North Korea

cm1179 · 15 Jun 2010 at 11:45

has anyone ever been? i would like to know a bit more other than what i have read in articles about this country. mainly these:

what will be the fate of the national football team should they not do very well?

what is there primary school education like? are they strict etc

what do they do to socialise? is there night clubs, bars, public places etc

this may sound very ignorant fo me but from what i'm reading, it sounds like a very harsh place to be

HeX · 15 Jun 2010 at 11:47

cm1179 said:
what will be the fate of the national football team should they not do very well?

They don't have a national team. We all know Kim Jong-il will play all 11 positions and put Brazil to the sword, 17-1 to North Korea. Brazil will be allowed one consolation goal because we all know how compassionate and loving the great chosen leader is.

Andelusion · 15 Jun 2010 at 11:50

All I know is..

North Korea..

Is best Korea!!

meghatronic · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:04

You have a big ask.

Time have some fantastic articles on NK.

.Lethal · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:09

cm1179 said:
what will be the fate of the national football team should they not do very well?

Killed by a small group of World TKD fighters.

what is there primary school education like? are they strict etc

I would be killed by World TKD fighters if I told you

what do they do to socialise? is there night clubs, bars, public places etc

They play Starcraft.

this may sound very ignorant fo me but from what i'm reading, it sounds like a very harsh place to be

no rly?

xJcBx · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:16

Nobody lisrens, no-one understands. Seems like no-ron takes me serirusry.

robgmun · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:18

All i know is, there's an entire country full of hot asian women locked up in that country. Ahhum, we should 'liberate' them

Like we did with the Russian women

Yas786 · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:18

HeX said:
They don't have a national team. We all know Kim Jong-il will play all 11 positions and put Brazil to the sword, 17-1 to North Korea. Brazil will be allowed one consolation goal because we all know how compassionate and loving the great chosen leader is.

Probably get executed by a firing squad soon as they arrive back in NK

Cosimo · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:21

Have a look at the Boston Globe’s Big Picture:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/peering_into_north_korea.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/recent_scenes_from_north_korea.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/on_the_spot_with_kim_jong-il.html

Lots of links here:

http://dprkforum.com/north-korea-in-pictures/

antijoke · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:26

Andelusion said:
All I know is..

North Korea..

Is best Korea!!

Lol.

Ziggy · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:41

HeX said:
They don't have a national team. We all know Kim Jong-il will play all 11 positions and put Brazil to the sword, 17-1 to North Korea. Brazil will be allowed one consolation goal because we all know how compassionate and loving the great chosen leader is.

lol

DampCat · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:43

I didnt think you could even go to NK? I was under the impression that the few outsiders who get ushered in are heavily chaperoned and have lots of special treatment layered on before they're swiftly kicked back out through a different exit.

Hank_Marvin · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:48

for fun they are forced to hold bits of coloured card to make images, they are very good at it.

KNiVES · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:53

North Korea is one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. There are gulags and mass prisons where people are tortured and experimented on.

At the last elections, the polling booths were clearly marked for which party you were going to vote for. The party that wasn't the current regime's was in a separate polling booth, and if you went in there, you were discreetly escorted off the premises, sent to the gulags and summarily executed. Your entire family would be sent to the salt mines.

The entire families of defectors and people who leave the country without permission are either executed or sent to the salt mines too.

There are radios in every single household playing propaganda - you can't turn it off or turn it down. Those who try to disable this radio are either executed or sent to the salt mines.

This is just the tip of the iceberg too. The entire nation is still reeling from the famine of the late nineties where a tenth of the population was wiped out. The average soldier in the army is a good foot shooter than their South Korean counterparts, and it shows especially on the DMZ.

It's pretty much 1984 made reality.

xJcBx · 15 Jun 2010 at 12:54

Hank_Marvin said:
for fun they are forced to hold bits of coloured card to make images, they are very good at it.

And this:

robgmun · 15 Jun 2010 at 13:06

KNiVES said:
North Korea is one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. There are gulags and mass prisons where people are tortured and experimented on.

At the last elections, the polling booths were clearly marked for which party you were going to vote for. The party that wasn't the current regime's was in a separate polling booth, and if you went in there, you were discreetly escorted off the premises, sent to the gulags and summarily executed. Your entire family would be sent to the salt mines.

The entire families of defectors and people who leave the country without permission are either executed or sent to the salt mines too.

There are radios in every single household playing propaganda - you can't turn it off or turn it down. Those who try to disable this radio are either executed or sent to the salt mines.

This is just the tip of the iceberg too. The entire nation is still reeling from the famine of the late nineties where a tenth of the population was wiped out. The average soldier in the army is a good foot shooter than their South Korean counterparts, and it shows especially on the DMZ.

It's pretty much 1984 made reality.

i think there is a slight exaggeration in that post, the radio bit in particular

cm1179 · 15 Jun 2010 at 13:06

KNiVES said:
North Korea is one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. There are gulags and mass prisons where people are tortured and experimented on.

At the last elections, the polling booths were clearly marked for which party you were going to vote for. The party that wasn't the current regime's was in a separate polling booth, and if you went in there, you were discreetly escorted off the premises, sent to the gulags and summarily executed. Your entire family would be sent to the salt mines.

The entire families of defectors and people who leave the country without permission are either executed or sent to the salt mines too.

There are radios in every single household playing propaganda - you can't turn it off or turn it down. Those who try to disable this radio are either executed or sent to the salt mines.

This is just the tip of the iceberg too. The entire nation is still reeling from the famine of the late nineties where a tenth of the population was wiped out. The average soldier in the army is a good foot shooter than their South Korean counterparts, and it shows especially on the DMZ.

It's pretty much 1984 made reality.

and this is happening as i type?

Mik3 · 15 Jun 2010 at 13:09

There's a couple of good documentaries on Youtube showing the terrible conditions people are forced to live in.

Documentary: Inside Undercover In North Korea

Documentary - Welcome to North Korea

Check out this one

rypt · 15 Jun 2010 at 13:45

robgmun said:
All i know is, there's an entire country full of hot asian women locked up in that country. Ahhum, we should 'liberate' them

Like we did with the Russian women

genuine lol

lucky13 · 15 Jun 2010 at 13:47

KNiVES said:
North Korea is one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. There are gulags and mass prisons where people are tortured and experimented on.

At the last elections, the polling booths were clearly marked for which party you were going to vote for. The party that wasn't the current regime's was in a separate polling booth, and if you went in there, you were discreetly escorted off the premises, sent to the gulags and summarily executed. Your entire family would be sent to the salt mines.

The entire families of defectors and people who leave the country without permission are either executed or sent to the salt mines too.

There are radios in every single household playing propaganda - you can't turn it off or turn it down. Those who try to disable this radio are either executed or sent to the salt mines.

This is just the tip of the iceberg too. The entire nation is still reeling from the famine of the late nineties where a tenth of the population was wiped out. The average soldier in the army is a good foot shooter than their South Korean counterparts, and it shows especially on the DMZ.

It's pretty much 1984 made reality.

Any source to this or is it oppinion/exagerated? :rolleyes: