The Official North Korea Thread (DPRK)

[stryfe]

when is candy not candy?

[ocd]

Kim Jong Il is breeding a super race of tall, diabetic geniuses.

[slackerbot]

the first time i read the story, i thought it said..

".. nutritional candy made of seaweed, beans, carrots and sesame seeds, AND newspaper.."

and then i was thinking of that Simpsons episode, the one with the Power Sauce bars.

".. those bars are made of apple cores and old Chinese newspapers.."

[stinky]

Originally posted by slackerbot
the first time i read the story, i thought it said..

".. nutritional candy made of seaweed, beans, carrots and sesame seeds, AND newspaper.."

and then i was thinking of that Simpsons episode, the one with the Power Sauce bars.

".. those bars are made of apple cores and old Chinese newspapers.."

hahahah i totally forgot about that simpsons. i wonder in kim jong il has seen team america.

[ocd]

Originally posted by puppy fields
when there is no sugar in it?

See kids, this is what happens when ocd doesn't read the whole article!

[stinky]

so are you saying he saw it?

[tangent23]

heard this on the radio [we get NPR's 'All Things Considered' here on our national station]..

interview with a reporter from LA Times who spent time in NK..

her article [with videos]:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...home-headlines

Glimpses of a Hermit Nation

A decade after a massive famine, North Koreans are still struggling. In Chongjin, deprivation spurs change. First of two parts

By Barbara Demick, Times Staff Writer

His day begins at 4:30 a.m. The 64-year-old retired math teacher doesn't own a clock or even a watch, but the internal alarm that has kept him alive while so many of his fellow North Koreans have starved to death tells him he had better get out to pick grass if his family is to survive.

Soon the streets of his city, Chongjin, will be swarming with others doing the same. Some cook the grass to eat. The teacher feeds it to the rabbits his family sells at the market.

At 10 a.m., he eats a modest meal of corn porridge. A late breakfast is best as it allows him and his wife to skip lunch. Then he goes with a hand cart to collect firewood. He has to walk two hours from Chongjin, mostly uphill, to find a patch that has not been stripped bare of vegetation.

"There is no time for rest. If you stand still, you will not survive," said the teacher, a lean, soft-spoken man with salt-and-pepper hair who could be described as elegant if not for his threadbare trousers and his fingernails, as gnarled as oyster shells from chronic malnutrition.

Later, if it is one of the rare evenings when there is electricity, he might indulge in reading Tolstoy. More often than not, he collapses for a few hours of sleep before the routine is replayed for yet another day.

Such is the quest for survival in North Korea, an impoverished country that is the most closed in the world.
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[ocd]

Oh man, T23, that was one of the saddest things I ever read. It's been said before, and will be again, but the North Korean people are fucked.

[atomicscissors]

Yeah, I read the article on Sunday. I could not help but tear up. Especially the part about the little girl who was "pretty as a doll, with black eyes and long lashes" who eventually died (they assumed) of starvation.

It isn't right.

[stryfe]

human rights watch

how does the south view these reports?

[ocd]

Don't know if this has been posted before, but Kim Jong Il's bodyguards are fucking INSANE.

http://www.alldumb.com/item/12395/

[atomicscissors]

Originally posted by ocd
Don't know if this has been posted before, but Kim Jong Il's bodyguards are fucking INSANE.

http://www.alldumb.com/item/12395/

I saw some of this on the History Channel, Discovery, or something. Yeah, they've all got real ultimate power.

I also heard Kim is a crack shot with a pistol himself. Though, it could be commie propaganda bullshit.

[35ft6]

Even the red paint of the propaganda billboards — "We are happy," and "We have nothing to envy," read two of the slogans — has faded in the sun.

That is so strange. It's like something out of a movie, these billboard messages/proclamations/orders are so out of touch.

This article sucks. It's really pissing me off. Still 4 pages to go...

[kamenriderv3]

Originally posted by ocd
Don't know if this has been posted before, but Kim Jong Il's bodyguards are fucking INSANE.

http://www.alldumb.com/item/12395/

every communist country should put their stadium shows on dvd and sell them to the rest of the world.

[herrokitty]

Too hot for the DPRK part IV