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Footage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state.
The video is some of the most revealing footage ever smuggled out of the impoverished North Korean state.
Shot over several months by an undercover North Korean journalist, the harrowing footage shows images of filthy, homeless and orphaned children begging for food and soldiers demanding bribes.
The footage also shows North Koreans labouring on a private railway track for the dictator's son and heir near the capital Pyongyang.
Originally posted by ShaunHatfield
North Koreans have the worst life I can imagine. The leader has the people so poor and weak, that a revolution is impossible. How can the people of this planet sit by and let an entire people starve and die?
This is the point where China needs to do something. I don't know what, but something!
www.abc.net.au
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Originally posted by ShaunHatfield
reply to post by confreak
Tell the 50,000 North Korean citizens in "re-education camps" that the US is to blame. Kim Jong Il has brought the sanctions on his people. He is a delusional little man, that should be assassinated!
Originally posted by confreak
Originally posted by ShaunHatfield
reply to post by confreak
Tell the 50,000 North Korean citizens in "re-education camps" that the US is to blame. Kim Jong Il has brought the sanctions on his people. He is a delusional little man, that should be assassinated!
All American enemies are delusional, don't you think that is a coincidence, that maybe the media wants you to think that way, maybe they are injecting something in your brain, to make you think that way? Qaddafi is delusional, Ahmadinejad is delusional, Chavez is delusional, Castro is the biggest delusional, Osama was just plain crazy and a psychopath...
What do you think?
In preparation for the World Festival of Youth and Students in 1989, Kim Jong Il had disabled residents removed from Pyongyang. The government also distributed pamphlets advertising a wonder drug that would increase the height of short people. Those who responded to the pamphlets were sent away to different uninhabited islands along with the disabled in an attempt to rid the next generation of their supposedly substandard genes.
Since any American influences have long since been banned in his tiny communist country, Kim Jong Il had no choice but to create some new non-Western food by himself. North Korean newspaper Minju Joson reported that Kim Jong Il invented a new sandwich called “double bread with meat” in an attempt to provide “quality” food to university students. He then built a plant capable of mass hamburger production to feed his students and teachers, despite the fact that the majority of his citizens battle famine on a daily basis.
In 1994, it was reported by Pyongyang media outlets that Kim Jong Il shot 38 under par on a regulation 18-hole golf course – including 5 holes in one! That score is 25 shots better than the best round in history, and is made even more amazing by the fact that it was his first time playing the sport. It’s said Kim Jong Il would routinely sink 3 or 4 holes in one per round of golf, and – lucky for the PGA – he has since given it up.
So Kim gets in touch with 68-year-old Karl Szmolinsky of Berlin, the world's foremost breeder of giant rabbits, and says he wants Szmolinsky to come to Pyongyang and set up a farm to breed these rabbits. For Kim believes that the meat yielded by these rabbits will end his people's starvation.
Originally posted by ShaunHatfield
North Koreans have the worst life I can imagine. The leader has the people so poor and weak, that a revolution is impossible. How can the people of this planet sit by and let an entire people starve and die?
This is the point where China needs to do something. I don't know what, but something!
www.abc.net.au
(visit the link for the full news article)
North Korea is the most militarized country in the world today,[6] having the fourth largest army in the world, at about 1,106,000 armed personnel, with about 20% of men ages 17–54 in the regular armed forces.[7] Military service of up to 10 years is mandatory for most males. It also has a reserve force comprising 8,200,000 personnel. It operates an enormous network of military facilities scattered around the country, a large weapons production basis, a dense air defense system, the third largest chemical weapons stockpile in the world,[8] and includes the world's largest Special Forces contingent (numbering 180,000 men).[9] While the aging equipment,[10] deriving from the economic plight of the country, is seen as major defect of the North Korean military capability, it is nevertheless regarded as a significant threat due to its size and proximity to major civilian areas.
In Pyongyang, state-run media lauded a national hero "praised by mankind as the most outstanding political elder and the peerlessly brilliant commander of the present era."