What is life like in North Korea?

[conjur]

Came upon the following threads on other boards with pics (some that are not allowed to be taken) from North Korea:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=200578

Note some comments at the end of that 2nd link. Makes ya wonder if NK's actions aren't just temper-tantrum actions and also being used internally as some form of propaganda.

 

[Darkhawk28]

You mean North Korea isn't a 1st world country looking to take over the world with their vast military and economic might?!?!

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Good god, repost x 115

 

[conjur]

Interesting. I wasn't aware this has been posted 115 times before. Esp. since the thread was created on 06-04-2006.

:roll:

 

[fitzov]

I've seen pictures of Mexico that look worse.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: fitzov
I've seen pictures of Mexico that look worse.

I've seen first-hand horrid conditions in Mexico but what do you think would happen if 100,000 people protested in every city in North Korea following an election?

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: fitzov
I've seen pictures of Mexico that look worse.

I've seen first-hand horrid conditions in Mexico but what do you think would happen if 100,000 people protested in every city in North Korea following an election?

Probably open machine gun fire until there were no more standing. Knowing Kim Ill he would order it.

 

[Moonbeam]

I hear it's a country where grass is a delicacy

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I hear it's a country where grass is a delicacy

"Only for the Rabbits"

"But it is forbidden to photograph our rabbits."

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
You mean North Korea isn't a 1st world country looking to take over the world with their vast military and economic might?!?!

Obviously not the requirements to own a nuclear weapon.

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: fitzov
I've seen pictures of Mexico that look worse.

I've seen first-hand horrid conditions in Mexico but what do you think would happen if 100,000 people protested in every city in North Korea following an election?

what elections?

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: fitzov
I've seen pictures of Mexico that look worse.

I've seen first-hand horrid conditions in Mexico but what do you think would happen if 100,000 people protested in every city in North Korea following an election?

what elections?

:laugh:

 

[tommywishbone]

I understand that country is totally insane. They evidently:

-Spend 100's of billions on military hardware when millions go homeless.
-Incarcerate over 2,000,000 of their citizens.
-Insist on expanding their nuclear arsennal when the rest of the world hates nukes.
-Start wars that kill 10's of thousands based on lies.
-Commit mass murder under the cloak of democracy.
-Allow an insane chimp & a gang of billionaires to run the entire country.

 

[conjur]

39 years, 6 months, 4 days

60 Minutes covering story of an American who defected to NK.

 

[piasabird]

How about some pictures of the Prison camps further north where dissidents are gassed just like Jews in WWII?

 

[CaptnKirk]

A lot like living downstairs in an outhouse.

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: tommywishbone
I understand that country is totally insane. They evidently:

-Spend 100's of billions on military hardware when millions go homeless.
-Incarcerate over 2,000,000 of their citizens.
-Insist on expanding their nuclear arsennal when the rest of the world hates nukes.
-Start wars that kill 10's of thousands based on lies.
-Commit mass murder under the cloak of democracy.
-Allow an insane chimp & a gang of billionaires to run the entire country.

Ummm......oh nevermind :brokenheart:

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: fitzov
I've seen pictures of Mexico that look worse.

I've seen first-hand horrid conditions in Mexico but what do you think would happen if 100,000 people protested in every city in North Korea following an election?

Military testing of their new nuclear device?

I find these threads interesting and I am glad you posted it. These pictures give you a glimpse into what a closed authoritarian society looks like.

It is truely like something out of the movies with huge statues celebrating the party the godlike worshipping of the almighty leader. It looks like it could be the 1950s all over again.

Amazing that just 60-70 years ago this was a lot more prolific of a govt than it is now.

 

[fitzov]

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: tommywishbone
I understand that country is totally insane. They evidently:

-Spend 100's of billions on military hardware when millions go homeless.
-Incarcerate over 2,000,000 of their citizens.
-Insist on expanding their nuclear arsennal when the rest of the world hates nukes.
-Start wars that kill 10's of thousands based on lies.
-Commit mass murder under the cloak of democracy.
-Allow an insane chimp & a gang of billionaires to run the entire country.

Ummm......oh nevermind :brokenheart:

lol...I know what you were going to say😉

 

[gsaldivar]

Here is what life is like for those who are NOT among the privleged few who are allowed to live in the capital city of Pyongyang:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/nkorea.hiddenvideo/index.html

http://www.hrnk.org/hiddengulag/toc.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071466/

 

[Nebor]

I was told that North Korea was a paradise.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas

Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
You mean North Korea isn't a 1st world country looking to take over the world with their vast military and economic might?!?!

Obviously not the requirements to own a nuclear weapon.

So common sense still eludes you I see....

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: tommywishbone
I understand that country is totally insane. They evidently:

-Spend 100's of billions on military hardware when millions go homeless.
-Incarcerate over 2,000,000 of their citizens.
-Insist on expanding their nuclear arsennal when the rest of the world hates nukes.
-Start wars that kill 10's of thousands based on lies.
-Commit mass murder under the cloak of democracy.
-Allow an insane chimp & a gang of billionaires to run the entire country.

SO are you trying to say that all those in prisons are incarcerated unjustly??
Do you have any links to the so called mass murders?

Or is this just some more unsubstatiated dribble?

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
SO are you trying to say that all those in prisons are incarcerated unjustly??
Do you have any links to the so called mass murders?

Or is this just some more unsubstatiated dribble?

I've heard from you before, back in the 1930s when we were talking about Germany.

 

[compuwiz1]

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Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Good god, repost x 115

Now, do you feel better? :roll: