http://www.livejournal.com/users/kim_jong_il__
It has just been discovered that Kim Jong Il has his own web journal. Follow the link…
Brilliant.
Funny stuff. I have no doubt that’s exactly how this little toad thinks and operates.
Did anyone watch PBS? about North Korea?
Last Night (9-11). A show on PBS(public broadcasting station) aried a show on NORTH Korea and its perspectives on the Korean war and thier perspectives of us,as they call us," Imperialist Americans".
It was actually a real cool show. They showed some of the gymnastic activities that the young korean female students do for, as they call him,“the beloved general leader”.
Some of the gymnastic routines looked like aspects of drunken kung fu(was quite cool to watch). Aside from that it was VERY interesting to listen to some of the people who live in N.Korea and how they see the rest of the world. ESPECIALLY US Americans.
TWS
nope, didn’t see it.
will it replay?
i caught the 1st half hour… i was very interesting… i wonder how uncensored the nationalism was… but i thot the communication was very open and sincere… i was on the floor when the lights came back on and mom was like “**** Americans”… i wonder if their school system has the same problem as ours… they SEEM to include students with the 'mass gymnastics"… where as students here feel left out… but the film DIDN"T showstudents that were not part of the ‘mass games’… so they might feel just as alinated shrug… its also interesting how they had the 3 classes… and how blue collar workers are seen as being on equal ground with the while collar workers… where as here… if u are a labourer… u are almost a 2nd class citizen… but again they didn’t focus on interactions between the classes… so classism might exist… beautiful country… i hope the politicals can figure it out… hate for it to get bombed back into the stoneage… again…
I saw some of it, mostly about when they talked about the Korean war, etc… They talked about how even though it was a UN thing, the US bombs are what they hated most and so they blame the US for the devostations of that war.
Communist countries its hard to say.
I know an equal amout of cubans that love cuba as opposed to those who hate it and want to get away.
Same as ppl that visit there.
then again, it’s probably like that everywhere to varying degrees regarless of what political stance. can’t please everybody
Excellent piece of work. I missed the beginning but it was interesting to see access this documentary were given.
Keep in mind that all of the documentary (that I saw) was located in Pyongyang. People in Pyongyang have it good. Try to imagine how the rest of the country, people in the country, are doing. The family mentioned that they had only corn for two weeks. I’m sure the people in the country or poor areas had nothing; hence, the starvation and deaths. Also, North Koreans blame the US for everything because they truly believe that the US began the war. The US devastated their city without provocation in their mind. N. Koreans are so isolated and brain-washed that they do not know any better. It is a sad and dangerous country.
I recommend that people read the book “Two Koreas”. It discusses modern North and South Korea.
Cheers,
J
unfortunate when a country has to depend on the outside world to sustain itself… wish i could have watched the rest… PBS last week also did a thing on the World Bank and the IMF’s role on globilization and it effect on different countries… and how it all started when international banks backed out of Indonesia, Japan, the Filipians etc… the effect of some African countries defaulting on loans and the way the IMF put conditions on loans to bail them out… which only made conditions worse… sounded like the credit card business… suck for a country that doesn’t have control over its own resources…
Re: Did anyone watch PBS? about North Korea?
Originally posted by The Willow Sword
Aside from that it was VERY interesting to listen to some of the people who live in N.Korea and how they see the rest of the world. ESPECIALLY US Americans.
TWS
You’re one of those whom Lenin Called “Useful Fools”
tnwingtsun
i am not a communist. but i do respect other peoples ways of governing themselves and although i feel that communism is a failed system i still feel as though we as a country of supposed independant people should not mess in the affairs of other countries.
oh and by the way, go suck a dead mans dik you white trash piece of sh!t.
love,TWS.
but i do respect other peoples ways of governing themselves
Umm, can they really be considered to be governing themselves when it’s a dictatorship?
I saw an excerpt of a documentary on North Korea a while ago(either before the war in Iraq or during the initial bombings… don’t remember), but North Korea is a pretty creepy place… the traffic cops directing phantom traffic… complete abscense of disabled people in the capital… the brainwashing… the unstable midget tyrant… that place is messed up.
i still feel as though we as a country of supposed independant people should not mess in the affairs of other countries. -TWS
Kind of like when the North Koreans stormed across South Korea’s border an attacked without being provoked?
Or like the numerous incursions the North’s commandoes have made over and around the 38th parallel since the cease fire?
If North Korea resents the Americans and the UN jumping into the war, can we resent the Red Chinese for jumping in? How about the Soviets who encouraged and backed the whole invasion and then sent Soviet pilots (Honcho’s) to fight in the war?
The South is where people were allowed to govern themselves originally. Rhee was elected in a UN supervised democratic election. North Korea’s dictator was handed control of the North by the Soviets- no election at all.
Any footage of prosperity coming from the North is as much BS propganda as Kijongdong Village, DPRK.
~ North Korea is a sad sad situation. They have a fudgepacking midget dictator who directs worship at himself. They have not got enough food. Some riduculous amount of the economy goes to the war machine of the NKA (I think it is on the order of 65%) The only places with worse human rights records are Afghanistan under that Taliban, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
~ South Korea with less arible land produces more food. It has less rivers and produces more electricity. Less natural resouces yet is one of the largest manufacturing economies in the world.
~ **** white male christian and jewish Americans, We are the only cause of problems that anyone in the world ever experiances…
~ In reality, North Korea represents the sort or society that the moronic left wing wishes to impose on the United States and the rest of the free world
Peace,
Sin Loi
Yi Beng, Kan Xue
Sin Loi’s Calvanist Martial Arts: My martial skills suck! Your martial skill sucks! We must work harder so we suck less!!!
well i feel as though we should not,
Mess around in the affairs of other countries. WW2 i believe was necessary for we were trying to stop a dictator from taking over the world following in the footsteps of Alexander the great and Napolean etc.
In the case of N.Korea Vs S.korea, i mean we went in there as a political affort to counter what we thought was this great communist threat to american and all of the “free world”. But you know Public relations and propaganda can really brainwash a country into thinking that evertime they turn a corner something bad will happen to them,which was the case after ww2 when the soviets put up thier wall and isolated themselves. i mean really when you think of it the casualties lost in ww2 on the soviet side was twice that of the jewish people being gassed and horribly murdered. is it any wonder that the russians closed off thier borders to everyone. Now dont get me wrong i still and will always contend that communism is a failed system of governemt. i mean the soviet government structure collapsed. N korea seems to be the only communist dictatorship around now. and they ARE isolated from the rest of the world. i mean the documentray showed this. i mean if we lifted sanctions on N korea i dont think they would get along very well with other countries they wouldnt get very far anyway,in my opinion, in trade or commerce. they really have nothing the rest of the world needs.
TWS
Stranger - all true, yet Korea was one nation until Western colonial powers charged in and divided it up arbitratrily. I don’t like Jim Il Jong any better than anybody else, but let’s not ignore the US’ role in creating a situation where he could gain power. If we do feel the need to involve ourselves in the politics of other countries, we should do so with as light, compassionate, and cognizant of history touch as possible.
Stranger - all true, yet Korea was one nation until Western colonial powers charged in and divided it up arbitratrily.
- CSN
How so? The Soviets occupied the North. They weren’t leaving. We couldn’t make them leave. We did the best we could- free elections in the part that we held. Western powers didn’t divide Korea, they wanted to unify it. The Soviets wanted to unify it too, just under a dictator puppet they installed.
i mean if we lifted sanctions on N korea i dont think they would get along very well with other countries they wouldnt get very far anyway,in my opinion, in trade or commerce. they really have nothing the rest of the world needs.
- TWS
North Korea has a lot too offer the world apparently in terms of arms, military training, and drugs.
If we lifted sanctions on the country, what would lead us to believe that in an unprecedented move the DPRK govt. would actually let the food, money, and medical supplies reach the population and not just bolster the military/ I mean, even when DPRK had the whole communist bloc trading with them the population was still starving and the productivity of the country was awful. To simplify it, if we gave the DPRK $10 the govt. and military would absorb about $9.99 and the people would get a penny. All we would be doing is strengthenening the true enemy of North and South Korean people- their govt.
That is unless DPRK did some unprecedented political act of kindness to their own people. He11, even when they have some excess money in the North, theyspend it on shallow propaganda efforts. As if any sane person from the South would want to defect to that economic wasteland.