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5 Strange Cultural Facts About North Korea
Yahoo News ^ | 4/6/13 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 04/06/2013 10:24:06 AM PDT by Kartographer

1. Isolation nation 2. Mythical leaders 3. National prison 4. Daily life in North Korea 5. Difficult adjustments

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To: gaijin
I say we invade from amphibious landing craft and walk to Pyongyang, roasting alive and eating every Korean we encounter. When we get to Kim's palace, we drag him outside and beat in his brains with an iron pipe.

Then we nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure

21 posted on 04/06/2013 12:04:53 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.u)
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To: atc23

The only way the country can change is to get to the generals. They either need to overthrow Kim or be killed so the army cannot function.


22 posted on 04/06/2013 12:15:42 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: Riley

In the 70s and 80s I worked as an instructor of students in ‘centrally controlled economies’ for a petroleum-related company.

The students would come to this country for their training. As the instructor, I would be tasked with setting them up in apartments and filling their refrigerators.

I took some Rumanian students to the supermarket and got a basket. They ran to the meat counter and immediately filled the basket with everything that would fit in the basket. I said, “Your freezer is not big enough to fit all of that. Why are you doing that?” Their response was that they had to get all of the meat before it was all gone.

I explained to them that it would be ok because the meat section would be restocked overnight.

They looked at me in disbelief so that I had to take them back to the supermarket the next day to show them. They were absolutely amazed! The poor souls had lived a life of hell. Many of them defected to this country after getting back to Rumania.


23 posted on 04/06/2013 12:15:45 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: GeronL

My mother and her friends took out their 19 year old neighbor/friend for a farewell dinner when he was off to South Korea back in the 50’s and came home in a coffin..and she is always right in stating we should have nuked Mecca after 9/11 instead of invading Iraq and also we should just go ahead and nuke NK.


24 posted on 04/06/2013 12:21:56 PM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

But at least in the end, the Romanians did take matters into their own hands.


25 posted on 04/06/2013 12:24:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GeronL

Did you notice much of their paintings etc. are so cartoonish.....I think this is on purpose....it keeps them looking at themselves as brainless....it’s all pretty colors, singing, and playing instuments....or war. There’s nothing else..”grown-Up” apart from Kim’s photos in their homes.


26 posted on 04/06/2013 12:28:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: truth_seeker

What they “want” may even be questionable... if they know what that is aside from basics...they have endured “want” for basics theywould be completely overwhelmed by life in the south.

Those who have escaped explain later, after a hard adjustment...how shocking it is to their entire system when they see how the rest of the world lives...and distressed greatly when they realize all the Kim’s have done .

Their adjustment takes allot of work and time....Sometimes wanting to go back to N.Korea before their adjustment is completed. Which that tells us how difficult it is.

How does one become “responsible” when they don’t know what that means....or what choice is.....and to be flooded with so many things to choose from?

It would be worth all who have interest to view the many videos on line from those who have escaped.....you can see some are still oveerwhlmed when they speak of life there...and because they are proud it’’s embarrassing for them.


27 posted on 04/06/2013 12:36:45 PM PDT by caww
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To: Kartographer

28 posted on 04/06/2013 12:39:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Free Vulcan

I’ll die on my fee with my guns blazing, than live on my knees with my hands bound and tied.


29 posted on 04/06/2013 12:51:43 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (The most insidious power the news media has, is the power to ignore.)
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To: carriage_hill

fee = feet.


30 posted on 04/06/2013 12:58:27 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (The most insidious power the news media has, is the power to ignore.)
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To: gaijin
People imagine the Norkies hate their leaders and are ambivalent about their country —that they’d welcome us as liberators. COMPLETELY WRONG

I don't know. I remember watching all the North Korean people crying and tearing their hair out when Kim Jong Il died, and thinking that I'd never seen so many bs crocodile tears in all my life. You could tell by watching the commoners carrying on. They were acting to save their lives. Literally.

I've also read a lot about all those trying to escape that prison country. Those people aren't so brain washed that they think chronic hunger, fear, and want is normal. Tell me that the starving proles don't look at the well fed people in the military and come to the obvious conclusion. I think they do.

Given a chance, I believe a significant percentage of North Koreans would gladly plunge a knife into the backs of their oppressors.

31 posted on 04/06/2013 2:34:19 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Kartographer

Imagine the miseries suffered by North Koreans being ushered into America by our own contemporary social pathologies implemented in policies and laws. Have you seen those miseries being added to our lives, little by little, for decades? Squalor is the step just ahead for many more.


32 posted on 04/06/2013 3:17:38 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: GeronL
Trying to integrate NK into SK would need a 10-20 year transition

You are being extremely optimistic. Taiwan was a poor backwater province when the KMT retreated there at the end of the Chinese Civil War, it took till the 80's for them to make the uncomfortable transition to a modern democratic country. SK was a very poor country ruled by a military dictatorship in 1954, they made their transition to a modern democratic country ~1990.

33 posted on 04/06/2013 5:11:49 PM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: gaijin

“socialized from birth...”

Are there any dissidents at all?? That fact alone is scary stuff. Can a nation be completely brainwashed?


34 posted on 04/06/2013 6:58:08 PM PDT by stonehouse01 (Equal rights for unborn women)
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To: Free Vulcan

Ouch Vulcan Very scary - do you think it will happen?


35 posted on 04/06/2013 7:00:58 PM PDT by stonehouse01 (Equal rights for unborn women)
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To: married21

“equivalent of Harry Potter..”

I like your idea, Harry Potter though? Surely we can do better than that ....


36 posted on 04/06/2013 7:05:06 PM PDT by stonehouse01 (Equal rights for unborn women)
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To: stonehouse01

Yep and we need take no aggressive, provocative, or initiative actions whatsoever, because the govt will eventually come right at us to our very doorsteps. The globalists have a timetable and they will do whatever it takes to meet it.


37 posted on 04/06/2013 8:18:18 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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