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North Korea's big bash honoring founder Kim Il Sung visible from space
NY Daily News ^
| 04/26/12
Posted on 04/26/2012 7:08:01 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea's big bash honoring founder Kim Il Sung visible from space
Satelitte images pick up the word 'glory' in Korean
In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography.
The country is famous for organizing crowds of thousands of people using colored cards to spell out political slogans and images in stadiums or large squares, and the gathering last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung was no different.
This time, however, the spelled out message in a central square in the capital of Pyongyang was big enough to be visible from space.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: glory; nkorea; parade; satellite
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:09:06 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Is the fact that there's not a single dog alive in the country also visible from space? How about the fact that there's not a tree in the country that hasn't been stripped of its bark.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:12:12 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Does that Commie slogan sound like “Ho Pin Chang”?/s;)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Entire line of troops participating in the parade (from the top left to the bottom right)
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:15:18 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Frank_2001
Actually, it is “Glory to the One.” :-)
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:16:30 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Frank_2001
Actually, it is “Glory to the One.” :-)
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:16:30 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Frank_2001
LOL - good one. Took me a moment...
To: TigerLikesRooster
When ya got their bellies, their bodies will follow ya.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:33:15 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Korea from space at night.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Thanks for the image. I suppose the climate might still be late winter - but there sure seems to be a lot of open, barren, dead areas there. Seems odd to have so much open space between the nice buildings that are seemingly unkempt.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:38:45 PM PDT
by
21twelve
To: TigerLikesRooster
"the spelled out message in a central square in the capital of Pyongyang was big enough to be visible from space." BFD! Hyperbolic reporting.
Some of the recent Google Earth images of my area clearly show the wires on power lines crossing a lake, individuals in a group of tourists, and the individual rails and ties on a narrow-gauge "tourist" railroad. And the latest shot of my own place shows the spark plug wires I had laid out on the hood of the '65 "Formula 'S'" Barracuda I'm restoring. What else would you expect from a set of -- essentially -- Hubble Telescopes, pointed at Earth?
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:43:42 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
To: ItsForTheChildren
Wow! Look at all the energy NK is saving. They must be one green country.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:47:25 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: TXnMA
And bring in your trash cans - it’s almost Friday for crying out loud!
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:50:15 PM PDT
by
21twelve
To: ItsForTheChildren
That one light in North Korea must illuminate the path to Glorious Leader's heavenly outhouse. That's the reality you can see from space without even using binoculars.
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posted on
04/26/2012 8:24:13 PM PDT
by
300winmag
(Overkill Never Fails)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Actually, it is Glory to the One.Are you sure? My dictionary translates it as "Do not remove tag under penalty of law."
To: TigerLikesRooster
don’t they realize that if their picture can be taken like this, that they are targets...print a huge target on wherever you want and we, or many others could hit it...
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posted on
04/26/2012 8:49:42 PM PDT
by
terycarl
(lurking, but well informed)
To: TigerLikesRooster
What bothers me about this celebration is, I think WE probably paid for it.
With money borrowed from China.
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posted on
04/26/2012 9:22:51 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
( 2012 TEA PARTYER but no longer a Republican)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Just like all things collectivist: It looks better if you get farther away from it. The more you see of it, the uglier it gets.
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posted on
04/26/2012 9:36:48 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
To: Carry_Okie
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