• North Korea calls Switzerland’s refusal to sell it ski lifts a ‘serious human rights abuse’
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[quote]North Korea, long pegged as perhaps the world's worst human rights abuser, accused Europe of committing "serious human rights abuse" for refusing to sell ski lifts to the Hermit Kingdom. That's perhaps the most revealing little moment in its breakneck effort to build ski resorts – one with real implications for how the outside world deals with North Korea. North Korea has been working feverishly on constructing its first-ever ski resort, a lavish project that young leader Kim Jong Un personally set as a top national priority. But it has hit a major snag: It can't get ski lifts because of sanctions.[/quote] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/07/north-korea-calls-switzerlands-refusal-to-sell-it-ski-lifts-a-serious-human-rights-abuse/[/url]
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this is one of the most absurd things i've read today
Well. They got you there Switzerland.
North Korea is a joke of a nation.
Whatever you say, NK.
Oh my god that's hilarious
Why do they want ski lifts, who in NK can actually afford to go skiing, or it is to transport slaves to the doom mountain fortress.
Ok I'm pretty sure North Korea is purposely doing this as a joke, that's ironic either way.
Yeah North Korea are actually masters of practical comedy, everyone's actually well fed and shit and they just pay people to be "inmates" in camps and shit and starved workers, they'll reveal it all soon I bet.
They wouldn't know what a human rights abuse was if it hit them on the back of the hea- oh.
If ski lifts are a human right, where's mine? Dangit Obama
Waiting for Rayhalo to come in here talking shit about Switzerland
Ohohohoho they're ones to talk
Get your slave mines to create your own.
The furnace calls the kettle back.
You guys ought to listen to North Korea, I mean they pretty much are the finest expert on human rights abuses.
[QUOTE=Sally;42447924]Get your slave mines to create your own.[/QUOTE] Just mining me a ski lift
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xTnjMFK.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=bravehat;42447843]Yeah North Korea are actually masters of practical comedy, everyone's actually well fed and shit and they just pay people to be "inmates" in camps and shit and starved workers, they'll reveal it all soon I bet.[/QUOTE] Andy Kaufman got nothing on the Kims
They'll probably try and build there own. I doubt they even have a tramway safety board, so I can't wait until something like this happens [video=youtube;D8rXiN_Oys4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8rXiN_Oys4[/video]
What does North Korea even need ski lifts for? You can't torture dissidents with them
[QUOTE=Zeke129;42448352]What does North Korea even need ski lifts for? You can't torture dissidents with them[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Articsledder;42448198][video=youtube;D8rXiN_Oys4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8rXiN_Oys4[/video][/QUOTE]
To be honest I'm surprised Switzerland said no. They are usually impartial and that 7.7 mil could help pay those Swiss citizens $3000 a month. You know someones messed up when the most neutral and money loving country says no to your business.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;42448352]What does North Korea even need ski lifts for? You can't torture dissidents with them[/QUOTE] Probably for being a skiing lodge at the top of a mountain. Which no one will be able to afford to go on, of course.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;42447818]Why do they want ski lifts, who in NK can actually afford to go skiing, or it is to transport slaves to the doom mountain fortress.[/QUOTE] It's to transport supplies and workers to the mountain that they're carving Kim Jong-Un's face into.
why did Swiss say no again lol.? [editline]8th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Samiam22;42448442]Probably for being a skiing lodge at the top of a mountain. Which no one will be able to afford to go on, of course.[/QUOTE] it'd be like that Vice video where only the people in the tour group and staff are there and
Just gonna wait for RAYHALO's response.
[QUOTE=shian;42448528]Just gonna wait for RAYHALO's response.[/QUOTE] There won't be a rayhalo's response because rayhalo just ignores any challenges that he cannot face (Eg like in tha other thread where he was challenged to prove everything he was saying was true. It got a shitload of winners but he didnt even seem to notice the post's existence in front of his own eyes, and continued to argue against opponents whose arguments could essentially be nullified with a propaganda statement or a bourgeois media remark.)
[QUOTE=Zeke129;42448352]What does North Korea even need ski lifts for?[/QUOTE] The northern border of the DPRK is extremely mountainous, ski lifts could help the isolated rural communities in these areas. That or it could just be for a ski resort. [QUOTE=Milkdairy;42448618](Eg like in tha other thread where he was challenged to prove everything he was saying was true. It got a shitload of winners but he didnt even seem to notice the post's existence in front of his own eyes, and continued to argue against opponents whose arguments could essentially be nullified with a propaganda statement or a bourgeois media remark.)[/QUOTE] I try to only respond to concerns that i have not addressed at-length previously. [QUOTE=Cmx;42447898]Waiting for Rayhalo to come in here talking shit about Switzerland[/QUOTE] Switzerland has an ugly flag.
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