Oh Yi-na says she ALMOST fell for it again.
Posted on 10/08/2012 12:00:39 AM PDT by GeronL
(Associated Posers) – Pyongyang, North Korea - Recently Jet Blue began a raffle that would award some 1,006 round trip international tickets to anywhere they fly to people who's candidate loses the Presidential election. The old saw about leaving the country if your guy loses, will come true for some lucky people.
North Korea's government has expressed official dismay that Barack Obama could lose re-election in November, as it considers Mitt Romney to be a dangerous extremist.
Today though, North Korea has taken it one step farther. The North Korean official news service KCNA has announced that it will offer 1,000 left-wing Americans “asylum” in it's workers paradise should Barack Obama lose the election.
“Kim Jong-un recognizes a fellow traveler in Barack Obama and should his leadership be deposed in the November Coup, we will offer asylum to some of his ardent supporters. We will provide apartments, guaranteed rations and every basic amenity to our new comrades” KCNA announced.
Announcing that 1,000 soon-to-be-ready apartment units in the 105-story Ryugyon Hotel, which has been under construction since 1987. Although the news agency says the rooms are just about reay for occupancy, pictures purportedly taken by Chinese tourists earlier this year show a hollow shell inside.
While college campuses and celebrities are abuzz about the North Korea raffle, with many signing up some offer a word of caution to would be ex-pats.
“The fact is that North Korea is one of the worst places in the world to live, there is very little food security and any luxury goods are hard to come by” said a defector named Jung Won-Hee “And by luxury goods I mean basic things westerners take for granted every day such as candy, soda, laundry soap and clean water”.
KCNA showed images depicting a wonderful place, amusement park, skate park, large stadiums as enticements for westerners to defect. Jung Won-Hee has a theory “North Korea is in a bad place now and having westerners defect to them would be a propaganda victory. It wouldn't win them any support outside the country but inside where its needed it would demoralize those who secretly hope for something better. This would make their rule stronger”.
Reports suggest North Korea is in the midst of a food shortage as well as facing real shortages in electricity and other basic goods. This hasn't stopped American leftists from taking the offer seriously.
“I would go” said Sarah Smith, a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison “I bet they let Kim Jong-un use a teleprompter like a real country”. She wasn't alone, the raffle tickets were being purchased at campuses across the country.
The UC Berkeley campus newspaper Daily Californian said it was a real option for fervent liberals in the United States. “It should never be dismissed as an option since it looks like Canada doesn't want us these days”.
“America is horrible, I think North Korea would be like heaven” said Stephanie Baer, an editor of the UC Berkeley newspaper.
Sean Penn and other Hollywood stars are reportedly on board for a PR blitz about the offer. “If Romney wins, then America loses” Penn said in an interview after attending a victory celebration for Hugo Chavez in Caracas. “We are going to go from coast to coast pumping up socialism and North Korea is a real option for escape if the right-wingers win”.
“America is horrible, I think North Korea would be like heaven” said Stephanie Baer of the UC Berkeley newspaper.
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There is a reason for that.
yes, yes there is.
Perfect for Bill Mayer
OTOH, we had a ROK (”South Korean”) Army honor guard on my relatively small camp in Uijongbu made up of dozens of male soldiers over 6 feet tall. And that was in 1978-79 long before the ROK became the first world country they are today.
I’ve been reading and it sounds like they have gotten really bad, almost like mid-90’s bad
If he will make those one way tickets & double the number to 2012, he will be one of my top 5 heroes, forever.
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Hey Sean, why wait for the election? If America is so horrible, leave now. I’m sure that terrible thing known as capitalism has given you the means. So please leave, and take your ill-informed, anti-capitalist, pro-socialist backside somewhere else. North Korea is great this time of year, heat waves are no longer killing people, and they haven’t started freezing to death yet. Or maybe France? I’m sure a good little socialist like yourself will appreciate paying a 75% tax rate to help redistribute your wealth, right?
You know what would be funny....
Hand some print-outs of this to the OWS crowd! Then ask them if they’re going to go and video it. hahahahaha!
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