kim jong il..

[sgreger1]

http://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-...r-camps-part-1

Lol, did you see the one about bride kidnappings a few videos after? ROFL. Culture, you crazy bitch....

[sgreger1]

Ain't no party like a Pyongyang party, 'cause a Pyongyang party is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY

http://youtu.be/VJNBfBr-OGU

[Crow]

Lol, did you see the one about bride kidnappings a few videos after? ROFL. Culture, you crazy bitch....

Yeah, that one was pretty bizarre. You could tell some of them were playing along with the tradition (casually laughing while trying to break free from her "kidnappers", but some genuinely did not want to marry the kidnapper and appeared very frightened.

[lxskllr]

Ain't no party like a Pyongyang party, 'cause a Pyongyang party is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY

http://youtu.be/VJNBfBr-OGU

:^D

No wonder nobody leaves DPRK. It looks like tons of fun there. Who'd want to leave?

[truthwolf1]

10 Facts about NK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datab...ecretive-state

Population

The population currently stands at around 24.45 million, according to the UN Population Division, a growth of 151% since 1950. The UN estimates that the North Korean population will rise to 24.55 million by 2100.
Corruption

North Korea is officially the world's most corrupt country, according to the
Corruption index 2011 from Transparency International, which ranks countries on a scale of one to ten. Kim Jong-il's homeland made its index debut this year with a score of one.
Capital punishment

North Korea ranks third for meting out the death penalty, behind China and Iran, according to Amnesty International's death penalty statistics. 60 people were executed there in 2010.
Military strength

According to the IISS Military Balance 2011, North Korea has 1.19 million people on active duty (1.02 million army personnel, 60,000 navy and 110,000 air), plus 189,000 active paramilitary personnel, and a further 600,000 reservists. 5.7 million North Koreans are reservists in the worker/peasant red guard, which is compulsory to the age of 60.
Nuclear capability

North Korea is a nuclear power, but only has two nuclear warheads (2009 est.), lagging far behind the world's other atomic powers. According to 2009 research by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Russia has nearly 13,000, the US 9,500 and the UK 192.
North Korea v South Korea

Between 1958 and 2010 there were around 150 incidents between North Korea and South Korea (that we know about). The Datablog mapped them in 2010.
Poverty

North Korea scored 19.4 on the 2010 Global Hunger Index, a level classed as alarming by the International Food Policy Research Institute. The situation has worsened since 1990, when the country scored 16.2. The proportion of the population that is undernourished has risen from 21% to 32% in that time.
Peace

North Korea ranks 149th on the Institute for Economics & Peace's Global Peace Index 2011, with a score of 3.09. Only Somalia, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan are less peaceful.
Carbon dioxide emissions

North Korea ranks 44th on the world carbon emissions index (using 2009 figures from the Energy Information Administration), with a CO2 emissions level of 79.55m tonnes (3.51 tonnes per capita). That's an increase of 14.3% year on year, the 14th highest (a rapid increase is an indicator of economic growth).
Football

The North Korean football team scored one goal in the 2010 World Cup (though that was against Brazil), conceded 12 goals and received two yellow cards. They didn't make it beyond the group stage.

[sgreger1]

North Korea moves to collective government

North Korean heir expected to share power


What does this mean you ask? It means that the military is in charge now, and the young heir is just the figurehead for the moment. The suspicion is that a military coupe already began and they sat him down and agreed to "share" power, where he gets to remain the heir but the generals get a controling interest in what happens. That is what I have heard so far but nothing is solid.

Not good either, when generals run dictatorships they tend to like to attack neighboring countries...

Meanwhile, in Finland a freighter loaded with patriot missiles headed for S Korea was stopped in port after failing inspection.


Update:

North Korea SealsChinese Border

Kim Jong-un issued military order before announcement of father's death


Re: Chinese Border:

North Korea closed its land border with China for trade and visitors and summoned back state workers living on the Chinese side to prepare for the funeral of late leader Kim Jong Il, according to Chinese officials and people in contact with North Koreans.

North Korean soldiers guarded the banks of Yalu River on the country's border with China Tuesday.

The blocking of the country's main economic lifeline appears to be a temporary move to allow the government to focus on the funeral on Dec. 28, but it also affords Mr. Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong Eun, a chance to enforce absolute control over his country's borders and citizens.

Some Chinese businesspeople who work with North Korea said on Tuesday that they thought the younger Mr. Kim could bring reforms. But dissidents in Seoul told reporters on Tuesday that the pace of change could be slow, and that the Pyongyang regime is stronger than outsiders presume.

Rim Chun-ryong, who served in the North Korean army for 17 years before he fled the country in 2000, said that breaking the mindset in North Korea is hard because people there are so deeply immersed in propaganda and showing dissent is unthinkable.

"Even if you aren't sad and don't want to cry, you should cry," he said. "If tears don't come out, you should at least wet your face with spit. That's North Korea. It's much more solid than you think," he said in an interview.

[truthwolf1]

Maybe the military has always been in control as puppetmasters of this crazy family... They in sense get some control but if they go to far they face death.
Similar to our setup in the USA with Banksters and Corporations.

[wa3zrm]