Rare Photos of North Korea

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Guys, the did put a piece of space junk into orbit a few weeks ago, so they have a rocket that will reach the US.

[The1BigWillie]

Would LOVE to watch some North Korea war on TV. What do you suppose we would call it? Operation .........???

[Dugout DickStone]

it's really kind of tragic and humorous and fascinating at the same time.  I mean it's essentially the equivalent of me saying I'm going to build a long range rocket and nuclear warhead and take over the world...and then starving my family in an attempt to do it.  meanwhile I can barely get a model rocket off the ground in my backyard. 

I kind of feel like all we'd need to do was send in a small team of navy seals to take out KJU and hijack and take over their state news department and we'd instantly be able to save an entire country of people.  I mean everyone in that entire country except for a few pampered elites in pyongyang has to absolutely despise that guy, right?

No, they love him.  It's even more tragic and fascinating than you think.
 

yeah but do they love him because they really believe he's their "dear leader" or do they "love" him because they don't want him to murder their family?

Dear leader.

Granted, I don't know much but I think this is right.  They are the last true believer country.  It's indoctrinated.

That being said, they do not match up well against us.

[Rage Against the McKee]

lmao, the last thing in the world I worry about is north korea affecting my life. let 'em do whatever they want.

I wouldn't care if they wanted to just have nukes, but I don't want them blowing one up over the ocean.

[AST]

Would LOVE to watch some North Korea war on TV. What do you suppose we would call it? Operation .........???

  Operation Nukeum Style 

[OK_Cat]

Would LOVE to watch some North Korea war on TV. What do you suppose we would call it? Operation .........???

operation bright eyes

[Unruly]

it's really kind of tragic and humorous and fascinating at the same time.  I mean it's essentially the equivalent of me saying I'm going to build a long range rocket and nuclear warhead and take over the world...and then starving my family in an attempt to do it.  meanwhile I can barely get a model rocket off the ground in my backyard. 

I kind of feel like all we'd need to do was send in a small team of navy seals to take out KJU and hijack and take over their state news department and we'd instantly be able to save an entire country of people.  I mean everyone in that entire country except for a few pampered elites in pyongyang has to absolutely despise that guy, right?

No, they love him.  It's even more tragic and fascinating than you think.
 

yeah but do they love him because they really believe he's their "dear leader" or do they "love" him because they don't want him to murder their family?

Dear leader.

Granted, I don't know much but I think this is right.  They are the last true believer country.  It's indoctrinated.

That being said, they do not match up well against us anyone that can make a war last longer than 3 months.

Srsly.

Any type of war of attrition at all will make NK look like super pud sissies.

[Unruly]

I don't know.  I bet you could pull the Native American on them and infect a bunch of blankets with something that will wipe them out.     I mean, they don't have heat and stuff.  So attack in the winter, offer blankets through some bullshit made up  NGO as some aid group and boom.... South Korea gets to remove South from their name.

CNS for new offensive coordinator.

[SdK]

Would LOVE to watch some North Korea war on TV. What do you suppose we would call it? Operation .........???

operation bright eyes

Conor would be pissed

[bubbles4ksu]

An orphan tower in Venezuela. If I've luked this, please let me know in the rudest possible manner.

[MeatSauce]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/cannibal-horror-as-10000-north-koreans-starve/story-fnb64oi6-1226563035481

A FATHER in North Korea is reported to have been executed by firing squad after murdering his two children to eat them during a "hidden famine" that may have killed more than 10,000 people last year.
In a litany of horrors documented by undercover reporters, another man dug up his grandchild's corpse for food and a third, driven mad by hunger, boiled his own child and ate the flesh.
The stories were collected by Asia Press, a specialist news agency based in Osaka, Japan, which has a network of "citizen journalists" inside North Korea and is regarded as credible.
Dozens of interviews and clandestine reports have led it to conclude that "considerable numbers of people" - probably more than 10,000 - have died in North and South Hwanghae provinces, south of Pyongyang, the capital.
North Korea has not officially confirmed any deaths. A government-supervised mission by the UN last September reported a food surplus in both provinces, yet the clandestine reporting depicts a pattern of misery and death while Kim Jong-un, the country's leader, spent lavishly on banquets and missile tests. One informant, an official in South Hwanghae, said: "In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 Days
"While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: 'We have meat.'
"But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves."
In its detailed 12-page report, Asia Press identifies reporters and sources by pseudonyms. "Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism," said the agency's Jiro Ishimaru.
Gu Gwang-ho, one of the reporters in North Korea, wrote: "There was an incident when a man was arrested for digging up the grave of his grandchild and eating the remains."
In May in Haeju, South Hwanghae's main city, a man who had killed 11 people and sold the meat as pork was executed by firing squad.
"In a village in Chongdan county, a man who went mad with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested," said a mid-ranking official of the ruling Korean Workers Party.
These incidents reportedly took place as Mr Kim, 30, marked his ascent to power with a new image, a glamorous wife and two costly rocket launches.
Last week, he followed these with a defiant pledge to retaliate against the latest UN sanctions by staging a third nuclear weapons test "aimed at the United States".
Early last year, officials confiscated food from farm collectives in North and South Hwanghae to supply the army and reward the privileged residents of Pyongyang for their loyalty to the Kim dynasty, the undercover reporters say.
But then a drought struck and, from April to June, farmers and their families in these "breadbasket" provinces began to die.
"One family was completely wiped out, everyone died of starvation, while another family gave up hope of living and killed themselves," said Gu.
A hospital administrator said there was no wood for coffins or cremations, so the dead had been wrapped in straw mats and tipped into an unmarked common grave.
"The farming villages I visited from May to June were in such a tragic state that I had to cover my eyes," the party official added. "There was no food at all. Casting out elderly parents or abandoning children was nothing rare."
"Political waste" on celebrations and extra rations for Pyongyang were key factors, according to the reporters.
Mr Kim, a plump, beaming figure, ordered new apartment blocks, imported equipment for a fairground and a dolphinarium, staged lavish festivities and appeared at a pop concert with his pregnant wife.
"The smooth transfer of power . . . was the top priority," according to the reporters. The famine in the Hwanghae provinces has passed its peak, the reports say. It is probable that when the UN team visited the area in the autumn, it was shown no evidence of it.
Japanese government sources say North Korea has developed a compact nuclear weapon that can fit on to a missile capable of reaching the US's west coast. The device may be equal in force to the atomic bomb that destroyed the city of Nagasaki in 1945, the sources told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
As Mr Kim celebrates his first year in power, it is clear thousands have paid for his adventures.
Additional reporting: Shota Ushio, Tokyo
The Sunday Times

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

If there was ever a case for a clandestine assassination, this is it.

[CNS]

That void would be huge.  Does that country have anyone that could step in w/o another country occupying for a long period off time to deprogram an entire country?

Just isolate and use clandestine stuff to keep them from actually accomplishing anything.

[chum1]

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/north-korea-nukes-the-us-in-its-most-insanely-trollish-video-yet

[Unruly]

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423269/january-28-2013/the-axis-of-evil-of-the-week---north-korea

[SkinnyBenny]

If there was ever a case for a clandestine assassination, this is it.

I have no qualms with clandestine
assassination operations, btw.

[SkinnyBenny]

LOLOLOLOL
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8998220/dennis-rodman-friend-life-north-korea-leader-kim-jong-un

[Institutional Control]

What's up with North Korea?

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17220065-un-passes-sanctions-despite-north-korea-threat-of-pre-emptive-nuclear-attack?lite

I thought Rodman handled this.

[puniraptor]

What's up with North Korea?

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17220065-un-passes-sanctions-despite-north-korea-threat-of-pre-emptive-nuclear-attack?lite

I thought Rodman handled this.

So they've talked enough crap that we can shoot down their missiles now without feeling bad, right?

["storm"nut]

Wish someone would start this crap so we can end it.

[CNS]

Article on CNN this morning(might have been NBC???) had an interview from some no name defense guy.  No name basically said that most of the War Games simulation stuff has us and South Korea in control of North Korea with in 24 hours.

 

['taterblast]

Article on CNN this morning(might have been NBC???) had an interview from some no name defense guy.  No name basically said that most of the War Games simulation stuff has us and South Korea in control of North Korea with in 24 hours.

 

would be pretty boss

[Rage Against the McKee]

Did he mention what China's reaction was in the simulation?

[CNS]

Did he mention what China's reaction was in the simulation?

Same article stated that China and USA are partnering up in pushing through punishment of NK with the latest round of proposed sanctions as a result of their latest aggressions.  Sounds like China decided that Kim Jong Un is not as fun to bro around with as his pops and they are bro'ing up with us now. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

This sounds like quite the simulation. It's like they managed to get Sim City to let them log in or something.