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- abid786, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36This photoessay sucks; it contains only photos that the authorities "allow" you to take (of all the rich N Koreans).
Try this one: http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ - vault, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18They've really nailed the whole minimalist look.
- bentman78, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14North Korea...Socialism at it's finest....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1875007335 ... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Full sizes on one page http://m3.bestpicever.com/piles/?s=insidenorthkore ...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12I'd hate to be on the northern side of that border.
- knugen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9"no iPhones" - because iPhones are oh-so-common outside the US...
- AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8ipods, iphones and ***** Iridium satellite phones are the least of their worries. How about human rights, jobs, and some food?
- cygnus2112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7It's just like downtown Detroit!
- scairborn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7After living in S. Korea for a year and getting out in to the real heart of Korea I can tell you the south is not much different than those photos from the North... Don't get me wrong, the South is FAR more advanced in their urban setting, but once you get away from the urban culture the rural culture of the south hasn't advanced at all. The biggest difference though in the photos of rural Korea is the fact that the crops, well for lack of a better term... suck. The south is very fertile. If you go up to the DMZ and the UN Joint Security Area you can look across the border at NK and see nothing but rocks and dirt. Its stunning really. The biggest contrast I noticed there were the trees. They say not a tree was standing after the Korean War (which technically isn't over). All the trees in the south are transplants from China/Japan/US and they're all less than 50 years old. Its also the reason they don't build wooden houses. So when you get up to the DMZ theres forested areas all the way up and at the border... desert. its a shocking site. One of the greatest things i've ever done in my life was to visit the DMZ, a legitimate active warzone where your safety cannot be guaranteed, at least thats what the waiver I had to sign said.
- bentman78, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Because they are. The people there aren't, but the government is. The citizenry suffers under a tyrannical regime led by an egotistical maniac. There isn't much need for propaganda when the government there kicks out aid workers and redistributes food to it's soldiers and not it's people.
There was a couple of National Geographic and Discovery documentaries on the horrors of that place. - sirber, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Is it me, or someone is pissing in the river in one of those pics?
- vanmidd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5sorry guys, its the site owner here, just got 800 gigs of traffic, working on getting the site back up.
- pinolo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7This is a sad sad country. We can discuss long whether the pics have been authorized or not. But the substance remains. A people without hope and impoverished, isolated from the rest of the world.
I'm sad. - RichLatherX23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Do "In Mother Russia..." jokes translate well to North Korea?
In North Korea, accounts suspect you! Enh. - IphtashuFitz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You can find English translations of those Russian comments here: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.ph ...
There are more good pictures of North Korea in that thread if you follow it through.
There's another good photo essay (with English text) at http://www.enlight.ru/camera/dprk/index_e.html - epicstruggle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/articl ...
"The soldiers, who later told family members of the incident, marched the woman, who was about 30, to the mid-point of the bridge. North Korean guards were waiting. They signed papers for receipt of the woman, who kept her dignity until that moment. Then, in front of the Chinese troops, one seized her and another speared her hand — the soft part between thumb and forefinger — with the point of a sharpened steel cable, which he twisted into a leash.
“She screamed just like a pig when we kill it at home in the village,” the soldier later told his relative. “Then they dragged her away.”
[...]
“I’ve heard it a hundred times over that when we send back a group they stab each one with steel cable, loop it under the collarbone and out again, and yoke them together like animals,” said an army veteran with relatives in service." - MiNGLED, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4No
- salinemist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Looks like they solved the obesity problem that plagues America.
- Battlecry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You have to translate the russian to really understand what's going on in the pictures.
- fancypantscz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Agreed, a very depressing video that needs to be seen.
But lets not confuse the issue here. The citizens of any country ruled by a deranged man with an Iron fist will suffer. I think Sweden is Socialism at its finest. They have higher living standards than the US. - orlyfactor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Isn't it Communism?
- bmalnad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3There is only one fat North Korean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il
- Abomonog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2By far the best photo essay ever of North Korea is a single night time satellite photo that resides in the rotten.com library.
http://www.rotten.com/library/history/countries/no ...
That pic kind of says it all. Check out the rest of the library. It's absolutely hilarious and it's right on the money on the topics it covers. - cygnus2112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/281220. ...
North Korea, it seems, is too impoverished to despoil its countryside. The last Stalinist holdout on the globe, it seems trapped in time, decades out of sync.
But upon looking around, a thought occurs: Is this the past or the future? Could a world so ravenous for resources eventually enter an era of scarcity in which every scrap everywhere must be reused?
The realities of North Korea, a police state, quickly end such reveries.
Tour guides, rather than being solicitous, are often stern and rarely out of sight. They commandeer passports and mobile phones at the airport, and return them upon departure.
“Delete the picture!” guide Kim Hyon-choi scolded one man among a small group of foreign journalists. “You mustn’t take pictures of the bad side of our country, ugly things. … We will confiscate them.” - blainer0121, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hehe, some guy's taking a pee around the 15th image. He thought no one could see him.
- Judasmac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2First, check out Pyongyang on GoogleEarth. There's one particularly amazing scifi-like building. God knows what it is. Then notice that the streets are almost completely empty. Second, every time you hear Ted Turner offer his opinion on world affairs, as he often likes to do, remember this assessment of NK:
http://murl.se/28093 - LotusWolf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sites down...probably the clandestine work of NK
- Unclickable, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Here is a collection of some videos from or about North Korea http://yuxt.com/surfer/North_Korea
- MrRedTie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I hear they're really big on those pins--considered blasphemy if you went through a day without wearing it.
I read it from here I think: http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?nk-trip1.htm~mainf ... - vassar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What would happen to MoveOn if they were in North Korea?
- flytronix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://www.hrnk.org/hiddengulag/toc.html
- ncapone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Try it, it'll provide a refreshing change.
- tdp301, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hey, did anyone notice that this website is from the same guy who makes the optimus keyboards?
- bentman78, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sweden isn't a socialist country...I don't know how many times I've had to explain this. They have some socialist programs but they are a capitalist country with many private industries and a free market. Just because you have some social programs that provide/try to provide things for your citizens doesn't make you a socialist country. We have social programs here in the US, does that make us socialist?
People seem to confuse the two all of the time, so they have this grandiose view of socialism when it really isn't that good or doesn't work. - kungfuhamsta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh man that just completely bummed out my day. I knew things weren't well in the DPRK but i never thought it was that bad. Lets hope one day the citizens of DPRK can be made aware of the failures of its "Dear Leader" and being a fight for liberty from oppression and propaganda.
- Lorddias, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Submitter got the guys 50meg site suspended. Nice.
- bmalnad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I almost vomit every time I see this. More people need to see it.
- Miche1987, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't know if I'm more scared that you thought that at the same time I was, or if I was just thinking about that at all...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Arec Barrwin and Hans Brix are national heroes!
- bmalnad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think the building you're talking about is the Ryugyong Hotel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
- Asianwaste, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's that materialistic thinking that makes us look so evil to other countries.
- bentman78, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1With what? They have nothing...
There would be nothing better than to incite revolution there, but the people cannot even get food let alone guns and equipment. - blainer0121, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Damn, someone already called it.
- drewlynde, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1instead of running from our countries problems, I personally have decided to fight it out here until the end.
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Your URL is broken.
- fancypantscz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I posted the original comment because as you rightly point out there is a difference between socialism and social programs. But all too often I see opponents of social programs use the example of failed socialist states as some kind of argument against social services provided by the government. And I apologize for thinking that is what you were doing.
- britoca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1too bad it's so cold, I'd love to spend some years there
- pu-z, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No, Iceland is socialism at its finest. Sweden is misguided socialism and North Korea is worst case communism.
- Unclickable, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This essay is missing this image that depicts the power of their military http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1186/1405830872_b9c ...
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