Even in North Korea, it all comes down to business

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Even in North Korea, it all comes down to business

Post by mdsimpson92 » Wed Jan 15, 2014 5:40 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world ... purge.html

Though inevitably I find the whole corruption issue kind of selective in that state of all places.

Also, I found out that meth is a pretty popular thing there...chalk another thing that makes that state resemble 1984

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2 ... korea.html
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Post by Magritte » Wed Jan 15, 2014 5:58 pm

Instapapered for later. North Korea is like the cult of Scientology as it was run under Hubbard, blown up to the size of a nation. It's endlessly fascinating.

Honestly, nothing would surprise me about that place any more. They have nukes - so weird. Does that mean they have reactors? Or are they getting refined fissionables from China? The thought of starving meth fueled North Koreans running a reactor is nightmare fuel.

BTW Frontline just did a documentary on them. Want to see it but it's not available in Canada. I'll have to torrent it or use a proxy.
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Post by mdsimpson92 » Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:35 am

Magritte wrote:Instapapered for later. North Korea is like the cult of Scientology as it was run under Hubbard, blown up to the size of a nation. It's endlessly fascinating.

Honestly, nothing would surprise me about that place any more. They have nukes - so weird. Does that mean they have reactors? Or are they getting refined fissionables from China? The thought of starving meth fueled North Koreans running a reactor is nightmare fuel.

BTW Frontline just did a documentary on them. Want to see it but it's not available in Canada. I'll have to torrent it or use a proxy.
I would say, to paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, that North Korea is if somebody read 1984 and thought "let's give it the good old college try".
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Re: Even in North Korea, it all comes down to business

Post by Metacrock » Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:36 pm

exactly! North Korea is the prefect atheist society. :mrgreen:
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Post by mdsimpson92 » Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:57 pm

Metacrock wrote:exactly! North Korea is the prefect atheist society. :mrgreen:

Which has little difference from an ancient theocracy, except it has the tools. It even has its own God-king.
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