All hail north korea! |
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What kind of missile is that?
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yes, all hail North Korea, it is a people's paradice!
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Its kinda phallic shaped though... are they trying to make up for something perchance?
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Crazy koreans, they are gonna be the end of us all. Pc Gaming is a sport at korea lol...
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kim yong looks like a big chubby baby :D he probably recieved alot of love so he has alot to give and wants to receive too :D. george bush was just neglected as a child :(
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pure beauty! Long live the North Korean peoples army!
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By Stephen Gowans
"Che Guevara visited Pyongyang around (1965) and told the press that
North Korea was a model to which revolutionary Cuba should aspire."
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North Korea is a country that is alternately reviled and ridiculed. Its leader, Kim Jong-il, is demonized by the right and -- with the exception of Guevera in 1965 and many of his current admirers -- mocked by the left. Kim is declared to be insane, though no one can say what evidence backs this diagnosis up. It's just that everyone says he is, so he must be. If Kim had Che's smoldering good looks he may have become a leftist icon, leader of "the one remaining, self- proclaimed top-to-bottom alternative to neo-liberalism and globalization," as Korea expert Bruce Cumings puts it. (2) Instead, the chubby Kim has become a caricature, a Dr. Evil with a bad haircut and ill-fitting clothes. The country he leads, as befits such a sinister character, is said to be a danger to international peace and security, bent on provoking a nuclear war. And it's claimed that years of economic mismanagement have reduced north Korea to an economic basket-case and that its citizens, prisoners at best, are starved and repressed by a merciless dictator.
While many people can recite the anti-north Korea catechism – garrison state, hermit kingdom, international pariah – they'll admit that what they know about the country, apart from the comic book caricatures dished up by the media, is fuzzy and vague. But this has always been so. As early as 1949, Anna Louise Strong could write that "there is little public knowledge about the country and most of the headlines distort rather than reveal the facts." (3) Cumings dismisses US press reports on north Korea as "uninformative, unreliable, often sensationalized" and as deceiving, not educational.
One of the reasons the headlines distort, even today, especially today, can be summed up in a syllogism. World War II, as it was waged in the Pacific, was in large part a struggle between the dominant economic interests of the United States and the dominant economic interests of Japan for control of the Pacific, including the Korean peninsula. Japan had occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945, until it was driven out by the Korean resistance, one of whose principal figures was north Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, and the entry of the Soviet Union into the Pacific war. After Tokyo's surrender, the US tried to assert control over Japan's former colonial possessions, including Korea. Kim's guerilla state upset those plans. The corporate rich and hereditary capitalist families that dominate both US foreign policy and the mass media recognize north Korea to be a threat to their interests. The DPRK condones neither free trade, free enterprise nor free entry of US capital. Were it allowed to thrive, it would provide a counter-example to US- enforced neo-liberalism, a model other countries might follow, a model revolutionaries, like Che, have found inspiration in. The headlines deceive, rather than educate, because north Korea is against the interests of those who shape them.
My perspective is not that of the mainstream or of the investors, bankers and wealthy families who, in multifarious ways, define it. I am not for subjugating north Korea, nor for sanctions or war or forcing north Korea to disarm, and I am certainly not for what John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN, once called Washington's policy toward north Korea. Asked by the New York Times to spell out Washington's stance toward the DPRK, Bolton "strode over to a bookshelf, pulled off a volume and slapped it on the table. It was called 'The End of North Korea.'" "'That,' he said, 'is our policy.'" (4) I do not believe that Kim Jong-il is insane. The insanity slur is a way of giving some substance to the perfectly ludicrous claim that north Korea is a danger to the world. It is not. The only threat north Korea poses is the threat of a potential self-defense to long-standing US plans to dominate the Korean peninsula from one end to the other.......
........It's clear why Che Guevara, and other revolutionaries, considered north Korea of the 60's, 70's and even early 80's, to be an inspiration. Emerging from the womb of the guerilla wars of the 30s, the north had fought two imperialisms. It had won against the Japanese and held the US to a standstill. It was building, in the face of unremitting US hostility, a socialist society that was progressing toward communism. The country offered free health care, free education, virtually free housing, radical land reform and equal rights for women, and its industry was steaming ahead of that of the south. By contrast, the neo-colony Washington had hived off for itself below the 38th parallel was a vast warren of sweatshops reminiscent of England's industrial revolution. People lived harsh, miserable, uncertain lives, in incessant struggle with a military dictatorship backed by the US, bearing an uncomfortable resemblance to Europe's pre-war fascist regimes.
Would Che be inspired by the north Korea of today, an impoverished country that struggles with food scarcity? Probably. What have changed are the circumstances, not the reasons to be inspired. The projects north Korea has set for itself – sovereignty, equality, socialism – have become vastly more difficult, more painful, more daunting to achieve in the face of the void left by the counter- revolution that swept the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and China's breakneck sprint down the capitalist road. Would Che have soured on north Korea, because the adversity it faces has grown tenfold? I doubt it. A revolutionary, it's said, recognizes it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. North Korea has never lived on its knees. I think Che would have liked that.
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couldnt be bothered reading it
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you couldnt be bothered reading a message about an allience with lgc lol
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All i noticed was that Kim Il Sung was the leader of North Korea in 1965.
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The full article is alot longer if anyone wants it il send it to them, but to be honest I havnt read it myself yet.
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wow looks like you have alot of build up anger in you.
on the love topic we work on treating that anger with love and understanding
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i like korea and i wi*beep* be as its word and never give up and build the nucler power
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