Liberator Pistol
Posted on 01/16/2012 8:37:12 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
No Electricity, No Water, No Patience
By Choi Song Min
[2012-01-13 18:01 ]
Many of the residents of luxury apartments in Pyongyang are leaving their homes for the heated homes of relatives or other warmer locations.
An inside source who visited Pyongyang at the end of last month said in a phone interview with the Daily NK today, “People previously had no supplies of water so didn't have drinking water and could not go to the bathroom without difficulty, but now that there are heating problems too the people are inevitably leaving their homes. This year, many people are locking their homes and leaving for warmer places.”
The source said, “When I went to Pyongyang just three years ago, the people still stayed in their apartments even without heat, but now half of them are gone, they went to East Pyongyang where the pre-1980s homes are heated with charcoal briquettes.”
The source added, “Even until last year, the residents in these apartments spent the whole winter season there with cotton blankets on the floor all day long, filling pint bottles with hot water to warm their blankets when they slept; however, as the situation has gotten worse this year whole families cannot take any more and have chosen to leave their homes behind.”
The 20-40 storey apartments on Gwangbok and Tongil Streets, which are boasted of by the North Korean authorities for their modernity, are among those falling into dilapidation.
The source explained, “If the rooms had just enough lukewarm water that they wouldn't freeze we could live, but now they are not even able to do that. Nobody knows when heat will come.”
Among many North Korean people, the situation is such that the letter ‘ㄹ’ has come to be ridiculed, with people saying that they suffer from a particular lack of words that have the letter ‘ㄹ’ in them, for example, water (‘물’), fire/electric (‘불’), and rice (‘쌀’).
...then send in the b52’s, open bombay doors over every major city, and drop tens of thousands ofAK-47’s attached to small parachutes... the riots that occur will lead to regime change..
There, fixed it.........
Right, we’ll we have the “Great Society”, government union employment debacles and theft of public funds and you don’t even see our so called free people do much about it.
Sad!
An accurate observation, as I sit here at my comp in relative luxury with my belly full and the room temp at 70 degrees F., reading about the plight of the Norks. I think of your statement when I read someone wondering why they don't just "rise up" and throw off the shackles of the dictatorship.
They are hungry, cold and unarmed, it's difficult to overcome an oppressive political system when you are in that condition constantly. I believe the situation is permanent, they will always be cold, hungry and unarmed. It's depressing to know that there are human beings in that situation.
Libtards are blind to the logical end result of their policies of statism and socialism
Liberator Pistol
Actually, they envision themselves as the rulers.
If China fears masses of refugees pouring over their border, they will take action.
If Obama gets re-elected that title could be his in 2016, except will have tons of patience waiting in line at Hospitals with Obamacare...
Pyongyang has LUXURY APARTMENTS? Gee, I thought everyone was equal there. < /sarc >
They already are - they push them back to North Korea.
China DOES NOT need more people, and the land in North Korea is too poor to support the people already there.
So China sees it as a useless money pit.
However, I'm sure our President and State Department, in conjunction with China, the UN, and other international organizations, will rush in to try and make the untenable tenable for just a little while longer.
The Norks are going to do what they’ve done before - nuclear blackmail.
They’ll make some threat/promise, and we’ll give them a bunch of “aid” so that they’ll back off using/developing nukes.
Thanks for the pic. ...pretty amazing.
Or... Thousands of solar powered short-wave/AM/FM radios attached to small helium ballons. This would allow the North Korean population to really hear what is going on in the world, and quite possibly realize that they’re being lied to.
For the North Korean Communist Party, the ordinary North Korean is a prole - a something that has value only as long as it stays in line and produces with unthinking obedience whatever it is that the state and party want from it.
The only way the people will be free is for the party to make a strategic mistake and it collapses from outside pressure. War comes most readily to mind in causing such a collapse because it would be a direct assault on the power structure. But being systematically starved of the resources needed to run the state, if carried on for a long enough period, would work too. The question is would the Russians and especially the Chinese cooperate in doing the deed? Whether by war, starvation, freezing, disease, or abuse, many more millions of North Koreans are going to have to die before the regime’s grip on them will be fatally weakened.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
Inner Party Member O’Brien to Prisoner Winston Smith —Part III, Chapter III, Nineteen Eighty-Four (by George Orwell)
Ain’t communism great! And Washington has the pedal to the metal trying to get there.
We been spendin' most our lives Livin' in a Commie paradise...
The land of North Korea is not poor. It has high potential for agriculture and natural resources.
Its very poorly managed. Troops take a significant amount of the food that is produced.
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