Posted on 10/20/2006 5:20:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
On Oct. 20, 11 days after their nuclear test, N. Korea staged a mass rally in Pyongyang celebrating the test.
To view the video, click on the picture below(1min 37 sec long; intro runs for about 20 sec).
The close-up shots of crowds show that their spirit is not really up, and some looked weary.
Kim Jong-il said he is sorry for setting off the nuke, but still talks big inside his country.
Ping!
OH MAN talking like s***t eh CHIA PET LOLOL!
Hey you notice that some guys are wearing Mao Suits I thought they went out of business long time ago
I really feel sorry for the people of N. Korea. When will they be freed?
Bump!
Well, go figure..They're half starved to death!
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Will he make them all reconvene, face China, and shout "I'M SORRY!" now that he's "expressed regret" to his benefactors?
Not only did they go there, but also mingled with N. Korean female handlers, and partying away, dancing and singing. A kind of in-your-face actions which loudly say, "Nukes? Nothing to see. Move along!"
Hey, that is an idea.:)
Off subject, the fashion statement made overpowers what the speakers is saying.
I wonder if there were any bad feelings from anyone present when finding that someone wore the same ensemble as them.
Those are the one's who made a fuss because they are missing the weekly episode of The Simpson's to attend and because of their dissidence are soon to be off to the salt mines.
"When will they be freed?"
---This is the ONLY country possibly on earth (that has a nuclear bomb, anyway) where I can see NO possibility of freedom on the horizon. Even in Stalinist Russia , with its unmitigated brutality against its own people, its purges, etc., there was still a collective memory of, among other things, a better Russia, the one the Revolution left behind. There was a history, a culture, and that was the country that still produced immortal 19th Century Literature and POetry. North Korea strikes me as a thoroughly brainwashed nation, where the dictator apparently is happy to let all the people starve who can't be fed, or won't join the Army and oppress their countrymen.A combination of brainwashing and poor diet may be just the right combination, over three or four generations, to totally subdue a large population.The distribution of food (most probably from international Aid) is probably dependent entirely on being a good, upstanding subject of Kim Jong Il./But in North Korea if you're too weakened by malnutrition , bad luck, or lack of medical care, to be able to goosestep or salute KJI, you're fatally out of luck. It is really hard to get a handle on a nation that remains so resolutely isolated, and in its way is in even more dire straits than a place like, say, Haiti.
North Korea would have to undergo a revolution and start producing more than the few things it actually does produce, weaponry and coal, and some agriculturals.They woiuld have perished long ago without massive aid from the
West, and their development of nuclear weaponry is probably their only bargaining chip to be paid off more and further. Let's call it nuclear blackmail, not to coin a phrase.
But it is as if the very souls have been sucked out of them.
Their eyes are dead. Their faces are devoid.
This reminds me of P'yang TV every few nights these days. They have footage of various lectures and study groups and classroom settings. Usually the teacher is vitrolic, but the audience is very bored, just going through the motions, very empty looking in their emotions, almost tired and fatigued, because they have to show up with no other choice.
Very pathetic, very said.
I wish we could get more mini radios and anti government circulars in there.
Kinda like Diane Sawyer. "but the audience is very bored, just going through the motions, very empty looking in their emotions, almost tired and fatigued, because they have to show up with no other choice."
They all looked rather gaunt to me, could be the reason
for a not so robust physical program.
In the past, they could at least muster the energy to look sharp when cameras were rolling. That is not the case any more. I suspect that camera crews and their supervisors could not demand it because they also know they longer push it to folks already suffering enough, or they do demand it but folks do not care anymore.
The end of N. Korean regime is not far away if loyal citizens of Pyongyang behave that way.
A very bleak situation indeed.
I read a journal from a traveler who got into NK.
If you are interested, here's the link. Scroll down to the index page and choose what chapter to read.
The reality of North Korea is almost beyond belief.
http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?nk-trip6-dmz.htm~mainframe
That's fascinating. Thanks for posting the link.
Thanks for that link. I am reading The AQUARIUMS OF PYONGYANG. There was recently a very well done docu
(filmed virtually surreptitiously) on life in NK---it was on Cable, possibly CNN, though if so, it's probably the only good use they've made of their broadcast time for years. Told of the desperation and lack of food for so many, even young boys WHO ESCAPED TO GO TO OTHER PARTS OF ASIA TO WORK AND MAKE MONEY FOR THEIR STARVING FAMILIES, then secret the money protected by condoms or surgical gloves inside their rectums, and smuggle themselves BACK INTO NK unnoticed.
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