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by J.A.F.O » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:05 am
chokonen888 wrote:J.A.F.O wrote:That and with the K-plastic surgery can you blame me?
Haha, love the alien looking K-girls!
by matsuki » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:23 am
J.A.F.O wrote:chokonen888 wrote:J.A.F.O wrote:That and with the K-plastic surgery can you blame me?
Haha, love the alien looking K-girls!
Yea and what's up with those contact lenses some of them use to make the iris bigger? First time I saw it I was scratching the baldspot going dafuk?!?
by Russell » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:01 pm
Men in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, it is reported.
The state-sanctioned guidelines were introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, media reports say. It is now being rolled out across the country - although some people have reservations about getting the look.
"Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will," one source tells Radio Free Asia. "It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes." Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. "Until the mid-2000s, we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'," the Korea Times reports.
It seems that haircuts have been state-approved in North Korea for some time - until now people were only allowed to choose from 18 styles for women and 10 for men. Earlier, North Korea's state TV launched a campaign against long hair, called "Let us trim our hair in accordance with the Socialist lifestyle".
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by Coligny » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:24 pm
by Russell » Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:30 pm
The theatrics of North Korea’s repressive regime never fail to get attention, but Monday’s news raised — or lowered — the bar.
According to this report in one of South Korea’s leading newspapers, The Chosun Ilbo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s administration shuttered a bureaucracy once headed by Kim’s recently-executed uncle and killed or imprisoned 11 high-ranking officials.
The morbid twist: Quoting an anonymous source, the paper reported that O Sang Hon, the deputy public security minister, was “executed by flamethrower.”
If true, the killing shows the chilling lengths to which Kim is willing to go to expunge any trace of his executed uncle, Jang Song Thaek, once a powerful player in North Korean politics. Now, months after Jang’s execution and his temporary erasure from state media, Jang’s older sister and her husband — North Korea’s ambassador to Cuba, Jon Yong Jin — have also reportedly been executed.
But if the story’s false, it would be at least the third time in as many months that an apocryphal tale involving North Korea has caught fire in today’s media, which rewards outlandish stories — regardless of their veracity — with clicks, shares and likes.
Earlier this year, Western media outlets incorrectly reported that Kim had unleashed 120 starving dogs on political rivals as a means of execution. This initial NBC News report earned 44,000 likes. The network’s piece refuting its earlier report published three days later got fewer than 200.
Then, last month, another report emerged saying that that Kim had decreed all men must emulate his business-on-the-sides, party-on-the-top haircut. It was also false.
The frequency of incorrect stories about North Korea illustrates the country’s isolation and the difficulties Western journalists have covering it. Add to that the nation’s predilection for hyperbole – “the world will suffer an unimaginable catastrophe if war breaks out on [its] peninsula,” its government said Sunday — and just about anything involving the country seems believable.
Yet, the flamethrower execution tale is in some ways plausible. For one, the story was reported by a well-known source which has been closely following Kim’s purges of his uncle’s closest aides. Earlier this week — days before the flamethrower tale – it published another story that said he was poised to execute an additional “200 core supporters” of his uncle.
The South Korean newspaper claims this current purge will be followed by another. The first one earlier this year targeted Kim’s uncle and his family.
“Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song Taek,” one anonymous source told the South Korean news agency Yonhap in January. ”All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children.”
The third purge will “target his [uncle's] supporters in provincial chapters of the Workers Party,” North Korea’s ruling party.
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by Coligny » Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:28 am
by Russell » Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:56 pm
by Coligny » Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:16 pm
by Russell » Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:22 am
Seeking an arresting image to promote a special offer, a hairdressers in west London attracted more than just extra customers when it used a large poster of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in its window.
When M&M Hair Academy in south Ealing put up the 1-metre-by-1.2-metre poster featuring Kim's distinctive short back and sides with longer centre parting and the words "Bad hair day?", they received a visit from disgruntled North Korean officials.
Unbeknown to the salon's owner, Mo Nabbach, 51, the North Korean embassy is just 10-minute stroll away, inside a modest semi-detached house in Gunnersbury.
"The day after it went up two Asian-looking guys wearing suits turned up. One was taking pictures and the other taking notes," said Nabbach. "I said to my client at the time, 'I think they are North Korean officials.'
"Then they came in. They asked: 'Who put that picture up?' I said I did.
He said the pair told him the poster was disrespectful and must come down. "They said: 'That is a country's national leader.' I explained to them we often used pictures of celebrities, Lady Diana, Victoria Beckham. I told them: 'Listen, this is not North Korea. This is England.'
"They asked for my name and I told them they would have to get their solicitors for that."
Nabbach said he asked them to leave, and later reported the incident to his local police station. The two did not identify themselves as being from the North Korean embassy, he said. But a Metropolitan police spokesman said: "I can confirm that the North Korean embassy have contacted us and that we are in liaison with them. Officers spoke to all parties. No offences have been disclosed."
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by Screwed-down Hairdo » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:50 pm
Coligny wrote:How fucked North Korea is...
When you google Dprk porn you mostly got picture of these:
by Russell » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:09 pm
by matsuki » Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:40 pm
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Coligny wrote:How fucked North Korea is...
When you google Dprk porn you mostly got picture of these:
I'd be more worried about how fucked anybody has to be to Google Dprk porn...
by J.A.F.O » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:30 pm
by Taro Toporific » Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:14 pm
From Today's #RodongSinmunhttp://t.co/jpqk9DBqZkpic.twitter.com/17QGnszL3Y via @KCNAWatch--- NK NEWS(@nknewsorg)'s twitter | April 21, 2014
by Russell » Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:37 pm
by Taro Toporific » Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:29 pm
Russell wrote:I wonder what those guys are writing in their little notebooks.
More pix from the Long-Dong Shimbun:
kcnawatch.nknews.org/pdf/rodong-sinmun/2014/04/21
by Taro Toporific » Fri Apr 25, 2014 5:17 pm
Russell wrote:I wonder what those guys are writing in their little notebooks.
by Coligny » Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:51 pm
by Russell » Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:46 am
by yanpa » Sat Apr 26, 2014 11:49 am
Coligny wrote:Exclusive:
The content of one of those notepads revealed for us...
I would not survive too long in DPRK...
by Russell » Sat Apr 26, 2014 12:56 pm
North Korea has arrested and detained an American citizen [...]
Miller Matthew Todd, a 24 year old U.S. citizen, was arrested for attempting to claim asylum in North Korea, the KCNA said.
“A relevant organ of the DPRK put in custody American Miller Matthew Todd, 24, on April 10 for his rash behavior in the course of going through formalities for entry into the DPRK to tour it,” the KCNA said.
Miller ripped up his tourist travel certificate and declared “he would seek asylum,” adding that ”he came to the DPRK after choosing it as a shelter,” the KCNA said, which described his actions as a “gross violation” of legal order.
The North Korean government detained Miller “after taking a serious note of his behavior, and is now investigating the case.”
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“Miller Matthew Todd’s action has hit the nerve of North Korean immigration officers because the DPRK considers entry visas its property and does not tolerate disrespectful attitude to it.
“Every foreign visitor who expresses intention to stay in the “workers’ and peasants’ paradise” longer than his or her visa permits, creates panic among the minders and leads to investigation and deportation.
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by matsuki » Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:00 pm
by wagyl » Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:37 pm
chokonen888 wrote:Sounds like something "he who shall not be named" would do....only they actually have gulags in Best Korea and the experience would probably be "noteworthy." hahaha...get it?...cause those guys around the great leader are always taking notes? hahaha ahhh nevermind
by Russell » Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:39 pm
by Coligny » Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:55 pm
wagyl wrote:It is bad form to explain your jokes here Choko.
by matsuki » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:40 am
wagyl wrote:chokonen888 wrote:Sounds like something "he who shall not be named" would do....only they actually have gulags in Best Korea and the experience would probably be "noteworthy." hahaha...get it?...cause those guys around the great leader are always taking notes? hahaha ahhh nevermind
It is bad form to explain your jokes here Choko.
by Russell » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:23 am
by Taro Toporific » Sat May 03, 2014 12:37 pm
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