North Korea, It's not that bad.

[ScubaGuy]

The thread is too long to quote but it starts with someone posting a bunch of pics from NK.

Link

   
http://www.businessinsider.com/pyongyang-north-korea-20...

North Korea is one of the most secretive countries in the world.

Most images of life in this state that are released in the mainstream media display military exercises and grandiose parades.

British photographer Charlie Crane traveled to Pyongyang, the capital city, and obtained permission to photograph daily life in North Korea.

Despite being chaperoned by a guide, Crane was allowed to photograph passers-by during their daily routine -- a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary North Koreans.

Most of the comments are what you would expect from normal people, except for our local idiot commie Hanna.

She does her best to defend Dear Leader and tell everyone how we've all been brainwashed in thinking NK is a bad place.

Too long to quote, you have to read it to believe it.
 

[Karin]

That Hannah Bell bitch is a real piece of work.  She keeps saying "LOL," and posting pictures of smiling NKers, posting the same one several times.  She appears to be frantic, posting links to other DU threads. 

This person is pissed:

DutchLiberal (1000+ posts)      Tue May-31-11 12:08 PM
Response to Reply #45
123. The replies of a certain member in this thread reminds me of the Twilight Zone...
 Scary to think that an American, actually on a site called DEMOCRATIC Underground, is glorifying a totalitarian dictatorship that starves its own people, like it really was a workers' paradise.

And Dutch says

I have debated Hannah before in other threads, and everybody else in there already agreed with me she's stone-cold nuts... but I had to try anyway...

apocalypsehow  (1000+ posts)      Tue May-31-11 06:29 PM
Response to Reply #169
227. Spot-on post. +1. Especially your second-to-last sentence

Hannah desperately wants Communism to "work." 

[compaqxp]

I've long considered going on one of the "trips" they offer foreigners but soon realised I wouldn't see what I wanted to see. I always been quite interested in North Korea and I can't help but wonder how it'll end someday for them.

The second picture above the city looks like something right out of 1984 with the worn out, old and lifeless look.

And while I don't doubt those people exist they look nothing like the everyday North Korean you see in other photos, at least from the ones I've seen.

[Paul Heinzman]

That Hannah Bell bitch is a real piece of work.  She keeps saying "LOL," and posting pictures of smiling NKers, posting the same one several times.  She appears to be frantic, posting links to other DU threads. 

This person is pissed:

And Dutch says
 

Hannah desperately wants Communism to "work." 

Agreed. Her defense of Chavez and Castro is hard enough to stomach, but this is downright vile.

She needs a few years exile sabbatical in NK if she thinks it's so dandy.

[JohnnyReb]

What a great, rich country...not one fat poor person.

[Rebel]

lumpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun May-29-11 05:19 PM

Response to Reply #62

64. I have to agree. We know nothing about how the NK people
   
consider their lives. The comments here remind me of comments we have seen regarding Cuba. We have been brainwashing into believing that NK is an evil nation just the same as Cuba.

This Cuba?

http://therealcuba.com/

Yeah, what a shithole you Marxists have turned it into.

[GOBUCKS]

Most people have probably seen the satellite photos showing how well illuminated the workers' paradise is at night.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynetter/73481007/

We've learned from the DUmp democrats that the starvation and utter poverty of the North Korean people is solely the fault of George W. Bush.

[Rebel]

Can't remember who it was, or if it was here or usmilnet, but someone said after 1953, the average size of a South Korean and a North Korean was at parity. Now the average North Korean is about 3-6 inches shorter.

[Ralph Wiggum]

And now Hannah Bell has another stupid thread about how bad life is in South Korea.

Pic Heavy Link

[DumbAss Tanker]

For a large percentage of its inhabitants, the only thing Hell has that North Korea doesn't is a better Winter climate.   

[blitzkrieg_17]

That Hannah Bell bitch is a real piece of work.  She keeps saying "LOL," and posting pictures of smiling NKers, posting the same one several times.  She appears to be frantic, posting links to other DU threads. 

This person is pissed:

And Dutch says
 

Hannah desperately wants Communism to "work." 

You cannot reason with a True Believer, no matter what. Their stupidity is boundless.

[LC EFA]

Those were the best staged photos the NK administration could pull off ?

Gotta love all those cars on the roads , customers in stores , well maintained buildings and open spaces and other signs of prosperity and freedom.

Epic Fail.

The scariest part is that such luxurious living standards and obvious prosperity and freedom are exactly what the left would like to enforce on us all.

[Freeper]

I bet the DUmmies would have fallen for Hitler's big show during the Olympics of 36 (or 40 I forget which year) where Berlin was cleaned up and everyone ordered to look happy, so people would think that Germany was a great place.

[Mike220]

I bet the DUmmies would have fallen for Hitler's big show during the Olympics of 36 (or 40 I forget which year) where Berlin was cleaned up and everyone ordered to look happy, so people would think that Germany was a great place.

'36. They kicked off the second half of the "**** You, Europe" tour in 39.

I could see DUmmies in brown shirts.

[Freeper]

'36. They kicked off the second half of the "**** You, Europe" tour in 39.

I could see DUmmies in brown shirts.

That's right it would have to have been in 36.
I was out in the sun all day so brain is fried. 

[GOBUCKS]

I bet the DUmmies would have fallen for Hitler's big show during the Olympics of 36 (or 40 I forget which year) where Berlin was cleaned up and everyone ordered to look happy, so people would think that Germany was a great place.

I think the standard of living for the vast majority of Germans in 1936, and the standard of living for the vast majority of North Koreans in 2011 is drastically different.

In pre-war Germany, there were minorities being brutalized.
In North Korea, the entire civilian population is being brutalized.

[BlueStateSaint]

Can't remember who it was, or if it was here or usmilnet, but someone said after 1953, the average size of a South Korean and a North Korean was at parity. Now the average North Korean is about 3-6 inches shorter.

The better to fit into all of those tanks the NoKos have . . .

[movie buff]

I was just reading about a true story that took place in NK in the 50's. A pastor and his underground church were captured by the Communist forces, and brought before a huge crowd in a nearby city. They were ordered to deny Christ and become Atheists. When they refused, four children from the Christians were hanged in front of their parents. The Christians were given one last chance to deny Christ and live. When they again refused, they were ordered to lie on the ground, side by side, forming a long line, and were run over by a steamroller. As they died, they sang the hymn "More Love to Thee." The Communist barbarians who killed them referred to the butchery as an act of "Repressing local superstition." These are the sorts of people Hannah is defending.

[JohnnyReb]

I was just reading about a true story that took place in NK in the 50's. A pastor and his underground church were captured by the Communist forces, and brought before a huge crowd in a nearby city. They were ordered to deny Christ and become Atheists. When they refused, four children from the Christians were hanged in front of their parents. The Christians were given one last chance to deny Christ and live. When they again refused, they were ordered to lie on the ground, side by side, forming a long line, and were run over by a steamroller. As they died, they sang the hymn "More Love to Thee." The Communist barbarians who killed them referred to the butchery as an act of "Repressing local superstition." These are the sorts of people Hannah is defending.

About par for the course with ungodly socialist....They'll do it here if they ever get in power(complete control).

[DumbAss Tanker]

I was just reading about a true story that took place in NK in the 50's. A pastor and his underground church were captured by the Communist forces, and brought before a huge crowd in a nearby city. They were ordered to deny Christ and become Atheists. When they refused, four children from the Christians were hanged in front of their parents. The Christians were given one last chance to deny Christ and live. When they again refused, they were ordered to lie on the ground, side by side, forming a long line, and were run over by a steamroller. As they died, they sang the hymn "More Love to Thee." The Communist barbarians who killed them referred to the butchery as an act of "Repressing local superstition." These are the sorts of people Hannah is defending.

Refugees who have escaped in recent years say that things every bit as brutal are still going on, with entire families sent to concentration camps for random suspicions against one member of the household, generally to the eventual deaths of all of them through starvation, execution, or physical abuse. 

[Randy]

'36. They kicked off the second half of the "**** You, Europe" tour in 39.

I could see DUmmies in brown shirts.

Not only would they wear them they'd gladly supply their own.

[diesel driver]

Those were the best staged photos the NK administration could pull off ?

Gotta love all those cars on the roads , customers in stores , well maintained buildings and open spaces and other signs of prosperity and freedom.

Epic Fail.

The scariest part is that such luxurious living standards and obvious prosperity and freedom are exactly what the left would like to enforce on us all.

I was thinking the same thing.  All the photos looked posed or staged, the streets and buildings were empty, everything looked dead and lifeless.

IOW, just like your average, everyday, run-of-the-mill communist country.

[franksolich]

I was thinking the same thing.  All the photos looked posed or staged, the streets and buildings were empty, everything looked dead and lifeless.

IOW, just like your average, everyday, run-of-the-mill communist country.

Anybody over the age of 40 perhaps still remembers those photographs of the socialist-built "flats" for the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union; there used to be plenty of them, in a subliminal attempt to show the superiority of their system over ours.

You know, those 9- and 18-story buildings, usually yellow.

But those photographs were always, oddly, taken from a distance.

When I was there in the early 1990s, I discovered why.

Close up, one could see how decrepit, how falling-apart, they really were.....and even only a couple of years or so after having been completed.  There's abandoned properties in Harlem that were in better shape than these buildings.

[JohnnyReb]

Liberal idea of..."It's not that bad"...some of them are still alive ain't they.

[vesta111]

Strange that everyone in my family that has been stationed on the border of N. and S. Korea all say the same thing.

N. Korea is a very scary place.   Almost non human.  Some who are in stations above the area and watch the Koreans as they march and drill tell me it gives goose bumps to them.

I made mention that Korea has this huge army by supplying food and goodies to its troops and a poster took offence.   

This was in the topic of cutting benefits to our troops and I tried to get across that by cutting benefits to our warriors we would have little to defend us as the Koreans well know from their country.

No way would Korea have this army if it cut their benefits, an army travels on its stomach.

I may not be stating this correctly, but if our military looses any benefits and does not gain more for the enlisted , ground ponders and the men and woman with the experience to lead due to loss in confidence that their country is behind them 100%---------- Then we may face Korea, it's army that supports them with all they need.   Or so the Koreans believe.--most likely not true but the people believe it.

Be this a fact or a lie, the Koreans believe their Country is there for them.

American serviceman and family's hear that our government wants to CUT their benefits, great moral booster for recruiting and those who think about reinlisting. How do we or the military defend, and fight for our country when it gives them no respect, cuts the benefits or does crazy things that lead to total meld down in a time ordered way of warfair that made us most powerful in the world.

Korea has not gotten to where it is by starving or giving no benefits to its Army.   The Army is devoted to the rulers and well cared for.

On the other hand America for some crazy reason wants to do the opposite, take benefits from its guardens and cause discontent within the military, and the leaders of the country.

The Koreans are smart, crafty and wise, Americans have now gotten to the point that the leaders are trying to remake America into a Strawberry Field forever.     

It will be soon that America is as a country will be under the foot of monsters and we will have no leadership, all our leaders will be trying to talk down a rabid dog and none of them will shoot the sucker. ---Can't do that, I am up for reelection next year, I must think of my chances.   Some one may object to my actions and I will be out of a job.

May come down to the American public that our fore fathers for saw that put into place the right to bare arms against what ever government in the future decided to to take away American rights.     

Korea is just a symptom of what can and does happen, mean and growling at its gates, but so far no one has opended the fence to let them out.