• Best Korea: Children begging on streets, army starving
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[url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/27/3253979.htm[/url] [quote=ABC News]Footage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state. The video is some of the most revealing footage ever smuggled out of the impoverished North Korean state. Shot over several months by an undercover North Korean journalist, the harrowing footage shows images of filthy, homeless and orphaned children begging for food and soldiers demanding bribes. The footage also shows North Koreans labouring on a private railway track for the dictator's son and heir near the capital Pyongyang. Strolling up to the site supervisor, the man with the hidden camera asks what is going on. "This rail line is a present from Kim Jong-il to comrade Kim Jong-un," he is told. The well-fed Kim Jong-un could soon be ruling over a nation of starving, impoverished serfs. The video shows young children caked in filth begging in markets, pleading for scraps from compatriots who have nothing to give. "I am eight," says one boy. "My father died and my mother left me. I sleep outdoors." Many of the children are orphans; their parents victims of starvation or the gulag. But markets do exist - private markets that stock bags of rice, pork, and corn. The state no longer has any rations to hand out. But the state wants its share of this embryonic capitalism. In the footage, a party official is demanding a stallholder make a donation of rice to the army. "My business is not good," complains the stallholder. "Shut up," replies the official. "Don't offer excuses." It is clear that the all-powerful army - once quarantined from food shortages and famine - is starting to go hungry. "Everybody is weak," says one young North Korean soldier. "Within my troop of 100 comrades, half of them are malnourished," he said. Jiro Ishimaru is the man who trained the undercover reporter to use the hidden camera. "This footage is important because it shows that Kim Jong-il's regime is growing weak," he said. "It used to put the military first, but now it can't even supply food to its soldiers. Rice is being sold in markets but they are starving. This is the most significant thing in this video." Kim Jong-il's grip on power depends on the military and if some of its soldiers have growling, empty bellies, it is bad news for the dictator and his hopes for a smooth transition to his son. "The priority for Kim Jong-il is the succession," said Mr Ishimaru. "But Kim Jong-un is still very young, just 27 or 28. He doesn't have any experience and hasn't achieved anything. So opposition to a third generation of the Kim family taking over is growing." But this dynasty of dictators has proven that it is more than capable of keeping its wretched population in line through gulags, hunger and a total control over every aspect of life. But as this footage shows, occasionally, a crack of light emerges from this dark, dark place.[/quote] Maybe the Americans can have a justifiable war? [img]http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201106/r790494_6875282.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201106/r790499_6875426.jpg[/img]
Despicable, utterly despicable.
Why would it be a justifiable war if they are all malnourished?
[QUOTE=RaDiVaX;30738447]Why would it be a justifiable war if they are all malnourished?[/QUOTE] Wipe out the regime
[QUOTE=RaDiVaX;30738447]Why would it be a justifiable war if they are all malnourished?[/QUOTE] Since the army are also malnourished, you'd essentially be fighting the people who are being harmed. The problem isn't really the governments fault either, due to the trade embargo's on the country the people just can't get enough food.
So what's proper procedure when an entire nation's population starves to death?
[QUOTE=mastermaul;30738469]So what's proper procedure when an entire nation's population starves to death?[/QUOTE] Start building robots, write cover up story, act naturally
Breach of human/natural rights I believe.
why don't they revolt? the army might join
[QUOTE=krakadict;30738556]why don't they revolt? the army might join[/QUOTE] Through a mix of fearmongering and propaganda, the Kim family are revered (and feared) as gods there. They don't revolt because a large portion of the population don't want to and/or are afraid to.
Done
[QUOTE=DaBigManZM;30738491]Breach of human/natural rights I believe.[/QUOTE] As if North Korea cares about those in the slightest.
[QUOTE=krakadict;30738556]why don't they revolt? the army might join[/QUOTE] If I recall they did try to revolt, it just didn't work as the revolters didn't have enough support
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;30738464]Since the army are also malnourished, you'd essentially be fighting the people who are being harmed. The problem isn't really the governments fault either, due to the trade embargo's on the country the people just can't get enough food.[/QUOTE] We should lift the trade-embargo, the only ones that are suffering are the people, not the regime of North Korea. The only way to force them to do anything is the combined pressure of China, and rest of the world.
[QUOTE=Raiskauskone V2;30738733]We should lift the trade-embargo, the only ones that are suffering are the people, not the regime of North Korea. The only way to force them to do anything is the combined pressure of China, and rest of the world.[/QUOTE] China seems reluctant to do anything more than point out when they [I]really[/I] fuck up. People can pressure them all they want but just like Gaddafi, they're living in a fantasy world and won't listen to reason. The regime is suffering as a result of it, their precious soldiers are going hungry and everything is breaking down from the people being malnourished. The more important thing is though that removing it probably wouldn't help the people anyway, the regime would just be greedy some more and they'd get the same minuscule amount as always. It sucks that they are holding their own people hostage but there isn't much that can be done, even airdropping food in would be counteracted by propaganda and military confiscation.
Sooner or later that country will collapse with or without outside pressure.
Who needs food when you have the glorious leader? All jokes aside, fuck North Korea, let's get in there and fucking feed those people and fix that shit up.
The country is just falling apart now. It's only a matter of time till a revolution.
It would be justifiable because if the regime was removed, then someone else could be put into power who actually gives half a fuck about the country's people.
So what happens now? We wait for North Korea to stave it's self to death? Or will they attack before its too late?
[IMG]http://iamkoream.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/kim-jong-il-twn.jpg[/IMG] That image is seriously so fitting.
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And that new kim is a fat bastard
[QUOTE=nikomo;30738916]Who needs food when you have the glorious leader? All jokes aside, fuck North Korea, let's get in there and fucking feed those people and fix that shit up.[/QUOTE] Do you really think the people would be so quick to accept western help? Most of them have been taught from birth that their country is the greatest and anyone who says other wise is a traitor.
They'll get to a point where even the army is so hungry that there will be revolts. When people get hungry enough they'll risk their lives to survive, and in mass numbers that could mean trying to take the government down.
What is the point in running a country without people to support it? I almost hope this famine get's the people angry enough to start a rebellion, but I doubt it would end well.
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I can't wait to see what Kim posts here.
You guys never look at the other possibilities They're obviously holding the Best Korean Competition.
[QUOTE=krakadict;30738556]why don't they revolt? the army might join[/QUOTE] A few months ago South Korea dropped leaflets telling people about the Arab Spring and encouraging them to do the same and overthrow the regime. There were a few protests but the army just shot them all. Source [url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-25/south-korea-prods-north-by-dropping-leaflets-telling-of-mideast-protests.html[/url] [url]http://www.asianews.it/news-en/First-public-protests-against-the-Kims%E2%80%99-regime-20861.html[/url]
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