helps. I normally find the articles useful for reading up on a country I know very little about.

Who saw the Brazil match today then? It's so strange after watching a video like this that the players can then go and play football in an international tournament of such scale. Would it not be very easy for some form of intervention? The players on the team must realise, after seeing such things outside of North Korea, that their country is far from the idealist nation they've been force fed from their mother's breasts.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Rightey** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:12 am

Karlprof wrote:Communism - Authoritarian national government is managed by the proletariat. There is direct ownership of the local means of production by the local proletariat. There is no market economy.

Actually that's not right, true communism is supposed to be no government whatsoever and people just do things because it's "the right thing to do". Like say if you were a cobbler you'd make shoes not in order to sell them, but just because people need shoes. There would also not be any government as there would be no need for anyone to tell anyone what to do. The communists themselves acknowledged this and always refereed to themselves as the dictatorship of the proletariat, the stage that precedes communism.

Also don't believe the hype about everyone being all brainwashed, although the people on camera will spout out their love for communism on command in reality they know how miserable their lives are compared to everyone else in the world.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Balloon Sod** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:31 am

Documentary about people from all over the world who love North Korea, and see it as an alternative to capitalism.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **That** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:29 am

Rightey wrote:
Karlprof wrote:Communism - Authoritarian national government is managed by the proletariat. There is direct ownership of the local means of production by the local proletariat. There is no market economy.

Actually that's not right, true communism is supposed to be no government whatsoever and people just do things because it's "the right thing to do". Like say if you were a cobbler you'd make shoes not in order to sell them, but just because people need shoes. There would also not be any government as there would be no need for anyone to tell anyone what to do. The communists themselves acknowledged this and always refereed to themselves as the dictatorship of the proletariat, the stage that precedes communism.

Fair enough! Cheers, cap'n.

In any case I hope the gist of my post was right; I was only trying to give a flavour for the vast differences in what could be considered "socialism" and I don't pretend to an expert on all the different types!

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Xeno** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:10 am

The people who are on that pro NK martch are nut jobs and are living in cloud cukoo land.

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Preezy** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:28 am

You only get a glimpse of it in that video, but you can see the Ryugyong Hotel in the city skyline of Pyongyang. Just reading about it makes you see how basically crap the NK government is. It's the 22nd largest skyscraper in the world, and it will most likely never be finished. The NK government pours all of it's money into making these massive symbols of power and wealth, despite the country not having much of either :fp:

Esquire wrote:North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

Oh and thanks for the video Balloon Sod, interesting stuff, if not a little scary that people out there are that bat-shit crazy

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **~Earl Grey~** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:23 pm

For some reason the country is completely blank on Google Maps.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 23&t=h&z=6

Which is odd, as obviously the basics are known - like where the main settlements are, their names, etc...

PostRe: Inside North Korea by **Preezy** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:28 pm

Another long video, but well worth a watch if you have the time.

Inside North Korea

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