More sabre rattling from North Korea

[MacroGuru]

Looks like Rodman is already back pedaling and apologizing for his antics. Someone must have called him..

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Sketches from UN report......

Haunting sketches show horror of North Korean prison camps | Fox News

Also I watched 'Camp 14' last night on Netflix. Interviews a former prisoner along with two former guards. Really intense stuff.

[jeff061]

I guess I'm fine with those atrocities getting some press, but is there anything in that report we didn't already know?

[JPhillips]

All of the stress position drawings could have been made at Abu Ghraib.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Solid win for Kim Jong-Un.....

N. Korean leader enjoys 100% 'poll' win - Yahoo News

[NobodyHere]

More like Kim Jong-Unanimous!

[BillJasper]

Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan

Solid win for Kim Jong-Un.....

N. Korean leader enjoys 100% 'poll' win - Yahoo News

After a while it seems like it would just be no fun. Like playing video games on the easiest level.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by BillJasper

After a while it seems like it would just be no fun. Like playing video games on the easiest level.

Quality post, this

Then again, he's new (Un)

SI

[fantom1979]

Just reminds me of this:

Iraqi presidential referendum, 1995 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

where Saddam Hussein got 99.47% of the vote. I would be interested in knowing what happened to the 3052 people that voted against him.

[BillJasper]

This book shows just how demented and fucked up everything is inside North Korea...

Amazon.com: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea eBook: Barbara Demick: Kindle Store

Definitely a sad state of affairs there.

[cartman]

Be careful if Kim Jong-Un invites you over for a BBQ.

North Korean official 'executed by flame-thrower' - Telegraph

[BillJasper]

Originally Posted by cartman

Be careful if Kim Jong-Un invites you over for a BBQ.

North Korean official 'executed by flame-thrower' - Telegraph

Like a really bad cartoon over there. One that has been on for way too long.

[sterlingice]

I think I saw that Bond movie

SI

[cartman]

Interesting viewpoints from some recent North Korean defectors.

How much longer will North Korean regime last? - Telegraph

[BillJasper]

Originally Posted by cartman

Interesting viewpoints from some recent North Korean defectors.

How much longer will North Korean regime last? - Telegraph

I don't see the regime falling until the rest of the world cuts off aid. When that happens, it's going to be painful with a high body count for the North Korean populace any way they go and possibly painful with a high body count for the South Korean populace. Plus, the U.S. will likely lose a large amount of troops.

North Korea is a ticking time bomb.

[cartman]

Couldn't decide if this belonged here, or in the Strava/Runkeeper thread. Run a marathon in Pyongyang next year!

Pyongyang Marathon 2015 - Experience North Korea

[molson]

Here's some photos and info about this year's marathon.

Photos from North Korea's Very Unusual Marathon - The Wire

It would be an interesting experience, but you'd have to fork over some money that funds the regime. I know these groups based in the UK exist, they get lots of tourists in and out of North Korea on "supervised tours" every year without incident, but you're funding a brutal dictator and all that.

[molson]

Some photos of a tourist's trip to North Korea. Obviously, this is the version of North Korea the regime wants you to see, but it's interesting to get an idea of what a visit would be like.

http://imgur.com/a/F04gj

[flere-imsaho]

I'm torn by this.

On one hand, the allowing of foreigners into the country will eventually introduce enough of the outside world to entice change (as it did for the USSR).

On the other hand, this is a regime that literally kills babies born in labor camps. Nothing should be done to support the regime.

[BillJasper]

Originally Posted by molson

Some photos of a tourist's trip to North Korea. Obviously, this is the version of North Korea the regime wants you to see, but it's interesting to get an idea of what a visit would be like.

http://imgur.com/a/F04gj

It's incredible how devoid of life North Korea looks in those photos.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

I occasionally enjoy reading up on the NK official news site to see what's going on over there. Stuff like this makes for entertaining reading.

Challengers to DPRK Will Never Be Pardoned: CPRK Spokesman
Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea released a statement on Sunday assailing U.S. President Obama's tour of south Korea from April 25 to 26.

The statement said: Due to the tragedy of sinking of a ferry the whole land of south Korea looks like a mourner's house. Had Obama have even an iota of ethics and morality, he should have postponed or shelved his trip. The American master and his servant staged the farce of insulting, threatening and blackmailing the DPRK during the former's criminal tour of south Korea utterly indifferent to the sorrow of south Koreans. This was entirely to serve the purpose of collusion and conspiracy in their campaign against the DPRK.

What Park did before Obama this time reminds one of an indiscreet girl who earnestly begs a gangster to beat someone or a capricious whore who asks her fancy man to do harm to other person while providing sex to him.

Through her ugly behavior Park answered with a war the question put by the DPRK if she wants peaceful reunification based on the inter-Korean reconciliation or a war through the confrontation of the social systems, and fully revealed that her policy of "confidence- building process" is just the same policy of confrontation as that pursued by traitor Lee Myung Bak. She, at the same time, declared before the whole world her intention to drive the situation to the worst catastrophe through the confrontation with the DPRK to the last in utter disregard of the north-south relations.

She fully met the demands of her master for aggression, keeping mum about the nukes of the U.S. and desperately finding fault with fellow countrymen in the north over their nukes. She thus laid bare her despicable true colors as a wicked sycophant and traitor, a dirty comfort woman for the U.S. and despicable prostitute selling off the nation.

She visited together with Obama even the "south Korea-U.S. combined forces command" for the first time as a puppet chief executive and went off confrontation hysteria, crying out for "deterrence against the north" and "resolutely countering provocation from it." She even donned a dress unfit for the atmosphere of the mourner's house in the wake of the big tragedy and embarrassedly flattered Obama in a bid to please him, sparking off uproar.

The anti-DPRK charade staged by Obama and his servant became a laughing stock of world people as it was nothing but an odd burlesque rare to be found in the world.

The outcome of Obama's south Korean junket clearly proved that the DPRK was entirely just when it judged and determined that it should counter the U.S., the sworn enemy, by force only, not just talking, and should finally settle accounts with it through an all-out nuclear showdown. This, at the same time, only hardens the will and resolution of the DPRK to keep to the road chosen by it. Park's true colors and ulterior motive were brought to daylight.

There is no remedy for Park and there is nothing to expect from her as far as the inter-Korean relations are concerned as long as she remains a boss of Chongwadae.

She is steeped in sycophancy and treachery and confrontation with compatriots in the north. Her preoccupation is to realize the dream of confrontation of the social systems.

Genes remain unchanged. Needless to say, her present behavior suggests that her fate will be just the same as that of her father Park Chung Hee who met a miserable death after being forsaken by his master and public while crying out for "unification by prevailing over communism" and "unification by stamping out communism".

The DPRK will never pardon anyone who dares challenge its dignity, social system and its line of simultaneously developing the two fronts, the statement warned.

[cartman]

A video game where you get to play as Kim Jong Un, AND have Dennis Rodman as your sidekick?

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Kim Jong Un Video Game Is The Enemy Of Capitalist Pigs

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by BillJasper

It's incredible how devoid of life North Korea looks in those photos.

Pretty interesting picture gallery.

[BillJasper]

I love this one. Two cars are in the photo!

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

How many get executed for this?

Many feared dead as North Korea apologizes for Pyongyang apartment building collapse | Fox News

[NobodyHere]

Maybe those dead were the ones that built/designed the apartment and that WAS their execution.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Maybe those dead were the ones that built/designed the apartment and that WAS their execution.

Kim Jong Un approves!

[BillJasper]

I imagine the collapse was intentional and will be used as the reason to execute those that have fallen out of favor with the party.

[StLee]

Fox News: Learn "lead" vs "led," please.

I'm also quite shocked that North Korea would let this story out and not blame it on a US/South Korea bombing or something.

[NobodyHere]

I'm beginning to think that communist dictator regimes aren't very trustworthy
The reportedly executed ex-lover of Kim Jong Un seems to be very much alive

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Interesting to watch.

[BillJasper]

I kept waiting for the Red Hour to start.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

N.Korea's Kim blasts weather service for 'incorrect' forecasts - Yahoo News

[Butter]

30 Rock - North Korean Weather - YouTube

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan

N.Korea's Kim blasts weather service for 'incorrect' forecasts - Yahoo News

They need to be careful with their headlines. "Blast" and Kim Jong Un could be taken very literally.

[Lathum]

Accurate forecasts are needed to protect the "lives and properties" of people from disasters caused by "abnormal climatic phenomenon", he said.

odd comment coming from the biggest threat to the lives of the people of North Korea.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Kim Jong-Un Mans A Soviet Submarine That's Been Obsolete Since 1961 [PHOTOS] - Business Insider

[flere-imsaho]

1. Dude looks fatter. Maybe he'll die early?

2. Can you imagine the trepidation that sub captain had, hoping everything would actually work while Kim was on board?

3. Surprising to read they actually have 60 (albeit probably not very capable) submarines. I wonder how many of those are operable?

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

1. Dude looks fatter. Maybe he'll die early?

2. Can you imagine the trepidation that sub captain had, hoping everything would actually work while Kim was on board?

3. Surprising to read they actually have 60 (albeit probably not very capable) submarines. I wonder how many of those are operable?

I hope we are able to get some in-depth views of this country sometime in my lifetime. It's fascinating stuff, even while realizing how their population suffers under their rule.

[DaddyTorgo]

Their subs are all diesel/electric boats from the 1950's and such. So...not exactly cutting edge. A torpedo with a 4-mile range? LOL. Those things are so noisy that I have a feeling US surface ships can detect them much farther away than that.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Forgot to post this for flere.....

The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - N.Korean Leader Getting Fatter

[BillJasper]

I thought the guy was relatively young? Could have cancer or a thyroid condition.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Their subs are all diesel/electric boats from the 1950's and such. So...not exactly cutting edge. A torpedo with a 4-mile range? LOL. Those things are so noisy that I have a feeling US surface ships can detect them much farther away than that.

You can do a lot of damage with a diesel sub!

Down Periscope (1996) - IMDb

[flere-imsaho]

Originally Posted by BillJasper

I thought the guy was relatively young? Could have cancer or a thyroid condition.

Or it could be that he's the only one who actually eats well in North Korea.

[PilotMan]

Exactly.

[molson]

In a place like North Korea, a thing like genocide doesn't even necessarily stand out, but one might be going on right now.

Report: A Genocide May Be Happening in North Korea - TIME

[flere-imsaho]

I'd argue a genocide has been happening ever since the end of the Korean War. What else do you call it when the government systematically starves millions of citizens to death, and then executes countless others for various & sundry reasons?

Maybe it needs to have a specific ethnic targeting to be a genocide, but it's still millions of people being killed.

[PilotMan]

North Korea Regime Confidant Rails Against Seth Rogen Film 'The Interview'

In an interview with The Telegraph, Kim Myong-chol, executive director of The Centre for North Korea-US Peace, and an unofficial spokesman for Kim Jong Un's regime, criticized The Interview.

"There is a special irony in this storyline as it shows the desperation of the US government and American society," Kim Myong-chol said. ”A film about the assassination of a foreign leader mirrors what the US has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine.” He pointed out that JFK was killed by Americans and added that “President [Barack] Obama should be careful in case the US military wants to kill him as well.”

[NobodyHere]

pfft, everyone knows Kennedy was killed by the CIA and not the military.

[BillJasper]

I know I've said it before, but Kim Jong-Whothehellcares comes off like a fucking cartoon character:

North Korea says Seth Rogen's new movie is an 'act of war' | The Verge