re: Photographer publishes pictures he illegally captured in North Korea

I would love to visit NK just to witness the insanity.

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I don't know, is is really so bad there?

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Do you like to eat?

Watch the VICE documentary on North Korea. It's like visiting the 1910s except there is no food.

One downvote--wonder if Fat Boy has a TD account.

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That VICE documentary was pretty good. Bizarre

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It was chilling. Huge banquet rooms set up for convention diners, but there was no one there. A pretty lady working a gift shop in the middle of nowhere and no one visiting. It really is hell on earth.

Watch the one they did about the North Koreans workers being sent to cut timber in Siberia. They thought they were still in North Korea.

I saw a documentary on NK and one of the most interesting things was at the border. The South Korean border guards were watching for somebody entering from North Korea. The North Korean guards were watching for somebody leaving North Korea....and each other.

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Are you honestly naive enough to believe this? Do you actually think the maniacal pudgy punk doesn't live MUCH better than the people in those pictures?

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Well I'll say this, you are a great Bama rep.

That's the American government/pub wet dream. I'm a liberal not a fascist, which is what NKs government is.

For instance:

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“North Korea has a higher share of the population in uniform than Nazi Germany and fascist Italy had until the Second World War,” said Brian Myers, an American professor of international studies at South Korea’s Dongseo University. “So, I think it’s much more accurate to look at North Korea as a far-right state. An ultra-nationalist state.”

“It is deeply racially biased,” former British ambassador to North Korea John Everard added. “Kim Jong-il was an unabashed admirer of Hitler, and copied him quite consciously down to the Nuremberg marches, which are staged in Pyongyang to this day.”

One imagines that the definition of Communism we are expected to embrace today is that brand of socialism now practiced by China. Although the hyper-capitalism espoused by Beijing’s leaders would hardly have been recognizable to even the reformer who set the People’s Republic down its path of revitalization, Deng Xiaoping.

North Korea is not a perversion of Marxist Communism. It is the warped form that a nation that has the misfortune to embrace that corrupted system ultimately develops.

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Scruffy

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I would love to visit NK just to witness the insanity.

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Facinating, bizarre place whose head of state is worshipped as an unquestionable diety. For the average citizen maybe the poorest, most regimented country in the world. Assuming someday they freely connect with the outside world, the culture shock will be enormous. Would be a neat place to visit before they modernise if that ever happens.