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Old 02-06-2013, 05:03 AM
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The Peoples Democratic Republic of North Korea

From "Vice Travel"---a YouTube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8J...943F1A08C72A17

Excellent videos.

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Old 02-06-2013, 07:10 AM
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I'd be interested in traveling there if I were sure that I could get out safely. I spent a week in the Soviet Union in 1981 and it was one of the most interesting places I've ever been. Not nice, but interesting.
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Old 02-09-2013, 07:48 AM
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"VICE" (Shane Smith) has a lot of great videos like this one on YouTube.

There was another set of videos by a British guy who did get caught and spent some time in a North Korean jail before the British government managed to spring him and take him home. Then, of course there was the two American women from CNN.....That's a pretty good video too.

Anyhow, I've watched this set of videos more than once with a sort of morbid fascination. Notice Pyongyang is huge, but nearly deserted. Only Communist officials, government employees and their families actually live in the city proper. Which is surrounded by shocking slums and abject poverty. In one of the films by the British guy, he shows bus loads of peasants being brought in as cheerleaders for the Dear Leaders big speech. Once it was over, they were loaded back on the bus and taken back to the slums.

See....this is REAL oppression. Not the imaginary type we hear about from certain well fed and pampered political zealots here, in America.

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I like this photo:

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Old 02-11-2013, 01:29 PM
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We're armed Dave

I like this photo:

Doesn't matter anymore, Pete.

And, yes, that picture does speak a thousand words, doesn't it?

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