[Broadjumper]

Originally Posted by AmericanIllusions ↗

You guys failed to mention US sanctions against North Korea. Why?

You mean UN Sanctions..

[DiamondSmiles]

I cannot tell you whether or not this article is true or propaganda. The title got my attention.

I see titles out of the corner of my eye and post what I hope some will find interesting. Some do. Some don't.

I live in the US so it's hard to find actual pictures of dead bodies.

As always, if I find any additions, I will post them and you will know the article has been updated.

[knuggy]

Look at history. I'm definitely old enough to remember the Arduous March circa my high school days (and we know it happened then) . People will do what they have to to survive.

[Mr.Rigormortis]

I think it's fairly likely to be true. Some of the shit that Kim Jong Il allowed to go on while he spent money on the military, palaces, and his propaganda machine were ridiculous. I'm sure the apple won't fall far from the tree with his son Kim Jong Un.

[chefbob09]

yellows deserve this, fuckem

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

*The last two photos are from the second story. The middle photo from a protest yesterday. The last, a woman working in a field from late 2011.*

Correction:

The top photo is from yesterday's protest.

The middle photo is from late 2011.

[spycosis]

sounds like total and utter bollocks to me. Karl Marx was an inteligent man and a fierce opponent of modern day slavery where we work our arses to the bone in factories for a shit wage, while the bosses take home the cream. Any political system founded on his ideas would end the era of the super-rich ... people who own several houses and have more money than they could ever spend. Any nation that employs these ideologies is regarded as a threat to the filthy rich of this world, and North Korea is one of these countries, therefore it is in the interests of our leaders to denounce these nations and their leaders, be it with propaganda and lies, so I treat such stories with a little skepticicsm. We are often shown the lack of cars on the roads in N. Korea as a real-life horror story. I call that a major fucking achievment.

[ices]

Originally Posted by spycosis ↗

sounds like total and utter bollocks to me. Karl Marx was an inteligent man and a fierce opponent of modern day slavery where we work our arses to the bone in factories for a shit wage, while the bosses take home the cream. Any political system founded on his ideas would end the era of the super-rich ... people who own several houses and have more money than they could ever spend. Any nation that employs these ideologies is regarded as a threat to the filthy rich of this world, and North Korea is one of these countries, therefore it is in the interests of our leaders to denounce these nations and their leaders, be it with propaganda and lies, so I treat such stories with a little skepticicsm. We are often shown the lack of cars on the roads in N. Korea as a real-life horror story. I call that a major fucking achievment.

Oh look, a communist lover.

Nothing good came out of communism except a lot of dead bodies.

Do you bask in the glow of such failure? Probably sums up your life.

[Azimuth]

Nom nom nom.

[DiamondSmiles]

*@Knuggy - I looked up The Arduous March and found this article and prediction. This article, was from 2007, I believe it said.*

North Korea - Return of the Arduous March
By Bob Faulkner

That's what they are saying in some quarters. The "Arduous March" has returned. Arduous, as in "characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion." More like, to the point of starvation and death, in North Korean terms. The official "march" was said to have taken place when the Korean people were led through the worst famine in their history -some say anyone's history- back in the 90's, around 1994-2000 to be a little more precise. All the reasons for such an event are not clear, but governmental mis-management is never ruled out except by Pyongyang.

During the "march" years, the Public Distribution System suddenly stopped. People ate more grass than rice. Thievery increased. Death abounded then multiplied. Hunger kills. Two to three million, they say.

But in spite of recent pronouncements from the capital that by the year 2012 (Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday), North Korea will become so great a power that it will "dwarf all the difficulties" and solve all the problems it has been having, the people who know best say it aint necessarily so.

•some homes had less food last year than during the "arduous march" years.
•the longer some people live there, they say, the less hope they have of living.
•ordinary laborers say that 2007 was the very worst year yet, at least regarding food.
•in 2007 laborers were forbidden to farm on their own.
•once again, more and more people are turning to lives of thievery to survive.
•now the thievery is turning to members of their own families.
•many North Koreans drift away into the mountains, never to be seen again.
•people are working hard all year, but the food crops last only a few months.

No one knows the future. Maybe by 2012 North Korea really will be a rich and prosperous nation, and powerful too.