so do we have a moral duty to find this funny or to not find it funny or
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
horrified laughs are laughs
― j., Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Kim Jong Un previously visited the same factory in May 2013. He returned to inspect how the facility had updated its technology.
"So how's that technology coming along now, fellas?"
― pplains, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kim-jong-un-closely-inspects-hello-kitty-set-orphanage-n234301
― pplains, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
ah, the one with the humping stuffed toys in the corner of the room:
http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/msnbc/components/slideshows/_production/ss-141026-kim-jong-un-orphanage/ss-141026-kim-jong-un-orphanage-04.nbcnews-ux-1024-900.jpg
― StanM, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
remember when 99% of people who had something to say about 'the art of killing' didn't realise the killer bros were laughing at the documentary bros because yeah well
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BLvzIuI.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 26 June 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
all of them always with the little notebooks ready at hand
― drash, Friday, 26 June 2015 01:23 (eight years ago) link
They really think they're pulling it off. Gets me every time.
― pplains, Friday, 26 June 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
This is like something from the Baytown Weekly Skylight:
http://i.imgur.com/h0JLXiP.png
― pplains, Friday, 26 June 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link
that's his wife there in green supposedly eh
― dylannn, Friday, 26 June 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
oh that's his wife? so that's why she's notebook-less
― drash, Friday, 26 June 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link
why do they clear everyone out of every single place he visits, don't they work rope lines in north korea, press the flesh a little
― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 05:03 (eight years ago) link
btw schlump linked this very good photo/video essay on photo-breezing recently
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/10/world/asia/north-korea-photos-video.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
― drash, Friday, 26 June 2015 05:07 (eight years ago) link
that video in the middle was literally like, the internet, that is all it is now, that and comment boxes
― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 05:16 (eight years ago) link
fwiw, the airport hasn't opened yet.
― pplains, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
But boy did those two back there get busy.
http://i.imgur.com/clplLy4.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
That skyway looks very ... narrow.
http://i.imgur.com/MygW6VN.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
http://imgur.com/mmqgFW3.jpg
http://nomad2007.blog.sohu.com/304479350.html
― dylannn, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
That airport and the (old, I guess) Pyongyang airport I experienced have so little in common that I don't even know where to start.
There were no chairs, for starters. Definitely no coffee shop. There was a gift counter, but it was unstaffed so I don't think anyone managed to buy anything there.
I can't remember if there was a baggage carousel, but I'm pretty sure not.
Want to show these pics to my spouse but then I'm afraid we will have to go back in order to see the new airport.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 26 June 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
oops, too late. He saw them. I know I will end up back in DPKR one day. At least this time I will have a better idea what to pack.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 26 June 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
not that long ago, i watched a Nagisa Oshima film from the late 1960s called three resurrected drunkards. the story was about how three young Japanese guys go for a swim one day and their regular clothes are replaced with Korean military uniforms (don't remember if the uniforms were South Korean or North Korean). they have to walk around dressed up like Korean soldiers, which is bad for them b/c of Japanese anti-Korean bigotry.
i know that there was a period in time when North Koreans kidnapped Japanese people on beaches in Japan. i wonder if this was going on at the same time as or after three resurrected drunkards was filmed.
― Các yếu tố khác ảnh hưởng tới quỹ đạo Sao Diêm Vương (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
I believe the kidnappings were in the late 70s, around about the time director Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Eun-hee were kidnapped & put to work making Godzilla ripoffs
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
as featured in this book I have not read but have heard good things abouthttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DqoDFuU7L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 9 July 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
these books are both good
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Leader-Dear-Demystifying-North/dp/9749575695/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436420378&sr=1-1&keywords=great+leader+dear+leader
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Loving-Care-Fatherly-Leader/dp/0312323220/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1436420420&sr=8-18&keywords=north+korea
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 July 2015 05:41 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/north-korea-to-turn-clocks-back-by-30-minutes-to-establish-own-time-zone
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 7 August 2015 08:52 (eight years ago) link
I say the Americans, Australians, Indians and who knows who else should do the same and get off Greenwich Mean Time.
― pplains, Friday, 7 August 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Mr Choe was executed after he 'expressed discomfort against the young leader's forestation policy'
― The Tony Hart Land (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
Close to 70 officials have been killed under Kim Jong-un's rule, Yonhap says.
― drash, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150513104648-01-kim-jong-un-0513-exlarge-169.jpgKim stands on the snow-covered top of Mount Paektu in North Korea in a photo taken by North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun on April 18 and released the next day by South Korean news agency Yonhap. Kim scaled the country’s highest mountain, North Korean state-run media reported, arriving at the summit to tell soldiers that the hike provides mental energy more powerful than nuclear weapons.
― drash, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
No, this is a great look. The government wouldn't have allowed it to be released if it wasn't.
http://i.imgur.com/kcn9byj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/M7uO8Mr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/LKSqiyl.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
v dapper, with the unbuttoned jacket, henley shirt, hands rakishly in pockets, straw fedorareal misery on little guy’s face :(
― drash, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
Is he standing on a landmine in that last pic?
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
lil general
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
hmmm
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/684564391782518785
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link
thought maybe this was about a nuclear natural disaster like fukushima (tho presumably much worse bc north korea is a basketcase) but apparently "Officials at the Korea Meteorological Administration in Seoul reported a magnitude 4.2 tremor and said that the tremor pattern looked “artificial,” not likely to have resulted from a natural earthquake."
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:16 (eight years ago) link
oh boy!
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
Successful h-bomb test, apparently
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 03:47 (eight years ago) link
That would put them ahead of much of the nuclear club.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nknews.org/2016/01/north-korea-says-it-tested-hydrogen-bomb/
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:25 (eight years ago) link
officially non hilarious
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link
Officials and analysts in the South say that the estimated yield, or energy, from the explosion appeared to be too small to be that of such a weapon. - NY Times
so, prob just a really beansy entree
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
Chinese still finding North Korea hilarious.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Friday, 8 January 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
The hashtags "Fourth Korean Nuclear Explosion" and "Another DPRK Nuclear Test"
汉字 always seems like so much fun
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 January 2016 13:17 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/world/asia/north-korea-american-arrested.html
The University of Virginia student, Otto Frederick Warmbier
heading over to Great Real Names now
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 22 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/12135252/North-Korea-bombards-South-with-used-toilet-paper.html
― how's life, Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
A government spokesman described the North's psychological warfare methods as "immature".
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 February 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
learned Stalin's lessons well:http://news.yahoo.com/north-koreas-army-chief-staff-executed-report-005503170.html
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
No new friends
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/12/04004192.jpg
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
haha
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link