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Kim Jong-Un Bans All Weddings, Funerals And Freedom Of Movement In North Korea (independent.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: Weddings and funerals have been banned and Pyongyang is in lockdown as preparations for a once-in-a-generation party congress get underway in North Korea. The ruling Worker's Party of Korea, headed by the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is due to stage the first gathering of its kind for 36 years on Friday. Free movement in and out of the capital has also been forbidden and there has been an increase in inspections and property searches, according to Daily NK, which claims to have sources in the country. The temporary measures are said to be an attempt to minimize the risk of "mishaps" at the event, according to Cheong Joon-hee, a spokesman at South Korea's Unification Ministry. Meanwhile, North Korea has been conducting missile tests left and right, many of which have failed miserably.
want for us all.
Us Europeans can help them celebrate. A few mushroom clouds should do the job.
Let's nuke them while their entire leadership is all in one place.
I guess you shouldn't mind being searched. You know, for Security!
Not news for nerds, stuff that really doesn't matter outside North Korea. By the way, this is only for a week, during the North Korean Party Congress. Move along, nothing to see other than a bunch of North Korean nut bars.
Actually, here's an interesting story: The North Koreans have restaurants and other businesses in China and other "friendly" countries, primarily to generate cash for Un's emmenthaler cheese addiction (look it up), and increasingly, the staff of these businesses are defecting.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I was not aware you could keep people from dying by outlawing funerals.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Nuke their leaders while they're all in one place! Problem solved! Go UK!
Most mis-leading headline I've ever seen.
Anyone who dies in violation of the ban will be tried, found guilty and shot!
On the upside, the ban on rotting corpses has been temporarily relaxed.
Oh man, kinda wish I hadn't read past the headline 'cos state sanctioned birth control to halt population expansion coupled with no more funerals had me believing the crazy haired cunt had stumbled on upon the cure for mortality. From the business end of a unicorn's cock.
When the US cracks down on freedom, Slashdot complains that the US is evil. When North Korea cracks down on freedom, Slashdot rushes to their defense to try to debunk the story. Why does Slashdot hate the US but defend North Korea?
Fuck weddings, fuck funerals, fuck dear leader, fuck kim jong-un, fuck north korea, and FUCK YOU!!!!!
I keep thinking how the US will drone strike wedding receptions on flimsy evidence, even assassinating our own citizens and their children for even *meeting* with an alleged terrorist
Take one of the Chinese ambassadors aside, have a quiet word, get a secret "OK" from the leadership, and *BANG!*. No more fear, uncertainty, and doubt in South Korea or Japan.
We could even disavow all knowledge. Classify the relevant documents for 50 years, like we did with Nixon extending the Vietnam war for political gain (by taking actions which were probably treasonous).
*Sigh*.
But we're a step closer to having Bison be our national mammal, and Harriet Tubman will be on the $20.
USA, the leader of the free world.
"Awww, baby, you know I'd love to marry you, but Dear Leader says we can't."
Best. Excuse. EVER.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
We're facing a dangerous regime which is under the control of a guy who still uses a trackball mouse. How is that not news for nerds?
> ...and a single drone strike in NK could solve much of the world's conflict.
That might actually and forever solve all of the worlds conflicts.
I wonder if starting a war between the US and China really is really such a promising perspective from your mothers basement, Mr. Warrior.
If you are old enough I suggest you enlist in the army and fight and fall for some made up convincing reason in some desert instead of starting a career in politics cause further world wars.
Woot! I got one!
We are replacing a big-government democrat (Jackson) with a freedom-loving gun-totting republican (Tubman). How is that bad?
And they are still testing missiles. Some NORK Air Force general is due to step into Kim Jong-Un's position when one of these goes seriously off course. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
Have gnu, will travel.
While we're making fun of all the psychotic shit in North Korea, half of us are carrying cellphones assembled by slaves in factories with suicide nets installed under the windows.
It makes me wonder who put together my Samsung!
Several of them already posted. :(
I'm tired of the political B.S. in this country. It's getting so annoying I can't even laugh at the b.s. in NK now.
Information about NK may be true or false, who knows? How can we have reliable sources for such a closed country?
It sets a bad precedent. And the risk of retaliation is great.
Um... retaliation from whom?
And wasn't the precedent set when we tracked down and killed Saddam Hussein? (And his "most wanted" cronies, conveniently passed out to our soldiers as a deck of playing cards?)
Or how about Manuel Noriega, who was the head of a foreign nation, and we sent in a seal team to capture him, kidnap him, and bring him to the US to stand trial?
Or how about (with help from the UK) overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in order to install the Shah, who was a brutal dictator who tortured people for the next 38 years?
Or overthrowing the democratically-elected leader of Guatemala?
And that's only in the last 50-ish years, and ones that I can remember on the spot.
Bad precedent?
The US does whatever the hell it wants, and doesn't care overly much about world opinion.
I don't even understand how that is logically possible.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
If the hyphen were in a different place, it'd be a much better headline:
"Kim Jong Un-Bans All Weddings, Funerals And Freedom Of Movement..."
But alas...
More alike than you think.
Dear Sir,
If the left starts owning their own ideological problem they would no longer be the 'LEFT', would they?
Aren't the North Koreans merely doing explicitly what most countries partly-succeed in doing by social subterfuge?
Rather like all the cretins on Slashdot who mod people down for questioning (or even talking about) the Jewish stranglehold on Western societies...
North Korea is still fighting the Korean War. Technically, the Korean War never ended -- there is only a cease-fire in place. The rest of the world has moved on but they are still hunkering down waiting for the invasion to come. It's sad.
He TEMPORARILY halted weddings and freedom of movement IN PYONGYANG for a specific festival that is being held.
This is not at all different from police confining people to their homes and banning movement in public for, say, the Boston Marathon.
This is the kind of thing that's covered by the Huffington Poser, not Slashdot.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Kim Jong - "Un Bans All Weddings, Funerals And Freedom Of Movement In North Korea"? Well that was nice of him. And it's nice to know we are on a first name only basis too.
To be honest, I don't know what is wrong with North Korea. Of course, its regime is awful. A totalitarian, Stalinist regime that somehow is kept alive. I can't be kept alive on its own, it needs foreign aid. Who is giving this foreign aid and why?
I don't know what the purpose is of North Korea. Is it some showcase to teach us the horrors of extreme left wing revolutions? And why do we need to keep such failed states alive then? I'm convinced that an extreme left wing regime is not a regime I would want in my own country. I'm already annoyed by many center left 'pamper' policies in my own country that limit my freedom. It don't need an extreme example that went wrong to convince me.
North Korea is on its own, excluded from the 'free' markets and that is also one of the problems for this isolated country. Maybe it is the main reason of the extreme poverty in the country?
There is an overproduction of food in the world, yet we allow North Koreans to starve (if the 'stories' are true). Countries devastated by civil wars which have more brutal regimes get a lot of humanitarian help. But North Koreans, they are just left to perish. I do not understand it.
Are it other, non Western entities who protect North Korea and don't want Western humanitarian aid in the country? Do those entities help the poor North Koreans? Is the North Korean ruling class really this powerful that nobody can topple or influence the regime? I simply don't understand the situation. I feel that the press isn't doing the job it should do, and explain the history, the current situation and the players who keep this 'stale mate'. It is as if the press is just telling a story to impose an opinion on us.
When I was a kid, there was not a lot of news about North Korea. Back then South Korea was a mess. I've 'read somewhere in a book' that North Korea did pretty well for a time, even better than South Korea, until South Korean economy started to catch on. But was this book propaganda, fiction, or the truth? I don't know. If it was the truth, I can understand why North Korea couldn't keep their economy going when most of the world boycotts their country. But I don't know for sure. The press doesn't educate me. This article is just another story to read about the awful regime of North Korea.
Of course, today it is really an awful regime, without doubt. But what is the real reason it still exists or was there ever the possibility that it would have become an average developed country without the boycotts, a sort of workers suburb with educated and well fed people but without any luxury?
Too tempting -- an auditorium full of senior leadership. Just need an insider to signal when junior takes the stage.
I keep thinking how the US will drone strike wedding receptions on flimsy evidence, even assassinating our own citizens and their children for even *meeting* with an alleged terrorist
Take one of the Chinese ambassadors aside, have a quiet word, get a secret "OK" from the leadership, and *BANG!*. No more fear, uncertainty, and doubt in South Korea or Japan.
You are right, that this could be done. But the situation is a bit more complex.
1) China is sincere when they say they want a nuclear free Korean peninsula, but they view all NK regime changes as bad for them with no possible good outcomes. They fear that once the peninsula is unified under a South Korean government that the US won't leave Korea and will, in fact, station US troops on China's borders. China also benefits from the current situation by, among other things, getting cut rate prices on North Korean rare earths that they in turn resell.
2) It would probably take a nuclear strike to ensure that the leadership is killed en masse. The US is hesitant to use nukes and even then, there's no telling what the remaining NK military leadership would do. They might fight to the death.
3) Seoul is unfortunately too close to the border and any surviving NK military units will probably launch devastating missile stirkes at Seoul, possibly including biological weapons. I have my doubts that NK has a rocket with a nuke on it they could possibly launch without plenty of advance detection by the US, but if I'm wrong, that would be very bad. A best case scenario for Seoul would be tens of thousands dead without any bio weapons or nukes involved.
4) Nobody really wants to pay for reconstruction once the peninsula is unified. Cost estimates are staggeringly high. You think that George W's adventures in Iran and Afghanistan were expensive? Rebuilding NK might be multiple times more costly.
Basically this is why the US doesn't take advantage of the situation to kill the leadership in one strike.
How exactly do they leave NK to operate these businesses? I'm surprised they're even allowed
Isn't one allowed to choose who to work for? Isn't forcing someone to work called SLAVERY?
NORTH KOREA IS STUPID
THEY ARE STEW-PED
BEING IN NORTH KOREA IS LIKE BEING IN TIME-OUT FOR NAUGHTY BABIES THAT DO EVERYTHING WRONG ITS NOT FAIR ITS NOT FFFAAAAIIIIRRRRRRR
EVERYTHING THEY DO IS FUCKIN STUPID LOOK AT ALL THE FUCKIN SHIT THEY DO THAT FUCKIN SUCKS ASS-SHIT
WHY DO I HAVE TO FUCKIN HEAR ABOUT THIS FUCKIN SHIT AND HAVE TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PLACES I CAN THEORETICALLY GO AND NOT BE ALLOWED TO DO EVERYTHING THAT >>>>I WANT TO DO???? SOMEONE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT FUCKIN BULLSHIT WHY DIDN'T WE WIN THE KOREAN WAR WE SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER ONE YEAH WE SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT WOULD BE COOL HEHEHEHEHE YEAH
I think the definition of tourette's syndrome should be expanded to include the kind of compulsive self-centered illogical thinking that is pervasive in the western populations. Because if you render it a certain way, it's nothing but profanity. Profanity against the love of knowledge, of reason, of morality, of everything this society is supposedly built on since ancient times. Everything falls to the wayside in pursuit of deeper slavery.
cocaine.....
Seriously, what's to stop this fruitcake nation-state autocrat from becoming hopelessly addicted to substances which
1) make him feel poweful in the face of overwhleming odds, i.e. going up against the U.S.
2) seriously and permanently shift his reasoning and perception facilities deep into the megalomaniac-omnipotent spectrum ?
Answer- nothing and no one.
Hopefully the people around him have an Easy button under their desks they can push before he waddles them into nuclear oblivion.
I read this in a much too positive way... biggest one in 36 years?
Sounds like a blast, way better than those missile tests! (pun intended :)
NORTH KOREA IS STUPID
THEY ARE STU-PED
BEING IN NORTH KOREA IS LIKE BEING IN TIME-OUT FOR NAUGHTY BABIES THAT DO EVERYTHING WRONG ITS NOT FAIR ITS NOT FFFAAAAIIIIRRRRRRR
EVERYTHING THEY DO IS FUCKIN STUPID LOOK AT ALL THE FUCKIN SHIT THEY DO THAT FUCKIN SUCKS ASS-SHIT
WHY DO I HAVE TO FUCKIN HEAR ABOUT THIS FUCKIN SHIT AND HAVE TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PLACES I CAN THEORETICALLY GO AND NOT BE ALLOWED TO DO EVERYTHING THAT >>>>I WANT TO DO???? SOMEONE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT FUCKIN BULLSHIT WHY DIDN'T WE WIN THE KOREAN WAR WE SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER ONE YEAH WE SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT WOULD BE COOL HEHEHEHEHE YEAH
I think the definition of tourette's syndrome should be expanded to include the kind of compulsive self-centered illogical thinking that is pervasive in the western populations. Because if you render it a certain way, it's nothing but profanity. Profanity against the love of knowledge, of reason, of morality, of everything this society is supposedly built on since ancient times. Everything falls to the wayside in pursuit of deeper slavery.
Really? Why not?
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