regime collapse = millions of destitute north koreans pouring into south korea
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
you may be aware of situations in which bordering countries wish to keep our immigrants from poorer neighbouring states?
this thread title bums me out
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Can't it get changed to "North Korea: Still Bizarre," or something like that?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
you may be aware of situations in which bordering countries wish to keep our immigrants from poorer neighbouring states?― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, September 1, 2016 6:13 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, September 1, 2016 6:13 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
never heard of it
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
does SK really think of north koreans as foreign refugees? i know that there are still a lot of divided families w/ ties that go to before the division. wouldn't they be happy for an opportunity for reunification? and doesn't kim jong-un being overthrown suggest an opportunity for that? (i really don't know i'm just theorizing)
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Z34DuOf.jpg
(Except without the cars, I guess.)
― pplains, Friday, 2 September 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
does SK really think of north koreans as foreign refugees?
Yes, absolutely. Definitely from a practical perspective of health issues, integration into education, sustained employment, etc but increasingly from a 'national' perspective as well. It's partly generational - a higher proportion of older than younger Koreans think of people from the DPRK as being the same nationality as them, according to surveys. There's a social stigma in being from the North - and that's with refugee numbers in the tens of thousands rather than 25m.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 2 September 2016 07:46 (seven years ago) link
Half-brother (the one always in pajamas and gambling in Macau) assassinated.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
Kim Jong-Un's gained like 100 pounds in the last few years, wtf
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
A fatal poison you can spray on someone at an airport ... hilarious and not scary at all.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
It must be some scary shit when you've got your family potentially coming after you (see also Robert Durst's brother)
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
It sounds like he was apolitical and no kind of threat. Some mild criticism of it being a third gen succession regime in his history but not much else.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/STcom/status/831765067091865606
There are reports both suspects are dead.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 09:07 (seven years ago) link
That image is strangely fascinating and creepy
― calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
Hilarity continues!
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:37 (seven years ago) link
this is fucking crazy, also a good way to get away with an assassination plot i suppose: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/suspect-north-korea-killing-thought-she-was-taking-part-in-tv-prank-indonesia-siti-aisyah-police-kim-jong-nam
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
makes a good cover story for her. if you can't avoid the facts, muddle the motivation.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 17 February 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Plausible though because what assassjn would be fool enough to expose themselves to camera scrutiny
― calstars, Friday, 17 February 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
News that he was killed with WMD VX gas is pretty scary, because now there's a smoking gun pretense for Trump Inc. to shout "WMD!" Well, that and nukes.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2017 12:47 (seven years ago) link
that was probably north korea's entire supply of vx tbf
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 February 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
On the other NK thread as well - good read:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/24/world/asia/north-korea-propaganda-photo.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
that bomb looks like its missing a gigantic fuse
https://lh4.ggpht.com/fxsJt9QQyQAxHIFGAKK_ZgIkknZeOjCbK1ULw9F1vvMkr_mGp1z0NgzwYXvVNVO1KA=w300
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, interesting, but isn't it equally plausible that these are...totally empty inside?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
lol! it is just missing a big black on white Acme Nuff Destructive Nuclear Warhead label on the side.
― calzino, Friday, 24 February 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZwwoUYC.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:22 (seven years ago) link
they sure have great taxidermists
― StanM, Saturday, 8 April 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link
this should be where the camera pulls back to reveal that Kim Jong-un and the ppl around him are in fact more waxworks standing on another stage, and so on into infinity
― soref, Saturday, 8 April 2017 07:53 (seven years ago) link
I can't think of a more terrifying brief than having to make a utopian diorama of the ex-great leader.
"Shit, does he look too normcore?" and "I'm crap at modelling hands, better put them in the pockets" might have been part of the discussion.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 April 2017 09:59 (seven years ago) link
Is there a coin slot, does he move?
― StanM, Saturday, 8 April 2017 10:03 (seven years ago) link
he does look pretty normcore - my grandad used to rock that tan coat/olive trousers combo
― soref, Saturday, 8 April 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
he has a look of my dad now you mention it
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 April 2017 10:23 (seven years ago) link
urge to position small armies of miniatures on that excellently manicured flocking
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm surprised they kept the patches in the grass.
― pplains, Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
Also, wanna know what I'd like to visit? A museum containing an exact wax replica of my deceased father.
― pplains, Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link
Ron Mueck went one further and made a hyperealist naked sculpture of his dead dad's corpse, but that was different.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
pplains we were hoping to surprise you with this later but since you mentioned it
*slooowly opens mystery door*
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 April 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
Oh, and it's not made of wax . . .
― nickn, Saturday, 8 April 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
Would love to read about how that Eddie Bauer look plays in Korea and elsewhere.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Saturday, 8 April 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Not hilarious:
TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea fired a projectile that appeared to be a missile shortly before midnight Japan time (1500 GMT) on Friday, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said, citing government officials.The apparent missile may have landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone, NHK said.
The apparent missile may have landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone, NHK said.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
not cool nk
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
can we change the thread title
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
At least until they're funny again.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Don't think NK would start a missile fight with anyone. But do think Trump could "preemptively" bomb them, and I do think NK would retaliate (probably against SK). Detente with a nuclear NK possibly the best case scenario. But we haven't had a nuclear power ever really threaten for leverage, have we? Like, not invoke nukes as a deterrent, but as a flat-out do this or we do this extortion ultimatum? I wonder if, if NK gets there, they will dare to go that route, because if they do, I have no idea how that ends well.
(Probably should change thread name, fully support that)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
North Korea was never fucking funny.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
North Koreans have been suffering for years and until like 2014, they were treated like some quirky quixotic joke. There's nothing fucking funny about a country of people imprisoned in an alternate reality ruled by an insane fat despot who probably doesn't understand the concept of mutually assured destruction.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
and yeah, change the thread title. maybe "North Korea: not hilarious"
There's nothing fucking funny about a country of people imprisoned in an alternate reality ruled by an insane fat despot who probably doesn't understand the concept of mutually assured destruction.
you're talking about America right
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
^ still hilarious
― crüt, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
ha ha ha
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link