Best Korea buys $15 dollars web template for official website - Polidicks

Well, it's a pretty nice web template.

[QUOTE=Xieneus;35651005]Best Korea's old website looked like something created in Microsoft Powerpoint. [img]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/North%20Korea%20Website%20old.JPG[/img] Also for tourism, you can take a controlled trip through the DPRK with a guide. You arrive, get into the hotel, shut up, leave to be exposed to dense propaganda for the whole trip. But its really, really cool. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNUlZwGEygM[/media] They also have some really, really swell cruises running too! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLmmhdY0A8[/media] And I have to say, the programs the children are exposed to in the DPRK are way more entertaining then the crap on today's television. Oh and the DPRK kidnapped the animator from Japan to make this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6OQJxe8ic0[/media] And when I say North Korea trips are really, really cool. I mean it, the hermit country is really a spectacle to behold and is truly fascinating.[/QUOTE] Eerie. The tourist part, what they want the visitors to see, just has a really strong USSR feel to it (no wonder). Makes me want to visit a bit, while I'm not a fan of socialism (except Cuba), I would like to see how my parents lived back then. Really sad that it doesn't even reach USSR levels (well, the real deal, not what they show to tourists) If a reunification were to ever happen, I kind of would like to see Pyongyang preserved the way it is. And I gotta admit, this cartoon looks badass. Wish there were real subtitles instead of that shit.

[QUOTE=Xieneus;35651005][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6OQJxe8ic0[/media] [/QUOTE] The American leader is a badass. A hunchback wolf in a cape with a mace who flies around in a jet shaped like a dragon.

Wouldn't put that site in my portfolio hahahahaa

I really want to visit North Korea. Imagine the perspective it gives you on things.

Hey, at least it looks much better than 99% of local websites.

[QUOTE=Xieneus;35651005] And I have to say, the programs the children are exposed to in the DPRK are way more entertaining then the crap on today's television. Oh and the DPRK kidnapped the animator from Japan to make this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6OQJxe8ic0[/media] And when I say North Korea trips are really, really cool. I mean it, the hermit country is really a spectacle to behold and is truly fascinating.[/QUOTE] 'Kill Britney Spears and Kevin Federline"

[I][QUOTE]Stable. A government with solid security and very stable political system, without corruption.[/QUOTE][/I] Source: [URL="http://www.korea-dpr.com/business.html"]http://www.korea-dpr.com/business.html[/URL] Seems legit.

[QUOTE=Xieneus;35651005][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6OQJxe8ic0[/media][/QUOTE] Damn, why did it have to end so abruptly?

One thing I would like to do later in my life is go on a tour of North Korea, especially if they remain in the communist dictatorship that they are in now.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/6F6Sr.png[/img] what a shame, i wanted to go so badly.

[QUOTE=JustGman;35653946][img]http://i.imgur.com/6F6Sr.png[/img] what a shame, i wanted to go so badly.[/QUOTE] If you're planning on actually going to the DPRK. Try to avoid Air Koryo. They're one of the worst airlines in the world and don't even have proper safety measures. Instead of an evacuation slide, they have the "safety rope". Oh and the cuisine is delightful. [img]http://s4.guyism.com/up/2012/02/air-koryo-gross-burger-1.jpg[/img]

[quote]The ideals underlying the DPRK's foreign relations are independence, peace and friendship. The Government of the Republic strives to further strengthen friendship and solidarity with the world's people on the basis of the ideas of independence, peace and friendship and to make the international community independent and democratic and thus actively contribute to the common cause of mankind to build a free, peaceful, friendly new world, free from domination and subjugation. [/quote] They really try hard don't they

Wow, I can join the Korean Friendship Association. [url]http://www.korea-dpr.com/membership.html[/url] Wow, they even have a forum! [url]http://www.korea-dpr.com/forum/[/url] Wait- [img]http://i.imgur.com/XW2Ye.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Xieneus;35654115]If [img]http://s4.guyism.com/up/2012/02/air-koryo-gross-burger-1.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] the fuck is that a burger.? [editline]21st April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=JustGman;35653946][img]http://i.imgur.com/6F6Sr.png[/img] what a shame, i wanted to go so badly.[/QUOTE] I want to know how much do thous Trip/Tours cost.?

[QUOTE=bord2tears;35656701]Wow, I can join the Korean Friendship Association. [url]http://www.korea-dpr.com/membership.html[/url][/QUOTE] I don't really feel comofortable sending the North Korea gov't a copy of my passport.

It's like they think the rest of the world doesn't know they're batshit insane.

Just looking at the website almost feels surreal. They advertise their country as a paradise, yet everyone knows they're one of the most oppressive countries of the world.

Their website is even better in 2005. [url]http://web.archive.org/web/20050114023454/http://www.korea-dpr.com/[/url]

I thought South Korea was "best Korea"? :S

[QUOTE=Orkel;35654791]They really try hard don't they[/QUOTE] The primary goal is to make their citizens believe that the world outside is something from a mad-max mixed with ww2. Riots somewhere? Another capitalist country collapses into civil war, IED in Iraq? A nuclear strike. What the people outside thinks about their glorious empire comes second, its pretty much "eh, we ain't [I]that[/I] bad".

[QUOTE=Scotchair;35661509]I thought South Korea was "best Korea"? :S[/QUOTE] It's a running gag on the internet. it's because its one of the worst countries in the world, so people jokingly say that its the best korea out of the two.

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35652153]The American leader is a badass. A hunchback wolf in a cape with a mace who flies around in a jet shaped like a dragon.[/QUOTE] 731st Air Control Squadron, "Fucking Robot Dragons".

Why would anyone want to go to N. Korea anyways?

[img]http://puu.sh/qMqI[/img] Behold glorious friendship and activities! [editline]21st April 2012[/editline] How the fuck is this a friendly activity?

[QUOTE=Griffster26;35664547]Why would anyone want to go to N. Korea anyways?[/QUOTE] to see Creepy Ghost Town IRL

[quote]All passports are invited to apply except for: U.S.A., Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Japan due to special protocol in bilateral relations. The number of visitors is limited to 10. Participants in the delegation will be accepted according to their order of arrival (presubscription), and after clearing all details and conditions.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.korea-dpr.com/business_trip.html[/url] :v:

[QUOTE=UnknownDude;35650619] This is a website maintained by the Korean Friendship Assosiasion, the international wing of North Korea's propaganda machine. It's meant for foreigners. Only top government officials have access to the internet in North Korea.[/QUOTE] Internet access is not strictly limited to party elite- it is present in a select few public institutions (university) and presumably an internet cafe of some sort in the capital. Internet Access in the sense that they can look at anything is usually something that most people won't have though, much less being able to have one in their household. If they don't have the opportunity to get into one of the top state colleges they'll probably never see it. The picture below shows one of the university computer labs (again, something only those who get entrance to the institution can see and use). [img]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3011/2991844463_b97b030d3a.jpg[/img] Anyways it's misleading to say that this is the website of the North Korean government like the article does. The Korean Friendship Association, while it is tied to the government and receives funding to that end, is not necessarily the government. A lot of the web-based stuff and translations is done by this group, who are foreigners living outside the country. As for "tourism", it is possible. This person took a train to NK by way of Vladivostok. [url]http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/[/url] The issues with this though is that as soon as you arrive you're pretty much escorted by handlers who take you to the sights and such. It's not something you can go individually and freely. For an example of a site that is more intricately tied to NK you need not look any further than the Korea Central News Agency. They even have their own domain (.nk) and it appears the server IP address lists itself out of NK to boot, which is rare in itself- lot of the other .nk servers happen to be in China. Same goes for their radio network "Voice of Korea". [url]http://www.kcna.kp/[/url] [url]http://www.vok.rep.kp/CBC/[/url]

Holy FUCK. I'd be scared shitless if I was that guy on the train.

[QUOTE=JustGman;35653946][img]http://i.imgur.com/6F6Sr.png[/img] what a shame, i wanted to go so badly.[/QUOTE] how much did/does it cost to go on one of there tour's?