March 27, 2006
The Gulag That is North Korea
Watch these vidoes. Try not to cry. Do get angry. Despite being the world's number one recipient of food aid, millions continue to starve in the gulag that is North Korea.
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This one is in Japanese, but the pictures tell the story. A Japanese businessman visits a town near Pyongyang and comes across some orphans outside huddled around a fire in the snow.
Propaganda. The good kind.
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If public support for squashing NK is to be marshalled with hip-hop, you'll have to excuse me if I don't show up for the rallies.
Frankly though, I think it would be best to pay South Korea and China to handle it. They're the ones with a serious practical interest in kicking over Kim's loony shack, and they could do it with great ease. Besides, the Koreans generally are extremely xenophobic under any regime, and if they were "liberated" by any Western power, they'd throw a guerilla war to make the occupation of Iraq look like a trip to Brokeback Mountain. Best of all, neither China nor South Korea are saddled with a Western nerfball penal system, so if they move in, the parties responsible for NK's present state will be awarded not a cushy cell in The Hague but a bullet in the base of the skull and an unmarked grave.
Frankly though, I think it would be best to pay South Korea and China to handle it. They're the ones with a serious practical interest in kicking over Kim's loony shack, and they could do it with great ease. Besides, the Koreans generally are extremely xenophobic under any regime, and if they were "liberated" by any Western power, they'd throw a guerilla war to make the occupation of Iraq look like a trip to Brokeback Mountain. Best of all, neither China nor South Korea are saddled with a Western nerfball penal system, so if they move in, the parties responsible for NK's present state will be awarded not a cushy cell in The Hague but a bullet in the base of the skull and an unmarked grave.
Posted by: ShannonKW at March 27, 2006 06:39 PM (dT1MB)
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North Korea is still in the dark ages while South Korea is modernizing that what you get under a socialists goverment that is so favored by the UN and hollywood
Posted by: sandpiper at March 28, 2006 03:38 PM (UwJcR)
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Is it just me? I can't see the videos.
Posted by: Jane at March 28, 2006 08:42 PM (5Kldy)
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First off, Rage Against The Machine is not hip-hop. I'm not a fan of the band, but I must defend the style of this presentation. The organization behind this video, LiNK, just happens to consists of mostly college students. Some people may be turned off by their taste in music, but a lot of young adults are attracted to this image of LiNK, which is hip, cool, and sexy. As a result, LiNK can reach and educate a group of people about North Korean Human Right who otherwise do not give a damn. If that's what it takes to educate people, so be it.
And no, they do not advocate squashing NK at all.
And no, they do not advocate squashing NK at all.
Posted by: kyochan at March 28, 2006 09:34 PM (U3wDt)
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extremely well put kyochan, if i may say so myself. Personally, I find that the music helps heighten the effect that LiNK is trying to convey. And also, we can't "pay" China or South Korea to handle the situation when they're so reluctant to do it. Regardless of whether anyone has serious practical interest or not, somebody's got to help end this madness.
Posted by: Jennifer at March 29, 2006 02:20 PM (pStNK)
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It is good that videos about the North Korean government's atrocities are being posted on the web. I hope that somebody will write a detailed history of North Korean human rights abuses. What is happening in North Korea is a modern-day holocaust.
Posted by: Christian A. Beltram at July 15, 2006 08:10 PM (gnxbC)
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