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nekom		2011-04-28 04:51:43 PM

factoryconnection: Those poor, cursed cult members. :-(

Yeah, it's a sad situation to be sure. You'll never see something like what we're seeing all over the middle east there for 2 major reasons. 1. No internet and 2. Everybody is spying on everybody. Even something as simple as complaining that the rations are too small can get you sent to a concentration camp. Oh and they don't just send YOU, they send your parents and children as well. Same goes for defectors. Imagine the guilt knowing that you have doomed your family to buy your own freedom. Now how in the hell do you take something like that out without outright war? Beats the hell out of me.

jaybeezey		2011-04-28 05:02:50 PM

Brad_Will: sprawl15: Which is why all the North Koreans you saw on your trip were 10 foot tall beastmen who shower in grain alcohol and feed their babies shrimp scampi.

No, that's Bill Brasky.

I once saw Bill Brasky at Sea World with his family. Shamu splashed him and got him wet. Well Bill Brasky jumped into the pool and threw Shamu into the audience and splashed him and yelled, "How do you like it?". He had dandruff the size of mice! You know Bill Brasky used to inject whiskey straight into his neck.

Noticeably F.A.T.		2011-04-28 05:08:18 PM

spentmiles: No one is starving!

We were invited! Punch was served! Check with Poland!

hourheroyes		2011-04-28 06:02:59 PM

Vice magazine has a good travelogue on North Korea. Streams on Netflix. It's surreal.

KWillets		2011-04-28 06:27:54 PM

Kim Jong's private car drove passed us one afternoon, and he rolled down his window and waved.

That was an inspiring effort, but the last-name-first thing seems to have tripped you up.

Troll contest is a toss-up between spentmiles and the author of TFA:

The accord fell apart in 2002, after the George W. Bush administration claimed North Korea had embarked on a secret uranium enrichment program.

Action Seal		2011-04-28 07:19:57 PM

drongozone: Best Korea laughs at your ignorance of their foodstuff situation:

calendar>>April 27. 2011 Juch 100
Foodstuff Production Goes Up

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Combined foodstuff factories in all provinces are keeping production going on a high level.

Some of them have newly built millet jelly production processes and directed much effort to putting the foodstuff production on a scientific and standardized basis, while lowering the amount of raw material consumed per unit of product.

The Paeksong and Songdowon Combined Foodstuff Factories have increased the output of cookies and other foodstuffs through the already built millet jelly production processes.

The Suyangsan and Paekunsan Combined Foodstuff Factories have boosted the production based on locally-available raw materials such as seaweed and edible herbs.

Those in North Hwanghae and Jagang Provinces have streamlined cookie packing and corn processing processes.

Some time ago, General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the Susongchon Combined Foodstuff Factory and called for increasing the output and diversifying the products with raw materials abundant in the area.

I'm counting on you to post these things from now on. I used to read KCNA every day, but now that I'm living in Seoul, all those websites are banned.

nekom		2011-04-28 07:29:54 PM

Action Seal: I used to read KCNA every day, but now that I'm living in Seoul, all those websites are banned.

Really? There's a hint of irony in that.

Action Seal		2011-04-28 07:45:32 PM

nekom: Action Seal: I used to read KCNA every day, but now that I'm living in Seoul, all those websites are banned.

Really? There's a hint of irony in that.

A little bit, wouldn't you say? The DPRK portal is tagged as an "illegal website" as well. Those two words are in English, and I can't read Korean well enough to understand what it says under that.

nekom		2011-04-28 07:58:07 PM

Action Seal: The DPRK portal is tagged as an "illegal website" as well. Those two words are in English, and I can't read Korean well enough to understand what it says under that.

Try the cutting and paste into the language tools of the google. It isn't being best translation there which is out, but it should do enough in good to be understanding by most.

gnarr		2011-04-28 08:02:48 PM

I am sorely disappointed. I went to work figuring that I'd come back for the "Yes, yes, I made all this up in an effort to make a hilarious thread about North Korea" post from spentmiles. I thought for sure I'd see it after his comment about American immigration confiscating his camera and threatening him with Gitmo.

Really, spentmiles, such a lauded troll effort deserves reward...come take your bow.

Millennium		2011-04-28 10:52:51 PM

spentmiles: It's impossible to teach anyone something they already incorrectly know. Let go, open your mind, be like a child again.

Um, guys, I think spentmiles tipped his hand too much on this one. He's not Kin Jong-Il; he's Gene Ray.

Action Seal		2011-04-28 11:05:28 PM

nekom: Action Seal: The DPRK portal is tagged as an "illegal website" as well. Those two words are in English, and I can't read Korean well enough to understand what it says under that.

Try the cutting and paste into the language tools of the google. It isn't being best translation there which is out, but it should do enough in good to be understanding by most.

Unfortunately, it's an image. I'd post it to Fark but I'm at work and I'm a little nervous about visiting "illegal websites" here.

If I remember, I'll do it when I get home.

nekom		2011-04-28 11:08:16 PM

Action Seal: Unfortunately, it's an image. I'd post it to Fark but I'm at work and I'm a little nervous about visiting "illegal websites" here.

Don't blame you one bit for that. Nice to know that even if you did, you wouldn't be sent to a godforsaken prison camp, but you might raise a few eyebrows and possibly get into some minor hot water, so yeah, don't blame you in the least.

Millennium		2011-04-28 11:12:46 PM

Noticeably F.A.T.: spentmiles: No one is starving!

We were invited! Punch was served! Check with Poland!

Actually, this one is semi-true: there's still enough few people actually starve in the DPRK. Those not in the military are kept weak, certainly -it's another way to ensure that they can't rise up- but they don't starve.

nekom		2011-04-28 11:24:23 PM

Millennium: but they don't starve.

Except when they do, which is sometimes.

drongozone		2011-04-28 11:54:04 PM

Action Seal: drongozone: Best Korea laughs at your ignorance of their foodstuff situation:

calendar>>April 27. 2011 Juch 100
Foodstuff Production Goes Up

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Combined foodstuff factories in all provinces are keeping production going on a high level.

Some of them have newly built millet jelly production processes and directed much effort to putting the foodstuff production on a scientific and standardized basis, while lowering the amount of raw material consumed per unit of product.

The Paeksong and Songdowon Combined Foodstuff Factories have increased the output of cookies and other foodstuffs through the already built millet jelly production processes.

The Suyangsan and Paekunsan Combined Foodstuff Factories have boosted the production based on locally-available raw materials such as seaweed and edible herbs.

Those in North Hwanghae and Jagang Provinces have streamlined cookie packing and corn processing processes.

Some time ago, General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the Susongchon Combined Foodstuff Factory and called for increasing the output and diversifying the products with raw materials abundant in the area.

I'm counting on you to post these things from now on. I used to read KCNA every day, but now that I'm living in Seoul, all those websites are banned.

That's a great site, the KCNA. Will keep you informed.

bathtub_gin		2011-04-29 12:37:32 AM

Man, Nathan's sure makes a swell frank.

Cpl.D		2011-04-29 02:57:55 AM

Yellow cake?! Don't handle that stuff without a special CIA napkin. And don't drop that shiat!

platedlizard		2011-04-29 04:15:54 AM

spentmiles: nekom: Best Korea is the world's largest prison camp, a terrifying place that seems as if it came from a bad science fiction novel.

Oh wow, when was your last visit to North Korea? Did you happen to go to one of the many restaurants that host Hanjeongsik? I kind of doubt it, because you don't have any idea what you are talking about.

The Western media paint Kim Jong as this guy who cannot stand criticism, requires his people to worship him, and has this giant ego. I've been to two of the public debates he hosted, and he was greatly interested in dissenting opinions and ideas on how things could be done differently.

You people cry out, "Communism! Despotism! Terrorism!" In reality, North Korea is closer to a perfect democracy than any other country in the world. North Korean leadership listens to what the people say, while American leadership tells its people to listen.

Take off this insane blindfold and please go visit North Korea.

Well said Goodsir. Well said.

/hot like a Best Korean nuke