Kim Jong Un broadcasts cooking competition to starving North Koreans
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[QUOTE]Cheese-chomping despot Kim Jong Un held a “Master Chef”-style competition to find North Korea’s top cooks as millions across the nation starve.
The Emmental-obsessed dictator gave the show, which was broadcast on state TV, the green light despite an estimated two-thirds of the country’s 27 million people surviving on food rations.[/QUOTE]
What a douche
Holographic meatloaf? My favorite.
the balls on this guy
The first annual Hunger Games.
Psychopathic fat fuck
North Korea has tv?
[QUOTE=Davoc;50176608]North Korea has tv?[/QUOTE]
it's all state-run of course, but yes
Fucking fat piece of shit, can't we do something about him? surely its justified by this point.
[QUOTE=Source;50176670]Fucking fat piece of shit, can't we do something about him? surely its justified by this point.[/QUOTE]
We'll do something once we find out he has oil or something we need. Otherwise it's up to the north koreans themselves to do something.
[QUOTE=Source;50176670]Fucking fat piece of shit, can't we do something about him? surely its justified by this point.[/QUOTE]
The food will do something about him, just you wait.
[QUOTE=Davoc;50176608]North Korea has tv?[/QUOTE]
It's a propaganda machine.
Kim Jong-Un has gone full Stalin.
His most recent stunt, with the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_North_Korean_nuclear_test#Skepticism_of_the_hydrogen_bomb_claim"]"thermo-nuclear device"[/URL], China has gone a new direction regarding North Korea, [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-announces-sanctions-against-north-korea-a6969256.html"]authoring extremely strict sanctions[/URL] which basically have cut off trade with North Korean natural resources industry, the largest commodity the North has to offer. These sanctions have made it illegal for countries to supply North Korea with [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/un-hits-north-korea-with_b_9368416.html"]any goods or services which could help in the creation of nuclear devices[/URL]. This amounts to a full weapons embargo, banning the export of Jet Fuel, many luxury goods, and natural resources to North Korea. Any cargo going to North Korea must now be inspected by UN regulators.
Because of these harsh new sanctions, [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-korea-missile-launch_us_56efa297e4b084c67220b5a6"]Kim Jong-Un is throwing a hissy fit[/URL]. He has made threats for a [URL="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/north-korea-threatens-pre-emptive-strikes-south-160312035208963.html"]"Pre-emptive nuclear strike"[/URL] against South Korea, which Russia, their only other ally, has denounced as [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/russia-warns-north-korea-nuclear-strike"]Legal grounds for international intervention[/URL].
North Korea has thus pissed off its only two allies (and therefore their connection to the outside world) in their hemisphere. North Korea had foreign currency earning operations in [URL="http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/10/26/north-korea-yet-to-recognize-libya’s-rebel-ntc/"]Libya[/URL], relations with [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_North_Korea#Syria"]Syria[/URL], [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–North_Korea_relations"]Positive relations with Iran[/URL], and good relations with [URL="http://www.wsj.com/articles/north-koreas-cuban-friends-1452461775"]Cuba as well[/URL].
Qaddafi is dead, Al-Assad has problems of his own, Iran is turning a new page with American relations, and so is Cuba. They've declared China an [URL="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/wwiii-fears-kim-jong-un-7665166"]enemy of North Korea[/URL], traitors to the socialist revolution, and in the same camp as the United States.
Foreign policy-wise, North Korea has completely cut off their last ties to the outside world.
Internally, things aren't any better. You may recall Kim Jong-Un [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Sung-taek"]executing his uncle[/URL], in 2013. His uncle was reported to be the de facto leader while Kim Jong-Il was dying. He promoted himself to 4-star general at the time of his death, and was said to be a key advisor to Kim Jong-Un. Jang's camp had a small firefight with Kim's people:
[quote]According to the New York Times, the final straw came from a firefight over control of North Korea's west coast fisheries. These had been partly taken from the military by Kim Jong-un in 2011, but later this decision was reversed and the fisheries were ordered returned to the military. Forces loyal to Jang defied the transfer, leading to a confrontation in late 2013, in which several North Korean soldiers loyal to Kim Jong-un were killed. Subsequent reinforcements sent by Kim Jong-un seized control of the fisheries.[32] Two of Jang's senior aides were executed soon after.[/quote]
And he was executed. Jang's status was on the decline because he was seen as a chinese lacky in pyongyang. Kim, increasingly paranoid of the people in his father's cabinet as pro-china usurpers, has been executing and excommunicating senior officials since 2011 to cement his role as the country's leader.
When Kim first came into power, there was hopes and speculation that, as a western-educated fan of American culture and basketball, we may be able to reason with him more than his father, and that he may be the reformer that North Korea needed. Foreign [URL="http://dujour.com/culture/dennis-rodman-north-korea-kim-jong-un-interview/"]visits[/URL] and [URL="http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/google-executive-chairman-to-visit-north-korea-1.1098650"]investment[/URL] gave [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-authoritarian-north-korea-hints-of-reform/2012/09/03/bb5d95ce-f275-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html"]hope[/URL] that [URL="http://www.straight.com/news/344616/gwynne-dyer-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-ready-reform"]Kim Jong Un may be the Nikita Kruschev or even the Mikhail Gorbechev[/URL] that North Korea needs. We saw pictures of pyongyang supermarkets, the streets lit up at night as they had years before the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine"]Arduous March.[/URL]
Unfortunately, this was all false hope and North Korean propaganda. Pyongyang remained, as always, the propaganda city, for the elite and their families, and the electricity their [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/asia/north-koreans-say-life-has-not-improved.html?_r=0"]never reached the countryside[/URL]. Hopes for political reforms were vastly incorrect, as [URL="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/02/08/International-pressure-puts-North-Korea-on-defensive-for-prison-camps/4601454593227/"]North Korea gulags expanded under Kim Jong-Un.[/URL]
His paranoia has shown itself most recently, in the [URL="http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=13619&cataId=nk03600"]first party congress in 36 years[/URL]. As part of the planning of this congress, the lucky cadres aged 60 and above is being kicked upstairs, put into a [URL="http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=13841&cataId=nk00400"]powerless congress called the "Honor party class"[/URL]. The unlucky ones will be purged. Kim Jong Un does not trust the older, pro-chinese advisors from his father's era, and is trying to replace them with newer people, loyal to him only. These purges could explain why a [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-defector.html"]colonel in North Korean state security recently defected to the South[/URL]. Perhaps he was afraid of going the way of Lavrentiy Beria.
However, the new people KJU is bringing in grew up during the Arduous march, and are inherently distrustful of the government.
I predict Kim will be dead by December 2017. I toxx a permaban for this date without the possibility of a "garry/mass unban" event.
So if Kim makes a fart hes pretty much boned.
Thanks for the edit there mods
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