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KCNA via Reuters, file
A banner reading "Accomplish task suggested by Workers Party Central Committee and Central Army Committee" appears at a rally commemorating the 65th anniversary of North Korean Workers Party in Pyongyang on Feb. 13, 2010.
North Korea’s leaders are “peerlessly great” and capable of “immortal feats,” Americans are “imperialists” who use “brigandish logic” and critics are just “rats” scurrying about in a ditch.
And not to forget the gushing ode to the “threadbare and discolored” parka worn by the late “dear leader” Kim Jong Il or the discovery of a unicorn lair.
Official pronouncements from North Korea’s state-controlled media have always had a certain poetic quality -- although the poet in question would appear to be extremely angry, somewhat paranoid and possessed by an overly active imagination.
And more than a year after Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il, came to power, it is clear that the planet's only hereditary communist state is still pleased with its flowery rhetoric, despite mocking laughter from the rest of the world.
After all, foreign journalists who dare to criticize can be easily dismissed as “a sordid hackwork of rubbish media,” according to one release Wednesday from the KCNA news agency.
Kcna / AFP - Getty Images
A pictorial look at the North Korean leader through the years
And not to worry. “The sun will always give off its light even though rats make nonsensical remarks moving around ditch, while finding it hard to raise their heads to the bright human world.” So there.
On Thursday, KCNA's latest statement hailed its recent satellite launch as a demonstration of its “space science and technology and its overall national power.” This “stark fact” was “favored by the world.”
No matter that the United Nations Security Council had agreed to a resolution to sanction North Korea over the launch, which is feared was actually a test of long-range missile technology.
This claim was simply the “brigandish logic” of the U.S. and the Security Council was nothing more than “a marionette.”
But, again, there is really no need for North Koreans to worry, given their country is “a political, ideological and military giant” run by “peerlessly great persons of [the sacred] Mt. Paektu.”
However, occasionally there are hints that not everyone is quite so on-message.
At a meeting of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League and Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade unions of Korea Wednesday, KCNA said that “reporters and speakers” had “underscored the need to dynamically conduct ideological education to firmly defend and glorify the sacred revolutionary careers and immortal feats” of said peerlessly great leaders.
Elizabeth Dalziel / AP
From work to play, see pictures from inside the secretive country.
Among Kim Jong Il’s accomplishments were: Shooting 11 holes-in-one during the first round of golf he ever played, writing operas, producing movies, and flying jet fighters.
His death, of course, was due to “physical and mental over-work” on behalf of the nation.
Another reason why he was so great was that he wore an old jacket, which was the subject of a radio essay last month called the “Parka of Kim Jong Il during his field guidance” on North Korean broadcasting service, Voice of Korea.
"His parka was that of a great father, with which he kept all the people on this land from snow, rain and cold,” the Voice of Korea report said.
Kim – a "peerless sage of mankind, possessed with warm humanity, broad magnanimity and noble sense of moral obligation” – had apparently worn the parka as a reminder of his country’s grim history after the death of his father Kim Il Sung.
'Outlandish superlatives'
Seoul-based North Korea expert Daniel Pinkston, North East Asia deputy project director for the International Crisis Group, said stories about unbelievable golfing prowess and the like were not really meant to be taken literally.
“The whole point is not that people necessarily believe it,” he said, noting there was also a degree of mythologizing about revered figures from the past in the West.
And Pinkston said what often sounds “comical” or “bizarre” in English “doesn’t come off as the kind of stilted, strange language” in Korean.
But he said North Korea perhaps suffered from its isolation and the lack of feedback on its writing style.
“They do have a tendency to use outlandish superlatives” to emphasize a point, he added.
The main message, however, of many of the statements is seldom lost in translation, Pinkston said.
“It’s just very harsh and militant,” he said.
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maybe, if obama will continue to dump billions into this hellhole like he does with the lousy paki's, egypt and other screwy nations they will play nice.... not.
This country is broken...
The other day an (apparently) serious writer sugggested that President Obama was going to suspend the Second AMendment by "Executive ORder." Just goes to show - there's enough delusions to go around.
There is nothing cute about North Korea. They are running death camps that kill men, women and children, often through slow starvation, beatings and forced hard labor. This article should reflect that. The Kims have killed untold millions of people over the decades of their family's rule on this horrific country. Deportation to these death camps usually involves all family members of the offender. It may be 3 generations of the offender's family that are forced to go with the offender, for any small transgressio--including not smiling when expected at the Dear Leader. This place is the essence of Hell. Well, Hell is probably nicer, actually.
Keith, I think you're the ones who's broken. STOP!
keith-834246
Have had about enough of you people and your pathetic pessimism and negativity. YOU are killing America. This experiment doesn't work without optimism. It's like you wake up in the morning in a nasty mood and never let it go. If only GW or Reagan were POTUS everything would be fine. It's idiocy of the highest order.
Leave if you don't like it! We will be so much better off without you all! All we here is BOO HOO! Whine! Whimper! Poor little pitiful me! Seriously, grow up! I will buy any of you a one-way ticket to Poonyang if you like. That's "one-way" mind you. Then you might understand what an oppressive society with no free speech or representation feels like.
Voxy!...must not have gotten any last nite, your kinda catty....
I would like to see an article on whether the n. korean people are ALL stupid enough to believe their propaganda, there must have been an i-phone smuggled into that country somewhere and at least 1 person, is aware of how crazy they are...?
My god, Coyotehunter. You should just stop posting, because your English skills are atrocious. Catty? Is that when a person acts like a cat? Nite? Do you not know how to spell NIGHT? i-phone? Since when is there a hyphen in iPhone? Piss poor usage of an ellipsis to top it all off.
Keith,
You are swallowing a vat full of Kool-aid. The Obama Administration is spending much less than the Cheney/Bush administration. Look it up! Do some homework and think for yourself for a change.
As for the above mentioned poetry, it's really a hoot. Surely the N. K. people aren't stupid enough to swallow that.
Wouldn't it be neat if we could send all these 2nd amendment cowardly gun nuts to work on the 38th parallel, (at the DMZ), so they could show us all their supposed bravery??? Then we would see how tough they really are!!!!
...Obama runs America the same way the Kim boys run Korea....bull@!$%# and preening.....his followers are just as pathetic as Kim's goose stepping bots.....
Bambi is jealous! He wishes all Americans were as devoted as Kim's subjects.
Maybe if idiots like you were smart enough to figure out Congress makes these decisions and not the President we would be better off. NOT............
@Hobbs, Obama may be spending less in those places, but he is spending more of our great grandkids futures. I mean he spends more here on government and wellfare programs...
time to play ""Mad World" by Tears for Fears
This is a very typical Amertican Exceptionalist response. If you don't understand a culture or race or country, you make a cartoon of the culture/race/country and then compare yourself to the cartoon. I am reminded that before and during WWII, official US propaganda portrayed Japanese as all being short, wearing thick glasses and having huge pertruding buck teeth. They were said to be of low intelligence and very ape-like in their thinking. In fact the average Japanese soldier was about an inch shorter than the average American soldier, and the same percentage wore glasses and had dental issues. The average Japanese soldier was about 2 IQ points smarter than the average GI. So the cartoons are not very accurate.
But the North Koreans are very much the cold, calculating people that have successfully played a dangerous game of brinkmanship for about 60 years. Every President since Truman has tried to find a solution to the "Korean Problem" without a bit of success. The North Koreans hold all the aces and we, expecially the military, know it. Using google translations of NK propaganda is pasrticularly insane.
I particularly found the "unicorn" stories in the press as particularly lame. The term has been used in Asia for centuries to describe the saola. The saola is a rare animal now only found in Vietnam and Laos. But it had some interesting characteristics: a) it bedded down in rock overhangs -- just like the "unicorn lair" that was mentioned in the articles. b) Ancient Korean kings were frequently portrayed as riding a saola. c) The saola's common name is the "Asian Unicorn." If you add these together, having a poem that describes Kim riding a unicorn, and having archeologists find a rock overhand with "Unicorn Lair" carved into it would be similar to the stories about George Washington cutting down a cherry tree. And you have to remember that discrediting the story did not mean that Washington was a dishonest man. In the same fashion, making these propaganda broadcasts into literal translations is just as foolish. They are propaganda and no one in Korea takes them literally.
That sign behind the North Koreans (in Korean) looks to me like it has a bunch of "lol"s in it!!!
Roll TIde, Chris...
Didn't this crazy little North Korean play in the Hangover movies when he was slimmer?
But seriously....11 holes in one. Gotta be impressed with that but was it golf or someother game played with holes?
This is not too far off from the Medias love affair with the current POTUS, as we continue to use the word worker instead of person,citizen or employee, he is credited with amazing feats that never occur and yet is held accountable by no one in the media or limp noodle GOP.Criticizes enemies who have achieved more or are a threat to his own veil of secret ineptitude. Chris enjoyed some of your post very accurate.
It's a shame the older brother, Kim Jong-nam, after returning from college in Switzerland let it be known that he was interested in reforms and opening a free market in North Korea. He should have kept that to himself until after his father died.
Ironic that MSN is talking about propaganda. Dont they do the same thing? Prop Obama up as some grand leader and bash the GOP at every turn? Why do you think Obama is president....thats right PROPAGANDA by our own state run media.
@kenneth newman [Wouldn't it be neat if we could send all these 2nd amendment cowardly gun nuts to work on the 38th parallel, (at the DMZ), so they could show us all their supposed bravery??? Then we would see how tough they really are!!!!]
My father was one of your so called "cowardly gun nuts". He spent 2 years on the DMZ in Korea in 54 and 55. I certainly think he was brave and tough. I have also spent my time in the miltary ready to fight for your freedom to say the things that are on your mind. Can you say the same?
They sure have to try hard to pump themselves up, huh? King of the anthill talks like he is king of the mountain. I guess they have to feel like they are important. Meanwhile, if you look at Korea from space, the South is where all the lights are. You know, civilization? The North is dark, save for one tiny spec where I'm assuming the regime must be located. I mean otherwise, the regime would live in the dark. And they can't live in the dark like the rest of their country. You know, they are much too "important" for that.
I think it's about time we park a task force near the border of North Korea. Threats are the only thing these piss ants who think they are leaders seem to understand. Will the king of the ant hill actually be so bold with a nuclear task force on it's borders?
HotHouse,
Thank you for your service.
Hey Kenneth,
Been there, done that, but got no damn T-shirt for it. Now, can you say the same? I spent 16 months (normal tour is 12 months but was involuntary extended) 80-81 when the country (South Korea) was under military rule. This includes DMZ duty (had to have a waiver being female) to work Point Quelette [sic] in the DMZ. Crimmey, who pissed in your cereal today?
BTW - Yea, I do believe in the 2nd amendment and I'm even a NRA member. Now can we both get back to the subject matter at hand? Don't expect any reply from me either. It's not deserved.
SFC
US Army, MI (ret)
The NK leadership, full of themselves, not unlike our own progressives.
What are you talking about? Obama is dumping billions into North Korea?
You are living proof that auto erotic asphyxiation makes a poor party trick.
@ Jeff,
Stop using big words, that's too complicated! They (and by they I mean those who like to blame others for everyone's problems whether or not the blamed had anything to do with it) only understand simple and basic, to the point kind of arguments. You know, like Obama did it. Everything is Obama's fault. Thanks for my dirty room, Obama! Etc.
In reality, it is ridiculous to blame one man for everything, while at the same time refusing to give him credit for anything. The world doesn't work like that convenient double standard. It takes an entire government to perform most of these functions. I'm not even a Democrat or happy with the presidency and I'm tired of hearing this. My reaction is:
"Ok, you don't like him. We get it. When are you going to get off your @33 and fix something instead of whining about it?"
You know what I'm saying? I'm not exactly happy with the left, but the right isn't doing anything to help us, either. All they do is point fingers. Obama did it...
I wish ALL you Obama haters will just stop already. He won. Let it go. I know if Mitt had won, I wouldn't be very happy, but I would not keep harping on it. Please STOP THE BS!!!!
Obama anyone?
NBC putting out an article accusing others of propaganda. Hilarious.
"First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Funny how no one who mentions NBC propaganda ever mentions biased news on the other side of the political aisle. You people act as if Fox News, Rush, etc. aren't propaganda. Conservatives have their propaganda, and liberals have theirs. When did the NBC home page become a conservative blog, anyways? It seems like there are more "propaganda" posters on this page than normal ones.
Funny how people who mention Fox News and Rush, etc. Never mention the plethora of propagandists of the left. Freidman, Milbank, Brooks, Maddow, Halperin, Matthews, Schultz, Robinson, and on and on and on....there are literally thousands of them working at the leftists propaganda outlets such as NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNBC, HuffPo, Politico, Newsweek, Time, etc,etc,etc...
@ Simple theory,
People like you already did that for me. There was no need. Nice try, but I already mentioned that liberals had their own propaganda. Did I really have to get into specifics when people like you just did? I'm sure everyone here is smart enough to understand what I said if they read it.
You, however, failed to even acknowledge propaganda from the right when calling out the left. I just think it's funny how party bias drives such hypocrisy. As for me, I'm an independent who is tired of such one sided thinking.
I just want to know---Where the hell is Poonyang Vox?
This is the sort of crapola I referred to above. Let's see, the man is attacked endlessly, 365/24/7 by an entire news network and villified the same amount of time on talk radio. And yet he has no accountability? And do you ever even watch network news? Total BS to say he is given a pass. Just a complete falsehood. Have you been listening to Bernard Goldberg?
I would suggest it is you, his opponents, who have no accountability. For how many falsehoods can you justify? But of course when you soak up such hatespeech with no legitimate opposing view involved you see him as sinister, as evil. It's total BS!
Place your hands firmly on the ground and push. Free your head!
The real problem with your analysis is that the audiences of all of those you named added together do not even come close to Limbaugh's alleged numbers. That's just the truth. The Right gives these loons cult status but the Left is not driven by pundits. To claim such a thing is just absurd. None of those on your list come anywhere the status given to Beck and Limbaugh or even Bill O'Reilly!
Air America failed for these reasons, it's also why Current TV never caught on. We tend to read long, boring history tombs to develop our thinking. And that reading does not include the claptrap of the Right from the likes of Coulter, Malkin, O'Reilly, Coursi, Levin, Hannity, Beck and all of the best selling garbage their like produces. And I have no hestation calling their work GARBAGE! I have read books by several of these "authors". Might have just as well have spent my time with a coloring book for the information they contained.
You are just another Righty who knows nothing about their opposition.
^ So true.
Maybe MSNBC can do an article on Obamas propaganda poets, He has them and they work for the major news agencies, just look at all of the articles written about obama and moochelle. Heck just watch the Monday night inauguration report and you will see a bunch of obama propaganda poets!!!!!
It is the capital of North Korea of course.
Laughable! So those of us who voted for Obama are victims of propaganda? As opposed to the sheep those like Rush drove to the polls to vote for a candidate few of you even liked.
I like Obama, don't view him as sinister in any way. I like having a President who is an intellectual like Madison and not a doodler like Reagan! I think that is what scares so many of you. Because few of us could deal with the insults thrown his way with the grace and cool he has shown. I would have snapped long ago and it wouldn't have been pretty. I would have put Mitch McConnell in a Kimura and make him tap out on the Senate floor!
I didn't know hooking up a hose to your *** and inhaling the fumes would get you high, until I read your post that is...
After all, foreign journalists who dare to criticize can be easily dismissed as “a sordid hackwork of rubbish media,”
Sounds disturbingly familiar, doesn't it???
Irish and Simple Theory
So those conservative polls predicting a Romney landslide weren't propaganda?
Just so you know: In 2003 Fox news won on appeal to the Florida Supreme court a case known as the "Right to Lie" case. It came about when a couple of reporters found one of Fox's advertisers was using bovine growth hormones. Fox tried to bribe them not to publicize but they refused, suing Fox under Whistleblower laws. They won the initial case and the appeals until the case reached the State Supreme Court ( the same court that put G.W.Bush in office 3 years before) which reversed the decision of the lower court. Fox argued that, under the First Amendment, they had the right to lie or distort the news.
So MSNBC may be "propaganda poets" in your view but Fox is just a bunch of liars, no better than the National Enquirer. Worse, since the Enquirer isn't pretending to be factual. Conservatives can defend Fox all they want. They only make themselves look foolish.
BTW, Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the guy who got his clock cleaned in England recently. If you saw the list of radio and tv stations he owns you'd realize Fox is the definition of "lamestream media".
keith-834246
Speaking of superlatives, why is it the goons like you blame Obama for everything. If your toilet clogged you'd find a reason to blame Obama.
In America we have blog "poets" like yourself that enter negative political superlatives that leaves the rest of the world laughing.
How is he any different than the politicians that run this country.
We can vote them out, at least in theory. A better question might, "How are the North Korean peasants any different than the average voting American?" The answer is: not much. We swallow similar rubbish from our leaders and continue to elect the same old "rats" into office every few years.
I feel sorry for the North Koreans, but we should know better.
The North Korean peasants are also subjected to the world's flat-out most obscene political repression. Death camps, censoring, hit squads, secret police, etc.
I have no great love for the US government, but please don't compare its citizens to the serfs that occupy that wretched place.
Anybody up for a good game of "Where's Waldo"?
Do try using google and look under North Korean social society and government.
Voting them out is just an illusion. At least North Koreans know they have a dictator instead of pretending not to have one because they "vote" in rigged elections. If North Korea succumbed to the World Government, regardless of whether they have a dictator or not, you would not be able to find it on a map, similar to many Central Asian countries that have dictators who may be worse, but appease the World Government.
If we go back in history, we can point out many dictators backed by the World Government, overthrown by the people of their respective states, whether it be Pinochet in Chile, the Shah in Iran, Mubarak in Egypt. These dictatorships enslave their countries by taking out huge debts from entities such as the IMF or World Bank, that they will never be able to pay back and make their countries slaves to foreign investors. And it does not have to be an outright dictator but can be a country with a "democracy" like Greece or Spain, or even ourselves. I think most people know there's something wrong, but blame one of the two parties instead of the people that control them.
The biggest threat to the World Government is a nationalistic state. If you wonder why the US is exercising an open-border policy, passing anti-American laws, growing the debt through useless spending such as wars, exporting jobs, and doing things that actually harms the interests and independence of American citizens, then just study some history.
Just look at the last housing bubble. Do some research on the faceless investors and banks that just took over a ton of wealth and property from Americans with these fake crises and bailouts. People will do anything when induced by fear and they know it.
I bet after 5 minutes living there you'd know.
I want that poet to follow me around for a day.
"And the supreme leader's bowels moved with a strength hitherto not known amongst men. Any lesser man would have been mercilessly slaughtered by the thirteen secret herbs and spices"
Good one!
N. Lancertopia has once again been proven false by western scientists. A study reported only 11 herbs and spices were ingested by the "Great Lance"!
Ode to Kim Chee
Mmmm Mmmm. But oh the smell!!
Thank you Lance! It will take an hour or so to clean the coffee off my screen and keyboard
" And the Peerless Leader enthralled an inexhaustible succession of nubile and willing maidens in his Priapic Pleasure Palace, thus ensuring the continuity of Right and Patriotic Principles into the next generation with his mighty and immortal seed".
They don't call it Poon-Yang for nothing. . .
"It's good to be King." -- Tom Petty
The Colonels recipe?
Even the North Koreans have a banner meaning "Mission Accomplished" :-P
Not all that different than the current regime here with his media puppets praising the Annointed One
"Annointed One"....hmmm....if you're refering to Obama as Jesus, I believe Jesus was annointed and later murdered by a jealous opposition, similarly, those who advocate the death penalty today have much in common with those who shouted for the death of an Annointed One" over 2000 years ago. Who can doubt rightwingers have enough unreasoned hatred within them to do murder, after all aren`t the majority of the people who make up the NRA of the same political persuasion??
Jesus was murdered by a traitor in his circle, similar to Obama murdering America. Nice bigoted remark about the NRA, although you needn't not remind me of how vile Progressives are as I live in Boston the most Progressive city and not coincidentally, the single most corrupt city as well.
Good post skibum, I may have you beat as I live in the Peoples State of Maryland with its murderous tax rate, Murderous cities, Political corruption, Failing education system and bloated scocial programs. As an Independent I am basically regarded as an outcast for not goose stepping with my peers.
Sorry skibum. Austin is the most progressive (read-Liberal) city and proud of it. We've got an unemployent rate of about 5%. The housing market is great and some 30k people are moving here a year.
One day the North might raise it's head to a super bright human world caused by a massive nuclear explosion directly over Pyongyang.
Now, now, now, children........every generation has had its own anti-christ and annointed one.
True, and our Country already has one....
Yeah Dave
George W
Brooke - we'll take George W over the effeminate narcissist any day.
fool - but ronald regan has passed away.
I was born when Eisenhower was President although I don't recall any Presidents before JFK. Reagan of JFK were the two best by far. There is a continuing fight among three for the title of 2 worst ever between Bush the dumber, Carter the Jew hating Islamist and Obama who is as American as Kim Chi.
The only people, besides the North Korean's, who taken them seriously (The Great Leader, The Dear Leader, and now Fat Boy) are the South Korean's who are slightly smarter than slugs...
GrandpaNorCal....you are so wrong about the South Koreans. They are much smarter and wiser than most Americans. I was just there last month and the people there care about their country. So shut up!!
@Grandpa,
A quick check of where various developed countries fall in education shows that Finland and South Korea are tied for the highest educational achievement scores while the US is a miserable 17th place.
Did you know that more people in China speak fluent English (meaning 12th grade level) than in the entire US?
North Korea is one of the most belligerent and unpredictable countries in the world. And it is one of the most heavily armed military countries in the world --- currently about 4th. I think it would be a very good idea to take them very seriously. The First Deadly Sin in the military is to underestimate your opponent.
Chris-great post.
How can a post which compares the English skills numerically be great? The claim regarding Chinese English proficiency is based on their unsubstantiated claim and is 2/3 of America's 330 million people i.e. 210 million spoke English at a 12 th grade level, the same number in china would be almost 900,000 to make a statistical correlation so the post is great, as long as the reader knows very, very little about anything.
Chris-GREAT POST.
OMG..ski-bum, ski-bum is here to set our word usage and English grammar to a tit-tat error of non importance in this conversation. Oh, no don't let us make a error in you eyes. You can give me a great big FFFFFFFFF
@skibum,
Your post did not make it to the 12th grade level. You would not be counted among the Americans who are fluent in English.
Fast forward to the year 2525. NK today announced the manufacture of it's 50,000th nuclear weapon--ready for Sunageddon wherein it will unleash them all on the entire world.
Meanwhile across the Pacific--Obama XI announced a salt XX treaty to reduce nuclear weapons to 50 each for Russia and the US claiming there is no place for nuclear weapons in this world.
Sound far fetched?
Not under Obama!
Obama XI? You mean George Bush III.
Re. the amendment to abolish term limits:
Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II all had that legislation introduced to repeal the 22nd amendment during their terms. Why should it be any different then, when it won't be passed by the states anyway?
Instead of dumping your vitriol on the current president, who now has only one term left to go, why don't you find someone worth voting for, for the 2017 election?
Or are you waiting for George Bush III to show up?
Or work to pass the 27th amendment?
Amendment 27
Congressional pay raises
Elk; that same moron has asked to have it repealed numerous times, there is now one trying to repeal it for obama..... Moron.
We never need to have a prez for more than two terms, we should also make the same rule for congress and the senate. All of the politicians let power go to their heads including your precious obama!!!!!
If you really think obama is for anybody but his elite buddies and himself you are really ignorant!!! quit being a usefulidiot and start making decisions on your own with your own brain.
The difference between a smart person and a lib is, a smart person chooses what they read and believe a lib only reads what they are told and believe what they are told by their precious leaders!!!!!
If you want a good laugh go the north korean english website and read about their country and leadership.
Yeah things are really progressive there. It's such a grand and glorious country what with that splendid God-like leadership and those shiny missiles and bombs.
Only a few little problems: starvation, no heat, no shoes.
Their media sounds a lot like most of ours: MSNBC, CNN, to name a couple. Just report with your own bent and the mindless minions will follows.
I rather read North Korean poetry and listen to their music every day than read US Media, because on US Media, all I hear about is violence, murder, rapes, crimes, celebrity trash, sex scandals, politicians stepping on their d**ks, etc... No wonder the USA is going downhill fast. A country like the USA with NO morals, NO humanity, and NO sense of shame cannot function for long.
Yea, right. If we don't acknowledge murder and rape, it didn't happen. You seem to be taking a page from the communists playbook: don't discuss unpleasant information.
So you say in a comment thread under an article about North Korea, a country that has been on the brink of collapse for decades and yet managed to avoid it. The irony of this cannot be overstated.
Get off your high horse. America has problems, and it's the job of the media to report them. What would you like to hear on the news? Constant refrains about how wonderful and flawless our government is?
@Rachen30,
Funny, but when you listen to North Korean radio, all you hear is "murder, rapes, crimes, celebrity trash, sex scandals, politicians stepping on their d**ks, etc..." in the USA. The North Korean leadership contends that "(a) country like the USA with NO morals, NO humanity, and NO sense of shame cannot function for long."
"Among Kim Jong Il’s accomplishments were: Shooting 11 holes-in-one during the first round of golf he ever played."
When you have a state controlled media anyone can do that.
Good luck to all you poor people who continue to think that you can reason with these folks, and that the U.S is the bad guy!
He just made #12
If you can't tell I don't like the South Koreans...
We don't care.
We're not to impressed with you either Grandpa.
This just proves when you are hatched from a psychotic sociopath, you become a psychotic sociopath.
The same can be said of many languages when translated from one to another.
But then, North Korea sounds kinda like our own Tea-Republicans sometimes... e.g. a degree of mythologizing about revered figures (and pseudo-facts) from the past.
Reagan single handedly conquered the Soviet Union.
Reagan tore apart the Berlin Wall with his BARE HANDS.
George Bush senior once peed in an Iraqi oil well during the first Gulf War. It instantly lit aflame.
When someone tried to assassinate Andrew Jackson, he jumped on the man and almost beat him to death with his cane. His personal security had to save the assassin from Jackson.
Wait... no, that last one is true. Oops.
Reagan brought down Communism, as he said he would, without using nuclear weapons as Progressives, Liberals and Democrats all claimed he would. Much, much, much lower unemployment during his years and he didn't even whine for a month about the recession Carter left him, plus higher oil and gas prices when adjusted for inflation than whiny Hussein Obama has done for over 4 years. Andrew Jackson also murdered a man in a duel, despite his victim having no military training and Jackson being an expert marksman. San Francisco is the most beautiful place in America I hate going to, simply because the people are despicable.
skibum..which president opened the social security fund to be spread out all over this country to produce those jobs. ??? Nixon, Carter or Reagan and why was it already done for years before any one knew about it. The money was used by FHA to finance the building of cheap housing, city sewer systems, mass farming and large farming conglomerates all over the US.
Bahaha! Silly North Koreans! Not only was the thought of launching a nuclear ballistic missile at the US a foolish idea, but standing out in the cold waving your fists around with no rice in your belly, while fat boy eats it all... Well, that is silly to!
how very kind of you make fun of a oppressed starving people. I guess it is easy to be tough when there is no death squad at your door.
North Korea only exists because China has been propping them up for years so they can be a natural barrier to south Korea which is friends with America.
That, plus they're afraid that if it collapses they'll be swamped with North Korean refugees.
@Domewars,
Actually China and South Korea are more closely allied than China and North Korea. The Chinese are very concerned about South Korea only because South Korea is running a huge trade surplus with China. "After the KORUS FTA (United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement) was finalized on June 30, 2007, the Chinese government has immediately begun seeking an FTA agreement with South Korea. The FTA between Korea and China are under discussion. South Korea has been running a trade surplus with China, which hit a record US$ 32.5 billion in 2009." North Korea's trade with China is a measly US$2.7 billion. And even this is offset by the lage amount of Chinese economic aid.
In fact, the South Koreans, especially younger better-educated ones, are becoming very wary of reunification. They watched with horror at the difficulty and costs Germany had in integrating the East German economy with its out-dated factories and unskilled labor and a massive Stalinist laziness and major alcohol consumption. They see that North Korea is much worse. In fact the average North Korean is arouynd 15+ IQ points lower than the average South Korean due to malnutrition. The workers are unskilled and there is no real industry at all in North Korea. More and more South Koreans believe that reunification would bankrupt the country.
One big flash above America knocks out all the power. If you know what I am talking about, then you know its possible for any country to do. There won't be any mocking then. Prisonplanet.com will wake you up.
Sure, sure. Any country with a functioning nuke can totally defeat the United States easily. We believe you. Now go back to sleep, Crazy Person.
Actually all that is needed to defeat America is one person: Barrack Benedict Obama.
skibum I do believe thou doest protest to much. I mean you can't even go one post without mentioning obama and not just this articale. I have read several articales that make no mention of us gov't much less obama himself and yet he is still all you can talk about.
What is the difference between this and MSNBC, CNN, and ABC love fest with obama? When you have a nedii whose pundits meet weekly with the President and staff you can be sure you are getting an "unbiased" media.
They'll admit that Obama sucks at golf. That's journalistic integrity, right there.
Doesn't golf require a great deal of concentration, decision making skills.
Considering the hero worshipping trends here in the U.S,we don't seem very far behind those North Korean poets.In the old days kings would have " praise singers " to proclaim their noble ,heavenly attributes.Now,we have bands of journalists serving the same purpose.Spin doctoring started perhaps when we were still in caves or up the trees.
Just remember all you would be targeters of American nuclear might, Kim Jong Un and his generals don't actually live or work in Pyongyang. They have 'secret' bunkers and hideouts undetectable to the US. They also use those bunkers and hideouts to escape the masses of the NK population and lead their relatively posh lives away from the people they so desperately need as a shield against 'western aggression'. They actually believe that we won't drop a nuke in their laps during one of their celebrations. They're wrong.
Kim Jong Un has sent Donald Trump, direct from his unicorn lair, Obama's "real" birth certificate!
North Korea is a Frankenstein created by China to attempt to frighten the US, and they love it. They will continue supporting these evil little robots with money from a bankrupt US, and they love that also.
NK was created by the Soviet Union in the area of Korea they occupied at the end of WWII. They were to handle the Japanese surrender in the area and administer it; then Korea was supposed to be united. Stalin had other ideas. You can read (online) the sordid early history of this mess in a book titled (link) United States Army in the Korean War, Policy and Direction: The First Year. The book is also available at amazon. You don't have to read the whole book to get a good idea about the history leading up to the Korean War. Unfortunately, U.S. screwups went back to the early years of the 20th century. Fascinating reading. For one serious blunder, we hinted that the U.S. wouldn't defend SK, then changed our minds after the attack by NK came in June 1950. The attack itself was yet another inteligence failure.