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Radius
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 Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:20 am Post subject: An Inside Video-Look at North Korea...Bizarre |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6E3cShcVU
Its eerie. There are all these monuments and museum-type buildings that get a few visitors each week. The people filming never encounter any other visitors everywhere they go. Two, 45-story hotel that only has 20 guests per night but has a full staff of workers employed tending to them. A traffic lady standing in the middle of the street directing traffic that doesn't exist..its a ghost town. It really opened my eyes on how completely and utterly messed up N. Korea is. Basically, Kim Jong il is god, and the sheeple are half embracing it and half brainwashed. its an hour long, but i gaurantee if you watch the first ten minutes you'll watch it all. God help the people of north Korea, and if I was born in S. Korea I would get on my hands and knees and thank God every day I wasnt born a few km/s north. |
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AmericanBornKorean
Joined: 08 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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Yup. It's terrible there. Hand it to North Korea for being able to starve most of their population while still holding onto power.
It's pitiful and they should be overthrown. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| AmericanBornKorean wrote: |
It's pitiful and they should be overthrown. |
That moment must surely be getting closer. china has made it clear they would approve of a unified Korea led by the south. |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:18 am Post subject: |
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well i just watched 10 of the 14 videos. Its just so fascinating to me on how weird they are. All of these buildings and pomp for...nothing! No one practically visits them and they are all just for show---even teh banquet room that one guy eats at, the ladies set all of the tables with old food, maybe twenty other tables, noone else comes in and eats, and then as he leaves they start clearing the food away. What?!!
Its like one of the dreams in the movie Inception. Kim Jong Il created all of these things but they aren't real. The people are the closest things to robots I've ever seen, its almost as if they are all heavily drugged.
Its so odd, does anyone know why no one visits these municipal palaces and the streets are empty? What's the deal with that? |
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sheriffadam
Joined: 10 May 2010
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Radius wrote: |
Its so odd, does anyone know why no one visits these municipal palaces and the streets are empty? What's the deal with that? |
Well they're a bit busy either starving, working 12 hour shifts in the textile factory, or locked away in schools to be out hanging around with mates at starbucks taking pictures on their iphones to post on their facebook when they get home...  |
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Globutron
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Incredible footage. Madness.
Here's another one with a British woman who is more open to her actual feelings in front of the Norks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyw9eqkPjU
'But I believe he's (Kim il sung) is dead'
'yes, he passed away 16 years ago'
'so you think he is a god, immortal?
'yes, he is an immortal person and eternal father of our people, we don't think he passed away'
She managed to get in *after* the cheonan sinking event... Pretty impressive.
Actually I prefer this one. It's more informative and she's much more courageous with her bluntness and openness to the inferior nation. |
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metalhead
Joined: 18 May 2010
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
Incredible footage. Madness.
Here's another one with a British woman who is more open to her actual feelings in front of the Norks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyw9eqkPjU
'But I believe he's (Kim il sung) is dead'
'yes, he passed away 16 years ago'
'so you think he is a god, immortal?
'yes, he is an immortal person and eternal father of our people, we don't think he passed away'
She managed to get in *after* the cheonan sinking event... Pretty impressive.
Actually I prefer this one. It's more informative and she's much more courageous with her bluntness and openness to the inferior nation. |
yea she did pin them to the wall with that UN donated tractor question at the end. Good vid. |
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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:50 am Post subject: |
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what, like AMerica is not starving and raping its citizens? give me a break!
its all the same one way or another.
American free world?? yeah right.............. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| Koreadays wrote: |
what, like AMerica is not starving and raping its citizens? give me a break!
its all the same one way or another.
American free world?? yeah right.............. |
If you are trying to compare N.Korea to America, lol....nevermind, it's too easy. |
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thrylos
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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I've asked this before, and I'll ask it again, especially after watching the Vice and BBC videos-- how is Chosun and Hankook really all that different? 6 in one hand, 1/2 dozen in the other  |
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machoman
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:32 am Post subject: |
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nice vid (the one OP posted.) i want to see a typical north koreans life though. like, are there even restaurants? convenience stores? movie theaters? i'm unclear still about how they live. why do some people have cars? are they stuck in their homes all day?
there's a subway station, i was surprised to see that for some reason. i hear there's internet there but only a few people use it.
i saw the documentary with lisa ling in it and that was pretty good too. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| i hear there's internet there but only a few people use it. |
As the video I posted explains, they have a closed off intranet service, that Kim Jong Il has made, full of everything he thinks they need to know and nothing more. |
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sheriffadam
Joined: 10 May 2010
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| machoman wrote: |
nice vid (the one OP posted.) i want to see a typical north koreans life though. like, are there even restaurants? convenience stores? movie theaters? i'm unclear still about how they live. why do some people have cars? are they stuck in their homes all day?
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illegal, but now accepted by the government night markets with goods smuggled in from China, they might have a few cans of coke pirate dvds rolling around I guess? Nothing flash! As for cars, very bizarre indeed, unless they're just stooges! |
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