"The things that go bump in the night in North Korea are sometimes surprisingly sweet."
Posted on 12/08/2009 6:25:27 PM PST by thecodont
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you’ll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Next to this black hole, South Korea, Japan and now China gleam.
Even from hundreds of miles above, the billboards, headlights, streetlights and neon of the fast-food chains appear as tiny white dots signifying people going about their business as 21st-century energy consumers. Then in the middle of it all, a blackness nearly as large as England. It is baffling how a nation of 23 million can appear as vacant as the oceans. North Korea is simply a blank.
North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea’s creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted. The lights went out. Hungry people scaled utility poles to pilfer copper wire to swap for food.
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But the dark has advantages...especially if you are a teenager dating somebody you can’t be seen with.
When adults go to bed—sometimes as early as 7 p.m. in winter—it is easy to slip out of the house. The darkness confers measures of privacy as hard to come by in North Korea as electricity. Wrapped in a magic cloak of invisibility, you can do what you like without the prying eyes of parents, neighbors or secret police.
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"The things that go bump in the night in North Korea are sometimes surprisingly sweet."
But think about how small their carbon footprint is! /liberal-idiot-mode
I’m starting to think that Nork is the road Zero wants to take us.
And another thing. Obama giving all indications of him wanting to prop up this Criminal Regime is, in itself, CRIMINAL.
“But the dark has advantages...especially if you are a teenager dating somebody you can’t be seen with.”
Is this what the AGW Luddites are after? I thought that was why they frequented the homo bath houses...
North Korea : Socialism (no private companies allowed).North Korea is completely dark at night. The people are starving.
South Korea : Capitalism (private companies like Hyundai, Samsung etc.) South Korea is brightly lit at night.The people have high living standards.
Democrats/liberals/Marxists are moving the U.S. toward socialism. Democrats want the U.S.. to be like North Korea.
Are democrats/liberals/marxists that dumb or do they know socialism doesn't work and are they just pure evil?
sad...
The Joys of Decline into third world standards. The MSM celebrated the benefits of “Funemployment”, now the advantages of living without electricity. What’s next, the joy of dying? Life without humanity? Sick and creepy.
OMG- These people are idiots. These people will stoop to anything to support communism-socialism.
I hjave thought that for a long time about the left.
They knbow it doesn’t work. They know exactly what they are doing. Read this article, the author knows exactly what is going on and is glossing over it.
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