Haunting pictures inside North Korea... taken by a photographer who has now been banned from the rogue state for life | Mail Online

Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 9 months ago to Government
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Probably the most decrepit and desperate of the socialist paradises that litter our planet.


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  • Posted by Notperfect 11 years, 9 months ago
    Our dear leader wants this for all. Americans that is except those elitists. This is a disgrace and it keeps going on and on. Pathetic excuse for a human being. Wonder has Obama ever heard of ROME!
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Alright, good job on mentioning Estonia: the little-known Baltic/Scandanavian country hardly anyone in the US hears about!

    Unfortunately, Estonia's gov't got accepted into the EU and adopted the Euro. Their former currency, the Kroon, is now a memory. But their economy is doing ok at the moment, but not as well as it was a couple of years ago. For more information: http://news.err.ee/

    Also, http://epl.delfi.ee/ Ma raagin hasti eesti keelt. Learning more every week. =) Enjoy. Head aega.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 11 years, 9 months ago
    Remember Ayn Rand's four criteria that make a country deserve invasion from without?

    1. Execution without trial.

    2. Detention without formal charge.

    3. Restrictions on ex-migration.

    4. Censorship.

    Any country that does all four, deserves invasion, in her view.

    I'd say North Korea qualifies. But Rand did not really treat whether any such totalitarian state would rise to a level of a humanitarian emergency, thus giving someone an affirmative duty to invade.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If the south can ever regain control over the north, I'm sure that they will blossom quite rapidly. Look at how fast East Germany did once the wall came down.
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 9 months ago
    This is the uptopia that our wonderful numbskulls in academia, the media and the Crapitol Hill want for us ~ the commoners. Of course, because they are self-identified as "special" they won't live like us~they're too busy representing our best interests. Right?
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 9 months ago
    I'm sorry, but many of these pics I could have taken when I lived in Mexico in the mid 90's. It's a poor agrarian society.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 11 years, 9 months ago
    I'm thinking of the mythical socialist utopia, a place where the "progressive" local branch of communism would just love to take us all kicking and screaming to. I just caught sad sight of our possible future.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 11 years, 9 months ago
    I hope that North Korea can snap back into functionality as Estonia did. What it took there was 'merely' the removal of the totalitarian regime - and a new and capitalistic Estonia emerged from the ashes.

    Good luck to North Korea.

    Jan
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  • Posted by Lucky 11 years, 9 months ago
    Only one over-weight person, many of the others have such fine features.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 9 months ago
    I find North Korea amazing. It's amazing just how bad humans can make existence. I've heard that many North Koreans believe most of the propaganda, but you never know which of them are just rightly scared to say anything but the party line. It would be logical if the gov't demanded they say the gov'ts pretty good. Instead they make them gush about it in an insane way. I don't get it. It's a morbidly fascinating train wreck.
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