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- YME1280, on 05/07/2009, -1/+57I can see it now... his guards hiding inside bushes in the rough, throwing golf balls onto the green. What an *****.
- Wheelingdude86, on 05/07/2009, -3/+43I wanna see a cribs episode with Kim. ***** would be epic.
- Janinco, on 05/07/2009, -0/+32Title is correct...I didn't know any of these things!
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"Dictatorial leadership masquerading as some form of Marxism does seem to produce high literacy rates, as both the CIA and the United Nations cite Cuba as having the highest or second highest literacy rate in the world."
Literacy without freedom is worthless.
IMHO - Pinkertinkle, on 05/08/2009, -1/+24You can make all sorts up stuff up about North Korea and no one would ever be able to verify anything.
- superkendall, on 05/08/2009, -0/+15It's easy to do well at golf when you can declare wherever your ball lands to be the new hole.
- K4Lic0, on 05/08/2009, -2/+15Can we really believe ANY of this? Isn't all of the info that comes out of there manipulated by Kim Jong Il and his cronies?
- jbmcb, on 05/08/2009, -0/+13The Vice Guide to North Korea, freakin' awesome:
http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1438428757
The best is in one of the last videos, where he finds a bar with a South Korean karaoke machine, and belts out Anarchy in the NK.
My favorite bizarre NKism is the hugeass hotel they never finished. Funding dried up after the Soviet Union collapsed, now it just sits there, usually photoshopped out of the skyline:
http://architecture.myninjaplease.com/?p=1677 - adaire, on 05/08/2009, -0/+13Literacy in Korea can be attributed to the design of the language, Hangul, which was designed long before either of the Koreas in 1443. It is completely phonetic and can be learned by most people in about 2 weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#History - ArchetypeRyan, on 05/08/2009, -0/+13Just visited Korea and the DMZ last week, during Golden Week (Japanese vacation week). I always thought of North Korea as as failed state whose threat was exaggerated on the global stage, but when I saw the soldiers guarding the border I realized how serious they are. Somehow, despite constant oppression of their citizens and their crumbling national infrastructure, they actually believe they might someday reunite their country under a single communist regime.
What can I say? I guess crazy knows no borders... o_0 - K4Lic0, on 05/08/2009, -1/+12Umm, no.. not all of them. Just like any other country in the world.
- alexra, on 05/08/2009, -2/+12reading this it just makes me sad while this fat piece of ***** lives like a king and enjoys so much of 21st century western culture, while millions of people starve, hes a modern day 1984, and we just let this guy stand by and do what he wants
- drmangrum, on 05/08/2009, -1/+11Of course they have high literacy rates. It makes it easier to brain wash the population when you can hit all modes of communication. It doesn't hurt that they all have to attend school at gun point either....
- MiChuhSuh, on 05/08/2009, -1/+10Are you kidding me?
America is not the world police huh? North Korea is a sovereign nation?
THERE WAS NO "NORTH" KOREA AND "SOUTH" KOREA BEFORE THE USA AND SOVIET UNION CHOPPED IT IN HALF. The only reason the country is divided like this is because the US appeased the Soviets and Chinese by giving them half a nation that neighbored them. Then, Truman gave up North Korea AGAIN even after General MacArthur fought to take it back from the communists to appease the Chinese AGAIN. "You break it, you buy it" or at least fix it. That seemed to be your policy with Japan after using the atom bomb? Why's that?
NO ONE can "do whatever they want" in North Korea. You aren't even allowed to travel from one city/town to another within the country without government papers and permission. The slightest sign of dissent will get you publicly executed, or worse, sent to a work and torture camp, along with your entire family, extended relatives included. The only media is the state media and all communications equipment only have the capacity to tune in to just one frequency.
I suggest you do look at "many of the nations of Africa" because every single African nation is far better off than North Korea. How? Africans can go to European nations and the US as refugees. In North Korea, the official policy is that anyone spotted within a mile of the border that doesn't have permission to be there is to be captured if possible, or shot on site if not possible. The border with China is filled with armed North Korean soldiers and the border with South Korea is armed not only with North Korean gun turrets, but with live electric fences.
There are/were reporters moving around in Zimbabwe, which is getting attention for being the worst African regime. Now how many reporters can move freely in North Korea?
Oh, and by the way, there are thousands of undocumented North Korean men hiding in Mozambique. When Mozambique had a civil war, North Korea sent soldiers to support fellow communists and all that. Guess what? The North Korean soldiers looked around and realized that these people were better of than them. The reaction to Mozambique's revolutionary armies was, "OMG you guys eat EVERY day???" So they all began trying to escape into the jungle.
That's right, North Koreans were rushing to defect to a poor African nation that was in the middle of a civil war. North Korea learned to stop sending people to countries better off than them.
Oh, and go ask an older/senior Korean about "Did you eat today?" That used to be how you say "Hello."
Source: My family escaped from North Korea you piece of *****, and my relatives who didn't make it out were tortured. As of five years ago, all of my close relatives have starved to death. - Fabbyfubz, on 05/08/2009, -2/+11NORTH KOREA IS BEST KOREA!
http://img.moronail.net/img/0/0/500.jpg - seanayb, on 05/08/2009, -0/+7If by "epic" you mean "censored as hell", unfortunately.
- drmangrum, on 05/08/2009, -5/+12We are not the world police.
North Korea is a sovereign nation. They can do whatever they want within their borders. I suggest you look at many of the nations of Africa. They are FAR worse off than the North Koreans. - appleman108, on 05/08/2009, -0/+7So the key to future diplomatic relations with North Korea is...Eric Clapton??
- Akraz, on 05/08/2009, -4/+11Whatever, none of this matters. Still the most ***** UP country, in my opinion.
- woofers07, on 05/08/2009, -1/+8Why the hell does AskMen think they know everything that I don't?
- jbmcb, on 05/08/2009, -0/+6There are plenty of accounts of people who have been to North Korea, and they all seem to jive. It's a really, really strange place. The best description I've heard was that Pyongyang is what Disneyland would be, if Stalin had the Marquis de Sade design it for him. Very nice and somewhat familiar, totally alien and incredibly unpleasant, all at the same time.
- seltaeb4, on 05/08/2009, -1/+7He especially likes the hole with the little windmill.
-5 strokes for him if he gets it up the little ramp and through the trapdoor on the first try. - Kelden21, on 05/08/2009, -0/+5That's just it. Due to Kim's insurmountable control over media and all incoming information, North Koreans honestly believe they are the shining beacon of the world. Why would the people rise up when they believe they have it the best?
Complete information control is a scary idea. - WorGul, on 05/08/2009, -4/+9Is it trite to suggest that you've never known the prison of being ill-educated and thus marginalised in an advanced society? Neither have I, so I resist making such value judgements.
- Rain12913, on 05/08/2009, -0/+5Um...no, it does. It's just impoverished (mostly due to Kim's leadership) and has few large economic centers.
- MarkusDee, on 05/08/2009, -1/+6askmen.com is such a ***** website. There is no need for that story to take 2 pages.
- seltaeb4, on 05/08/2009, -1/+6If he *only* could feed his people as well as he golfs...
- dreamweaver1984, on 05/08/2009, -0/+45 things north korea makes up to make themselves seem cool.
- sjl127, on 05/08/2009, -0/+4I'd like to hit him off of a tee with a titanium driver into the ocean.
- elbergel, on 05/08/2009, -1/+5Apparently Kim Jong likes to be photographed in his undies. No *****!
http://www.south-korea-esl-blog.eflblogs.com/image ... - duggdowncatisad, on 05/08/2009, -0/+4If you believe those golf scores, I have a bridge for sale in Pyongyang.
- lemur, on 05/08/2009, -0/+4When I first read that, I wondered if literacy were somehow complicit in political oppression and somehow necessary for the regimes to function. How do you control what a massive amount of people think without the use of written words? How do you trump up the authority of a message if it's delivered by word of mouth alone? Look at the effectiveness at religious scriptures at masquerading as authority and defining social values on a large scale. Totalitarian governments need to be read.
- jitterbits, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3Kim Jung Il is hardly a capable leader, but the press there doesn't exactly report on his failures so it's much harder for the truth to be revealed. And there will always be levels of people who have it better than the worst, and turn a blind eye, or are literally unable to see it. Being unable to travel from place to place means that those who are better off may never be confronted with how bad it actually is, and those who truly have it bad won't be able to realise that the country is full of people like them.
The facade is maintained well, and where it crumbles, it is propped up by fear. - inactive, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3just be glad its on 2 pages and not 5.
- jitterbits, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3The dear leader is so divine that the earth opens up to swallow his balls.
- TheCollective00, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3Heh, this website buries the digg bar, at least on my pc
- TheCollective00, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3Seriously, they should make a Ryuyong Hotel themed casino in Las Vegas...that would be epic.
- airwalkery2k, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3I see a few splotches of light around Pyongyang.
- MaskedSlacker, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3So were the Confederate States of America, and they had FEWER slaves than Kim Jong Il.
- sanskrtam, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3The article says: "North Korea’s recent launch of a questionable rocket has once again alarmed much of the world, including their tightest allies in Beijing."
Now here's the problem. China is not really North Korea's ally per se. China wants to avoid North Korea being collapsed or else millions of North Korean refugees will swarm across North Eastern China. Sino-North Korean relation is not a friendship alliance. - DirtyVicar, on 05/08/2009, -4/+7 Confrontational Outbursts of AskMen.com Article Rebuked
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- An AskMen.com article published May 7 let loose such balderdashes as North Korean "food production wasn't enough to prevent a famine of biblical proportions." It also talked rubbish that "Kim Jong-un has been seen pumping his fist at an Eric Clapton concert."
Rodong Sinmun Friday observes in a signed commentary carried in this regard: This is an evident expression of the attempt for confrontation against reunification as well as a crafty ploy to conceal the treacherous and bellicose true colors and mislead the public opinion at home and abroad.
Owing to the anti-DPRK confrontational moves of Digg, this AskMen.com article already reduced itself to dead documents and the peace of the country is seriously threatened.
Even at this moment the puppet blogger warmongers are frantically conducting the large-scale humiliation campaign. The group of traitors including Ross Bonander and Bixby1 are making all sorts of rhetoric to justify their treacherous policy of men's information and camouflage their true colors as a disturber of north-south relations and anti-DPRK war maniacs. But the nature of the wolf can not change though it puts on sheep's skin. The group of traitors should not waste away time in a futile journalism work but step down at once as unanimously demanded by the whole peace-loving nation, urges the commentary. - jitterbits, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3But North Koreans think it's a fact. According to legend, he scored nearly all holes in one on his very first game!!!
- str3ama, on 05/08/2009, -0/+3that can't be real..I know it's probably photoshopped but pretty good job.
- MiChuhSuh, on 05/08/2009, -0/+2str3ama
Attention all idiots who compare the USA to third world nations. Stop insulting the struggles of people who actually know the meaning of poverty and starvation by comparing your nation, which gives away free prizes at credit card sign-ups as a reward for buying more stuff, to a nation that has people foraging plants for anything remotely edible. - Lykil, on 05/07/2009, -2/+4North Korea has their very own RIAA, called CCPT, only instead of litigating against internet pirates, the CCPT goes around preventing people from listening to gramophone together.
- sanskrtam, on 05/08/2009, -0/+2But China's immediate focus on North Korea is preventing the collapse. There is no sign that North Korea is collapsing right now.
North Korean "aristocrats" have made China difficult to take advantage of North Korea. China can't make North Korea its proxy country when this country's military leaders and party politicians consider China very skeptical.
Chinese businesses tried to penetrate North Korea usually with disappointing results. - str3ama, on 05/08/2009, -2/+4Not sure if that's the reason..if North Korea collapsed China would take it over.
China wants North Korea to be around so that it can use it to funnel resources and weapons. They're using North Korea as a proxy for a lot of actions. But there's also a bit of bad blood between them because they sent a train packed with foreign aide to NK and Kim Jong Il refused to return the train back. - holyskeleton, on 05/08/2009, -1/+3i was gonna click on the second page but was distracted by the gallery on the right
- jitterbits, on 05/08/2009, -0/+2He does feed his people as well as he golfs.
(meaning neither very well, lest someone think I'm supporting him. you never know on the internet.) - inactive, on 05/08/2009, -0/+2Kim Jong-Il's heir is a clapton fan? So? 5 boring facts I didn't care about North Korea
Also, was there REALLY any need to chop that tiny 5-item list into two pages? - JakeyG14, on 05/08/2009, -0/+2All the Chuck Norris, Jack Bauer, and David Hasselhoff facts were based on Kim Jong-il.
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