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Gorilla Salad posted:Is there an actual picture of the poster this twit tried to steal? I must have missed it in all the ballyhoo. North Korea showed it on CCTV footage of him taking it during his trial.  "Let's arm ourselves strongly with Kim Jong-il patriotism!" Kim Jong-il is blocked out because he's the Tetragrammaton of North Korea. So yes, he could have stolen much more interesting posters, and North Korea probably got extra-pissed because he stole a poster with The Holy Name on it. And yes, he pretty clearly did it, most likely while drunk since it happened on New Year's. Surprisingly, a police state puts cameras in hotels full of foreigners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrqxDTUjbTQ Lum_ fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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I wonder if it would have been as big a deal if it wasn't a depiction of KJI. The real question is, what kind of prison can contain that mysterious shadow creature?
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Mar 18, 2016 20:35
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Halloween Jack posted:I wonder if it would have been as big a deal if it wasn't a depiction of KJI. North Korea would still have taken the opportunity to arrest an American for leverage, probably, but given that people have been arrested for disposing of newspapers with one of the Holy Trinity's pictures incorrectly, yes, that upped the stakes.
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Mar 18, 2016 20:37
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Of all the posters to steal, you pick the loving huge one with a stiff back so you can't roll it up, and it doesn't even have any cool art on it? 
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Mar 18, 2016 20:39
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Well yeah he's a (drunk) dumbass but that choice is still disappointing considering they have masterpieces like these: .jpg)
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Mar 18, 2016 20:48
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I was also thinking that, yes, the art is far less interesting than some of the translated posters you can see around the Internet, with retro Soviet style and legends proclaiming One Thousand Times Revenge Against The Yankee Vampire.
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Mar 18, 2016 20:51
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my favourite is the one with the sweaty North Korean and Caucasian men in leotards wrestling it up
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HUGE RED GIANT WILL SMASH MAP OF ASIA MARKED "US"
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Mar 18, 2016 20:58
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And here's a ton of pics from someone who snuck into the same floor that Genius Shadowman Prisoner stole the poster from - it's an unmarked floor reserved for use by the North Korean employees, who get tons of wacky propaganda to help immunize them from being so close to evil all day. http://monsoondiaries.com/2011/08/23/piso-cinco/
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Mar 18, 2016 21:01
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Lum_ posted:And here's a ton of pics from someone who snuck into the same floor that Genius Shadowman Prisoner stole the poster from - it's an unmarked floor reserved for use by the North Korean employees, who get tons of wacky propaganda to help immunize them from being so close to evil all day. It's a miracle that it took this long for one of these idiots to get arrested
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Mar 18, 2016 21:06
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I think that kids sentence is way too harsh 10 years would have probably been fine, or maybe a public beating. Any 20 year old should be more than able to understand 'North Korea is absolutely not loving around'.
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Mar 19, 2016 00:18
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Full Battle Rattle posted:I think that kids sentence is way too harsh Full Battle Rattle posted:10 years would have probably been fine, or maybe a public beating. Any 20 year old should be more than able to understand 'North Korea is absolutely not loving around'. They might even consider going somewhere else to wank off their ego. Like Syria. Or Afghanistan. Or the southern half of Somalia. But that's mostly wishful thinking.
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Mar 19, 2016 04:45
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WarpedNaba posted:You seem to be under the impression that North Korea is a rational state governed by the rule of law, with an eye towards proportional punishment. It is not. I think he was responding to the people who keep acting like a 21-year-old somehow deserves 15 years of hard labor (with the possibility of it being a death sentence depending on how bad they want to keep him as a bargaining chip) for making a drunk mistake.
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Mar 19, 2016 06:00
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A drunk mistake? I'm fairly certain he bought the ticket and made the arrangements while sober. Possibly.
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Mar 19, 2016 06:17
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If a North Korean citizen had been caught doing this he'd face far worse than this guy is going to get. He's getting off light.
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Mar 19, 2016 06:27
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Cliff Racer posted:If a North Korean citizen had been caught doing this he'd face far worse than this guy is going to get. He's getting off light. Three generations of their family in a gulag. I have to wonder, is there a group of people that just haven't heard what North Korea is like, or is it just hubris blinding people when they look around for poverty tourism spots?
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WarpedNaba posted:A drunk mistake? I'm fairly certain he bought the ticket and made the arrangements while sober. Possibly. And I'm totally sure he was also stone cold sober when he decided that robbing a poster would be a good idea.
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Mar 19, 2016 06:55
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chitoryu12 posted:And I'm totally sure he was also stone cold sober when he decided that robbing a poster would be a good idea. You know, plenty of people go to North Korea (or live there permanently,) get drunk and don't end up arrested.
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Cliff Racer posted:You know, plenty of people go to North Korea (or live there permanently,) get drunk and don't end up arrested. Yeah, but they tend to be there on actual business. Like, say, that French guy who got sent down to oversee an animation studio.
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Mar 19, 2016 07:06
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Given the prevalence of Meth in Korea, it makes sense that he was all kinds of hosed up.
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Mar 19, 2016 07:28
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ocrumsprug posted:I have to wonder, is there a group of people that just haven't heard what North Korea is like, or is it just hubris blinding people when they look around for poverty tourism spots? They know exactly what North Korea is like and that's the entire reason they decide to go there.
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WarpedNaba posted:You seem to be under the impression that North Korea is a rational state governed by the rule of law, with an eye towards proportional punishment. It is not. I was being glib, actually
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ocrumsprug posted:Three generations of their family in a gulag. North Korea made millions off insurance fraud in part because: quote:"All these companies learned a lesson," said an expert on the British insurance industry who is familiar with the helicopter case. "Never agree to have disputes decided in a North Korea court and never reinsure KNIC."
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/03/22/North-Korea-troops-fighting-in-Syrian-civil-war-delegate-says/1021458696828/ North Korea supposedly fielding units in the Syrian clusterfuck.
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Uncle Jam posted:http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/03/22/North-Korea-troops-fighting-in-Syrian-civil-war-delegate-says/1021458696828/
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Discendo Vox posted:I don't believe it. How would they even get there? North Korea has planes, believe it or not. And ships! More to the point: when you become a brutal asshat dictator, is there some kind of agreement you make to have the back of every other murderous, lovely waste of flesh on the planet?
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Mar 23, 2016 22:52
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No, but you need some kind of alliance and they have one important factor in common, namely hating the West. It's kind of like how the unpopular kids in school often end up gravitating towards each other.
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Mar 23, 2016 22:56
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Syria has also paid North Korea much-needed hard currency for missile and nuclear tech - the reactor the Israelis bombed in 2007 was North Korean-designed and probably staffed as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard
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Discendo Vox posted:I don't believe it. How would they even get there? They have quite a few connections to the middle east. quote:However, this would not be the first time North Korea has supplied weapons to the Palestinian militant group. Back in 2009, a North Korean cargo plane made an emergency landing in Bangkok. Upon inspection, it was found carrying roughly 35 tons of arms believed to be destined to Gaza by way of Tehran. The plane was reportedly carrying, “rocket-propelled grenades, missile and rocket launchers, missile tubes, surface-to-air missile launchers, spare parts and other heavy weapons.” They also do a lot of tunnel engineering for them as stated above. All that said, I'm not 100% convinced (you can't be for anything about the dprk) but there are multiple sources, so.
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My apologies, I didn't know NK had a genuinely functional international transport structure-nor that they were a conduit for so much suffering worldwide. Is NK the source of these arms/etc, or are they a proxy for Chinese or other interests?
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PT6A posted:North Korea has planes, believe it or not. And ships! There was a great little ad with Mugabe (I think) reminiscing over happier days with now-departed dictators, like pushing Saddam on a swing. Google is failing me and I can't remember who ran it or why. 
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GreyjoyBastard posted:There was a great little ad with Mugabe (I think) reminiscing over happier days with now-departed dictators, like pushing Saddam on a swing. Nando's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6_qlRWw4Ec
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Mar 24, 2016 06:17
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That may possibly be the only combat action the Norks have had in decades. Gotta get experience somewhere, I guess.
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Mar 24, 2016 07:36
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If they're the same quality as NK's national football team, they're in for a bad time in Syria.
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Mar 24, 2016 07:59
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With the added bonus that they won't need to head back to Korea to be shot in the back of the head when they lose.
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Phlegmish posted:If they're the same quality as NK's national football team, they're in for a bad time in Syria. Do you mean soccer or American football? Because while I can see them having soccer teams, there must be some kind story behind forming an American football team. Edit: I just realized that it would probably involve the various American POWs and prisoners they've taken over the years. 
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Mar 24, 2016 11:10
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What you would call soccer, yes. They participated in the World Cup a few years ago and lost by something like 10-0 to Brazil. I really felt bad for them.
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Phlegmish posted:What you would call soccer, yes. They participated in the World Cup a few years ago and lost by something like 10-0 to Brazil. I really felt bad for them. I'd laugh about it, but that soccer team probably bought their families a trip to the gulag with that loss
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I'd like to see a NK rugby team, but that would lead to a brutal slaughter. A literal one. Like, worse than the Panmunjom axe murders.
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Phlegmish posted:What you would call soccer, yes. They participated in the World Cup a few years ago and lost by something like 10-0 to Brazil. I really felt bad for them. ...Err, not quite. It was 2-1 for Brazil in the 2010 World Cup. It was the Portuguese who turned over the North Koreans 7-0, but honestly their side isn't terrible. Thus far they are on top of their group in Asian World Cup qualifiers with one game to go. Probably among the 10 top sides in the AFC, albeit in the bottom of that list.
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