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Kim Jong-un's ex-lover 'executed by firing squad' (Up: or not)

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Metaroo

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That testimony was horrifying. I don't understand how basic human empathy fails to function in situations like that.
 

yyzjohn

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Anyone bring up Dennis Rodman yet and how stupid his trip and his comments about his "friend" Kim Jong Un seem now?
 

Riggs

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Anyone bring up Dennis Rodman yet and how stupid his trip and his comments about his "friend" Kim Jong Un seem now?

Heard him on Howard Stern try to justify N Korea's leaders .... it was fucking hilarious. He had no reasons other then "but uhmmmm he loves basketball so he must be a good guy". Dude is so dumb.
 
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Acorn

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It has everything to do with Socialism. It does not have anything to do with Social-Democracy like they have in Scandanavian countries, though.

No it doesn't, just because they call themselves socialist doesn't mean they are. Marx wouldn't recognise their form of governance (Or Stalinism) as being socialist.
 
No it doesn't, just because they call themselves socialist doesn't mean they are. Marx wouldn't recognise their form of governance (Or Stalinism) as being socialist.

Fair enough.

It has everything to do with a economic/government system where there is no private enterprise, democracy, or free press. Whatever you call that, that's the problem.
 

Acorn

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Fair enough.

It has everything to do with a economic/government system where there is no private enterprise, democracy, or free press. Whatever you call that, that's the problem.

It has zero to do with there being no free enterprise and everything to do with megalomaniacs running an entire country with a crazy military.
 

Conan-san

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The only solace, if you can call it that, is that at some point, NK will push their luck too far and China and/or S. Korea will kick thier shit in.
 

BeerSnob

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The only solace, if you can call it that, is that at some point, NK will push their luck too far and China and/or S. Korea will kick thier shit in.

Far more likely they will implode in the next one hundred years due to a unsustainable hierarchy. China needs them to keep the evil westerners off their border and South Korea doesn't want to get obliterated by second hand Chinese artillery. No one else is going to interfere because the last time they did the Chinese poured through the border.

So do we know how much power Kim actually has? Is he truly calling the shots, or is he just a puppet leader?

There is probably tons of ink being spilled right now on that subject by the Intelligence Community. Your guess is probably as good as theirs.
 
Thank God I wasn't born in that shit hole. I feel bad for those people who must live in fear, fascism, and oppression.
I really wonder what's going to happen to that place in the next 20 years.
 

ivysaur12

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is civil rebellion even possible in this country?

There's a deeply-rooted God-like cult of personality in the Juche philosophy makes it difficult. If the Kim dynasty can survive a famine, I'm not sure what it would take. But Kim Jong-un is fairly new and inexperienced and wasn't exactly groomed sufficiently before he took over. Who knows. It would take part of the military revolting, too.
 

mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Will I ever see this man's head on a pike in my lifetime? It would probably mean far more innocent deaths than guilty, so a pretty frustrating predicament.
 

hipbabboom

Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
The whole thing is evil but this... this...

She was luckier than Kim Chol, vice minister of the army, who was executed with a mortar round in October 2012.

Kim Chol was reportedly executed for drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death.

On the explicit orders of Kim Jong-un to leave "no trace of him behind, down to his hair," according to South Korean media, Kim Chol was forced to stand on a spot that had been zeroed in for a mortar round and "obliterated."
 
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