Posted on 03/05/2010 8:14:47 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
A North Korean colonel who spent two decades going on European shopping sprees for his country’s rulers said the late dictator Kim Il Sung lived in luxury while many people struggled to survive in his impoverished communist nation, sometimes even eating bark.
Kim Jong Ryul, who spent 16 years undercover in Austria, also described Thursday how the “great leader” and his son and successor Kim Jong Il spent millions pampering and protecting themselves with Western goods - everything from luxury cars, carpets and exotic foods, to monitors that can detect the heartbeats of people hiding behind walls and gold-plated handguns.
The colonel’s account shows the deep divide between the lifestyles of the North Korean leadership and its citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at joongangdaily.joins.com ...
Communism at its “finest.”
Sssshhhhh.....now don’t go upsetting Obama and his commie cronies here. See, we’re all supposed to see just how goooooooooood Communism is for all. Power to the people and all that. Just ignore this stuff.
You know; just like they do.
I agree. Here is “The Great Leader” going on shopping sprees and building nuclear weapons while his people are eating bark from trees.
Capitalism works!
Someone tell 0bama...
U.S. bans sale of iPods to North Korea
Cut off the goodies and the upper crust gets disgruntled.
The way of the dragon is not to suffer in the cause of Mao, Marx and Communism.
But you're missing the "equality"...all the people can eat bark instead of starving...no one is better off than another...well, except the leaders, but as I'm sure Obama and his gang of Chicago thugs will remind you...they need the luxuries...and to each according to his need, man. You see, some have greater needs than others.
Sounds like the pampered lives of unionized govt workers.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Yep. Sounds like the typical limousine liberal. Live in opulence, while everyone else ekes out a poor but “noble” existence.
All the joy of a “classless” society.
The liberals can hardly wait to have one here.
Bingo. Orwell had it pegged.
One becomes very angry at lies and corruption.
Of course that’s the case - there hasn’t been a Communist heirarchy in history that has been any different.
Very true,
Castro does the same thing.
They all do this don’t they?
Live like kings or better, while the sheeple eat “bark”.
Nancy has her own 757 .........
So do all of Bill’d friends
and they even named one of them.
But the name is so grotesque it can’t be written here.
Go check Vanity Fair if you wish to know ....
Now, I want one of those - a gold plated hand gun so big people can hide behind it.
Read this article and then tell me about the “wealth gap” in America.
NK luxury for its leaders ping
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