Ummm....

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MH11Dg01.html

What the fuck? Is he trolling or something?

[Kiev Communard]

This article does indeed seem a poor attempt at the large-scale political trolling. Especially hilarious is the following part:




The Korean people, the Workers' Party of Korea, government and the Korean People's Army consider Kim Jong-eun a manifestation of the founding father, Kim Il-sung that effectively keeps him alive and in charge for ever. Kim Il-sung's leadership provides the ancestral land of Korea with millenniums of prosperity and peace as enjoyed by the ancient Korean kingdom of Dankun 5,000 years ago and of Koguryo 2,000 years ago.



I wonder what this has to do even with Stalinism at all. Frankly, North Korea strikes me as cultish to the extreme.

[Revy]

No, he is not trolling. He is one of the DPRK's propagandists.

Kim Myong Chol is author of a number of books and papers in Korean, Japanese and English on North Korea, including Kim Jong-il's Strategy for Reunification. He has a PhD from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Academy of Social Sciences and is often called an "unofficial" spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea.

[gendoikari]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MH11Dg01.html

What the fuck? Is he trolling or something?

Okay guys Lets get radiation scrubbers set up in the mississippi river, and start playing homefront a bit more. We're going to need them come 2025.

Personally I really wish both of the kims would make a trip here, I'd love to Meet them.

[DarkPast]

"Manifestation of the founding father", "ancient Korean kingdom", thousands years old "ancestral land", "highly resourceful and resilient nation", "Supreme Leader", "legendary great statesman who will lead the Korean people into a rosy future", "god-sent fortune"...

All these phrases sounds more like ultra-conservative or fascist propaganda than anything even remotely leftist.

P.S. The "tags" section of this topic is awesome.

[Nox]

"South Korea has one of the world's highest suicide rates, worsening rapidly as the gulf widens between rich and poor in a faltering and uneven domestic economy. Suicide has doubled in the past decade to account for 31 in every 100,000 deaths."

At least the writer got something right here.

[Nox]

Honestly, I think alot of this article is correct, even if slightly exaggurated, with a piece of ridiculous propaganda placed every few paragraphs.

The main points that the article focuses on are that:

- North Korea is a strong nuclear power and has the ability in the future to become a space power.
- The US sanctions on North Korea aren't really doing anything.
- The problems caused by Capitalism in South Korea.
- A bunch of bullshit about how the Kims are the greatest leaders ever.

All of those except the last one I agree with.

The article don't mention any bad aspects to the North Korean regime, but of the good things it mentions I see most of them being reasonable and justified things to say.

[Rooster]

- North Korea is a strong nuclear power and has the ability in the future to become a space power.

All of those except the last one I agree with.

Really?

[Nox]

Really?

They didn't say how far into the future ;)

They are obviously a nuclear power atm, and I see no reason why they couldn't be in space in a century or two, or sooner maybe. I mean, they have a close, unique friendship with their neighbour China who also happens to be an emerging space power and could get alot of help from them. I mean, the Kims have a history of putting propaganda feats ahead of the welfare of the people, so why would a space venture seem unreasonable?

[Kiev Communard]

They are obviously a nuclear power atm, and I see no reason why they couldn't be in space in a century or two, or sooner maybe. I mean, they have a close, unique friendship with their neighbour China who also happens to be an emerging space power and could get alot of help from them. I mean, the Kims have a history of putting propaganda feats ahead of the welfare of the people, so why would a space venture seem unreasonable?

Well, if they begin pursuing full-scale space programme, I do not think how the North Korean economy will be able to bear its brunt.

[Nox]

Well, if they begin pursuing full-scale space programme, I do not think how the North Korean economy will be able to bear its brunt.

That's certainly true, but like I said - if they ever do start a space venture, they will certainly be helped significantly by China. And the Kims will have no problem spending money on a space program while their people suffer.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Why would China want to help its awkward, annoying neighbour become a space power?

[Nox]

Why would China want to help its awkward, annoying neighbour become a space power?

I don't know, it was just suggested as a possibility. The 'future' is a very broad description, it could mean anything from tomorrow to billions of years in the future, so it would be very blunt to think that, in billions of years, North Korea could never become a space power.