Posted on 05/07/2016 6:36:19 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
05.06.16 2:06 AM ET
No Weddings, Funerals in North Korea So Kim Jong Un Can ‘Party’
No work breaks, no travel, and no food (again). The Dear Leader launched an unprecedented crackdown on his beleaguered masses to ‘celebrate’ a rare Congress for his elite this weekend.
Kim Jong Un has imposed extraordinary social controls across North Korea—and especially in the capital of Pyongyang—in the run-up to the Workers’ Party 7th Congress, which starts Friday. The once-in-a-generation event—the last was held in 1980—is supposed to celebrate Kim’s rule, but in recent months observers have been seeing signs of a breakdown of order and a descent back into destitution.
Kim mobilized all North Koreans to prepare for the event. The Congress, for instance, caps a “70-day struggle,” a period when workers were forced to labor around the clock, often on projects conceived to commemorate the party gathering. Unfortunate citizens temporarily disappeared, especially from open-air markets, as security officials press-ganged them, according to Seoul’s Chosen Ilbo newspaper.
Nonetheless, people were willingly coming forward to lend a hand. Rodong Sinmun, the party’s authoritative newspaper, at the beginning of last month reported that a couple “volunteered” to work on their wedding day. These industrious newlyweds should count themselves lucky. Weddings since then have been banned, as have funerals.
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Ah, geez.
Anybody who had planned their destination wedding to North Korea will be disappointed...........
P!
There is always Vegas as an alternate.
Will Norkie patience last forever?
China could probably ring the curtain down on this anytime it wished.
They could, but they'd also fear millions of Nork refugees pouring over their border. The SoKos have the same fear as well, which is why both actually prefer the status quo.
They are not bothering China.
If Trump becomes POTUS, he should offer 5% discount from his 45% punitive tariff on Chinese goods if Chinese cut their economic lifeline to N. Korea. I think that would be very persuasive.
Yet
“Opa Pyongyang Style!”
where are the red solo cups?
Ever notice how Hillary dresses a lot like Kim and Mao????
I was drinking when I wrote this, no wonder I lost the sun
But when I woke up this evening I thought I was Kim Jong-un
The streets were deserted like the folks were under house arrest
I checked the satellite picture, the country was as dark as death
They say North Korea, commie country, is stuck somewhere back in time
So tonight I’m gonna party like its 1899
Is the punishment for dying during the ban, death?
I suppose a posthumous execution can be arranged. A dead man’s body can be dragged out and shot by AA rounds, and incinerated by flame throwers.
Death has officially been declared counter-revolutionary, and offenders will be severely dealt with.
Not likely.
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