You really have no idea about what goes on inside of North Korea, do you? The people there are dirt poor, tens of thousands die of starvation, if you dare disagree with the government, you get sent to prison or killed with no trial, no due process, nothing. North Koreans are isolated from the rest of the world. They have no access to the internet, no access to media other than what the government puts out. They are taught complete falsehoods, like Kim Jong Il was responsible for the weather, or he invented an invisible phone to communicate with North Korea's World Cup team, or he went golfing and had 18 hole in ones. I would rather be homeless without a single dollar to my name anywhere in the US than be living in a free apartment with a $1,000 allowance in North Korea. That apartment and allowance comes with a price, and that price is he has to dedicate his entire life to North Korea and do what the North Korean government says or risk getting killed.
The winner of absolute worst country in the world (according to human rights violations) is....... Eritrea! followed by North Korea. I'm surprised I can't find Somalia's position. I've never heard someone who has ever been there say something like "Oh no, it was fine! I didn't get shot at the entire trip!"
"They have no access to the internet" - better vision, back straighter "They are taught complete falsehoods, like Kim Jong Il was responsible for the weather" - when we had a rebellion against the fraudulent elections, said on television that Moscow rallies to celebrate the victory of the party "United Russia". Censorship is everywhere, not only in North Korea. Not yet known where better to live: in a country with a totalitarian regime, but where the government provides you with all or in a free country, but where the government spit on you.
The choice is a totalitarian regime where the government spits on you or a free country where the government spits on you. I'll take the free country with a little bit of government propaganda over the totalitarian regime that is nothing but propaganda any day.
Totally. http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/ap/top-news/are-north-koreans-tears-genuine-or-fake/vFZD6/ check this out! The crying is ridiculous!
I understand that you've probably seen some terrible things in Russia, but you should realize that it can get A LOT worse (case in point: North Korea).
not to minimize your problems or anything dude, but I can pretty much guarantee you have it better than the North Koreans dude.
I certainly don't urge to come back for totalitarianism, but I would like to notice that besides that the state has simply granted to people the democratic rights and freedom, it is necessary to care of people, to provide with their wide social rights, to develop economy, army. We have which year a degradation. Despite all minuses of the Soviet system, in it there were obvious pluses: free apartments for workers of factories, factories and highly skilled workers, total absence of the unemployment, the developed agriculture, completely free education (including the higher обрзование), low level of corruption, free medical aid, the stable prices for the goods. Now it isn't present all. In aggregate all it has led the country to the big problems.
You know that if the government is providing you with "free" things, they have to steal money from other people in order to pay for it? The government never provides anything for free, simply because the government doesn't have money of its own. It takes money from the citizens and just spreads it around. This is why governments can't help the economy. All they do is relocate money and we also have to pay them a salary. So it's even worse than relocating our money. All government does is relocate and drain money from the economy. Everything the government does can be done by the private sector. The private sector has the advantage of actually having specialists, scientists, economists, etc. that have better knowledge of how to utilize what we want them to do with our money, while the government does not. The private sector is efficient, because if they're not, we won't give them our business and they go bankrupt. The government doesn't have to be efficient, because they get our money no matter what. If we don't pay, they put us in jail.
No, hopefully, it's because they'll realize that inefficiency is likely and will eventually lead to profits missed (Not lossed, mind you. Just like potential unachieved. You didn't lose the potential, you just didn't make it.) just due to poor management, wasted money, and shitty accounting. Just a correction.
I'm not sure I follow. I don't know if that was worded awkwardly or if I'm lacking all reading comprehension after being up for 30 hours straight.
No, you don't understand. North Koreans are brainwashed to death. Even though there have been illegal south korean media into North Korea, most people still think North Korea is heaven and the Kim family is a family of Gods. It has one of the worst cases of famine. Hundreds of thousands of people are in concentration camps just as bad, or even worse than the Nazi concentation camps. If you're accused of doing something "bad", you go to the camp, along with your family and relatives, and your kids and future grandkids have to go there too. Yes, censorship is everywhere. But not as bad as North Korea. Despite the fact that their literacy rate is 99%, it's one of the world's worst countries - if not, the worst.
I guess its official, Kim Jong Un is the new leader, which can only mean that things are going to get worse
@Blackout[LP] Please read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea#Freedom_of_expression I mean it, READ it. Do not skim through, read the entire article, and then read Media of North Korea. It's fucking horrible over there. And now DARE tell me that North Korea isn't so bad. You can't, it's just not possible for anyone who isn't a piece of shit to want someone to suffer from such lies and death and oppression. . I wouldn't wish the North Koreans peoples reality on anyone, not my enemies, no one.
Forget the Wikipedia article, find 45 minutes of spare time and watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4 It's absolutely horrifying. Watch that and then tell me North Korea isn't so bad. Would you want to live there after watching that?
The Vice Guide's pretty amazing too; [video=youtube;24R8JObNNQ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8JObNNQ4[/video]
I prefer George Bush over that midget anyday. The things he put in those people's heads and how he left his country in starvation is sickening. Imagine leaving a country you were not supposed to leave, be called a traitor to the country and be wanted for wanting a better life. I dated a South Korean once in high school and he told me in detail what the North was like. But I do agree with Todd.