Posted on 08/06/2011 7:24:23 AM PDT by Former Fetus
Today Yahoo had a series of pictures taken by some journalists inside North Korea. It was titled "Special glimpse inside North Korea". You can see the pics HERE .
I don't know who these journalists are, but the expression "uselful idiots" comes to mind. Look at the pictures of happy little girls in school. people hiking, highways and monuments... you have to wonder why do so many people risk their lives to escape from North Korea into, of all places, China! Of course it is easy to imagine these pics show how the "upper" class, i.e. those higher up in the party, live. If you make an effort, you can see some of the information that had previously leaked out of North Korea. They say that people are burning everything they can put their hands on, to avoid feezing to death, and there are a couple of pics where you can see the countryside, bare of trees, shrubs... anything! People are said to be eating roots, bark... and the ground is absolutely devoid of anything that in any way could be considered edible. I think this slide show is pure propaganda, straight out from Pyongyang. The question is whether the journalists were deceived or if they happily went along with this charade.
Due to the prolonged famine, state-run television has actually run “educational pieces” on how to prepare “healthy nutritional supplement” meals from certain types of tree bark and grasses. But the elite are cared for, and of course the regime has enough money to build nuclear weapons. FAIL.
Yeah, I thought the same thing when I saw them earlier. Plus, they were boring.
North Korea is to China what the “Palestinians” are to the Arabs. Keep ‘em good and hungry and PISSED OFF all of the time.
N.Korea is never going to be more than what we see now....the famines lower the need for outside intervention which Kimbo still wants control over to feed his army and the elites. Neither China nor N.Korea leadership care for it's people...they are simply a bartering tool...a commodity they use and abuse and that without conscious.
Netflix streaming has a documentary on North Korea that is a real eye opener.
National Geographic: Inside North Korea
Disguised as a medical coordinator, National Geographic correspondent Lisa Ling gains access into North Korea and gives viewers a powerful glimpse inside one of the most restrictive countries in the world. Through personal accounts and exclusive footage, Ling exposes the difficulties North Koreans face while living in such an oppressive regime, coping with poverty, hunger and the lack of civil liberties.
The US Army, however, is universally stupid, cruel and bigoted, and simply not a pleasant place for sensitive liberals who understand and feel for all diverse humanity...
(If I'm an atheist, like are good libs want, am I still restricted to moral absolutes? I'd sure like to start slaughtering libs, and their wives, children, dogs, cats, burn their houses... I figure if I'm an atheist, I can rape to my heart's content, since there are no moral strictures that aren't religious dogma.)
Burn their houses? Why do that?
"Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a little while. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life..."
Here in Capitalist Hell, we'd just throw all those doors in the back of an F150 pickup, and drive over in five minutes.
Do they know something better?
Picture 40 of 48 shows young people sitting at desks viewing computers. They had no keyboards and all were still wearing their heavy coats. Must not be any heat at all in the place and certainly they were not allowed to access the outer world via those computers.
Netflix streaming has a documentary on North Korea that is a real eye opener.National Geographic: Inside North Korea
Another good movie, if you can find it, is Friends of Kim. It's about a group of folks that go on a trip inside North Korea to express support for Korean unification (of the North Korean variety).
Netflix doesn't have it, but it occasionally shows up on Link TV on my DirecTV box. Quoting from Link TV's page:
In 12 days, the 22 participants of the march travel through a country full of monuments, propaganda and poverty. What begins as an idealistic magical mystery tour gradually turns into a nightmare – leading the travelers to discover that the "workers' paradise" is far from heavenly.
I noticed the heavy coats. As far as the keyboards are concerned, Windows has an on-screen keyboard that you can work with the mouse (go to accessories, accessibility, on-screen keyboard). It is slow to type like that, but far from impossible! LOL, I’m not so smart, I asked my teenage son how would someone type without a keyboard, and he showed me right away!
Hmmm. I didn’t know about the on-screen keyboard either. I’ll have to try it. I suspect though, for the North Korean kids in the library that access to the outside world is highly restricted or not at all.
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