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It's hosed up, true, but that's the price you pay if you want unicorns in your country: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/30/unicorn-lair-discovered-north-korea
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I blame north korea for the time I thought I was buying beef ribs at costco, and it ended up being that thinly sliced stuff.
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Gazpacho posted:- BBC has also had a racist hate boner for the DPRK for 20 years where they send in mediocre reporters to sling innuendos that everything is "fake." In 2016 officials finally had enough and detained a guy until he apologized. Long time coming imo. Yeah if a reporter says something you don't like, just lock em up until they make a public confession! Go DPRK! 
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Bracing for a flood of C-SPAM posters unironically declaring that NK is actually cool and good and it'd be a really nice place to move to.
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member that time the kid stole a poster from north korea cause he was tryna get some pussy and then they caught him trying to steal the poster and beat him braindead in a gulag and then shipped him back like 2 days before he died and were all like "uuuhhh he was like that when we got here" lol
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SamDabbers posted:Does the average citizen have any opportunity for joy or happiness? Is it all fear and stress all the time? I don’t know if I saw average citizens. I saw normal factory workers, and entertainers. All these people seemed like they had relatively comfortable lives. The factory workers were short meaning food might not have always been available but they were cute and very cheerful, doing some group site seeing in China and it seemed to be sponsored by their employer. You have to remember that these girls were only normal up to the point that they were allowed to leave the country which itself isn’t normal. The entertainers were at a restaurant and despite being very sharp and professional at least one of them noticeably frowned when she saw me and realized I was American. I am told these girls are from some of the best arts programs in North Korea. They seemed reasonably happy but I don’t think they represent normal Koreans. I saw farm workers through the fence and they looked pretty miserable but people tending fields usually do. I should also mention this is before things got as sour as they are now. As for neighbors I don’t know. Nobody ever talked to me about that stuff and the people I’ve met may not have even had that sort of social access to normal people. Internet Old One fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jul 2, 2022 |
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Nooner posted:member that time the kid stole a poster from north korea cause he was tryna get some pussy and then they caught him trying to steal the poster and beat him braindead in a gulag and then shipped him back like 2 days before he died and were all like "uuuhhh he was like that when we got here" lol His hometown didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did. Also his last name was warmbeer or something said like that. Extremely funny circumstances.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Bracing for a flood of C-SPAM posters unironically declaring that NK is actually cool and good and it'd be a really nice place to move to. Does a huge dnd post/thread about anti-imperialism count? R. Guyovich posted:
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Jul 2, 2022 19:09
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Do people live in the DMZ? Mesokoreans? I'd imagine women can live in no-man's land no problem.
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At least it's not canada
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When are they going to host an Olympic games?
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Icochet posted:What are their favorite pizza toppings? Not sure but I doubt most North Koreans get a chance to eat much pizza.
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Jul 2, 2022 19:18
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I remember some documentary where the police would kill the power to a building and then go room-by-room checking VCRs for western films and such.
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every now and then i remember that homex moved to the PRC to be a token white guy at a chinese corporation after that whole vice gig in brooklyn didn't fall through and that he had his luxury car shipped across the pacific to the PRC and have a hearty lol
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Internet Old One posted:Not sure but I doubt most North Koreans get a chance to eat much pizza. Haven't they been receiving foreign food aid for ages? Have we been sending just flour and poo poo? Let's make next month's delivery special.
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And not pizzas of our choosing. Send in commandos to take orders
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Does North Korea have it's own version of KPOP that's even more super depressing and sad?
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sigher posted:Does North Korea have it's own version of KPOP that's even more super depressing and sad? Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Jul 3, 2022 |
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Jul 2, 2022 20:39
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idk someone told me it was based im inclined to believe them
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Ape Fist posted:idk someone told me it was based im inclined to believe them Doesn't that just mean they are super racist? Which i guess checks out
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EorayMel posted:Someone called Otto Warmbier went to North Korea, stole a sign, got arrested, and died in a labor camp
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Really Some cspam broke brain goon is going to post Well AKTSHULLY about North Korea? The US being an absolute evil empire does not mean other places aren't turbofucked worse for the vast majority of its citizens
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That dude I replied to already is. It's apparently good to have a state intimidating journalists at will with their well documented system of kidnap and torture, as long as they don't actually torture them and just let them go after a lil scare and gunpoint confession.
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EorayMel posted:Someone called Otto Warmbier went to North Korea, stole a sign, got arrested, and died in a labor camp ya I dunno if 'died in a labor camp' fits the description of his death so much as 'beat into terminal coma after torture sessions' does.
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Spinz posted:The US being an absolute evil empire does not mean other places aren't turbofucked worse for the vast majority of its citizens You see broke brains who emotionally connect to the idea of resistance narrative that they see things in black and white and things that disrupt that narrative is emotionally painful. Just look at the tankies who are defending Russia. North Korea has been abused by the United States and western nations. But we're not the ones forcing a totalitarian dictatorship hellscape on them. South Korea is fairly independent and a powerful regional state at this point. The Kim family and their enablers are doing that all themselves.
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Went to a conference where a North Korean defector talked about life in NK, his detention as a political prisoner in one of those work camps they have, his escape and his life after NK. It was really hosed up
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Archer666 posted:Went to a conference where a North Korean defector talked about life in NK, his detention as a political prisoner in one of those work camps they have, his escape and his life after NK. It was really hosed up Could you give some anecdotes?
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rip to the greatest golf player that ever lived
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Mooey Cow posted:Doesn't that just mean they are super racist? Which i guess checks out *nods slowly*
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Magic Johnson
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Could you give some anecdotes? It was like 7 years ago so not a whole lot of stuck unfortunately. When he was staying at a camp he saw naked, severly malnourished children roaming the court yard as people are forced to do backbreaking manual labour until they pass out, and then they're just taken off to the side and beaten severely. Those kids were born in the camps but had no (identifiable) parents or names. Also the guards treating the prisoners as subhuman, raping and torturing the prisoners whenever they felt like it. I don't recall but the guy stayed there temporary before getting released, but the experience had convinced him that he had to escape. Until then he didn't really feel that there was anything wrong, he had some low level government job but he was surviving well enough. Not certain if he talked about this or my brains reaching for articles I read about this, but I think he said that people there aren't really aware of the really heinous poo poo like those camps or know just how hosed up their country is in general. They know that NK is different, but aside from that vague feeling and the occasional news that comes from South Korean leaflets and pirate transmissions, they're just ordinary people living their life in a very un-ordinary country.
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This is the thread that reminds me that whenever someone demands anti-imperialist action it is really a bitch session against American hegemony.
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PureEvil6_13 posted:Kim Yo Jong is kind of cute, I have a thing for fiveheads Username checks out, enjoy your juche thot. Mooey Cow posted:Doesn't that just mean they are super racist? Which i guess checks out Amazingly so, which explains why a certain segment of the online right feels a kinship.
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Budzilla posted:This is the thread that reminds me that whenever someone demands anti-imperialist action it is really a bitch session against American hegemony. It reminded me that D&D is serving as the containment zone it was always meant to be. 
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Yeah its p messed up, but its gonna be funny if it outlasts the us of a.
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Beard Dandruff posted:Yeah its p messed up, but its gonna be funny if it outlasts the us of a. it will lol
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Archer666 posted:Went to a conference where a North Korean defector talked about life in NK, his detention as a political prisoner in one of those work camps they have, his escape and his life after NK. It was really hosed up Like hosed up in a good way 'hosed up' or hosed up like they wouldn't bring you extra towels after 3pm when you called the desk 'hosed up'?
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Gazpacho posted:the documentary "Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul" (made by a Korean-American communist) explains how defector narratives are chosen for political ends. Gazpacho posted:Nothing hurt but his pride. Maybe he should have tried doing good journalism & not being an orientalist jerk gently caress off, idiot.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Bracing for a flood of C-SPAM posters unironically declaring that NK is actually cool and good and it'd be a really nice place to move to. I saw this the one time I looked at CSPAM. God they loving suck, like LF but not even trying to be funny. Somebody posted pictures of people in Pyongyang having a good time during a public holiday of some kind, and people used this as proof that North Korea is a functioning and not at all totalitarian society and anything that says otherwise is Yankee propaganda.
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