North Korea and its website.

According to the (genuine) government's website, or rather its blog of Glorious Leader's activities, Kim Jong Il gives an awful lot of "field guidance" to an awful lot of institutes... clever fella, that Kim Jong Il. ;)

Judging by the satellite view on Google Earth, NK is still a beautiful piece of land. They have some nice fancy looking football stadia and other amenities for an impoverished nation too. Who knows what the real story is. No doubt it's a bleak one, but it'd be nice to get the real "other side" to it.

The Appeal to the Entire Korean Nation made interesting reading:

The joint statement of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations is an important proposal of epoch-making significance and a great, inspiring patriotic move for breaking through the current grave difficulties, improving the inter-Korean relations and paving an avenue for reconciliation and unity, peace and reunification. The joint statement and the subsequent proposals for resuming the inter-Korean talks and measures made in good faith to implement the joint statement contain the feeling of warm sincerity and magnanimity of the north that the homogeneous Korean nation must never fight each other and must open up a road to peace, reunification and prosperity by the concerted efforts of the nation itself by all means.

Last year, thanks to the positive efforts made by the north, the war crisis which was teetering to such a furthest extreme as to exchange gunfire was temporarily defused and the horrific danger of war tided over, but the crisis has not disappeared yet.

The south Korean authorities continue to use violent languages provoking the north and perpetrate north-targeted military manoeuvres without letup. Raising towards the north’s sincere proposals their preconditions as a priority, they resort to such mocking and defiling acts as claiming that this is possible and that is impossible. They have put a stop to the civilian exchanges and contacts between the north and south and been persecuting the political parties, organizations and people of various stripes, who demand improvement of the inter-Korean relations and dialogue, labeling them as “pro-north.”

The tragic and shameful abnormal situation in which the two sides have been at loggerheads and fought each other over the last 66 years decade after decade and century after century since the division of the nation can no longer be tolerated.
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tigerstyle said:
Since when has there been a such densely populated island reef of the east coast of Korea? Really, theres' chuff all there...

/edit, wow, that site is blocked from the ROK, all I get is this: http://warning.or.kr/ which is no fun...
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Love that warning stuff, I used to get it all the time in Seoul.

South Koreas net is pretty highly filtered for anything pro north korea but it also blocks some weird stuff like poker sites, porn (but only some sites) and even some entertainment stuff.

Most South Koreans want peaceful reunification but they are worried what it would do to their (admittidly powerful) ecconomy.
 
Rainmaker said:
You forgot to add "on the same hole"! :cool:
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You forgot to add that he also only swings once to find 4 balls in that hole in one. One swing and one hole in one is normally good enough but not for him one swing equals 4 holes in one......

I can just see him walking along saying in a team america style voice "dont hate the player hate the game"
 
kgi said:
Quite incorrect. According to google (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=428921feb25a5c58&hl=en):



Simply put, google maps do not cover NK. Bing seems to have better coverage of it. Therefore the map/picture posted is misleading.
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Derp, you're mixing things up. There's a difference between Google's non-coverage of NK and a night photograph taken by NASA.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,366219,00.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/01/north-korea-a-nation-in-the-dark.html
 
Lysander said:
Derp, you're mixing things up. There's a difference between Google's non-coverage of NK and a night photograph taken by NASA.
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.... and there is quite a difference between the Google and Microsoft map views:

nk1kt.jpg
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