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N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« on: February 23, 2011, 01:25:45 PM »
Small pockets of unrest are appearing in North Korea as the repressive regime staggers under international sanctions and the fallout from a botched currency reform, sources say. On Feb. 14, two days before leader Kim Jong-il's birthday, scores of people in Jongju, Yongchon and Sonchon in North Pyongan Province caused a commotion, shouting, "Give us fire [electricity] and rice! "

A North Korean source said people fashioned makeshift megaphones out of newspapers and shouted, "We can't live! Give us fire! Give us rice!" "At first, there were only one or two people, but as time went by more and more came out of their houses and joined in the shouting," the source added.

The State Security Department investigated this incident but failed to identify the people who started the commotion when they met with a wall of silence.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/02/23/2011022300383.html

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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2011, 01:27:52 PM »
Yeah....but they got free healthcare.
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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 01:28:23 PM »
Lil' Kim will make Qaddafi look like a rank amatuer if this intensifies.
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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2011, 01:29:58 PM »
Lil' Kim will make Qaddafi look like a rank amatuer if this intensifies.

Yep, but interestingly, so far the neighbors are not telling who was involved  :whistling:

Their demands make the protesters in Wisconsin look like whiny children.

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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2011, 01:31:57 PM »
Yep, but interestingly, so far the neighbors are not telling who was involved  :whistling:

Their demands make the protesters in Wisconsin look like whiny children.
Until the union thugs start comparing Walker to the Kims.
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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2011, 02:19:58 PM »
Yep, but interestingly, so far the neighbors are not telling who was involved 

North Korea's equivalent of the MVD is not going to just let it drop, believe me.
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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2011, 03:51:25 PM »
I am not surprised about that coming.
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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2011, 04:08:19 PM »
I am not surprised about that coming.

Unfortunately the whole kit and caboodle  of leaders will if necessary wipe out their own people if they upraise.   Sound familiar??

They have enough cannon fodder and citizens to reduce their population by 1/4 and still remain in power. 

Advantages----More food to eat,  Fire as the people call electricity and those that survive will be all to happy to bow down to their leaders and give him loyalty for their full bellies, radio and computer games.----You know human nature, house wives will trade half their ageing relatives and child for a washing machine.

Disadvantages, China may not speak with them for a month or so, same with Russia or the USA.

No problem here move along folks. 

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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2011, 04:31:18 PM »
their probably by now all in a concetration camps. and their relatives have been hunted down to keep them company

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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2011, 04:42:45 PM »
Unfortunately the whole kit and caboodle  of leaders will if necessary wipe out their own people if they upraise.   Sound familiar??

They have enough cannon fodder and citizens to reduce their population by 1/4 and still remain in power. 

Advantages----More food to eat,  Fire as the people call electricity and those that survive will be all to happy to bow down to their leaders and give him loyalty for their full bellies, radio and computer games.----You know human nature, house wives will trade half their ageing relatives and child for a washing machine.

Disadvantages, China may not speak with them for a month or so, same with Russia or the USA.

No problem here move along folks. 

From what I've read, they've never had a full belly, the radio comes on when the electricity comes on in the morning and it only has one channel which is tuned to dear leader......computer??? what's that?
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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2011, 05:50:10 PM »
My analysis:

1) This would be an isolated event, as in not even remotely related or prompted by whats happening in the Middle East. The country is so isolated, most people there probably don't even know where Egypt is, much less whats happening.

2) The KPA is so indoctrinated into serving Dear Leader, they will put these people down in a heartbeat.

3) China isn't going to say a word negative about NK's response. They wouldn't want to encourage any kind of discontent among their own people.

4) Nothing will probably arise from this.

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Re: N.Korean Protesters Demand Food and Electricity
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2011, 01:01:04 PM »
My analysis:

1) This would be an isolated event, as in not even remotely related or prompted by whats happening in the Middle East. The country is so isolated, most people there probably don't even know where Egypt is, much less whats happening.

2) The KPA is so indoctrinated into serving Dear Leader, they will put these people down in a heartbeat.

3) China isn't going to say a word negative about NK's response. They wouldn't want to encourage any kind of discontent among their own people.

4) Nothing will probably arise from this.

T- I don't know about that.there are enough people with some money to afford cell phones, TV and cameras and computers.   Cars vans and trucks and with all society enough people to become discontented to give the government a pause when thinking about loyalty.

This is a paranoid country that never allowes a single guard to patroll alone, if one makes for the border the other has to shoot them or die themselves.

I was told that at one time if a prisoner in a military jail in the USA escaped , the Marine in charge of him would have to serve out the prisoners sentence.   This I do not know if it  is just an old wives tale but a time or two that prisoners at the Castle escaped, the Marine in charge of them , had no choice but to find them or shoot them    Could be a --no Shitter Sea story but this seems to be what is going on in Korea, on a larger scale.

The escapee from Korea has his whole family rounded up from infants to great grand parents and shipped off to the farms.  Conditions are so bad there I cannot believe that the prisoners will have the strength to rebel.   

Those that do stand up will come from the middle class, the educated and those that have the money to form well armed Militias. Those that have contacts outside the country and even with a home made ham radio can wait for the right time.

The time will come and I would guess that China is having hissie fitts as that idea may spread to parts of China.