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- ilkeryoldas, on 11/27/2007, -6/+144he should have used Skype
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -3/+94I hope they can get some changes in the government in that country some day.
- AshamedAmerican, on 11/27/2007, -7/+83Thank you for using AT&T.
- bigthree, on 12/03/2007, -5/+75for international phone calls???? damn what if he used a calling card?
- JuCee, on 11/27/2007, -1/+57Culture, as influenced by the insane tyranny.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -2/+50The irony is that they all came to watch 1 person die via an execution - and 6 were trampled to death leaving. Outcome: Not good for North Korea.
- Shogi, on 11/27/2007, -7/+53For a "brainboy", you sure are pretty stupid. North Korea is a REAL police state, the US is not, learn the difference and stop spouting propaganda. The US is no where close to North Korea in that respect. Any idiot can see that.
- scabbers, on 11/27/2007, -11/+55HAHA at the people killed watching an execution. Karma is a bitch.
- n3xu5, on 11/27/2007, -13/+56Herro? Can you hear me now?
- MacSpoofing, on 11/27/2007, -1/+36In North Korea this is known as "Tuesday"
- opethlike, on 11/27/2007, -3/+33Are you huffing gas? When was the last time you heard about anything like this happening in the US?
- Bukowsky, on 11/27/2007, -1/+30damn... thats a pretty harsh punishment
- dillyhoo, on 11/27/2007, -13/+42To be fair, that boss was kind of a dick.
- samurimaster, on 11/27/2007, -3/+31No way Skype would have worked as Kim Jong ill is a "net expert"
- kaelyiesta, on 11/27/2007, -0/+24I hope the citizens will find a way to overthrow that evil ***** with as little harm to themselves as possible. No one should have to grow up in such oppression.
- MogusMaximus, on 11/27/2007, -1/+25I wouldn't at all be surprised if many were not there of their own choosing.
- erasorhed, on 11/27/2007, -0/+21I had nightmares about North Korea after seeing National Geographic Explorer's inside look. Here is a small bit of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY_b81F0Uo
I am very thankful that I don't live there. - stonedgeek, on 11/28/2007, -1/+20He was killed not because of the cost of the call, but because a society like North Korea can't function if citizens can contact the outside world.
- pintomp3, on 11/27/2007, -2/+20i don't think it's "accepted"
- kurejibitch, on 11/27/2007, -1/+18The citizens will not be able to overthrow him anytime soon, the way things are going. You have to realize that magazines, television, any and all contact with the outside world is banned, completely. The people you see in the stadiums? The families of NK government employees (as well as a few tourists). Pyongyang is, aside from that, virtually empty, as anyone deemed "too old", sickly, or disabled is encouraged to move out or never leave their house.
The rest of NK people live starving and in poverty, heating up tree roots and clay for food. Just as much as you had no choice as a child but to believe in Santa Claus because everyone else did and taught you to do so, so do they for Kim regime and all their legends. It's disturbing and downright terrifying that these people quite literally have absolutely no idea what is outside their country, *nothing*. We should consider ourselves lucky.
((There are many youtube documentaries on North Korea, I would suggest anyone interested to look around as I used a number of them for my research paper. Definitely worth a look.)) - comedianX, on 11/28/2007, -1/+18"Normal" Korean culture would have the factory boss dying from playing too much Starcraft.
- mooninite, on 11/27/2007, -0/+16Actually it might not be that easy. They have a huge propaganda machine over there where you are FORCED to listen to a national radio channel 24/7. No news of the outside world is allowed in. No news of the NK world is allowed out. Since we don't have any way of getting inside and running studies we have no idea, but my best guess is that most people find the life satisfactory.
- doubleo7, on 11/27/2007, -0/+16Wonder what the punishment would be for wasting 1-2 hours every workday reading Digg...
- tabledesk, on 11/28/2007, -1/+16America definitely picked the wrong country to liberate this era.
- zushiba, on 11/28/2007, -0/+15I bet the person on the other end of the phone sure feels like a dick.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+14Find it satisfactory? They have armed guards at every border point...to prevent defection. It really, really sucks to live in NK and most of the population is starving to death. They have a black market for dead people because there is literally nothing to eat so many turn to cannibalism just to live another day.
- MikeonTV, on 11/27/2007, -5/+19He could have used Skype to only speak to someone in his network. North Korea doesn't have the Internet fool!
- GemStar38, on 11/27/2007, -18/+31It is so amazing what is acceptable in different cultures.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -5/+17No, and I'm still so ronry. :(
- jimmiss, on 11/27/2007, -0/+11Never going to happen. The only way is for the citizen to brutally overthrow and basically kill the entire government. Which I'm sure they gladly would do. (Lots of them anyways)
- arobar, on 11/28/2007, -0/+10That's likely very true. When you don't know there's greener grass elsewhere, there's nothing to make you think a revolution is necessary. If there are public executions from the day you're born, you likely don't think that's wrong - You just learn how to behave so that you don't suffer the same fate.
- mrjit, on 11/27/2007, -0/+10I think you mean "What is lived with under different regimes," as this isn't "normal" to Korean culture, just this sad dictatorship
- gadgetuk, on 11/28/2007, -1/+10Hmm, they got any oil over in North Korea?
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+9I imagine they were there at gunpoint. Just like everyone else in NK.
- bjornski, on 11/27/2007, -1/+10No kidding. And I still don't fully understand the story.
"The manager was gunned down in a sports stadium in South Pyongan province after authorities claimed he'd installed 13 in a basement to reach the outside world, the Good Friends aid agency revealed."
Installed 13 what? Do they mean "dialed"? Did he only make one call? Many?
Poorly, poorly written. Or as you suggest, badly translated. - humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -11/+19quick, invade Iran
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+8What a despicable crime.
- irinotecan, on 11/28/2007, -1/+9So could be said the same of Stalinism. However, Communism's concept of "revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat" specifically allowed Stalin and Kim Il-Sung to pervert this into tyrannical, despotic rule. So Communism is to blame for this, as it allows for this despotism to arise from it.
- EarlOfLade, on 11/27/2007, -3/+10I'm sure the poor fellow executed was aware of the harsh punishment. Death penalty is not a deterrent, it doesn't work.
- cranium, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7North Korea already took care of that 50+ years ago. Sorry to see you want to emulate them.
- Berkana, on 11/28/2007, -0/+6The South Koreans hate the North Korean regime. This is not a fault endemic to Korean culture, just Stalinist culture that seems to arise everywhere socialist states take root.
East Germany was at least as bad. I hope North Korea falls soon. The injustice of that regime's continued existence is heartbreaking.
Every ethnic hatred that cites the example of barbarism among other ethnicities merely demonstrates hypocrisy. The Japanese were barbaric towards the Koreans and the Chinese, the Chinese are barbaric towards the Tibetans and their own people, and the (North) Koreans are barbaric towards the only people they can pick on, namely, their own. Don't even get me started on everyone else. Shame on us humans. We are all barbaric and need to take the log out of our own eyes before picking on the specks in our fellow human's. - Ansible, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7What I don't understand is why they say crap like "It is aimed at educating (North Koreans) to control society and prevent crimes". Why doesn't Kimmy proclaim himself the emperor and say "to go against the emperor's wishes is to die" or something? Dictators are so mealy mouthed these days, with their PC talk.
- ballzz, on 11/28/2007, -1/+7yeah, it sure gets annoying that korean comfort women keep bringing up rape during WWII, but at least they are not like the chinese, they just can't get over the rape of nanking can they
- gijoel, on 11/28/2007, -0/+6Maybe he was...
So ronely,
So ronely,
So ronely and sadry arone. - Berkana, on 11/28/2007, -2/+7The only culture this is indicative of is a culture of tyranny that arises in socialist "worker states."
- Mothrog, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5Sounds like we need to send your spoiled ass there so you can get a taste of what a police state is actually like. In North Korea, you'd be executed or sent of to a reeducation camp for what you just said.
- jimmiss, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5Here here.
- geoboy, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4The propaganda machine keeps most North Koreans subdued enough to not truly desire a revolution. But of course they think that living in the conditions that they do sucks. But they also think that the consequences of agitating the status quo suck even more. (read: torture, brutal slave labor, death of you or anything you love, etc.)
- JamesWilson, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4Uhh.. no he couldn't have.. it never would have connected to Skype's main server to even find out if his friend was online or to make a SkypeOut.
Now maybe if he was running his own voip servers set up and had some kind of network with his friend... - irinotecan, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4If this were Digg.nk, they would probably round up every Digg user, force them into a stadium to watch you be executed, then violently disperse them so a couple more were killed by the ensuing stampede for good measure. Of course, the stadium participants would only be comprised of everyone that dugg the "Dear Leader is best ruler ever! [PIC]" link, anyone who buried it would be right beside you with the firing squad to their backs.
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