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north koreans: simple and poorly educated and also matrix-level hackers, somehow https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/asia/north-korea-hacking-cyber-sony.html

just part of a massive DPRK propaganda kick nyt is on right now, my favourite piece so far is this hilariously racist shit about north korean fashion https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/fashion/decoding-dress-in-north-korea.html
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i am a defector from the brutal North American regime, ama
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forced to spend hours hunting through the barren shops looking for a single pork pie, donner a forbidden luxury; it was hell
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Ufuk_Surekli posted:

the clip "This is Human Rights" succinctly introduces the concept of human rights from a Juche perspective. it emphasises the DPRK's special focus on what liberal theorists would call "positive rights" (e.g., the right to comprehensive world-class healthcare, the right of access to universal, free, lifelong education, etc.) and contrasts these with the dire state of such rights under the NATO regimes. includes testimony of foreign observers and is quite a good counterpoint to anti-DPRK propaganda wrt rights



there is some horn tooting and a couple of shots of buildings, it barely says anything and it quotes five random people who could be anyone. i am sure DPRK is better than western media portrays it but this video is ridiculous. who do you think this is convincing?

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i dont have the technical know-how to understand most of this article but i thought i'd put it here anyhow

http://apjjf.org/-JJ-Suh/3382/article.html

article raising questions on the official story of the sinking of south korea's Cheonan.
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The Kim failson that got killed by the poison from the lady in the LOL shirt had vials of the antidote in his possession.
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I saw that. The article I read said that it wasn't clear if Nam 'could read the labels on the antidote'

Which is a convenient but bullshit way of dismissing the never acknowledged conclusion that he was not assassinated
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A truly tragic death... If only he had known he was in possession of the antidote
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what does his having the antidote suggest to you guys?
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I figure if DPRK wanted to kill him he wouldn't know in advance what poison they would use?

If the US wanted to kill him however I can easily imagine that info getting loose and Nam buying antidote in preparation. They mightve wanted to do it just to villify the DPRK and provide fodder for the media to beat the war drums.

Or, he didn't have any antidote on him and that fact was invented to suggest he expected an attempted on his life by the DPRK
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maybe he was taking the poison in small doses to acclimate himself to it over time and kept the antidote in case he fucked it up. you know, as a hobby or something.
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i did it, just for us
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roseweird posted:

well personally it suggests nothing to me. it's weird and i have no idea what's going on, but i'm probably alone in that.


it suggests some badass John le Carre novel shit, to me,

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No way Kim Jong Un gets Man of the Year. They'd never give it to a millennial
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http://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/
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xipe posted:

http://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/


followed one of these links to north-korea-books.com and theres some translated novels on there, im curious as to what they're like

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lo posted:

followed one of these links to north-korea-books.com and theres some translated novels on there, im curious as to what they're like



they're probably fictitious prose narratives of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism

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not everyone who dies becomes a ghost
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he got his ass kicked by joe dresnok lol
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he got his ass kicked by joe dresnok lol
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*gulps, tugs collar*
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first that one new zealand company that got in trouble for selling a plane to north korea and now this, i'm beginning to think these oceanians aren't to be trusted
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How did DPRK come to be so demonised/ridiculed?
How did their depiction in the western media change over the decades?

I'd guess the current state we're at (where the experts on our TVs tell us that Koreans will be shot out of a canon or fed to wild dogs for of their haircut doesn't match Kims) is the fruit of a concerted campaign since the 90s (fall of USSR, famine, and new leader)
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Congratulations to the DPRK for successfully exporting revolutionary terror upon the state of Hawaii today.
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Even if only for a brief moment.