N Korean children begging, army starving

[Floyd Looney]

www.abc.net.au/news/2011-06-27/n-korean-children-begging-army-starving/2772472

Footage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state.

The video is some of the most revealing footage ever smuggled out of the impoverished North Korean state.

Shot over several months by an undercover North Korean journalist, the harrowing footage shows images of filthy, homeless and orphaned children begging for food and soldiers demanding bribes.

The footage also shows North Koreans labouring on a private railway track for the dictator's son and heir near the capital Pyongyang.

Strolling up to the site supervisor, the man with the hidden camera asks what is going on.

"This rail line is a present from Kim Jong-il to comrade Kim Jong-un," he is told.

The well-fed Kim Jong-un could soon be ruling over a nation of starving, impoverished serfs.

The video shows young children caked in filth begging in markets, pleading for scraps from compatriots who have nothing to give.

"I am eight," says one boy. "My father died and my mother left me. I sleep outdoors."

Many of the children are orphans; their parents victims of starvation or the gulag.

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/lost-world-scenes-from-north-koreas-closed-society-2332102.html?action=Gallery

Heavily censored pics from N Korea. Notice even the select of the Party are looking malnourished these days.

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www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3

Vice Guide to North Korea (nothing but a Potemkin village)

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The girl interviewed in this video starved to death a few months later. She was a "kobetchi" an undesireable, a cast out with no connections.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/8113817/Inside-North-Korea-exclusive-footage.html

[Attero Dominatus]

It is so sick, but as long as Kim Jong Il's soldiers are suffering, then the end for the hell state is near.

Kim Il Sung's variant of Marxism, called Juche, places Dear Leader at a near-god status of emperor, and the military as the proletariat, and enslaves the civilians.

Juche is similar to the militaristic socialism practice by Showa-era Japan from 1926 to 1945. The main difference is that Showa Japan practice a nationalistic socialism (almost exactly the same as Hitler's socialism but with an actual emperor instead of an idol) while North Korea practices a militaristic stalinism.

Showa Japan allowed the industrialists to exists as long as they allowed themselves to be controlled by the state (similar to National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy), while North Korea is a gigantic collectivized labor farm.

All forms of Marxism run out of other people's money though, and that is what is happening to North Korea.

[Floyd Looney]

In the 90's after the dissolution of the Soviet Union more than 3 million North Koreans starved to death. They are getting close to that point again. It won't mean the end of their government in and of itself, they've been there before. The people of North Korea are constantly lied to, their press is not just state controlled it is nothing but propaganda. They think their Dear Leader makes the sun rise and invented everything from cell phones to medicine (which is hard to get)

[Floyd Looney]

We know how liberal Wiki is. If you see the "Economy of Cuba" its nothing but pro-Cuba propaganda. But the "Economy of North Korea" page is one of the most brutal, honest things I have ever read. Unless someone changes it of course. lol.

[Attero Dominatus]

Aug 5, 2011 13:31:35 GMT -5 Floyd Looney said:

We know how liberal Wiki is. If you see the "Economy of Cuba" its nothing but pro-Cuba propaganda. But the "Economy of North Korea" page is one of the most brutal, honest things I have ever read. Unless someone changes it of course. lol.

Yep. It even goes into the fact that government control of the economy is so total that people have to resort to illegal private business just to stay alive. The Kaesong Special Economic Zone is a tacit admission that Marxism will never work as well.

[Floyd Looney]

Yep. But the the KSE is pretty close to being shut down too. The North wants to keep making demands.

[Attero Dominatus]

It is too bad that one plan to send leaflets about the Arab Spring over the DMZ went anywhere (at least as far as I know). The Arab Spring itself may be bad but if good people could be motivated to overthrow bad governments, then, well, it would be better.

[Floyd Looney]

Those caught reading the pamphlets are executed publicly and their extended families (kids too) are sent to the camps for (a very short) life. One escapee from NK said he saw an 11 year old girl executed for stealing 5 grains of wheat. Any infraction is said to be a death penalty.

[Floyd Looney]

They do release pamphlets, even churches do it. They will also attach money and radios and stuff to the balloons, as well as a timer to release as close to Pyongyang as they can get.

[Attero Dominatus]

Aug 5, 2011 16:48:53 GMT -5 Floyd Looney said:

They do release pamphlets, even churches do it. They will also attach money and radios and stuff to the balloons, as well as a timer to release as close to Pyongyang as they can get.

Well maybe someday North Korea's propaganda machine will break and the people there will wake up, and someone in the south will get the idea to send over handguns, ammunition, and instructions on how to aim, fire and maintain them, and the tactics to be used (similar to WWII when instructions told resistors to get an enemy close, shoot, then steal his weapons and ammunition, then pass the pistol onto someone else).

[Attero Dominatus]

Aug 5, 2011 16:47:34 GMT -5 Floyd Looney said:

Those caught reading the pamphlets are executed publicly and their extended families (kids too) are sent to the camps for (a very short) life. One escapee from NK said he saw an 11 year old girl executed for stealing 5 grains of wheat. Any infraction is said to be a death penalty.

Yep, just about every infraction is either a death penalty. Even physical contact between men and women is an infraction (http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/12/05/north-koreathe-punishment-death/) without authorization and gatherings of more than three people are infractions.