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What's it like to live in North Korea? (Escapees Video)
BBC ^ | Jan 1, 2018, original broadcast Oct. 17, 2017 | James Reevell, Hosu Lee & Wonjung Bae

Posted on 01/01/2018 4:38:19 PM PST by Eddie01

North Korea is one of the most closed-off counties on the planet, with little access to the outside world.

Four North Koreans who managed to escape explain what life was like back home and what they miss the most.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: escape; northkorea
Difficult situation.

Kim Jong Un regime must go and my hope is a unified democratic peninsula result. ...but then they're is China.

1 posted on 01/01/2018 4:38:19 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

What’s it like to live in North Korea?

It must be like utopia, paradise, because Demo/RINOcraps keep demanding we do things that lead us down that path.


2 posted on 01/01/2018 4:40:35 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Short, but interesting perspective from those who escaped if you have the time.

They desire freedom.


3 posted on 01/01/2018 4:44:15 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Yep, I watched it. The one part I didn’t understand, or maybe I misheard it, is when asked what they missed the most about North Korea, they said the food? Huh? What food?


4 posted on 01/01/2018 4:52:13 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: Eddie01
"Kim Jong Un regime must go and my hope is a unified democratic peninsula result."

If the folks in the North could get just one peek at the South they would hunt down that little fat guy and feed him to his own dogs....

Communism destroys the human spirit and makes strongmen of the very worst among us... A unified Korea is THE solution to the problem...

5 posted on 01/01/2018 4:52:52 PM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Eddie01

Thanks for posting video.


6 posted on 01/01/2018 4:55:09 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Eddie01; TigerLikesRooster
Suki Kim: This is What It's Like to go Undercover in North Korea

An informative video.

7 posted on 01/01/2018 5:02:45 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

When I lived in Shanghai for 3 years, I missed Betty Crocker cheesy potatoes and Taco Bell.

I learned to really like some Chinese food.

I was introduced to other food introduced as “very famous in this region” like stinky tofu that I spit out.

It’s the same everywhere I suppose.

Food = Comfort even if different from what you’re used to.


8 posted on 01/01/2018 5:03:26 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: unread

Interesting. If history repeats itself, then South Korea will be the path to peace. It worked in Europe during the fall of the Soviet Union (East/West Germany, etc.), why not North/South Korea.

Apparently, the little dictator offered to talk with South Korea whatever that means.

I pray that God guide all parties to this end.


9 posted on 01/01/2018 5:10:44 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: COBOL2Java

A gulag posing as a nation.

Still watching...

Thank you!


10 posted on 01/01/2018 5:14:10 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“they said the food? Huh? What food?”.......

More than likely, ANY food. From what we are told, food is scarce unless one grows it for themselves.


11 posted on 01/01/2018 5:20:19 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: COBOL2Java
One man's story of escape
12 posted on 01/01/2018 5:25:39 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: DaveA37

yeah...the lavish banquets and govt tv!


13 posted on 01/01/2018 5:39:25 PM PST by whistleduck ("....the calm confidence of a Christian with 4 aces".....S.)
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What’s it like to live in North Korea?

HELL on Earth! The greatest thing that could happen for humanity is the obliteration of the North Korean government and Korean unification under Southern leadership.

14 posted on 01/01/2018 6:08:53 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“What’s it like to live in North Korea?”

Ask the people in California, New York and New Jersey. They must love it.. they keep voting for it.


15 posted on 01/01/2018 6:15:16 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Yep, I watched it. The one part I didn’t understand, or maybe I misheard it, is when asked what they missed the most about North Korea, they said the food? Huh? What food?

<<>>

I suppose if one picks sh!t with the chickens for years one acquires a taste for it.


16 posted on 01/01/2018 6:47:48 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: Eddie01

It tells us a lot about feelings and attitudes of the North Korean escapees in the interview, but tells us very little about life in North Korea.


17 posted on 01/02/2018 7:28:53 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

#7 #12


18 posted on 01/02/2018 7:50:20 AM PST by Eddie01
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