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Showing posts with label North Korea. Show all posts
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30 June 2019
UNHEARD OF: POTUS AT THE DMZ AND IN NOKO IN LAST-MINUTE MEETING!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?! NO PRE-ARRANGEMENTS. NO AGENDA. JUST A QUICK JAUNT ACROSS THE HEAVILY FORTIFIED DMZ.
TRUMP BE TRUMP. ERRATIC, UNPREDICTABLE, SYMBOLIC, AND MAYBE PRODUCTIVE (AS IN... RESULTING IN A NUKE DEAL AND DARE WE DREAM IT... A PEACE TREATY AFTER 69 YEARS)...
16 August 2015
26 July 2015
IT'S SO BAD THAT IT'S GOOD!!!!!
This North Korean movie entitled "A Traffic Controller on the Crossroad," made sometime in the 1980s, has legions of YouTube fans precisely because it's so bad. Just like other B-movies such as "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." BTW, the hot chicks don't hurt either.
12 December 2013
Breaking: Kim Jung-un Executes His Uncle
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle executed
SEOUL
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1 OF 5. Jang Song Thaek, with his hands tied with a rope, is dragged into the court by uniformed personnel in this December 13, 2013 picture taken from Rodong Sinmun December 12, 2013 and released by Yonhap.
CREDIT: REUTERS/YONHAP
(Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday the uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, previously considered the second most powerful man in the secretive state, has been executed for treason, the biggest upheaval since the death of Kim's father two years ago.
The North's official KCNA news agency said Jang Song Thaek had been executed after a special military tribunal found him guilty of treason, only days after he was stripped of all posts and expelled from the ruling Workers' Party.
News of the execution followed a swirl of unconfirmed media reports that one or more of Jang's aides had defected to South Korea. The South's spy agency says it has no knowledge of any such defections.
North Korean politics are virtually impenetrable from outside and the reason could also easily be a falling out between Kim and his uncle, or even with Jang's wife.
If true, the execution caps a spectacular downfall for a man who had long been a fixture in North Korea's leadership.
"The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state," KCNA said.
"The special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK ... ruled that he would be sentenced to death according to it. The decision was immediately executed," it said, using the North's title of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper also on Friday carried a photograph of Jang in handcuffs and being held by uniformed guards as he stood trial. It is not known how the sentence was carried out.
Jang was a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission and a member of Workers' Party politburo.
Married to the sister of Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, Jang had been considered the man who could help his nephew establish himself in power but at the same time presented the greatest threat to the young and untested leader.
"This is a man who could have competently executed a coup in North Korea," said Mike Madden, an expert on the North's power structure and author of the North Korea Leadership Watch website and blog.
"He knows how the body guards work, how the security forces in Pyongyang work, how state security works - this guy had very intimate knowledge about very key nodes of control in North Korea," Madden said.
Earlier this week, North Korea stripped Jang of his power and positions, accusing him of criminal acts including mismanagement of the state financial system, womanizing and alcohol abuse.
"From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive," KCNA said, referring to leader Kim's grandfather and father, the previous rulers of the dynastic state.
"He began revealing his true colors, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced," it said.
Regional powers have watched the purge of Jang and his associates - conducted in a rare, publicly prominent manner -for implications to regional security.
South Korea's presidential Blue House was holding a ministerial meeting to review the developments.
The United States said it was following the developments in North Korea and consulting with allies in the region.
"If confirmed, this is another example of the extreme brutality of the North Korean regime," said Patrick Ventrell, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council.
(Additional reporting by James Pearson in HONG KONG and Matt Spetalnick in WASHINGTON; Editing by Paul Tait)
09 September 2013
UPDATE: Sadly...Diva Hyon Song Wol is Probably Dead...RIP
Although they promised to produce evidence on 9/9/13 showing that Hyon Song Wol and her band mates remain alive, North Korean Youtubers could/would not.
So we conclude that the Choson Ilbo (朝鲜日報 in Chinese) is probably correct in suggesting that Ms. Hyon and her band mates were machine-gunned to death in front of their families and friends. Their crime: putative pornography.
Recently, Chinese netizens pointed to a video of beautiful, young North Korean women dancing -- the kind of dancing that high school and college cheerleaders perform openly every day in North America. They surmise that it was this type of "dirty dancing" that did Hyon Song Wol and her friends in.
Unless something else breaks, this piece concludes the Fairbank Report's extensive coverage on the murders of Hyon Song Wol and her band mates...
So we conclude that the Choson Ilbo (朝鲜日報 in Chinese) is probably correct in suggesting that Ms. Hyon and her band mates were machine-gunned to death in front of their families and friends. Their crime: putative pornography.
Recently, Chinese netizens pointed to a video of beautiful, young North Korean women dancing -- the kind of dancing that high school and college cheerleaders perform openly every day in North America. They surmise that it was this type of "dirty dancing" that did Hyon Song Wol and her friends in.
Unless something else breaks, this piece concludes the Fairbank Report's extensive coverage on the murders of Hyon Song Wol and her band mates...
04 September 2013
Qi Lai: The Fabulous First Ladies of East Asia
Above: China's First Lady Peng Liyuan performing a patriotic song
http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch?v=LvQd7yAjfwg&list=PL54AF5044AC5020E2
Click the link to see North Korea's First Lady Ri Solju performing a Koreanized Latin beat
29 August 2013
RIP Hyon Song Wol (玄松月)... You're in a Better Place Now...
Above: The late Hyon Song Wol singing her 2005 hit, "Excellent, horse-like lady."
Little Kim is really out to prove himself. First, he executed a Pyongyang (party animal) cadre with a missile and now a great, beautiful singer by firing squad. Worse than his daddy and grand-pappy...
From USA Today:
A jarring report out of North Korea that claims Kim Jong Un's former girlfriend was executed by a firing squad last week.
Chosun Ilbo,an English language newspaper in South Korea, said unnamed sources in China told it that Hyon Song Wol (of "Electric Horse-Lady" fame) was arrested on Aug. 17 along with about a dozen others; Hyon was a singer, and a number of the others were members of the Unhasu Orchestra.
They were accused of making a sex tape and selling it and were shot three days later for violating the country's pornography laws. A source said some allegedly had Bibles in their possession, and all were treated as political dissidents.
The report has not been independently verified by other media outlets. Chosun Ilbo is one of Seoul's main daily newspapers.
More on Hyon Song Wol (玄松月) can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyon_Song-wol .
09 April 2013
26 October 2012
Kim Jong-un Style!
Party animal North Korean official spared rope, executed by mortar
20 hrs agoSource: http://now.msn.com/kim-chol-north-korean-army-official-executed-by-mortar
05 August 2012
Could This be True?
http://tiananmenstremendousachievements.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/us60000-for-a-beautiful-north-korean-bride/
US$60,000 for a beautiful North Korean bride
Posted: June 15, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: export of beautiful brides, food shortage, North Korea, officials scrambling for a few pieces of pork 3 Comments »According to Ming Pao’s report, North Korea has begun to export its beautiful brides to attract foreign investment. Transnational marriage is quite common now in a globalized world, but a relatively autocratic and closed country like North Korea still raises people’s eyebrow when it began to advocate “export of its beauties” to attract foreign investment.
Pay US$60,000 and then the government will choose a beautiful bride for you
North Korean Intellectuals Solidarity, a South Korean website often carries news about North Korea, reports, North Korean authorities has recently encouraged “transnational marriage” between North Korean beauties and executives of foreign enterprises in order to attract foreign investment into North Korea. The report says that a foreigner wanting to marry a North Korean beauty has to pay an amount equivalent to US$60,000 to North Korean authorities.
When the foreigner has made the payment, North Korean government will select an educated woman of appropriate age to marry the foreigner. The brides chosen are mostly beautiful young girls about the age of 20. South Korean experts say that it is entirely a honey-trap set by North Korean authorities to attract foreign investment. However, it also reflects North Korea’s dire economic situation.
Absurd scene of officials scrambling for pork at meal
North Korea recently opened Mount Kumgang to Chinese tourists. In order to promote tourism to the mountain, some Chinese reporters were invited to visit the mountain. When they had meals with North Korean officials, they were amazed to see the officials accompanying them scrambled for and soon ate up all the pork not only on their own tables but on all other tables. “It was something unbelievable,” said a Chinese reporter.
The reporter said that it was something he had ever seen for the first time in his life and found it too absurd. Normally, the North Koreans who can join the Chinese in having the meals must come from relatively rich families. “They lost their manners for a few pieces of pork. It is unbelievable unless you see it with your own eyes.” However, later he learnt from an ethnic Korean friend in China that people in common cadres’ families in North Korea had not tasted pork for three decades.
The reporter said that he attended a state banquet on April 15 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of former North Korean leader Kim Il-song. The food on the “state banquet” was as poor as the wedding banquet of a poor peasant in a remote village.
27 December 2011
RIP Comrade Jin Zhengri (Kim Jong-il)
Fairbank Report... Live from Pyongyang, DPRK... Current temp is 32 F; snowing
Funeral for Comrade Jin Zhengri...
Live broadcast at http://media.theage.com.au/news/world-news/live-kim-jongils-funeral-2861705.html
Funeral for Comrade Jin Zhengri...
Live broadcast at http://media.theage.com.au/news/world-news/live-kim-jongils-funeral-2861705.html
20 December 2011
19 December 2011
The Rise of the "Righteous Cloud": 金正恩
18 December 2011
North Korea's Jin Zhengri (Kim Jung-il) Dead @ 69
SOUTH KOREA ON STATE OF ALERT
SOUTH KOREAN MARKETS CRASH
11 December 2011
12 December 2010
Pyongyang Paula
Japan had its Tokyo Rose. Iraq had Baghdad Bob, and now North Korea has Pyongyang Paula. Her real name is Lee Chun Hee (also transliterated as Ri Chun Hee).
23 November 2010
09 October 2010
15 September 2010
Gaunt North Korean Dancers in Beijing
Photo courtesy of http://world.huanqiu.com/photo/2010-09/1065773_2.html
Note how abnormally gaunt they look, and these gals are the elites of Chaoxian (North Korean) society. One shudders to imagine the physical look of the less privileged folks in North Korea.
So this year's floods and the Chaoxian government's failed economic policies (including the poorly thought- out currency reform initiative) must have brought havoc of Biblical proportion on the wretched people of North Korea.
30 May 2010
They Don't Look Starved to Us; Just Naturally and Wholesomely BEAUTIFUL
Unlike their Southern cousins who are a bit skanky and plasticky (as in eye job and nose job), these Chaoxian beauties are naturally gorgeous, wholesome and full of socialist virtues.
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