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Inside North Korea: No Ads, No Planes, No Internet, No Mobiles, No 21st Century
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | April 13, 2013 | JOHN SWEENEY

Posted on 04/13/2013 8:09:51 PM PDT by Steelfish

Inside North Korea: No Ads, No Planes, No Internet, No Mobiles, No 21st Century... A rare dispatch from deep within the lunatic rogue state enslaved by Zombie and Sons

By JOHN SWEENEY IN PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA 13 April 2013

Down, down inside the Pyongyang Metro stands a statue of the Eternal Ruler of North Korea, Generalissimo Kim Il Sung – dead these past 19 years but still calling the shots. Brainwashing cast in bronze.

The regime’s florid propaganda blares from loudspeakers: ‘The pure white snows of our sacred mountains’ artillery will wipe the filthy enemy from existence.’ Or something like that.

The newspaper racks on the platforms detail the latest from the ‘American imperialist aggressors’ and warn of thermo-nuclear war.

Inside: Panorama reporter John Sweeney with a North Korean colonel overlooking the De-Militarised Zone

No ordinary North Koreans talk to us. Almost 400ft below the surface, it’s hard not to feel that we’re trapped inside a doomsday cult like the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, or Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple in Guyana. Only this one is a cult nation, armed with nukes, and the clock is counting down to Armageddon.

I’ve reported from Ceausescu’s Romania, Saddam’s Iraq, Gaddafi’s Libya, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the Ayatollahs’ Iran – but after eight days undercover in North Korea, I believe this regime is the most frightening tyranny of all.

North Korea is capable of nuclear missile strike, say US spies citing anniversary of grandfather's birthday as date for possible test launch Kim The First’s grandson, Kim Jong Un, has the power to make the biggest of bangs. The new boy-God holds his people in near-total mental enslavement.

The regime is mad, bad and silly, all at the same time. But its grip is fading – and that makes it even more dangerous.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: Vince Ferrer

I watched all three parts. Couldn’t take my eyes off it. Reminds me of the drabness of Poland before the wall came down. Too bad the film makers couldn’t escape their handlers.

Very, very sad.


21 posted on 04/14/2013 6:06:45 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Vince Ferrer; flaglady47; mickie; seenenuf
EVERY freeper should put a little time aside to view the three part video of North Korea (link at # 12).

You will see first-hand what we, as patriotic citizens, are fighting to prevent from happening in our own country.

As the poster above stated so emphatically about the video....you can't stop watching it!

It's unreal, other-worldly, chilling, eye-opening.....and yet there's a pervasive tongue-in-cheek humor throughout thanks to the very sharp, talented producer and narrator of the film odyssey through Never-Never Land.

I think his innate sense of the ridiculous kept him sane. See for yourself.

Lei

22 posted on 04/14/2013 6:29:20 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: muir_redwoods
I wish that our hothouse college communists could enjoy just 10 minutes of North Korean dentistry.

They would be flag-waving patriots tomorrow.

23 posted on 04/14/2013 6:43:53 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Steelfish
No Ads, No Planes, No Internet, No Mobiles, No 21st Century..

In other words, it's "green".

24 posted on 04/14/2013 6:50:41 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

bfl


25 posted on 04/14/2013 11:17:29 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Steelfish

I saw this story kinda remind me of 1930 Soviet Union purging Ukraine


26 posted on 04/14/2013 5:54:35 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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