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[Ikarus360]

Bastards...to force people to freeze outside and weep for someone who killed millions for his apathy during a famine and opressed their lives for two decades (even worse than his father).



Although I don't see that much people like in Kim Il Sung funeral. In fact although the sadness is overworked it doesn't surpass

[Guardian]

Oh, yeah. The North Korean (new) leadership just told that China, never mind the world, to **** themselves.

[Gangwon]

It's worth a good read...

North Korea's future

In keeping with his orderly ascension from ranking army general to top political official to supreme leader of the last hard-line Communist country on earth, North Korea’s chubby young Kim Jong-un is expected soon to take up golf, where he will challenge his father’s record of scoring almost a dozen holes-in-one on his first try at the game.

Afforded little else in the way of information on the internal doings of the secretive country, observers will be reduced to parsing news of the young leader’s score, speculating on what it might mean should he fail to match his father’s 38-under-par.

Such is the fantasy scenario of North Korea’s notorious – often ludicrous – propaganda machine, which is operating at full throttle after the death of the country’s last demigod ruler. Observers question whether the regime can maintain the barrage of lies big and little it has used for so long to mislead and repress its citizens.

In particular, they wonder how long it will be before the flood of information loosened by the digital revolution, which helped destabilize and wash away repressive regimes throughout the Middle East this year, finally leaks through slowly widening cracks in the Kimchi Curtain.

The regime has “boxed itself in” with the extravagance of its lies, according to Hartmuth Kroll, a retired Canadian diplomat familiar with the region. By insisting for decades that the country is isolated because other nations are jealous of its success – and that however hard life becomes, it is always worse beyond the border – North Korea has courted a sharp reckoning.

“They’re riding a tiger,” Mr. Kroll said. “The more that people find out about the rest of the world, the more dangerous it becomes for the regime.” ..................................

[Guardian]

Well, the propaganda machine still continues on without any remorse. I guess Un is going to be no different from his father and grandfather. Since when humans came from North Korea, huh? And, I suppose, according to "them" the world spoke Korean then, too.

[Olympian2004]

Thank God that even in North Korea you can sometimes find a lighter side of life:

[Citius Altius Fortius]

Olympian2004, on 06 February 2012 - 01:44 PM, said:

Thank God that even in North Korea you can sometimes find a lighter side of life:

Its a lie, that this Norwegian group wrote this song, since Kim Jong-un wrote this masterpiece of music, grew this wonderful sunflowers in the fertile soil of North Korea, painted that impressive artwork himself, taught the five soldiers to move their upper bodies in such natural way back and forth that it emphasises the lovely tune and even the sun is shining through the window, since the sun loves Kim Jon-un - the great person born of heaven...

Edited by Citius Altius Fortius, 06 February 2012 - 02:20 PM.