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[happygirl]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6951629397402742053&q=north+korea+children

this is a discovery channel video about the children of n korea. as i am writing this i am debating whether to even post this topic. do not watch this is you want to sleep undisturbed tonight.

it is almost 45 minutes long. please if you are going to click on the link allow yourself time to view the entire show.

i feel so powerless. shocked. saddened. i am aware that some will slam me for expressing - attempting to express - my sadness. over the last week i have read more about the north than before. i have blown off the doom sayers and the flamers. this video makes me reconsider all i've thought this week.

to have been laughing over RaceTraitor's post just an hour or so ago.....

[gang ah jee]

Wow, so flagwaver made your day, then North Korea ruined it shortly afterwards. It is the curse of the story, I tell you.

And what did racetraitor say that had you laughing?

[happygirl]

whoops. meant flagwaver.

[FlagWaver]

I will never post anything controversial or even remotely funny again. I'll just try to fly under the radar from now on.

[ChuckECheese]

[Juregen]

The firsts oens to suffer any malaise are always the young or the old.

[happygirl]

this is the most serious post i've written. you will NOT hijack this one.

[Corky]

*sorry I was drunk and thought I was on another thread*

[huffdaddy]

[Imbroglio]

OP

Can't watch it again, once is enough to make you want to find some way to support those kids and give them a place to live isn't it? I don't think there are any Korean aid agencies that can help them either (I may be wrong on this). It would be a wonderful feeling if we could donate some money and know for sure that kids like the ones in those videos would eat, sleep and have a decent education and a future with it because they need help just as much as any other starving kid in this world.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Relatedly, did anyone catch the North Korea documentary (by non-Korean filmmakers) that was aired on EBS a few months ago? The Korean title was Friends of Kim. The meat of the docu was a Venezualan (I think; don't kill me if he's Columbian or Peruvian or something) guy named Alejandro, who's a sympathizer for the DPRK, taking a bunch of foreigners across zee border on a propaganda trip. Problem is, half the tourists, including the documentary's director, are against the North's regime and lied to get on the tour. Damned if I know how, but an American journalist even got to go (his story makes up the conflict of the docu when he returns to his hotel room to find his computer disks missing and his laptop smashed to pieces).

Really, this is a fantastic documentary: both the funniest and most serious I've seen since the sublime Grizzly Man (and if you haven't seen that, get thee to ye illegale download programme).

I've been bigging up this documentary for many moons; surely someone else has seen it?

Edit: http://www.filmstransit.com/friends_of_kim.html

[canuckistan]

Useful to be reminded of the misery that 1 megalomaniac can wreak on millions of people. Kudos to the people who are risking their lives every day to expose him for the twisted SOB that he is.

[Satori]

If I get married, or should I say "when", cause it's looking fairly solid right now, I would like to adopt a North Korean child who is in trouble. Would that be possible?

[Yo!Chingo]

[R-Seoul]

Whilst it is undoubtedly disturbing seeing young & innocent children suffering, this is in no way a problem exclusive to North Korea.

Go to the worlds largest democracy; India and you will find the same thing in every city.