"All-New" North Korea is Best Korea!

[Coligny]

Did you... turn your back to this experience ?

(Tee hee... Heeheeheehee...)
(Extremely easily amused these days)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Did you... turn your back to this experience ?

(Tee hee... Heeheeheehee...)
(Extremely easily amused these days)

I decided that rather than fuck a guy with a smoking Playboy Playmate body and a jaw like Arnold for money, I'd fuck a girl who looked suspiciously young and said she was 19 even though her ID said she was 18 for free. OK, I gave her five bucks for the cab ride home in the morning.

[Russell]

Best Korea fumes at Japanese report on machine gunning

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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[Coligny]

I read 'defected' as 'defecated'...
It was hilarious...
Then I realized maybe I should go back to bed...

[yanpa]

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[matsuki]

New NK bullet-rain?

[yanpa]

It's the Bullet-in-the-Head Train

[Taro Toporific]

North Korea's luxury ski resort opens for business
Kim Jong-un is hoping the multimillion-dollar Masik Pass will boost tourism and show North Korea is as civilised as the west
theguardian.com, Monday 7 October 2013 11.19 BST
...This is the Masik Pass ski resort, North Korea's latest megaproject and the product of 10 months of furious labour intended to show that the country, so often derided for its poverty and isolation, is as civilised and culturally advanced as any other.
The complex of ski runs, resort chalets and sleigh rides will open formally on Thursday, though late last month the main hotels appeared to be little more than shells, potholes filled the access roads and foundations were still being dug for secondary buildings...more...

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Propaganda posters at the base of a ski slope at Masik Pass: there are only about 5,500 North Korean skiers in a country of 24 million. Photograph: Kim Kwang Hyon/AP

[Coligny]

Well, judging by the amount of snow on their slopes, can understand that there is not too much skiers...

[yanpa]

New NK bullet-rain?

SK version:

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[Coligny]

Nope. South Korea use French TGV...

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[Tsuru]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the last picture probably wasn't taken at Seoul grand central...

[Coligny]

Sncf lineup in Paris gare de Lyon to compare with the KTX shapes.

[yanpa]

Nope. South Korea use French TGV...

Does it look like that photo was taken recently?

[Coligny]

Depends... if they have hipsters in South Korea... all bets are off...

[Taro Toporific]

via

[Russell]

Great, a day at the beach as a reward.

Even my employer doesn't come up with this.

[Russell]

Kim Jong-un and the curious case of the fake trousers and 'fuzzy' legs

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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[Coligny]

I'd go with artificial light source too.
Despite the great leaders one looking a bit small, all the feets of these guys lineup pretty well with the ground. Any 'shopping would either fark up there or cut around the knee to avoid people spotting mismatch of contact surface/shadows...

[Taro Toporific]

The Secret To Watching Steven Seagal Movies In North Korea
womencitizen.com 18 October 2013 Cuma (Turkey)
Every week we ask a North Korean your questions, giving you the chance to learn more about the country we know so little about. This week Nikolay S. from Novsibirsk asks:
......Q: What was it like to grow up in the capital city Pyongyang?
...... If life is as good as people say there, what made you leave?
When I tell people I’m from Pyongyang, it always raises their attention. People give me a surprising look and always show a keen interest in learning about my life there. They seem to have this fixed idea of North Koreans from Pyongyang – they see us performing mechanics at mass games or uncontrollably wailing over the death of Kim Il Sung. Often I feel they see me as if I came from ancient Rome or another planet...

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...I still vividly remember listening to South Korean radio in secret with my friends, something that enabled us to learn about new emotions and feelings. What a little joy of freedom that gave me! Imagine taking out that small radio and listening to it while everyone is sleeping. I will never be able to forget the nights of longing for the world that seemed to have no pain and no sorrow.
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...more...

North Korean Army Girls (Explored) by Stefan Schinning, on Flickr

[Coligny]

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

Just when you though life in DPRK might not have been that miserable...

You fall on this...

[Russell]

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.

Unlike NK, however, it is their strongly protestant religion that enforces this.

And they don't watch Steven Seagal, but just old-fashioned pron.

[Coligny]

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]

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 ?

Dunno, maybe they don't even understand what remote control is.

These people walk to church every Sunday, since driving would constitute "working", which is against the will of their god. They tend to refuse other cars to pass if they walk on the road, apparently reasoning that if they are hit, it is the will of god.

Yep, unbelievable but true, those morons are still part of the gene pool.

[Coligny]

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]

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...

You know what the motto of our royal family is, right? Apres nous le deluge...

And anyway, the polio will probably get us way before any floodwater will... in the same group of people who aren't allowed to watch TV there is also a group who refuse to have their kids inoculated. Like the insane American moms, but much worse and more numerous as well... and they wear clothes like they are still living in the 18th century. We actually call these people the poldertaliban.

We should probably fence that particular part of the country in, and then set it on fire slightly just to be on the safe side.

[Samurai_Jerk]

So they're kind of like the Amish.

[Tsuru]

Yes, except rather regrettably these people, despite their ban on TVs do have things like automobiles and telephones

[wuchan]

Yes, except rather regrettably these people, despite their ban on TVs do have things like automobiles and telephones

sounds like the insanely retarded christian scientists. I had a friend in high school that divorced his parents because they wouldn't let him go to the doctor for a broken leg.

[Russell]

My parental home is in a village where some of these people live. Fortunately, they are far in the minority.

And so it happened that one elder, who usually drove around in his van selling bibles, was suspiciously often in one part of the village where is son and daughter-in-law lived.

And he was there especially during working hours...

You guess it: he was there to bang his daughter-in-law.

God allows only so many transgressions, and lo and behold they were eventually found out. Fortunately for these occasions they have a wooden bench in the front row of the church, designated as the "punishment bench", where the offenders are required to sit during church service...

Aahhh, life in a small village...