Inside North Korea- Lots of "forbidden" pics inside

Pretty cool. I'd love to visit a place like that if I knew I'd be able to leave.

I bet the women are pretty horny there too.



Here's another blog.

http://www.blogjam.com/2005/10/29/north-korea-day-two-afternoon/

Many can be found by doing a search. There was one I read a few years ago that had some great insight, but I can't find it now.

 

doesnt look that bad, if you were born into an enviroment like that, without any concept of democracy or taste of democracy, would you still crave it?

 

Secret video documentary of North Korea.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6951629397402742053

 

Those pictures are amazing. It's like stepping back in time 35-40 years.

 

What a dreary place. A few years ago, before the recent nuclear weapon spat, NK was trying to set up a special economic zone like the ones in China. I wonder if that is still happening.

 

Everyone should read this book about living in a North Korean concentration camp.


The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

North Korea is among the most opaque nations on earth, its regime noted for repression and for the personality cult of its father and son leaders, the late Kim Il Sung and his successor, Kim Jong Il. Kang Chol-hwan draws from firsthand experience in explaining the repression. After the division of North and South Korea, Kang's family returned to North Korea from Japan, where his grandparents had emigrated in the 1930s and where his grandfather had amassed a fortune and his grandmother became a committed Communist. They were fired with idealism and committed to building an edenic nation. Instead, the family was removed without trial to a remote concentration camp, apparently because the grandfather was suspected of counter-revolutionary tendencies. Kang Chol-hwan was nine years old when imprisoned at the Yodok camp in 1977. Over the next ten years, he endured inhumane conditions and deprivations, including an inadequate diet (supplemented by frogs and rats), regular beatings, humiliations and hard labor. Inexplicably released in 1987, the author states that the only lesson his imprisonment had "pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity to be vicious." Kang's memoir is notable not for its literary qualities, but for the immediacy and drama of the personal testimony. The writing, as translated by Reiner, is unadorned but serviceable, a style suited to presenting one man's account of a brutalized childhood. Kang now lives in South Korea, where he is a journalist; his co-author Rigoulot was a contributor to The Black Book of Communism. Together, they have added a chapter to the tales of horror that have come out of Asia in recent years.


A very quick read and very fascinating. The crazy thing is how recent this stuff was going on. And that it is probably still going on.

 

Those pics are amazing.

 

I won't say North Korea is the model of prosperity, but some of their stuff was pretty dang cool.

I haven't missed it too much so far. I doubt I'd miss it much more in North Korea.

 

Does the sun ever shine in North Korea?

 

Here is another cool North Korean tour page someone here linked a long time ago...

1 stop Korea

 

Thanks for posting that. I'm watching it now.

That was a moving film. Man, what a corrupt gov. That country is the pits because of it. Poor kids.

 

cool pics

what a different world they live in.

 

I'm hoping that you either intended a and forgot, or you didn't actually look at the photos or read the captions.

 

I can go take pictures of Temple, Tx and say the same things. I've never been to Korea but I've heard it is a beautiful country, but they were probably speaking of South Korea.

As far as the communism comment, I'm not condoning it by any means, but google some pics of Shanghai, it's amazing how that city has changed the past 10 years.

 

Shanghai and China are anything but communist in terms of economic policy.

 

he does have a point, if you've never known anything else maybe it'll seem like a good thing.

reminds me of 1984, just be a machine and do as you're told.

 

Cuba is the same.

DD

 

Btw - for some reason I love seeing stuff like this about N. Korea -- really cool/ crazy different place [culture] on the earth.

 

Cuba is not nearly this backwards. The only other country with a government that rivals North Korea's is Turkmenistan.

Most people don't hear about it, but Turkmenistan's leader has the same type of cult personality as the Kims.