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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
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 Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:31 pm Post subject: North Koreans punished for lack of lachrymosity |
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http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-reportedly-punishing-insincere-mourners.html
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North Korean authorities are punishing mourners who failed to exhibit sincere sadness and despair after the death of Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17, the Daily NK reported Wednesday.
The online North Korean newspaper, which is published by opponents of the governing regime, said a source in North Hamkyung Province revealed the information. The source told the paper �authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn�t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn�t cry and didn�t seem genuine,� according to the Daily NK.
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In similar news, South Korean "gag" men and women have reportedly been blacklisted from TV shows for failing to guffaw convincingly enough at their own anecdotes and hilariously bad dance moves. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| how many people here just googled 'lachrymosity'? |
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jfromtheway
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
| how many people here just googled 'lachrymosity'? |
Psh, everybody knows that word, dude.
Funny stuff. But I'm going to side with the regime on this one. You have to respect the dictator in a dictatorship, bottom line. |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| What a strange thing. Don't they know people mourn differently? Then again it is North Korea. |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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The source for the story is laughably slanted, as their expressed mission is "the democratization of North Korea".
Yahoo picking up this crap and presenting it as news is equally humorous.
Especially in light of the fact that it's only supposed to be the North who misinforms its citizens. |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| China daily reported that some Chinese businessmen were kicked off a train and roughed up a little for not showing the proper amount of grief. |
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12ax7
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| rollo wrote: |
| China daily reported that some Chinese businessmen were kicked off a train and roughed up a little for not showing the proper amount of grief. |
I believe it. It's all part of the sick game of one-upmanship these terrified and desperate people were playing.
I'd be chucking businessmen off a train too if there were government informants everywhere and I knew I'd end up in the gulags if I didn't. |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| 12ax7 wrote: |
| rollo wrote: |
| China daily reported that some Chinese businessmen were kicked off a train and roughed up a little for not showing the proper amount of grief. |
I believe it. It's all part of the sick game of one-upmanship these terrified and desperate people were playing.
I'd be chucking businessmen off a train too if there were government informants everywhere and I knew I'd end up in the gulags if I didn't. |
Maybe you should subscribe to both the quoted sources and believe everything written on their pages.
I know people who've visited the North and come back saying it isn't all terrified, desperate people, and that it was puzzling that so many of the stereotypes just didn't hold up...can't imagine why...we used to believe all Japanese males wore thick spectacles and had buck teeth, and as most of us hadn't been to Japan in the 1940's, we believed in those stereotypes as welll... |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Stout wrote: |
| 12ax7 wrote: |
| rollo wrote: |
| China daily reported that some Chinese businessmen were kicked off a train and roughed up a little for not showing the proper amount of grief. |
I believe it. It's all part of the sick game of one-upmanship these terrified and desperate people were playing.
I'd be chucking businessmen off a train too if there were government informants everywhere and I knew I'd end up in the gulags if I didn't. |
Maybe you should subscribe to both the quoted sources and believe everything written on their pages.
I know people who've visited the North and come back saying it isn't all terrified, desperate people, and that it was puzzling that so many of the stereotypes just didn't hold up...can't imagine why...we used to believe all Japanese males wore thick spectacles and had buck teeth, and as most of us hadn't been to Japan in the 1940's, we believed in those stereotypes as welll... |
How much access where they given? Not much, I would imagine. They were most probably given a foreigner-friendly tour. They definitely didn't visit the northern provinces if that's the impression they had. |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| 12ax7 wrote: |
| Stout wrote: |
| 12ax7 wrote: |
| rollo wrote: |
| China daily reported that some Chinese businessmen were kicked off a train and roughed up a little for not showing the proper amount of grief. |
I believe it. It's all part of the sick game of one-upmanship these terrified and desperate people were playing.
I'd be chucking businessmen off a train too if there were government informants everywhere and I knew I'd end up in the gulags if I didn't. |
Maybe you should subscribe to both the quoted sources and believe everything written on their pages.
I know people who've visited the North and come back saying it isn't all terrified, desperate people, and that it was puzzling that so many of the stereotypes just didn't hold up...can't imagine why...we used to believe all Japanese males wore thick spectacles and had buck teeth, and as most of us hadn't been to Japan in the 1940's, we believed in those stereotypes as welll... |
How much access where they given? Not much, I would imagine. They were most probably given a foreigner-friendly tour. They definitely didn't visit the northern provinces if that's the impression they had. |
No doubt there are some harsh things going down there, just as we got non-tourable ghettos in the states.
Basically it comes down to these articles being thrown up on websites as part of a campaign to lay the ground for future operations, same as with Iraq.
Then after hundreds of thousands of people have been blown to bits/dispossessed/savaged/damaged etc we find out it was about geo-political and corporate interests, as usual (and Iraq shows the profits don't go to the general public; on the contrary, taxpayers shouldered the costs and got stuck with increased inflation, no jobs, and a crap economy, while the privileged lined their pockets and snickered at our naivety).
Yet strangely enough people keep getting suckered into believing the same sort of rhetoric time and again. U want to keep getting fooled and lied to, u want to be complicit with a lot of unnecessary suffering, go ahead, u only putting yourself and others deeper in the hole, where u can be easily manipulated for the next go round. They only try so hard with the silly stories because they know they can't continue to get away with it without our compliance. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| Stout wrote: |
| 12ax7 wrote: |
| Stout wrote: |
| 12ax7 wrote: |
| rollo wrote: |
| China daily reported that some Chinese businessmen were kicked off a train and roughed up a little for not showing the proper amount of grief. |
I believe it. It's all part of the sick game of one-upmanship these terrified and desperate people were playing.
I'd be chucking businessmen off a train too if there were government informants everywhere and I knew I'd end up in the gulags if I didn't. |
Maybe you should subscribe to both the quoted sources and believe everything written on their pages.
I know people who've visited the North and come back saying it isn't all terrified, desperate people, and that it was puzzling that so many of the stereotypes just didn't hold up...can't imagine why...we used to believe all Japanese males wore thick spectacles and had buck teeth, and as most of us hadn't been to Japan in the 1940's, we believed in those stereotypes as welll... |
How much access where they given? Not much, I would imagine. They were most probably given a foreigner-friendly tour. They definitely didn't visit the northern provinces if that's the impression they had. |
No doubt there are some harsh things going down there, just as we got non-tourable ghettos in the states.
Basically it comes down to these articles being thrown up on websites as part of a campaign to lay the ground for future operations, same as with Iraq.
Then after hundreds of thousands of people have been blown to bits/dispossessed/savaged/damaged etc we find out it was about geo-political and corporate interests, as usual (and Iraq shows the profits don't go to the general public; on the contrary, taxpayers shouldered the costs and got stuck with increased inflation, no jobs, and a crap economy, while the privileged lined their pockets and snickered at our naivety).
Yet strangely enough people keep getting suckered into believing the same sort of rhetoric time and again. U want to keep getting fooled and lied to, u want to be complicit with a lot of unnecessary suffering, go ahead, u only putting yourself and others deeper in the hole, where u can be easily manipulated for the next go round. They only try so hard with the silly stories because they know they can't continue to get away with it without our compliance. |
I don't know about that. If they really wanted to invade North Korea, they would have already done so. It's not as if they never had a pretext to do so. There was the Second Korean War, the Pueblo incident, the Blue House raid, the kidnapping of South Koreans in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, the submarine incursions of the late 90's, and the many terrorist attacks that they've conducted against South Koreans (here and abroad) over the years (most recently the attack on Yeongpyeong Island). |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| 12ax7 wrote: |
| Stout wrote: |
| 12ax7 wrote: |
| Stout wrote: |
| 12ax7 wrote: |
| rollo wrote: |
| China daily reported that some Chinese businessmen were kicked off a train and roughed up a little for not showing the proper amount of grief. |
I believe it. It's all part of the sick game of one-upmanship these terrified and desperate people were playing.
I'd be chucking businessmen off a train too if there were government informants everywhere and I knew I'd end up in the gulags if I didn't. |
Maybe you should subscribe to both the quoted sources and believe everything written on their pages.
I know people who've visited the North and come back saying it isn't all terrified, desperate people, and that it was puzzling that so many of the stereotypes just didn't hold up...can't imagine why...we used to believe all Japanese males wore thick spectacles and had buck teeth, and as most of us hadn't been to Japan in the 1940's, we believed in those stereotypes as welll... |
How much access where they given? Not much, I would imagine. They were most probably given a foreigner-friendly tour. They definitely didn't visit the northern provinces if that's the impression they had. |
No doubt there are some harsh things going down there, just as we got non-tourable ghettos in the states.
Basically it comes down to these articles being thrown up on websites as part of a campaign to lay the ground for future operations, same as with Iraq.
Then after hundreds of thousands of people have been blown to bits/dispossessed/savaged/damaged etc we find out it was about geo-political and corporate interests, as usual (and Iraq shows the profits don't go to the general public; on the contrary, taxpayers shouldered the costs and got stuck with increased inflation, no jobs, and a crap economy, while the privileged lined their pockets and snickered at our naivety).
Yet strangely enough people keep getting suckered into believing the same sort of rhetoric time and again. U want to keep getting fooled and lied to, u want to be complicit with a lot of unnecessary suffering, go ahead, u only putting yourself and others deeper in the hole, where u can be easily manipulated for the next go round. They only try so hard with the silly stories because they know they can't continue to get away with it without our compliance. |
I don't know about that. If they really wanted to invade North Korea, they would have already done so. It's not as if they never had a pretext to do so. There was the Second Korean War, the Pueblo incident, the Blue House raid, the kidnapping of South Koreans in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, the submarine incursions of the late 90's, and the many terrorist attacks that they've conducted against South Koreans (here and abroad) over the years (most recently the attack on Yeongpyeong Island). |
Well if u haven't noticed the US military has been pretty occupied around the globe with numerous other "projects", as a lot of other groups have also been reacting angrily to US foreign policy. |
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Carbon
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