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With all this new "North Korea" stuff and the whole thing with their missiles and nukes, it seems interest on the People's Democratic Republic has increased.

This Russian guy, Artemii Lebedev, went to North Korea and made a photo essay on the country, or at least what he was able to capture with his camera. Its quite sad the conditions these people live in.

Without further ado, here it is


http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755

Who cares about starving munckins with nukes ?

Call Hollywood maybe they can send kim Nodong a contract ...pay him a few hunded bucks and they can feed a whole villiage some gruel for a year .

We'll get a new munchkin movie and maybe some more of them evil flying monkeys .

I posted that link earlier in another thread.

The best way to finish off North Korea is to just drop Big Mac's and fries on them . They will be so busy eating ..you can just walk around handing out candy bars ...the fastest war in history and won with hamburgers...or maybe special riceburgers because meat is such an odd thing they may not know you can eat it .

Yes, the invaders shoudl also try not to use electric things, it may shock them, because electricity can shock you, and because they've prbly never seen it before

Click the link, its quite sad

Click the link, its quite sad
Already posted this link ahead of you in another Korea thread.

Actually, a few of the buildings look really cool. That hotel would have looked awesome had they finished it.

Actually, a few of the buildings look really cool. That hotel would have looked awesome had they finished it.

That's what I thought to. Some of the pics are a little deceiving of what North Korea really is. It would really suck to be that person in the blue uniform that has to direct traffic everyday. It's got to be the worst place to live after most of Africa.

Actually, a few of the buildings look really cool. That hotel would have looked awesome had they finished it.
Back in 1955.

Actually, a few of the buildings look really cool. That hotel would have looked awesome had they finished it.
I don't know about that, even the finished buildings look grey and boring

except for the Maluseum, that one looked shiny

If you set aside the biased captions it was much like any big city

If you set aside the biased captions it was much like any big city
So, men pee in the open in public in your city, and your country doesn't have the technical ability to make float glass?

If you set aside the biased captions it was much like any big city
Eh, what?

So, men pee in the open in public in your city, and your country doesn't have the technical ability to make float glass?
Come on, who hasn't? I've even vomited on the pavement outside a BBC HQ. Open-air urban urination is nothing.

And the glass thing - we pay China to do it for us. :p

Back in 1955.
Hardly. The caption said 1991. And that style of architecture, you can find all across Europe. Seriously, it is big, it has a complex form clearly more advanced than a modular tower block, and had it been completed and given a coat of white paint, it would have made a better skyline landmark than you will find in most Western cities.

Come on, who hasn't? I've even vomited on the pavement outside a BBC HQ. Open-air urban urination is nothing.

And the glass thing - we pay China to do it for us. :p
I could understand throwing up outside the BBC (depending on which show you were working on).

I could understand throwing up outside the BBC (depending on which show you were working on).
I was working on a party, actually. :p

Besides the total lack of automobiles, the lack of stores, the extremely restricted attitudes regarding interaction with foreigners, the buildings that are falling apart, the constant worship of "The Great Leader", the electricity being shut off, the constant surveillance, the grinding poverty, the lack of economic activity, the deliberate hiding of that which the state does not want foreigners to views and the omnipresent military, the stuff to keep people in the country, the police state apparatus and everything else, the city otherwise seems normal enough.

If you set aside the biased captions it was much like any big city
Were the hell do you live? Mogadishnu?

I was working on a party, actually. :p
Well, if you're leasing office space from MLB in London, you'll probably find people peeing in the street (maybe even in the stairwells, elevators, and hallways).

Besides the total lack of automobiles, the lack of stores, the extremely restricted attitudes regarding interaction with foreigners, the buildings that are falling apart, the constant worship of "The Great Leader", the electricity being shut off, the constant surveillance, the grinding poverty, the lack of economic activity, the deliberate hiding of that which the state does not want foreigners to views and the omnipresent military, the stuff to keep people in the country, the police state apparatus and everything else, the city otherwise seems normal enough.
Sounds like London.

Except the cars. We have room for improvement there.

Sounds like London.

Except the cars. We have room for improvement there.
I'm sure the beer is better in London.

I'm sure the beer is better in London.
Pfft, not paying a fiver a pint.

Pfft, not paying a fiver a pint.
That's a good point. But some of the non-UK beer (like Korenwolf) is almost worth it.

Besides the total lack of automobiles, the lack of stores, the extremely restricted attitudes regarding interaction with foreigners, the buildings that are falling apart, the constant worship of "The Great Leader", the electricity being shut off, the constant surveillance, the grinding poverty, the lack of economic activity, the deliberate hiding of that which the state does not want foreigners to views and the omnipresent military, the stuff to keep people in the country, the police state apparatus and everything else, the city otherwise seems normal enough.
yeah, apart from all that, I'd like to live there

did y'all see the "60 minutes" report on north korea a couple years ago? they used reportage from an european documentary film company who had had a free pass to really look around NK.

they talked about how most of the tanks and airplanes massed at the NK/SK border were just empty shells. how in the country side people were so hungry that you would see children squatting on the side of the road eating bugs. how political prisoners commonly ate the rats in their cells.

its a pretty grim place.

the photos posted on the link wouldnt be shocking except that kim tries to pretend that his country is as modern as south korea when it is on a par with.....rwanda maybe?

its a shame that the north korean people have to endure this kind of mismanagement.

did y'all see the "60 minutes" report on north korea a couple years ago? they used reportage from an european documentary film company who had had a free pass to really look around NK.
nope, there was something on CNN a couple months back, but it wasent official, it was all secret footage taken from under clothes and stuff. They showed an execution, acts of vandalisim, and poverty, at least what I saw.



they talked about how most of the tanks and airplanes massed at the NK/SK border were just empty shells. how in the country side people were so hungry that you would see children squatting on the side of the road eating bugs. how political prisoners commonly ate the rats in their cells.
Even if those tanks worked, im sure its not hard for the South Koreans or whoever to destroy old Soviet tanks from the 60's and 70's, the same for the planes.

And on the food, the guy who took the pictures said that there were women who were scavanging for herbs in a city park.



the photos posted on the link wouldnt be shocking except that kim tries to pretend that his country is as modern as south korea when it is on a par with.....rwanda maybe?
its better than most of Africa, at least there arent roving bands of militia robbing and raping at will.


its a shame that the north korean people have to endure this kind of mismanagement.
true

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Very Interesting.

why dont we just take out Kim Jong Il.

But we'd have to use something creative, we already did the assination thing with bombs on Zarqouwi, and the sniper thing is over used. poison is too....hmm... how about just a good stabbing? repetivley...over and over. that hasnt been done since like the middle ages man.