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Coligny wrote:Did you... turn your back to this experience ?
(Tee hee... Heeheeheehee...)
(Extremely easily amused these days)
North Korea on Sunday angrily denied reports that it had executed several state performers to cover up the past of its first lady, calling the media accounts an “unpardonable” crime.
The denial came a day after the North indefinitely postponed reunions for families divided by the Korean War, citing South Korean hostility, slander and provocation.
Sunday’s denunciation focused on several recent reports carried by the South’s “reptile media” aimed at “hurting the dignity” of supreme leader Kim Jong-Un.
In particular, it cited a Saturday report in Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper—picked up by South Korean broadcasters and websites—that several members of the North’s Unhasu Orchestra and other state music troupes had been executed by firing squad for taping themselves having sex.
Ri Sol-Ju, Kim’s wife, is a former member of the orchestra.
Asahi said the rare execution of state performers, including a singer rumored to be Kim’s ex-girlfriend, had been ordered to squash rumors of Ri’s decadent lifestyle while she was an entertainer.
It said police had secretly recorded conversations between the entertainers who said, “Ri Sol-Ju used to play around in the same manner as we did”.
The source for the Asahi report was a “high-ranking North Korean government official who recently defected”.
South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper had reported the alleged executions last month, but there was no response from Pyongyang at the time.
The North’s state news agency KCNA said the reports were the work of “psychopaths” and “confrontation maniacs” in the South Korean government and media.
“This is an unpardonable, hideous provocation hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership,” KCNA said in a commentary.
“Those who commit such a hideous crime ... will have to pay a very high price,” it warned.
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chokonen888 wrote:New NK bullet-rain?
Coligny wrote:Nope. South Korea use French TGV...
This photo of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un pointing and gesturing near a children’s hospital as his Worker’s Party comrades look on seems unremarkable at first. But on closer inspection, there is something unusual about the photo released by KCNA, Pyongyang’s official news agency.
As recognised by the attentive eye of Kotaku gaming blogger Brian Ashcraft, it appears as if Kim and his colleagues aren’t at the under-construction paediatric centre at all, but rather they have been superimposed into the shot.
On closer inspection and with a few clicks of the zoom button, it becomes clear that: “closer details of fuzziness around the legs and floaty feet as well as odd shadows around the hands.” Ashcraft continues: “Kim Jong-un's hand shadow in particular looks too clean and defined.”
The way the men are lit in the photo spotted on Chinese site NetEase also fails to correspond with their surroundings. One commenter on Ashcraft’s post entitled North Korea still sucks at Photoshop wrote: “I am a photographer and the first thing I thought was a reflector or single light point above the lens was used. It tends to make the borders of subjects look artificial.”
Other visitors on the blog asked why the North Korean government thought a photo at an uncontroversial setting would need to be doctored.
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Taro Toporific wrote:I will never forget the time when a group of friends and I gathered, covering the window with a thick duvet and fastening two or three locks to the door so we could watch Steven Seagal action movies
Russell wrote:Actually, in the Netherlands there are areas where people are not allowed to watch TV at all, so there they typically cover the windows before watching anyway.
Coligny wrote:Russell wrote:Actually, in the Netherlands there are areas where people are not allowed to watch TV at all, so there they typically cover the windows before watching anyway.
Didn't knew the Talibans managed to reach that far...
Are people nervous when they see remote controlled planes too ?
Russell wrote:
Yep, unbelievable but true, those morons are still part of the gene pool.
You know what the motto of our royal family is, right? Apres nous le deluge...Coligny wrote:Russell wrote:
Yep, unbelievable but true, those morons are still part of the gene pool.
The Dutch ? Don't worry, rising sea levels will take care of that, they have been taunting Darwin for way too long...
Tsuru wrote:Yes, except rather regrettably these people, despite their ban on TVs do have things like automobiles and telephones
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