North Korea, Sanctions, and Kim Jong-un

[Touring Mars]

boasting of North Korea’s superior cyber and nuclear warfare

I'm sorry, but I lost it at this bit

 

[Dennisch]

I'm sorry, but I lost it at this bit

Windows XP is still king.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

North Korea celebrate their seventieth anniversary as only North Korea can - by unveiling over three hundred brand-new propaganda slogans:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-13/north-korea-unveils-new-slogans-70th-anniversary/6090104

They particularly encourage the use of greenhouses and growing mushrooms, which would explain a lot of Kim Jong-un's behaviour.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

And here they are, all three hundred and ten of them:

http://m.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31446387

Some personal favourites:

Let us model the whole Party and all society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism!

By replacing everything with words that are impossible to spell?

Long live the great victory in the war against Japan!

Does Japan know you were at war?

Do everything the way the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il did!

... Drunkenly?

Training is also a battle!

Especially when your gun is older than you are.

All officers, become field commanders who are capable of dealing with modern warfare!

Use this Call of Duty as a training manual!

Always live the way you did as a soldier!

Constantly fighting?

Proactively develop and perfect powerful cutting-edge military hardware of our own style!

A sword has a cutting edge. Does that count?

Coal-miners!

This is what passes for propaganda?

Let Hungnam and Namhung produce Juche fertilizer in a larger amount!

Why, when the Ministry of Propaganda is doing such a good job of it?

Always advance straight ahead, following the Party!

They have Apple Maps. Should be great.

Let this socialist country resound with Song of Big Fish Haul and be permeated with the fragrant smell of fish and other seafoods!

"Fragrant smell" one way of putting it, but "overwhelming stench" might be better.

 

[watermelon punch]

http://www.ibtimes.com/kim-jong-un-...ports-higher-hair-shorter-eyebrows-he-1822026

Kim Jong Un New Haircut: North Korean Leader Sports Higher Hair, Shorter Eyebrows As He Issues New Corruption Warning

I can't help thinking he went with the shorter eyebrows because he didn't want to look like he was copying Vir Cotto's do.

 

[Fryto]

2014 vs 2015:

Extrapolating this to 2016:

 

[watermelon punch]

That guy obviously didn't care if everybody knew he was copying Londo Mollari.

 

[Roger the Horse]

Looks like he's gained weight.

 

[Keef]

By replacing everything with words that are impossible to spell?

How very Aladeen.

 

[DK]

Those glasses remind me of Kim Jong-il. Is there some sort of list of permitted glasses for North Koreans?

 

[Fryto]

Those glasses remind me of Kim Jong-il. Is there some sort of list of permitted glasses for North Koreans?

That's most probably the only pair of glasses available in the country...

 

[watermelon punch]

Those glasses remind me of Kim Jong-il. Is there some sort of list of permitted glasses for North Koreans?

That's most probably the only pair of glasses available in the country...

Yeah because tons of people there have malnutrition blindness anyway.
And if someone does get glasses, I'm sure the frames aren't Versace.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

North Korea has banned foreigners from competing in the Pyongyang marathon, because ebola:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...igners-from-marathon-over-ebola-fears/6226204

 

[PeterJB]

In all fairness, their self-imposed isolation will be very effective if Ebola does spread worldwide, but it's for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Liquid]

If only North Korea could swap geographical places with the Seychelles or Ascension Island. Even better than Madagascar.

 

[Blitz24]

North Korea has banned foreigners from competing in the Pyongyang marathon, because ebola:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...igners-from-marathon-over-ebola-fears/6226204

Does this mean that anyone who contracts Ebola is also a foreigner?

 

[Sanji Himura]

A Korea Unification sympathizer has just attacked the US Ambassador to South Korea with a razor blade. The man, who identified himself as Kim, age 56, was promptly arrested after the attack on our ambassador. The US Ambassador suffered non-life threatening injuries in the attack.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ea-mark-lippert-attacked-injured-local-media/

 

[Robin]

Yeah also just read this, the amount blood looks horrendous but he is not in any life threatening condition. I can't believe he managed to walk out of there, most people would have fainted.

Scary stuff indeed and very odd for something like this to happen in South Korea.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...to-south-korea-mark-lippert-injured-in-attack

 

[FiftyBelowZero]

 

[BobK]

Too bad I can't read most of the text on that video because of the ads.

 

[Dan]

Looks like clickbait. *Moves on*

 

[Sanji Himura]

Kim Jong Un's three year mourning period is apparently over. He is now seeking girls for his revitalized "pleasure squad".

What is the pleasure squad, you may ask? Established during the days of Un's grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the military would scour the country side looking for the prettiest women to serve in the dictator's mansions, where they will be expected to "be available" on demand. Most of the women were singers, dancers and maids, but the most beautiful were made concubines to the North Korea Elite power structure. Women are "retired" from the pleasure squad in their 20s, and paired off to military officers looking for wives.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/0...g-new-members-for-kim-jong-un-pleasure-squad/

 

[Dan]

 

[Roger the Horse]

North Korea, where the middle ages are today!

 

[FiftyBelowZero]

Kim Jong Un's three year mourning period is apparently over. He is now seeking girls for his revitalized "pleasure squad".

What is the pleasure squad, you may ask? Established during the days of Un's grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the military would scour the country side looking for the prettiest women to serve in the dictator's mansions, where they will be expected to "be available" on demand. Most of the women were singers, dancers and maids, but the most beautiful were made concubines to the North Korea Elite power structure. Women are "retired" from the pleasure squad in their 20s, and paired off to military officers looking for wives.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/0...g-new-members-for-kim-jong-un-pleasure-squad/

What the actual 🤬

 

[Prenny]

Is it me or North Korean Government seems to be the most racist person of the world much more than Hitler? seriously, ban foreigners because of Ebola? So it means every foreigners have Ebola?

 

[PeterJB]

To be fair it is quite a good way of keeping the disease out, even if it is for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Prenny]

The most shocking is.......Theres a japan product! I thought North Korea cursed Japan for being dirty capitalists.

I Don't think North Korea REALLY hates Japan, i heard that North Korea imports some Japanese goods along with Chinese goods, Kim Jong-Un even used to own a Playstation 1 when he was in Switzerland and he funds the North Korean Schools in Tokyo.

 

[qhobbes]

1 everyday activity that is legal in North Korea but not in the United States of America.

 

[squadops]

I don't know how I missed this but back on November 8th 2014 Kenneth Bae was released after two years of captivity 👍