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 Steed
        
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
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<Reply # 40 on 7/24/2007 5:17 AM >
|  | | | If you want more North Korea photos, these are the best you can find. You might be able to find translations somewhere online.
http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/
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944kid
Location: PJ, NY
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<Reply # 41 on 7/24/2007 8:24 AM >
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Russian, SHIT!! Cyrillic letters/language...so...confuzzling! I kept looking under pictures trying to read on what they were, and each time I was like, "fuck, it's Russian!!"
Thanks for the link, badass photos. =]
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CaptOrbit
Location: Sarasota, FL or Cincinnati, OH
Gender: Male
There you are, right back in the jungle again.
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<Reply # 42 on 7/24/2007 10:37 PM >
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I looked at those photos few times, a really nice set of day to day life in THE DPRK.
The man in the suit taking a leak in the river was kind of strange, I didn't notice him until the 3rd time I looked thru the set, (pic 15)
The personal responsibility train left the station years ago, and you gave it the finger as you watched it leave. |
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DevilC
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
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<Reply # 43 on 7/25/2007 12:44 AM >
| | | | The DPRK just looks like a ghost town.
A The Kim Jong Il regime has allowed a disgusting percentage to die of starvation and neglect.
The technology and productivity gap between N and S is mind blowing. The North looks like 1960 never rolled along and Seoul makes NYC look sparsely populated and low-tech.
It's the ultimate tale of 2 cities.
Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. |
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 44 on 7/25/2007 1:55 AM >
| | | | Posted by DevilC
The DPRK just looks like a ghost town.
A The Kim Jong Il regime has allowed a disgusting percentage to die of starvation and neglect.
The technology and productivity gap between N and S is mind blowing. The North looks like 1960 never rolled along and Seoul makes NYC look sparsely populated and low-tech.
It's the ultimate tale of 2 cities.
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You're certainly right but if you look hard enough in Seoul you can find poverty and absolute slums too. I made a brilliant online quiz using some of my own photos, this Russian guy's photos, and some photos of South Korea in the '60s and you had to pick whether they were north or south. It doesn't work anymore but people seeing the pictures for the first time had trouble.
The only telltale hints are if you can see lots of colour or ads or neon it's South Korea.
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90rock
Location: Calgary
Gender: Male
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 45 on 7/25/2007 3:40 AM >
| | | | NO high rises either except maybe the unfinished hotel in Pyongyang.
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944kid
Location: PJ, NY
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 46 on 7/25/2007 4:13 AM >
| | | | What's the story with that hotel anyway?
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hyphen
Location: Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 47 on 7/25/2007 5:10 AM >
| | | | I assume the thought process was something like this.
1) "I'm jealous of the massive luxurious hotels in the mid-east and the west. I wish I had a way to show the world how powerful and luxurious North Korea is."
2) "Wait, I'm in charge! Why don't I just have one built?!"
3) "Hmm. . . $750million doesn't get you as much low grade concrete as it used to."
http://en.wikipedi...iki/Ryugyong_Hotel
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Timothy R. Pendergast
Location: Columbia, SC
Gender: Male
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 48 on 7/25/2007 5:17 PM >
| | | | I can't wait to invade that fucking country. I really do miss Korea, and not because of the usual reasons American Soldiers like it there. I spent all day on Thursdays driving around, studying maps and plotting stuff in my GPS. It was like glorified, large scale, government funded geocaching.
Please don't be stupid. It might piss me off so much that I have a seizure or something. I hate stupid people. |
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90rock
Location: Calgary
Gender: Male
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 49 on 7/25/2007 5:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by 944kid
What's the story with that hotel anyway?
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The story with the Ryugyeong Hotel is that the materials used were too poor to allow safe occupancy of 3000 rooms and 7 revolving restaurants in 105 floors. In its present state, it will never open unless foreign firms come in and tear it down, recycle the concrete, and rebuild the thing completely.
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 50 on 7/26/2007 1:33 AM >
| | | | Posted by 90rock
NO high rises either except maybe the unfinished hotel in Pyongyang.
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No, there are a ton of high rise apartments. What they lack is a working elevator.
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Naveronski
Location: College Station, Texas
Gender: Male
| |  |  |  | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 51 on 8/2/2007 6:10 PM >
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I have seen this before. I only remember certian captions, but here:
The second picture, with the baby and the computer, talks about how they were able to visit a family's "typical" house. This was basically a government owned family, who were actors. The items in the house were all as nice as could be purchased, and many boxes were empty. The computer does not work, and is not even hooked up.
Around the fourth picture, where you see the people sitting behind the counter, talks about how many workers are lazy and feel no need to work hard, because they all are paid equally regardless of performance. Here, too, access to many goods was strictly controlled.
In the 13th picture, you see two bikers in front of a wall. As a tourist, you're not supposed to be able to see beyond this wall, to prevent - apparently - word from getting out about actual poverty levels.
In the 17th picture, he made a comment about the lighting, and how there isn't power at night. I don't remember what he said, but... it was something (helpful, no?)
18th picture: He takes a working elevator up into the upper floors of the building. I don't remember why/what, but he is able to take pictures beyond the wall mentioned above. The following pictures are of the shacks beyond it.
edit: Here's more english for it:
http://www.militar...thread.php?t=82755
The photos were down, but you can match the text easy enough.
I'll see if I can find the original english from the story.
[last edit 8/2/2007 6:43 PM by Naveronski - edited 1 times]
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hyphen
Location: Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 52 on 8/3/2007 12:24 PM >
| | | | Thanks for posting those translations. The dude who took these pictures must have brass balls or something.
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White Rabbit
Women's Advocate
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
| | | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 53 on 8/3/2007 4:55 PM >
| | | | I am so fucking jealous.
Stuff like this makes me wish I could turn invisible. There's stuff there I would like to see and photograph SOOOOO badly.
Underground Ozarks http://www.undergroundozarks.com
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 54 on 8/3/2007 5:11 PM >
| | | | Best report I've read on this site in a long time. Nicely done.
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belleZ
Location: knoxville, tn
Gender: Female
free the wm3!
| |  | | | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 55 on 8/3/2007 6:00 PM >
| | | | Posted by langP
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Posted by CaptOrbit
Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, the first men on Mars?
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Thats what I was thinking.
Great thread! Thanks for the read.
“What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.” - A.Argento |
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 56 on 8/5/2007 3:10 AM >
| | | | Posted by White Rabbit
I am so fucking jealous.
Stuff like this makes me wish I could turn invisible. There's stuff there I would like to see and photograph SOOOOO badly.
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Turn invisible or be Russian.
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hyphen
Location: Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 57 on 8/5/2007 8:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by racetraitor
Turn invisible or be Russian.
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Y'know, I was just in Chinatown in Incheon yesterday, and I was asked if I was Russian. Two weeks ago in Gwanghwamun, I was waiting for a light to change, and I was asked if I was Russian.
Hmmmmm
*Thinks*. . . .
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 58 on 8/6/2007 1:41 AM >
| | | | Posted by langP
Y'know, I was just in Chinatown in Incheon yesterday, and I was asked if I was Russian. Two weeks ago in Gwanghwamun, I was waiting for a light to change, and I was asked if I was Russian.
Hmmmmm
*Thinks*. . . .
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I've been asked if I was a Russian only once, which might be ironic because I'm half Ukrainian. All the Russians in Korea are migrant labourers, so it's not a compliment. It's probably more insulting to a girl because the vast majority of Russian women here are prostitutes.
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Timothy R. Pendergast
Location: Columbia, SC
Gender: Male
| | Re: North Korea
<Reply # 59 on 8/6/2007 8:28 PM >
| | | | There's a very large Russian population in Pusan.
And Russian drinky girls are scary. One stabbed a kid I knew for not marrying her after he promised to.
Please don't be stupid. It might piss me off so much that I have a seizure or something. I hate stupid people. |
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