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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9d03d6e41b474356a64979dca6c073a3/ap-photos-coffee-shops-all-rage-north-korean-capital

Ri said that while she was training to be a barista in Beijing, she gave Starbucks a go.

"I tried it, but I didn't like the coffee very much," she said. "I think it's for people who don't really understand good coffee. But I was impressed by how many people go there."



As usual, even in the most insignificant matters, Juche ideology provides its people with the most materially correct line.

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i remember reading an article awhile back where some tourist was like WHERE ARE ALL THE DISABLED PEOPLE HUH? with the implication being that of course they must ship 'em all off to be ground into soylent green. anyway awhile later i saw that kpca released a story about kim jong un touring a new school for disabled children
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Baha
http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/09/on-smoking-weed-in-north-korea.html

That night we settled down for a meal at a private dining room in the Kum Yong Company Restaurant. It’s one of Rason’s tourist-friendly eateries, by which I mean that the service and surroundings had been so carefully and thoroughly Westernised, as to give little or no impression of how real locals live. I guess the same could be said for five-star restaurants the world over, though.

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the most closed country in the world because i said so
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there was a good half dozen stories from CNN the past year or so that were supposed to be anti-dprk but described it in a really positive light with no negatives it was cool
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http://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/3318/
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Mike Nelson here.
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there was an article i read recently where someone said that north korean totalitarianism screws up people's brains so badly that every defector she interviewed told constant lies about the regime, because they don't know what is real and what isn't. which is a very convenient position to hold, really.
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the fact they keep the rape dungeons hidden from even their own citizens is just more proof of the heinous nature of the regime
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if you asked the average american to explain how their government works in detail and acted vaguely sympathetic towards all their answers so they just continue on with tangents and such i wonder what they'd come up with. it'd be like those old surveys of remote churches that the medieval catholic church did or something. i saw someone interviewed about trump suggest that they thought if someone becomes president that means you work for them, like if trump became president at least they'd be working for trump then.
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i think it was jay leno who did that with black obama supporters in 2008. he'd be like, do you support obama's policy to build permanent bases in iraq and they'd go like yes of course that's really important. i guess in retrospect most of the things they agreed to obama ended up doing and in turn they did actually support him.
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g.g

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i just saw someone claiming that if you have a bible in the dprk the government will kill or imprison you forever. this seems legit and trustworthy

related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changchung_Cathedral

The original cathedral, built of red brick in the late 19th century, was destroyed in the Korean War by American forces. ...

In 1988 a new cathedral was opened in East Pyongyang. At the same time, two nondenominational "protestant" churches were opened in an effort by the government to show religious freedom.


(this is true; everything good that happens in the dprk is 100% performative, and everything bad is a savagery that reveals the state as perfectly unselfconscious)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/break_through/2305167994
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Life-Giving_Trinity

Kim Jong-il reportedly wanted to construct an Eastern Orthodox church in North Korea after a trip to the Russian Far East in 2002. Kim had visited the Church of St. Innocent Innokentiy of Irkutsk in Khabarovsk on 22 August and admired its architecture and Russian Orthodox rites.

There were no Eastern Orthodox priests in the country, so the Orthodox Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea established in 2002 contacted the Russian Orthodox Church.


bringing in bible-readers from other countries? well this is clearly entrapment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Ryang-uk
the deputy prime minister of the dprk for about a decade was a presbyterian minister. this can be explained as nothing other than concern trolling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_lg4QG2iY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k48XDbeukjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihdihp1i-4
the books in these videos are this week's potemkin parade schedule

https://www.flickr.com/photos/zaruka/15151105828

A Sunday church service at the Chilgol Church in Pyongyang North Korea.


more like a kimday kim service at the kimkim kim

http://nccknews.or.kr/?p=1186

South-North Unification Church brought prayer in Pyongyang


do not become ensnared in this trap

http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/11/understanding-north-korea/

There are many parties and mass organisations besides the WPK, such as the Catholic Party and the Social Democratic Party. We do not consider that we have ‘ruling’ and ‘opposition’ parties – the parties are all on friendly terms and cooperate in developing our society. These other parties all participate in the people’s assemblies – as long as they get enough votes. They are even represented in the Supreme People’s Assembly.


oh come on, ever heard of 'protests too much'

in conclusion, bibles are a one-way ticket to go camping

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obviously this random selection of googled nuclear weapons stories:

NORTH KOREA TO REDUCE USA TO ASHES

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/04/06/north-korea-miniaturized-nuclear-weapon-todd-dnt-tsr-duplicate-2.cnn/video/playlists/north-korea-tensions/

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/north-korea-hydrogen-bomb-test/

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/nuke.htm