[SueRae]

Ping for later...only have time for a glance just now. Strange indeed...I’ve never seen anything from the inside.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Obama’s dream world!

[bigheadfred]

What is weirder to me is that they have been able to sustain it for years.

[PieterCasparzen]

Thanks for this post, a wonderful eye-opener.

America, this is what most of Congress either knowingly or unknowingly is working towards.

Monopolists are statists.

They think since they can organize GE so well they could also organize a one-world government just was well.

That fallacy is so deceptive and alluring.

To a monopolist, NK is just a captive market.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Interesting.

Q: Did these athletes play indoor or outdoor soccer? A: Trick question. They have no heat, so what's the difference?

In order to keep the populace in the dark, they really do have to keep them in the dark:
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it's like The Truman Show, at country scale.

Ted Turner, communist sympathist/entrepreneur, was also allowed to visit North Korea once. I remember his words were something like "I didn't see any starving peopole, they just looked a little thin".

[Free Vulcan]

North Koreans are weird even for commies.

[martin_fierro]

핑!

[oust the louse]

even if those people get liberated and free of communism, they are brain dead for the most part....they only know one way to live and that’s hell.

[Third Person]

Here’s an excellent, super weird internet documentary from Vice TV on getting into North Korea (along with hidden camera), circa 2008:

http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3

Summary from Vice TV founder, Shane Smith:

Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VICE has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Then, ten days before we were supposed to go, they said, “No, nobody can come.” Then they said, “OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists.” We had no idea what that was supposed to mean. They already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when you’re supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We don’t like jail. And we’re willing to bet we’d hate jail in North Korea. But we went for it. The first leg of the trip was a flight into northern China. At the airport, the North Korean consulate took our passports and all of our money, then brought us to a restaurant. We were sitting there with our tour group, and suddenly all the other diners left and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, “Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. We’re jet-lagged. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn’t get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on…

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Obama is seriously jealous.

[VRW Conspirator]

They made sure to show us the American-style fast food restaurant, though their timing appeared to be off: the place was shuttered when we arrived. Workers scrambled to put on aprons and turn on the lights.

I lovin' it!

[irishtenor]

***Disclaimer: I am a North Korea amateur and can only share what it's like to be part of a NK-bound delegation***

How does it feel to be a amateur North Korean?

[GeronL]

some people actually want to visit that prison?

[Revolting cat!]

Because the Leaders are god-like figures, when one provides "on-site guidance" (which they always can, because they are experts in all things) it's like a benediction.

That's no different from our leaders and their Hollywood celebrity friends.

[Jack Hydrazine]

National Geographic - Inside North Korea (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9xxjU_qjdQ

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIUDv1TRJLg

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFrhthA6ZQ

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F2urskhloA

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bPlimRi4jo

[Noob1999]

Question???

What do the Norks eat when snow covers the dirt????

[Newbomb Turk]

An old vet told me years ago that we should bomb them with playboy magazine, transistor radios and cold Budweiser

[LifeComesFirst]

There is a fantastic book (actually a comic book but don’t let hat deter you) written by a French Canadian cartoonist about his experiences in North Korea (they have limited commercial activity with, among other things, European animation studios).

I strongly encourage you to seek it out.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_(comics)

[WKUHilltopper]

Sounds like a great place for Piers Morgan to relocate.