[QUOTE=Killuah;20254422]
64$ is still almost nothing and I think you should read the articles you just linked.[/QUOTE]
you realized almost everything there is incredibly subsidized, right?
So now, considering that their society and the technology of the common people are that of about 1300's Europe, they should be completely annihilated by an easily treated plague in about 20-50 years.
How many plagues have they gotten so far, anyways? I doubt their health system is equipped well enough to even handle the flu. Is there even any way to see dents in their population throughout the years, or have the records been so well covered up that it's impossible?
It sounds terrible but that Ferris Wheel looks fucking incredible so now I want to go :frown:
fuck korean boy i'm gonna become president and nuke his ass
[QUOTE=piddlezmcfuz;20256581]So now, considering that their society and the technology of the common people are that of about 1300's Europe, they should be completely annihilated by an easily treated plague in about 20-50 years.
How many plagues have they gotten so far, anyways? I doubt their health system is equipped well enough to even handle the flu. Is there even any way to see dents in their population throughout the years, or have the records been so well covered up that it's impossible?[/QUOTE]
actually north korean healthcare, unlike most of its transportation and military equipment, isn't 800 years old. it's one of the most funded parts of the government. look at any figures of infant mortality and life span. also there's a part of a recorded tour of north korea that shows the inside of a hospital in action, i'll see if I can find it.
[QUOTE=piranhamatt2;20256014][img]http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images/kim-jong-il-puppet-team-america.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
love that film
This reminded me of city 17. Although I do believe the OP is slightly exaggerated, $2 USD per month seems a bit unfeasible.
We need to do something about NKorea, I don't like the idea with them and nukes.
[QUOTE=Zeraux;20249484]That's one fucked up country
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But fascinating never the less.[/QUOTE]
This.
IF NK launch a nuke they're fucked. Purely because the UN will come down on them like a house of bricks
Or they could always write them a letter, telling them how angry they are.
[QUOTE=Conscript;20256773]actually north korean healthcare, unlike most of its transportation and military equipment, isn't 800 years old. it's one of the most funded parts of the government. look at any figures of infant mortality and life span. also there's a part of a recorded tour of north korea that shows the inside of a hospital in action, i'll see if I can find it.[/QUOTE]
Please do, I actually was wondering about their healthcare system.
[QUOTE=windy_crack;20249355][url]http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-14[/url]
Just change the URL to 2, 3, 4, etc.
Pictures can only show you what fresh hell is going on there, a video is priceless (literally)[/QUOTE]
That was really interesting, holy shit NKorea is fucked up
I'm actually going to watch all of them, i have never seen anything like that craziness
He is pretty fucked up, listen to this, a satelite North Korea put up just to broadcast this music...if you can call it that
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwBqnW3w3A[/media]
JLea, do you still have the link to the thread on NK that was posted in SA? There was a link to a pdf-file from a book on the prison camps.
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[QUOTE=laval;20253067][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea#Education"]Education is free and compulsory just like here, and they have a literacy rate of 99%[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
Although you are right on several points. I don't think I can agree with that after seeing Children of the Secret State. And since it's on wikipedia, how sure are you that the facts hasn't been edited by the North Korean government themselves?
Also, Jlea. Put this in the OP.
[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1875007335054132657#[/url]
[QUOTE=windy_crack;20257225]Please do, I actually was wondering about their healthcare system.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xep2auN7Gbk&feature=related[/url]
Starts at 1:10
[QUOTE=Conscript;20257525][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xep2auN7Gbk&feature=related[/url]
Starts at 1:10[/QUOTE]
The contrast of this to other documentations I've seen is quite.....immense.
as I said healthcare is funded pretty well.
[QUOTE=scurr;20252223][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1266294694722.jpg[/IMG]
"Fifty thousand people used to live here, now it's a ghost town..."[/QUOTE]
"hEY GUYS HE MADE A COD4 REFEREnce! LETS GET HIM!"
[QUOTE=Conscript;20257804]as I said healthcare is funded pretty well.[/QUOTE]
Not just that hospital. About everything in that video, the other parts as well.
It's so "Hey, it's a batshit insane dictatorship but it's pretty cool anyway, look at all this shit!" while the others are all "Ohgod, this is sad what the fuck is happening here".
One of my best friends is from South Korea.
He (along with his family) hate North Korea with a fiery passion.
Well, for one he was mainly in developed pyongyang. Also I don't pay much attention to the rest of the video as it's just him being surprised by what the north koreans offer to tourists. How many koreans have access to beds that have heated floors?
Also culture is something held pretty highly in north korea, which some of the video is about.
for some things the video is good for, such as seeing the inside of a hospital and korean countryside. others it gives a misleading idea of what north korean life is like because of its tourism.
but don't make any mistake after watching it all. north korea is poor and impoverished. even kim jong il admitted this
[QUOTE=taipan;20251910]The build a dam near china to show off their engineering skills.
The same dam caused all their rice fields and farms to flood and cause the current food shortage.
Pyongyang has a Metro!
It only works when there are visitors in the country and only has 2 nice stations on which guests may travel (the rest are 1.7 meter high concrete tunnels with no lighting)
As a guest you stay in a hotel where only 1 floor has rooms.
This is to show off their massive hotel 20floor hotel (with 10 rooms)
They paint only 1 side of the buildings (because guests wont see the backside annyway)
When you eat at a restaurant all the tables get layed out with food while you are the only guest.
This is to show the world they don't have a food shortage.[/QUOTE]
North Korea sounds like it's been optimized for a game engine. A lot of this was highlighted in the Vice Guide to NK, a pretty informative series.
[QUOTE=JLea;20249940]argh shutup about the communism :mad:[/QUOTE]
You make a thread with such wonderful content like this and it's bound to happen.
[QUOTE=laval;20253067]THE OP IS LIKE ENTIRELY MADE UP North Korea is crappy and I am by no means defending it but my god do you people even make a shred of effort to think critically about anything that enters your heads do you know anything about the world oh my god
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_North_Korea"]Music is not banned[/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_North_Korea#Television_and_radio"]The TV stations are government owned and there is obviously a lot of propaganda, but there is still a variety of programming[/URL]
I could find nothing indicating that there are laws in place requiring you to have a portrait of anyone nor to have a clean house. Why would they spend resources on JAILING people with dirty houses
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea#Education"]Education is free and compulsory just like here, and they have a literacy rate of 99%[/URL]
The average NKer earns somewhere around [URL="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1202/p11s01-trgn.html"]$47[/URL] or [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/world/south-korea-reports-a-widening-income-advantage-over-north.html?pagewanted=1"]$63[/URL] dollars per month.
It's the 5th largest according to wikipedia and there's only one L in Jong-il
[URL="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/11/siu.01.html"]The pyongyang metro has an average daily ridership of about 700,000[/URL].
RAUUUUUGH[/QUOTE]
whatever, i got my information from documentarys. sorry if i insulted your great communist country :ironicat:
and in a documentary I saw, the only thing they could listen to was orchestral music sanctioned by the state. i forgot to mention that
and to everyone going "the government pays for healtcare!" what does it matter? when the entire country is starving
i did remove the part about schools though, i was misinformed
[QUOTE=U.S. Department of State]
[B][U]Government [/U]
[/B][B]Type:[/B] Highly centralized communist state.
[B]Independence:[/B] August 15, 1945--Korean liberation from Japan; September 9, 1948--establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K., or North Korea), marking its separation from the Republic of Korea (R.O.K., or South Korea).
[B]Constitution:[/B] 1948; revised in 1972, 1992, 1998, and 2009.
[B]Branches:[/B] [I]Executive[/I]--President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (chief of state); Chairman of the National Defense Commission (head of government). [I]Legislative[/I]--Supreme People's Assembly. [I]Judicial[/I]--Central Court; provincial, city, county, and military courts.
[B]Subdivisions: [/B]Nine provinces; two province-level municipalities (Pyongyang, Nasun, or Najin-Sonbong free trade zone); one special city (Nampo), 24 cities.
[B]Political party:[/B] Korean Workers' Party (communist).
[B]Suffrage:[/B] Universal at 17. [/QUOTE]
Straight from the U.S. State Department.
they are communist
[QUOTE=Loompa Lord;20258507]Straight from the U.S. State Department.
they are communist[/QUOTE]
why should I care if the US state department thinks North Korea is communist when they claimed they were protecting freedom & democracy in central america, chile, indonesia, and south korea? in all cases the US supported dictatorial far right groups and leaders..
north korea is as communist as china. we only call them communist to discredit them
I wonder how blown a North Korean would be if you plucked one and showed him/her around New York or something.
I think we can all agree that North Korea is a Radical Monarchical Dictatorship.
Note the Monarchy part, that is important. North Korea has a monarchy.
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