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Subscribe to RSSIn perhaps another sign that North Korean society is changing, Chinese media reported Friday that women are being allowed to ride bicycles for the first time for years.
Cycling for women was banned in 1996 because the activity wasn't regarded as sufficiently feminine by the male-dominated North Korean regime.
The apparent relaxation came as Kim Jung Un's powerful uncle, Chang Song-Taek, was in Beijing signing new deals to open up special enterprise zones on the Chinese border with North Korea.
Such zones already exist but haven't been developed to any great scale. The Chinese have long been trying to convince the North Koreans to reform their stagnant state controlled economy in the same way China did 20 years ago.
Read the full article at ITV News
Chang’s visit may also pave the way for Kim Jung Un's first official trip to the Chinese capital.
There has been a series of recent changes within North Korea: Kim sacked his army chief, Kim's uncle signed the economic deal with China, there are more cars and advertising on Pyongyang's streets, the regime promised the people their livelihoods would improve and workers will soon be allowed to officially work in factories in China and send money home.
It is not clear why the female bicycle ban was reversed, but it does appear as though the wheels of change in North Korea are turning.
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How kind of Mental Lee Ill to let them ride bicycles. Now his new wife, Som Ting Wong, can peddle her a$$ all over town to earn money too.
Well they won't be riding rockets anytime soon.
You, starbuck49 are the reason that Americans are considered uneducated, ugly, and ignorant. In just two sentences you validate that notion.
Baby steps, but at least its something. This is a place that has lived in isolation for decades, its going to take some time to turn it around. Maybe this guy isnt as mental as his 2 fore fathers were. Time will tell, but hopefully this is just the start.
Hooray! Now when they can pee in public and get some Taco Bells we will know change is permanent.......
Henry
If you like NK so much, why not move there? I'm sure they will have a room all setup in their gulag for you.
"starbuck", Henry wasn't talking about North Korea, he was talking about you.
Ah, Kim Jung Un cannot escape his youth!
He won't be cruel and conservative until he gets old and bitter.
Defending NK sounds like he would like to live in that regime
"starbuck", please explain how the hell pointing out that vitriolic comments like yours contributes to people seeing Americans as "uneducated, ugly, and ignorant" equates with defending North Korea.
Rick, starbuck49 is probably not smart enough to know what "vitriolic" means. Please try to use words of 2 syllables or less when attempting to communicate with one such as that. You have to do it like this:
Starbuck49, saying bad things about you when you say bad things about North Korea is not the same as saying good things about North Korea. We all know the leaders of North Korea are bad, but we use our brains and point it out like adults, not like children. Please do not post comments until you grow up and learn to use your brain because it makes Americans look bad to the rest of the world when you behave like a silly child.
Joe,
I have been stationed on the Border facing NK. I also have lived in Vladivostok from 1951 to 1960 and KNOW what other countries think of us and how they think of us. It is getting better in some countries after the last 10 years. Those countries think of us as war mongering, imperialists. Why do you think these small countries all want the bomb now? It's NOT because they LOVE us. They STILL believe that the US wants to invade NK. Rommel Romney wants to have boots on the ground in Iran. As fasasmaking us look bad, the GOP has done an excelleny job of that in the last asministration.
your a I D I O T
Will you look at that?! Starbuck returns with a comment I can agree with. Before we call people names and write them off we should dialog more. Many times we would probably enjoy each others company and conversation in person.
This is a step in the right direction. It might take decades, perhaps even a century of capitalism to undo a completely centralized economy run by totalitarians. The good news is that at least the new kid on the block is open to new ideas and not just reinforcing failed policies of the past.
Some countries have strange laws and regulations. Now if the Saudis would allow their women to drive their Mercedes...
Yes, after reading the previous posts, I'd have to agree - starbuck49 is an idiot! :)
Well Master
That is just your opinion and you know what they say about opinions.
lolz...
"odb2
your a I D I O T"
Way to go, kid. They might end up being a little China in the end, but that's a lot better than what they were last year!
Looks like Saudi Arabia will now have to follow suit...
As far as NK goes, any progress is good progress- these changes show their new leadership isn't the crazy eyed unpredictable lunatics as the previous was. At least now they may stop going insane- whether they are now being intelligent and actually calculating how they will attack, or if they have decided to join the rest of the world in the present day remains to be seen. But I will be caustiously optimistic.
They starve, nutrition is so bad they are 5 inches smaller than a South Korean, get electricity 6 hours a day, one TV channel on a few hours a day, thousands in gulags, hell they never were told about the moon landings. But the women can now ride a bike, if they have the bike or the strength! A great day for human rights.
odb2 it is you're not your or you can write you are not your a. However if you want to be grammatically correct you would write you are.
You might want to consider your ability to use grammar before calling someone an idiot.
They would have been allowed to drive but what's the point-- no cars.
Starbuck you missed the important part defending your comment. We here in the United States of America can freely make those types of comments and not be shot for them. It is called sarcasm and an important part of the English language. You have to understand the many tangents of the remark and enjoy it. Make that comment in North Korea and you disappear. I personally am amused by it. After seeing the "GREAT LEADER'S" wife sporting a handbag equal to a North Korean's yearly wage, I know that she pedaled her ass to the Great Leader for all the goodies she is going to get. And when the Great Leader tires of her and takes mistresses, she is just going to shut up and enjoy the good life. But if she does pedal her ass, she too will disappear.
So Starbuck's statement is profound and anyone, like Henry, who criticizes it, just go to North Korea and live in a 400 sq ft concrete villa and work in the rice fields.
Henry-1014127 When you repeal the free speech amendment let me know. Starbuck's comment hits home. And you don't like it. The woman did pedal her ass to the North Korean dictator and she is being paid for it. I enjoyed the comment and if you don't want to read it then don't. Starbuck is intelligent enjoy to have thought up the play on words and knows he has the freedom to express it. "LONG LIVE STARBUCK!"
You are absolutely correct, Starbuck49. Having traveled extensively abroad, I can tell you that President Obama has done more to improve the United States ugly, sinister reputation than any president in more than a decade.
I notice you have some infantile critics. It is no surprise that they have no substantial reason why they disagree with your position.
Right wing Republicans don't like to be reminded of the last time they were in the White House. They want everybody to forget about that and put the same group of people, and their policies, back in.
As long as they keep there missiles in their pocket and we stay out of their business it will all be just fine.
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Even the North Koreans are not waging a war on women like the republicans are .
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Exactly what war is waged on American Western women? Name one right men have that women do not? Mind that you should exclude the ever so great ability to sign up for the selective service and enter hand to hand combat.
Women in America are treated better than any man...period. There is nothing more spoiled, entitled and coddled than the American Western woman. That is a fact!!
Rob, why even engage? It's obvious nothing new is just a stupid troll.
Hey Rob and Pablo, notice you both are men. We usually do not see the difficulties others face until you are one of them. Women may have all the rights on paper that men do but they still do not get paid the same, they are told what to do with their bodies, and now the Republicans are trying to deny them birth control and the right, yes the right, to have an abortion.
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You guys have not been following the republicans reaction to the healthcare law as it applies to women's reproductive rights.
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Republicans will wage any war that their far religious right tells them too. Every since Ronald Reagan hooked up with the disgusting Jerry Falwell and his "moral majority", the Republican party has been on the decline, both socially and mentally.
I applaud their descent. Good riddance!
Henry,
You are a man. Perhaps a white man. You must fully understand the mess we go through in modern times. LOL!!
Technology alone is what gives people the choice. From a natural standpoint, one would be screwed and forced to raise a child they dont want. I dont disagree with abortion. I disagree with women getting carelessly pregnant multiple times (which is the situation in most pregnancies) and having multiple abortions. Two of my three boys were not planned, but we pushed on and did the grown up thing and raised them.
But, let's look at it from a mans point of view. We have ZERO choice in the matter one way or the other. We can father a child with a woman and she can choose to abort the child or choose to have and then leave us and we are stuck paying child support too. Yet, all women ever talk about is marriage and babies. But, the line is out the door at the abortion clinics.
But, oh, let me hit on that. Im a single father of 3 boys, have been doing it for 8 years. My ex-wife was ordered to pay NO child support and hasnt paid a dime to me EVER. Keep in mind this was the same judge that finalized our divorce and initially awarded her custody of the boys and ordered me to pay $900.00 a month. Furhtermore, she wasnt a stay at home mother. She is a military veteran with an education and significant employment history.
Boo-hoo. Rights, rights, rights. Mine are violated EVERY DAY.
Let's see.. Republicans want too:
1. Tell women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies
2. Revoke Obamacare which means insurance companies can continue to charge women higher premiums then men.
3. Ensure women do not receive the same pay men in the same job role.
That's only a few.
As for North Korea. WOW, a huge leap into the new century! I wonder how much of a kick back those leaders will get as women buy bicycles. Hmm.. Sounds republican
Its About Time,
1. What does the government tell women they cant do with their bodies? Furthermore, if women arent rape victims, why should they have repeated abortions? I'm all for a one shot and you're done issue. We all make mistakes. But, the issue here is, women are having MULTIPLE abortions in their lifetime. Still, currently they still have this right. So, that point it moot.
2. Go to statehealthfacts.org and look up death rates for diseases such as cancer, heart attack and stroke to name a few. Men have mortality rates significantly higher than women despite the latest census being roughly 50/50 population. In every state, in nearly EVERY category, men are diagnosed and die more than women for ALL diseases. Yet, where are all the blue ribbons for prostate cancer and other male focused groups? Reason being, nobody cares about a damn man. We are expendable and not to be coddled. Women are.
3. Such a lie. In all of the federal government, law enforcement, military and most other jobs women are paid the same. Yet, even in those jobs, standards are GENDER NORMED to afford them the chance to qualify. Otherwise, they would never even pass the PT test, lifting test or otherwise. Currently, I would like a modern, bona fide example of a man who makes more than a woman for doing the EXACT same work. This includes lifting, walking, running, paperwork, hours, job performance, work ethic...etc.
It is absolutely none of your business, or anybody else's, how many abortions a woman has in her lifetime. Obviously, you have control issues yourself.
Get over it.
Hey, Nothingnew--
Are "reproductive rights" exclusively for women? Is it just a code word for abortion?
What if a man exercised his reproductive rights? You'd call it rape, I suppose.
@Nungman
lol, really?
Is this guy Rob for real?? Hey man, nobody cares what you think about how many abortions a woman has. It is your opinion and should stay that way. If she wants and has the right to do anything with her body, it is none of your business! It is just like republicans to try and mandate that people live like them. Sorry but i dont want to date my sister, I care about my dental hygiene and I want my son to get fact based education as opposed to what the bible says. Which are man made ideals of over 1,000 yrs ago!
I am all for the right of abortion when they allow me to walk away from a child I don't want, but that don't happen if the woman decides to keep the child. So I have no right to abort that child, but the mother has the right to force me into something that I choose not to have.
Teal--is there a meaning there, or you just starting the day's substance abuse early?
I indeed had 2 doses of coffee this morning, might have a 3rd soon!
Rob - You have witnessed the hypocritical Left. I and a lot of others understand what you meant, I agree that women should have the right to choice but I agree with you that they should not depend on abortion mills as a form of birth control (Planned Parenthood).
Don't you just love the way the ugly left when they preach tolerance, peace, progressive thought out of one side of their mouths, then spout hatred and racist rants out of the other if you don't agree with them. Disgusting....
Yo VanGelder: It is someone business you fool, especially when American Tax dollars are funding...
How do women have less rights? We have the right to murder a child without legal punishment. Men don't have the right to murder someone whom they feel has no right to live. They would go to prison.
When it comes to the rights of others, some people only see what they want to see. They hear only what they want to hear. They are reticent to take off the blinders and stop drinking from a polluted fountain. This cuts both ways.
Los Man: The ideas in the bible are more than 2,000 years old, not 1000. Nothing like nitpicking.
Rob-1647498
Nothing yet, the GOP wants to CHANGE that. I don't think its ethical for a woman use abortion as a form of birth control and I don't believe my tax dollars should be used for one either. However, its NOT my right OR yours to tell a woman what she can and cannot do here. You cannot FORCE women by law to carry a fetus to term. Also, what I find ironic, is the GOP wants to do that, but after that fetus is born (and then becomes a child), they do not want to take care of it.
2. Okay, as a man I understand your frustration. However, last time I checked, there isn't one disease on this earth that cares if you are a man or a woman. They are not discrimantory are they? Why should we be? I support equal funding regardless of someone's sex.
3. Equal pay for women is NOT a lie. https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/05-7
hiltz
What gives you the right to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body? If your daughter/wife was raped, would you want the US Government telling her what she can and cannot do? Are you going to force her to have that fetus up through term and then take care of that child? Think about it.
Word is that the Tea Party is very nervous that these types of liberal freedoms might spread to women in the US ! No worry, Mitt and Paul will keep women in their place, barefoot, poor, and pregnant ! No bike riding for US women !
You do realize that women in the U.S. are treated better than anyone else on the planet, right?
The only double standards I see are being called a slut for sleeping around. As for sexual objectification...women do that to themselves. Money talks and as humans, we ALL love attention.
Stop pretending to suit your own personal agendas for power and entitlement to a specific group. But, that's the liberal way isnt it? If you arent with them, you MUST be entirely against them, right?
Rob - Government has been systematically trying to take away women's control over their own bodies.
Actually Rob, American women are not treated better "than anyone else on the planet". A friend from the Netherlands is visiting and I showed him your post and he laughed. You are ignorant and a f00l and that is a dangerous combination.
So, does the government also force these women to have sex and get pregnant? Rape is one thing, but poor excuses are another. My sister has had three abortions with two different men over a 10 year span because she is an idiot. She isnt alone, I know of many women who have had multiple abortions and again, they arent alone. When I took my sister to the abortion clinic, there was a friggin line in there 20 people long and apparently it's like that everyday.
Sorry, but that is called irresponsibility and Planned Parenthood, nor taxpayers should foot the bill. Im fine with a one chance deal or even ONE abortion. But, stop getting knocked up repeatedly and then aborting the fetus when you decide you cant take care of it or dont want it.
As for your friend in the Netherlands...perhaps he is misinformed. I have been all over the world during my military career and I can tell you, women in America have it MADE!!!
Rob, the fact that your sister is an idiot in no way justifies Republican efforts to limit and/or eliminate birth control and access to abortion rights.
Rick,
The fact that SHE is like the majority of other women in this same situation DOES afford them to explore such restrictions. Very much like my federal job and our budget. The assumption is that ONE little department in ALL of the federal government doesnt affect the budget much. Yet, multiply that one little department times thousands of departments and you have a major problem.
Same thing here. Abortion rates are RIDICULOUS!! In addition, few actually pay their own bill to get an abortion. Someone else does.
Well, at least his sister is having abortions instead of making taxpayers pay for her kids... there's always another side-- keep thinkin' on it boys.
Republicans don't pay for those abortions. Congress doesn't. American tax money does not. So they have zero legitimate cause to consider restricting it. And if they were to eliminate abortions, those same knuckleheads would end up paying for those unwanted children, one way or another. (welfare, orphanages, jails, prisons...)
Rob-1647498 you are exaggerating when you said the line was 20 people long and it appears to be like that everyday, there is maybe 5 people a day that gets abortions at abortions clinics, you are againist abortions and trying to freak people out by a high number
Rob-1647498- if a women doesnt pay are abortion bill someone else does yes that is true and you are against that also, its the same when someone doesnt pay there hospital bill for surgery checkup etc... if they dont pay it then the taxpayers have too
I firmly stated I am NOT against abortion. I against repeated abortions because a woman cant be responsible. The men who do it with her are also irresponsible as well.
So, you are saying there is no limit on how many abortions a woman has and the fact that she KEEPS getting pregnant is a non-factor? Sounds like a typical liberal mindset to me. Eliminate ALL accountability and responsibility...just give it to me because it's what I want. It's about ME and MY agenda.
Reproductive rights and responsibilities are not even close to be even handed in this country, or any country for that matter.
Two consenting adults can have sex. Only one can get pregnant while only one can do the impregnating. Unless they both agree that the objective of their having sexual intercourse is to procreate, then I agree with your position that there is no difference in their rights. If, on the other hand, either of their respective intentions are not to get pregnant, then the reproductive right of choice should fall exclusively to the woman. In this sense, there is not any even parity and that is wrong.
Um, wasn't this thread about women on bicycles? Chill out.
Rob,
"The only double standards I see are being called a slut for sleeping around"
I think it is mostly conservatives who still call women "sluts" for sleeping around. If you don't believe me, read Porn Generation by conservative columnist, Ben Shapiro. He freely uses the word "slut" in his book to refer to women who flaunt their sexuality. According to him, Madonna, Britny Spears, Christina Aguilera and other female entertainers are all sluts. He seems to have a particular fondness for that word. I don't think you will find the word "slut" used very often among the liberal crowd.
The biggest problem is that sex has become recreational instead of procreational. Just because it feels good doesn't mean it should be done copiously- if that were true, well, i'm sure it'd feel real good to shoot that idiot driver that keeps cutting me off- maybe then there'd be fewer idiot drivers. If you are going to engage in recreational sex, then at the very least you should take appropriate precautions to make sure it STAYS recreational
shawn,
"Just because it feels good doesn't mean it should be done copiously"
Yes. I think it is a principle widely recognized in all the world's religions as well as in many philosophies such as that of Plato that pleasure is the most addictive thing in the world, and that whenever anything "feels good", it should be dealt with cautiously for that very reason. That is not to say that pleasure in itself is bad; only that it tends to be addictive if one is not careful. Remember that experiment with the monkeys and cocaine? The monkeys ended up preferring cocaine even to food. They wouldn't eat; they just wanted to be high all the time.
To be more precise, religion has been trying to get govt to take freedoms back from women.
Just get on Match.com and look at the profiles and you will find plenty of sluts, nymphos and women who are on who are looking for sugar daddies. Just read the bios they attach and what THEY WANT FROM A MAN. You will see a surprising number who want a man who earns $150,000 a year. And you will see a list of wants from these women, trips, a nice house, a long list of what they expect from a man. What you hardly see is what the woman is offering. Therefore it is the same as the caveman era. A woman wiggles his hips and gets her man, food, shelter and protection. Nothing has changed.
Love forget that. I know it exists but finding it and making a life long passion is almost impossible.
Some years ago, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a very strong pro-abortion think tank, founded by Planned Parenthood, did a thorough study of the reasons women choose abortion. They found that, while there are exceptions, the overwhelming majority of women who seek abortions do so, not because they, themselves, have chosen the abortion, but because they are so besieged by society, husbands, parents, lovers, schools, doctors, employers, etc., that they feel they have been backed up into into a corner where they feel they HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. <><><><><><><><> "No one wants an abortion the way they want an ice cream cone or a new Porche." ------------Frederica Matthews, Feminists for Life of America. <><><><><><> In view of the foregoing, would it not be MORE supportive of a woman's right to choose to help women with problems, support them, back them up with whatever is needed than to just fall in line and herd them off to the abortion facilities, which garner A LOT OF MONEY for the providers, regardless of what SHE wants.
What is the hell does this have to do with riding a bicycle. You all are paranoid.
I knew North Korea had rabid-dog crazy customs, but this is really eye-popping. GAAAAAAWWWWWWD, North Korea! Really? you wouldn't let females ride bikes? What's your next big advance? Individual toothbrushes?
I'm guessing you have not been to North Korea. I have been there. Almost nobody even has bikes so this won't change anything. I saw one bicycle when I was there and it was in a rural village, certainly nobody rides them in the cities.
it's because riding bikes is sooo masculine.... ;)
And next thing you know, they'll allow their women to look up from the ground while in public places!
North Korea is what you get when you implement leftist policies to the fullest. Pres
Obama talks about shared prosperity, what you end up with is shared misery.
Hitler is what you get what you implement right wing policies to the fullest.
"The Nazi party was founded out of the current of the far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps"
Reinf, I think VisionsT1 is making an inconvenient point but one that is truthful. It is the far right, nationalistic crowd that brought Hitler to power. This is clearly happening in this country. But like in Germany of the past, we will overcome your and your party's ugliness and anger and paranoia. This country will survive. The challenge is at which cost and how many people will get hurt.
Sorry Visions but your history is a little off. "Nazi" stands for national socialist party. It was founded as a lefty workers party. Try cracking a history book.
Visions: Are you saying North Korea is anti-comminist?
Reinf, you history is terrible if you actually think the Nazi party was anything but a far right party. Which is established by every major scholar. The Nazi party was well known for their complete disdain of leftist policies and were strongly anti-communist.
"Today our left-wing politicians in particular are constantly insisting that their craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the disarmament of Germany, whereas the truth is that this is the policy of traitors."----Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Try checking out any modern neo-nazi parties in the world and see were their political policies lie. Try looking up the NDP party of Germany today or the Golden Dawn party in Greece.
Vision, you said it was "founded" as right wing. You don't call your party socialist if you are right wing. It obviously morphed into something more facist, which is a radical center political party with left and right policies. Neo Nazis are a different group altogether. I don't know what the hell they are.
Regardless of what the Nazi's were, I think we can all agree that far-right or far-left agendas damage nations and societies whenever they get out of hand. Justice is to be found in moderation, not extremism.
AG99, I completely agree. That is why it is a good thing that our two political parties are always fighting about something. You don't want one or the other to get everything they want or all hell will break lose.
At any rate, as AG99 stated above, both scenarios of going too far right or too far left can both be dangerous. Why not stay safely in the middle? Everyone cries out about extremism in different countries but never when it is here. Straying too far left or too far right is also dangerous extremism. I'd also like to note that George Washington saw that belonging to political parties was a dangerous and destructive notion for a nation, and yes he did belong to several different parties over his years, but what is a better teacher than experience?
Reinf...AG99, what idiotic comments. Are you covert racists, an"I always vote Republican" - Republican, religious morons, or just plain idiots!? :)
I think the article was about North Korea, and bicycles....hmmmmmmmmm
Reinf is proof that morons are running rampent in the USA! hahahahahaha
To the germans in the 30's, hitler looked like a good deal compared to the commies.
Don't ever forget that Adolph Hitler was not elected by a majority of the vote. He was elected because, from a field of multiple candidates, he got more votes than any other ONE candidate. The same thing was true of Bill Clinton.
It is really hard to conceive such mentality. Poor women. You know they are treated like crap; working like slaves, raped for sure, slapped around and demeaned as they struggle to survive and raise their starving kids. Some people have very poor karma. The head of the country, on the other hand takes his woman to a show of Disney imitation as they both enjoy the excitement. Hmmmmm. The real reason they are allowed bikes is because, they will be more productive. They will spend less time on the road and more doing for their "master".
I can see the bike accident rate going sky high! What the hell were they thinking? Just kidding!
It's unnatural. Next thing you know they are going to let animals ride bicycles. When will it end?
What? So this argument only makes sense when people are talking about gay marriage?
The "argument" sounds equally ridiculous to me in both contexts.
Baby steps. But they are steps forward.
While America is taking huge steps backward.
You see how lucky we are living in free society women jump on bikes everyday and don't think anything about it.
But we had better be careful things are a changing and that might not be around much longer.
I dont understand that at all. If anything, society is becoming more and more liberal to the point of moral degradation. Anything goes these days. I am ALL for a woman having a job, career, money, voting rights and freedom. I prefer it. But, women dont seem to be happy or liberated unless they are actually considered men or have their hands in everything men do or enjoy. So long as the standards are gender normed so they can actually be a part of it.
It's ridiculous.
I think he's being facetious.
Rob, you can share a woman's period anytime you want to or child-bearing/birthing! I sure would share these feminine things with you men! (only nature won't allow it) But I do agree (as a woman too) that there are just some things best left to men and other things best left to women, though I'm not against a woman who can do it like a man or a man who can do it like a woman, so long as there's no changing the qualifications to get the job done just to suit the opposite gender. BTW, I don't know if you men saw this important news flash concerning you gents, The Price is Right is now looking for it's very first male model, a VERY big day for you guys I know.
NK is still in the dark ages.
And now a candle has been lit, starbuck49! Something to celebrate!!
I wonder if the North Korean government forces probes up women in a medical rape the way Republicans want to do.....
Don't give them any ideas. If the rulers are Fox watchers, then I pitty what is in store of the people of NK.
Very encouraging signs that Change is Coming for the people of NK. Change coming from within--even in small steps--will surely be the start of bigger things and greater freedoms. True change for the better never happens overnight--but once in motion, the masses will pull it forward.
Good to see they are making progress. Maybe next year the women will be allowed to have seats on the bicycles as well.
Easy to see how Communists and Muslims get along so easily. Their universal love of women and civil rights.
Hmmm...now, who do we know that's Muslim and Communist?
I just can't imagine a society being so backwards! I know I would go nuts if I lived in a place like that.
And yet, that's everyday for Muslim women everywhere on the globe
They are afraid of the "Pussy Riot" happening there.
Maybe in 100 years the North Koreans will join the 20th century.
Wow, all mindless chatter about dems and repubs and women abortion, and nothing about the article of these three misguided women. Anyone listening to Meddona is pretty close to Hell anyways. These women were trasspassing on church property in the first place. They were brainwashed and encouraged by the West to do this sort of thing to try to destroy mother Rusia. Putin is the only person standing in the way of evil forces who are once again lining up to destroy Russia. Two world wars and Napoleon were not successeful, so the west has a new strategy with Satan at the helm to infect Russia from within, thus making it easier for him at some later time. For all you Satan's foot soldiers out there it will not work, the real Christianity(Orthodox) will prevail once again. There is a reason the Orothodox church is supporting Putin and that reason is that he is the Orthodox Christian church. He has an enormous task not only to save Russia, but the rest of the World as well. Thes West is at the precipice of hell at this very moment!!!!
SRBINAT,
I think YOUgot the wrong story. You must be talking about the Russian punk band. This is about North Korea. LOL!!
He must have hit the "older" button on the left- happens to me to- I usually realize it after I start reading comments that don't make any sense ;)
Well well well, it apears that everybody is willing to change a little but the republicans/teabaggers, they still have a sixties mentality. They want to take rights from women here. The next think you know, American women won't be able to smoke anymore, if the teapublicans had their way.
Women allowed on bicycles as N. Korea turns wheels of change.................good thing they didn't go straight to cars.
Oh they can drive, they just couldn't ride a damn bicycle, how frackin nutzo is that.
If only more women in America would learn how to ride.
Real women drive tanks.
Real women drive Feminazies mad !!!
This is one step in the right direction. The government controlled economy should be the next thing to go, then the extremely tight rationing system for goods and food. A well fed population seems to be happier, regardless of what else they are forced to do, so release all that food aid the US has been sending over there for a decade to the general populace. The military and ruling class already gets all the food they need. Maybe Kim Jung Fat really is tire of the regime being hated by the population and has a clue about reality. We'll see as time progresses.
So, NK finally enter the XVIII century... Let's see when they arrive to the XX and XXI century...
This may seem like a joke to some who were lucky enough to be born in a free country. The ingrained lifestyles and controls that have existed in N Korea for several generations cannot be ended in a single day. If it were they would be embroiled in instant civil war and chaos. Many of those still in positions of power would immediately rebel. This would cause even more suffering to the general population. Their young leader is familiar with the world out side of his country and it seems would like N Korea to enjoy some of these comforts and freedoms. If he lives long enough to consolidate his power base I believe he will continue to take baby steps toward a more normal and free society. It isn't only Rome that wasn't built in a day.
oh BOY a bike!
Women on bikes could spell the beginning of the end for NK! Look at the far reaching effects of this: Bikes ==> Mobility ==> Drive Thru windows ==> McDonalds ==> obesity and obesity related diseases ==> The End......