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There is a similar situation in the Falklands. The penguins aren't heavy enough to trip the mines, but sheep are. So the minefields have become de facto protected penguin habitats.
Well, really, it's also a perfect wool-harvesting method.
Wait, does that only work in Minecraft?
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
That is ... a lot of missing prisoners. Were they buried alive inside empty mines to reduce food consumption? Did they all starve to death? Were they rehabilitated and released back into society? Only Kim Jong Un knows.
What is he wearing on his head in that? He looked at first like he was wearing a tin foil hat. Which given the circumstances wouldn't actually be all that odd in this case.
That is ... a lot of missing prisoners. Were they buried alive inside empty mines to reduce food consumption? Did they all starve to death? Were they rehabilitated and released back into society? Only Kim Jong Un knows.
Well, Kim Jong Un and the soldiers guarding the guy who dug the holes.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.
That is ... a lot of missing prisoners. Were they buried alive inside empty mines to reduce food consumption? Did they all starve to death? Were they rehabilitated and released back into society? Only Kim Jong Un knows.
Well, Kim Jong Un and the soldiers guarding the guy who dug the holes.
I like to think Kim Jong Un personally shot everyone involved. It makes it seem less horrific than reality.
That is ... a lot of missing prisoners. Were they buried alive inside empty mines to reduce food consumption? Did they all starve to death? Were they rehabilitated and released back into society? Only Kim Jong Un knows.
Well, Kim Jong Un and the soldiers guarding the guy who dug the holes.
I like to think Kim Jong Un personally shot everyone involved. It makes it seem less horrific than reality.
Yes, but you can't expect him to dig his own holes as well. And that's where the guards come in, because at some point the schlub with the shovel is going to figure out he's digging 100 holes for 99 bodies.
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.
That is ... a lot of missing prisoners. Were they buried alive inside empty mines to reduce food consumption? Did they all starve to death? Were they rehabilitated and released back into society? Only Kim Jong Un knows.
Well, Kim Jong Un and the soldiers guarding the guy who dug the holes.
I like to think Kim Jong Un personally shot everyone involved. It makes it seem less horrific than reality.
Yes, but you can't expect him to dig his own holes as well. And that's where the guards come in, because at some point the schlub with the shovel is going to figure out he's digging 100 holes for 99 bodies.
I'd say he'd be more than happy to operate an excavator himself, if only he had the gas to turn it on.
Very rare occurrence, but definitely relevant: South Korean border forces spotted a man trying to flee across a river on the border to the North, and killed him.
More here. We don't know anything yet, but presumably he was a Northern spy or sympathizer. In any case, standard procedure: they issued warnings, telling him to get back out of the river, and when he didn't obey, they shot him.
Very rare occurrence, but definitely relevant: South Korean border forces spotted a man trying to flee across a river on the border to the North, and killed him.
More here. We don't know anything yet, but presumably he was a Northern spy or sympathizer. In any case, standard procedure: they issued warnings, telling me to get back out of the river, and when he didn't obey, they shot him.
Goddammit, Synth, I respect your devotion to your northern overlords, but you should've listened to the men with the big guns.
Guys, I wore my suit in Hongdae over the weekend and was swarmed by English teahcers and Korean women. I was simultaneously helping a Korean add me on Facebook while chatting with a teacher. I came here a shy, shy man, now I don't know what's going to happen.
I always show off the pictures of my trips of the DMZ and the various hiking trips. They always like it when you show that you've traveled and actually learned something.
Jesus, you could take quotes from that and make the most depressing game ever - 'North Korea or Hunger Games?'
There isn't really even much else to say. Just that it's a fucked up mess, and there doesn't seem to be any way of making it unfucked until after it collapses under it's own weight. I know things can always get worse, but I don't see how things can really get that much worse at all.
Jesus, you could take quotes from that and make the most depressing game ever - 'North Korea or Hunger Games?'
There isn't really even much else to say. Just that it's a fucked up mess, and there doesn't seem to be any way of making it unfucked until after it collapses under it's own weight. I know things can always get worse, but I don't see how things can really get that much worse at all.
It is genuinely hard to imagine. Like, most actual disasters which would normally be devestating would likely create a huge opening for us to move in and improve things, or for the North Koreans to kick the government out and things would just get better by virtue of not being made actively worse for no reason (pay your government manager bribes so you can not go to work to do nothing, so you can instead work somewhere else and earn money or something to buy food).
Honestly, Un isn't even showing any of the wacky bits of evil like Il and Sung. None of the bizarre 'inspections' of conveniently-well-stocked food supplies or anything like that. It's just cold-blooded brutality and mayhem and death death death so far. Something tells me he's going to be the one to launch the missiles at Seoul one day and it'll be more related to him thinking he's losing grip on power and deciding to take everyone in the country with him than anything having to do with us.
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Something tells me he's going to be the one to launch the missiles at Seoul one day and it'll be more related to him thinking he's losing grip on power and deciding to take everyone in the country with him than anything having to do with us.
I've got my money on 'assassinated by 23 daggers in the back' within the next three years.
Honestly, Un isn't even showing any of the wacky bits of evil like Il and Sung. None of the bizarre 'inspections' of conveniently-well-stocked food supplies or anything like that. It's just cold-blooded brutality and mayhem and death death death so far. Something tells me he's going to be the one to launch the missiles at Seoul one day and it'll be more related to him thinking he's losing grip on power and deciding to take everyone in the country with him than anything having to do with us.
It won't be "screw it you're all coming with me". It'll be because he thinks he's losing his grip on power and convinces himself they'll genuinely win the war with SK and America will stay out of it etc.
Honestly, Un isn't even showing any of the wacky bits of evil like Il and Sung. None of the bizarre 'inspections' of conveniently-well-stocked food supplies or anything like that. It's just cold-blooded brutality and mayhem and death death death so far. Something tells me he's going to be the one to launch the missiles at Seoul one day and it'll be more related to him thinking he's losing grip on power and deciding to take everyone in the country with him than anything having to do with us.
It won't be "screw it you're all coming with me". It'll be because he thinks he's losing his grip on power and convinces himself they'll genuinely win the war with SK and America will stay out of it etc.
American soldiers are stationed in Seoul pretty much as a guarantee that the US won't stay out of any attack on the city.
Honestly, Un isn't even showing any of the wacky bits of evil like Il and Sung. None of the bizarre 'inspections' of conveniently-well-stocked food supplies or anything like that. It's just cold-blooded brutality and mayhem and death death death so far. Something tells me he's going to be the one to launch the missiles at Seoul one day and it'll be more related to him thinking he's losing grip on power and deciding to take everyone in the country with him than anything having to do with us.
It's a consolidation of power; in a fascist autocracy, it's usually a sign that things are working as intended (purges are very important for a dictator, since their most dangerous adversaries are likely to be those in their own party).
North Korea's always going to be a worry until either the dynasty collapses or someone within it decides for whatever reason that their casus belli against the South is worth more than their self-contained little empire, but purges aren't an especially ominous omen.
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I wonder if it was a matter of, "My brother was a better leader than you, kid."
The first rule of being a facist dictator is to share power with no one, as Gandalf reminded us. There was no room for a Number Two. I speculate that the fact that the public even knew his uncle made him a valid threat.
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I think I heard on NPR that the uncle was the Regent during the transition between Il and Un, and during that period filled a lot of positions in the government.
Man, it's such an anachronism to have this shit from a half-century a half ago happening now. Stalin with Photoshop, although it's not like most of NK has moved past 1940s tech anyway.
North Korea makes the Hunger Games world look like a nice place to live.
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To be fair--the bar is pretty low (as a consequence of Pyongyang's general intransigence).
Both in regards to US rhetoric, and, you know, Dennis Rodman.
Well, really, it's also a perfect wool-harvesting method.
Wait, does that only work in Minecraft?
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/06/20353287-human-rights-group-thousands-of-n-korean-prisoners-disappeared-from-gulag
That is ... a lot of missing prisoners. Were they buried alive inside empty mines to reduce food consumption? Did they all starve to death? Were they rehabilitated and released back into society? Only Kim Jong Un knows.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/world/asia/rodman-north-korea/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
What is he wearing on his head in that? He looked at first like he was wearing a tin foil hat. Which given the circumstances wouldn't actually be all that odd in this case.
Well, Kim Jong Un and the soldiers guarding the guy who dug the holes.
- John Stuart Mill
I like to think Kim Jong Un personally shot everyone involved. It makes it seem less horrific than reality.
Yes, but you can't expect him to dig his own holes as well. And that's where the guards come in, because at some point the schlub with the shovel is going to figure out he's digging 100 holes for 99 bodies.
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m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24001206
"Friend for life" has a totally different connotation when used in reference to one of the Kims.
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I'd say he'd be more than happy to operate an excavator himself, if only he had the gas to turn it on.
More here. We don't know anything yet, but presumably he was a Northern spy or sympathizer. In any case, standard procedure: they issued warnings, telling him to get back out of the river, and when he didn't obey, they shot him.
EDIT: Whoops!
Goddammit, Synth, I respect your devotion to your northern overlords, but you should've listened to the men with the big guns.
Dude swimming away from the South Koreans - warn and shoot.
These rules are reversed for the snipers on the North Korean side, of course.
I always show off the pictures of my trips of the DMZ and the various hiking trips. They always like it when you show that you've traveled and actually learned something.
Jesus, you could take quotes from that and make the most depressing game ever - 'North Korea or Hunger Games?'
There isn't really even much else to say. Just that it's a fucked up mess, and there doesn't seem to be any way of making it unfucked until after it collapses under it's own weight. I know things can always get worse, but I don't see how things can really get that much worse at all.
It is genuinely hard to imagine. Like, most actual disasters which would normally be devestating would likely create a huge opening for us to move in and improve things, or for the North Koreans to kick the government out and things would just get better by virtue of not being made actively worse for no reason (pay your government manager bribes so you can not go to work to do nothing, so you can instead work somewhere else and earn money or something to buy food).
You knew the trope and you invoked it anyway.
Honestly, Un isn't even showing any of the wacky bits of evil like Il and Sung. None of the bizarre 'inspections' of conveniently-well-stocked food supplies or anything like that. It's just cold-blooded brutality and mayhem and death death death so far. Something tells me he's going to be the one to launch the missiles at Seoul one day and it'll be more related to him thinking he's losing grip on power and deciding to take everyone in the country with him than anything having to do with us.
I've got my money on 'assassinated by 23 daggers in the back' within the next three years.
It won't be "screw it you're all coming with me". It'll be because he thinks he's losing his grip on power and convinces himself they'll genuinely win the war with SK and America will stay out of it etc.
American soldiers are stationed in Seoul pretty much as a guarantee that the US won't stay out of any attack on the city.
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It's a consolidation of power; in a fascist autocracy, it's usually a sign that things are working as intended (purges are very important for a dictator, since their most dangerous adversaries are likely to be those in their own party).
North Korea's always going to be a worry until either the dynasty collapses or someone within it decides for whatever reason that their casus belli against the South is worth more than their self-contained little empire, but purges aren't an especially ominous omen.
To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok. . . .
So yeah.. there's likely more coming.
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North Korea makes the Hunger Games world look like a nice place to live.
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