Long read but it's very interesting.
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[b]VIDEO[/b] and source: [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/vbs.north.korea/index.html[/url]
Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Getting into North Korea was one of the weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists to come and cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Just before our departure, they suddenly said, "No, nobody can come." Then they said, "OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists." But they already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when you're supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We don't like jail. And we're willing to bet we'd hate jail in North Korea.
But we went for it. The first leg of the trip was a flight into northern China. At the airport, the North Korean consulate took our passports and all our money, then brought us to a restaurant along with our tour group. All the other diners left, and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, "Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. Can't we just go to bed?" But this guy with our group who was from the L.A. Times told us, "Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don't act excited then you're not going to get your visa." So we got drunk and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn't get theirs.
We flew into North Korea that night. We were supposed to have three days before the games started, but as soon as we got on the ground they told us, "The games are happening now." We went straight to the stadium, and there were 40,000 people in the stands, portraying the history of the North Korean revolution with flip cards. On the playing field before them, about 60,000 people did wild synchronized-gymnastics routines. The 15 of us who made up the audience watched from a marble dais. We were the only spectators. Fifteen audience members for a 100,000-man extravaganza.
The next day, our grand tour began. We went to the International Friendship Museum, which comprises 2,000 rooms carved into the bottom of a mountain. The displays are all gifts from different world leaders. Joseph Stalin gave Kim Il-sung a train. Mao Zedong also gave Kim Il-sung a train. He got hunting rifles from communist East Germany's Erich Honecker and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu and all the other Eastern-bloc guys. Madeleine Albright famously gave Kim Jong-il a basketball signed by Michael Jordan.
Perhaps the weirdest thing about North Koreans is that they genuinely don't seem to know that the rest of the planet hates and fears them. They believe (or maybe they really convincingly lie about believing) that the whole world admires and envies them and that they're the true light of socialism and Juche, which is their leader's philosophy of Communist self-reliance.
As the days went on, North Korea presented us with progressively stranger sights and encounters. Being there was like being nowhere else on the planet. Are we glad that we got into Pyongyang and were able to document it? Yes. But are we even gladder that we made it out? Watch our documentary on the trip and try to guess the answer.[/quote]
Tl;dr: Kim Jong Il has appointed Ronald McDonald their national mascot.
The complete article with full documentary: [url]http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-14[/url]
Sweet this guy again he visted the Kybur Pass is Afgan
I feel like I've read that exact thing from somewhere else..
Yeah North Korea is totally bizzare. I remember a thread being posted on SA where a guy documented his travels there. The main city streets are like totally empty, there are half constructed buildings everywhere falling apart. It really is a sad state of affairs.
[url]http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3225673&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1[/url]
I would've been scared shitless being in such a bad country like that...
never midn i am too stupid
I can't believe the government leaves the country in such a bad state. I wish they would open their doors already.
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;20151922]never midn i am too stupid[/QUOTE]
what's wrong with you? do you like shitposting?
Holy shit man
Wow this is actually quite amazing to look at a country that keeps it stuff so secret
I just read the SA thread and holy shit
[QUOTE=Glitch360;20151911]I would've been scared shitless being in such a bad country like that...[/QUOTE]
Kim Jong Il wouldn't want you to go... He's ronrey.
Makes me feel sad that the country barely has people in the captial
It's like finding the g-spot
NK's worse than I thought.
No finger point! No finger point!
That video was amazing, thank you so much.
read the SA thread, really a trip.
i finished that VBS.TV Documentary that Cnn had (Finish the rest by going to [url]www.vbs.tv/northkorea[/url]) and wow, the place is amazing and fucked up at the same time
They sound crazier than I thought.
Watched all of the videos, the middle of the third one hit kinda hard for me. Seeing all of those kids, expressing so much talent, so much possibility. They were eager to learn and to advance, and all for naught. They'd grow into knowing nothing but lies, hunger and propaganda while stranded there.. with no hope of even knowing what the outside world could be, or what they could be.
:frown:
Man, that was a [i]very[/i] interesting documentary.
How long can a country like that function? Will there ever be a time where someone, somewhere within' that country questions everything he has learned? I dunno, I can't possibly imagine what it's like to live your entire life there.
Can military might truly suppress an entire country of people? How have they even gone this long with a country that (As that video states) has very little land for farming and no real trade with outside countries? (Again, that I know of.) Box me if you must, but where the crud do they get funding for that huge military and nuclear weaponry? UN funding or something, and if so, why do they keep doing it if it's CLEARLY not going for humanitarian reasons?
Man, I've never been filled with so many questions after watching something. @_@
Sex must be a bundle of fun for them. >_>
[QUOTE=Death n1;20152755]Sex must be a bundle of fun for them. >_>[/QUOTE]
Asians are known for having the world's smallest penises.
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;20152768]Asians are known for having the world's smallest penises.[/QUOTE]
:rimshot:
Can we download the video from somewhere (Legally)? I wanna watch the whole thing, but not just right now.
[QUOTE=Darrylop;20152782]:rimshot:
Can we download the video from somewhere (Legally)? I wanna watch the whole thing, but not just right now.[/QUOTE]
Just bookmark it, it's free.
[QUOTE=Darrylop;20152782]:rimshot:
Can we download the video from somewhere (Legally)? I wanna watch the whole thing, but not just right now.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.vbs.tv/northkorea"]www.vbs.tv/northkorea[/URL] has it streaming all 14 parts
maybe if you have a FLV downloader you can download them off the site???
Is it legal though.
[QUOTE=Darrylop;20152928]Is it legal though.[/QUOTE]
Simple answer: yes.
Long answer: its a grey area... blah blah blah...
[QUOTE=Glitch360;20151911]I would've been scared shitless being in such a bad country like that...[/QUOTE]
I'm on my way to egypt to visit my relatives.
wish me luck.
[QUOTE=Epidemick;20153114]I'm on my way to egypt to visit my relatives.
wish me luck.[/QUOTE]
yeah I wouldn't really say Egypt is as bad as NK...
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