Happy Republic Day!

[Pasi Nurminen]

The DPRK's Republic Day is tomorrow, September Ninth, but I thought it would be nice to start a thread commemorating the great People's Democracy ahead of time. In that way we can demonstrate proper respect and appreciation for the nation.

I will now post pictures of some great moments and objects in Korean history.















A fairly standard collection of DPRK photos, but I urge you to build on that by finding more pictures for yourself that amply demonstrate the People's Democracy!

 

[silver 2039]

Gaudy posters and monolithic monuments demonstrate democracy? Right I never knew. To call North Korea a democracy...

 

[Samson]

To celabre their great sporting achivments

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Gaudy posters and monolithic monuments demonstrate democracy? Right I never knew. To call North Korea a democracy...

I had to wait for someone else to post to see if i read things correctly ...
So this IS about North Korea.
If they are the democracy then what do north koreeans say western govs are ? Fascist govs ?

All those pics remind me of the democratic period we had over here with Ceausescu.

 

[sysyphus]

The greatest day in history will be when the Korean War finally ends and Korea is one country again.

 

[Phlegmak]

Ok, I'll post some pictures of the greatness of North Korea.

This is a starving woman, deforestation, alongside a rich government official.

Large image

Nighttime satellite image showing North Korea completely in the dark.
http://www.whyy.org/tv12/franklinfacts/apr0402_4.jpg

Starving baby


Poster for North Korea Freedom Day. Actually, I don't know what this is, it just looks appropriate.
http://gopkorea.blogs.com/flyingyangban/rui_poster_design-thumb.jpg

Lives among wealth while the people starve
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38106000/jpg/_38106238_jongilap150.jpg

You know, if North Korea has democracy, then I want no part of their brand of democracy.

Gas chambers at a prison camp:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,1136483,00.html

Reporters constantly under watch:
http://www.npbsales.com/?article=1600&template=program

Escapee from a prison camp:
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/nkdefec3.htm

 

[Nobody]

Happy Birthday North Korea!! (even baddies should get one happy day a year)

 

[bhsup]

The greatest day in history will be when the Korean War finally ends and Korea is one country again.

You know, you make a good point. No peace treaty or armistice has ever been signed. Just a simple cease fire. I wonder if some old musty UN resolution would give the US justification to go back in and clean house. You know, like the ones in the 90s were all the justification we needed to go back into Iraq.

 

[MamboJoel]

I wonder if some old musty UN resolution would give the US justification to go back in and clean house.

As if the US was able to or had demonstrated its ability to during the last half century Day dreamer ...

 

[luiz]

The greatest day in history will be when the Korean War finally ends and Korea is one country again.

Quite frankly if I were a South Korean I'd be rather terrified with the prospect of joining with that Stalinist wasteland to the North.

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As a side note, what is it with ultra-authoritarian governments and monolithic buildings? The Nazis loved them, communists from all over the world loved them, and even tinpot banana republic dictators had a distinct appreciation. Is there something in the dictatorial minds that draws them to ugly monoliths?

 

[warpus]

Kim Jong-il1, Kim Yong-nam, and Pak Pong-ju - <snip>

Moderator Action: No need to be rude. removed

 

[De Lorimier]

Quite frankly if I were a South Korean I'd be rather terrified with the prospect of joining with that Stalinist wasteland to the North.

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As a side note, what is it with ultra-authoritarian governments and monolithic buildings? The Nazis loved them, communists from all over the world loved them, and even tinpot banana republic dictators had a distinct appreciation. Is there something in the dictatorial minds that draws them to ugly monoliths?

I'm pretty sure this is a rhetorical question, but I'll answer it anyway:

Penis envy, there I said it!

As far as celebrating anything about NK... screw that. Phlegmak's pictures and links are a lot more informative and realistic than Pasi's romantic vision.

 

[nonconformist]

Hooray for genocide and mass murder!

 

[woody60707]

WOW, was the OP being funny when he started this? I this if there is one place on this earth that everyone can all say the same thing about it would be the DPRK.

 

[nonconformist]

WOW, was the OP being funny when he started this? I this if there is one place on this earth that everyone can all say the same thing about it would be the DPRK.

No, the OP actually is this deluded.
Unless it's a troll account, which I daresay is not too farfetched.

 

[Atlas14]

Is that one picture of Kim Jong Il giving the Hitler salute...? Figures

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Sieg heil.

Seriously though, your kidding right?

 

[Urederra]

To me, North Korea is the perfect example to prove that communism doesn't work. One country is splitted in two, one part goes communist, the other goes capitalist. Now look at the living standards in one and in the other, and jugde yourself.

And please, don't start with the 'if it doesn't work properly it is because it is not really communist' thing. North Korea is a communarchy.

 

[amadeus]

Hooray for genocide and mass murder!

Now Pasi, you know you're wrong when me and nonconformist can agree on anything short of "Hitler is bad, donuts are good."

 

[Phlegmak]

Is that one picture of Kim Jong Il giving the Hitler salute...? Figures

Of course Kim Jong Il isn't giving the Hitler salute. It's his father, Kim Il-Sung. Duh!

woody60707, yes, Pasi Nurminen believes what he's writing here.