North Korea at night....

[MobBoss]

This is utterly amazing. Check it out: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=410158&in_page_id=1811

Kinda puts the whole dud nuke thing into persepective. If they cant even keep an energy grid to light up their cities, then their chances of making a nuke and doing it right are kinda slim.

I mean really. If they are working on that nuke 24/7 it must mean they are working in the dark after 9pm.

 

[Godwynn]

This is utterly amazing. Check it out: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=410158&in_page_id=1811

Kinda puts the whole dud nuke thing into persepective. If they cant even keep an energy grid to light up their cities, then their chances of making a nuke and doing it right are kinda slim.

I mean really. If they are working on that nuke 24/7 it must mean they are working in the dark after 9pm.

I always thought they intentionally shutoff the power to its citizens at night.

Crazy stuff. I'm glad I live in a free nation.

 

[amadeus]

Well, they simply "don't have" (it's wasted on the army and party elite) the power necessary to keep any lights on. This includes lights for things like street lamps, of which most do not function anyway, and other infrastructure.

Only a few government buildings and propaganda pieces are kept lit, most of the power consumed in North Korea is in Pyongyang's massive underground military and research compounds. Civilian areas that are not important to Pyongyang's political goals have been cut off from electricity totally for some years now.

 

[Godwynn]

of which most do not function anyway, and other infrastructure.

Good, and I hope it speeds their downfall.

 

[amadeus]

I don't recall any regime that fell because street lamps didn't work.

Romania in 1989 might come close, but even they were rationed a 40 watt lightbulb per family.

 

[Perfection]

Except for my wife and family, that is my favourite photo

Is it just me or does it seem a little mean to have one's second favorite photo be something illustrative of massive poverty?

 

[Godwynn]

I don't recall any regime that fell because street lamps didn't work.

Romania in 1989 might come close, but even they were rationed a 40 watt lightbulb per family.

Wasn't that Ceausesceu? (spelling?) I meant infrastructure as a whole, not just street lights.

 

[amadeus]

Yes, it was Ceausescu. Romania was so desperate to pay off it's debts, they pinched every penny, except for when Comrade President Nicolae and Esteemed Comrade Elena would go to New York for jewelery shopping.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

It's amazing anyone could be moronic enough to believe that picture. I mean it just looks fake, a photoshopping job done by the editor's eight year old daughter.

To be fair, the DPRK does routinely conduct blackout drills to prepare for the possibility of night bombing raids by fascist Americo-Korean forces to deny them lights as aiming points, but those aren't conducted every single day. The picture is fake, that's the bottom line.

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[amadeus]

Before even reading the thread, I thought you'd say it was a fake.

How do you say it? Boo-yah? Is that it?

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Well, they simply "don't have" (it's wasted on the army and party elite) the power necessary to keep any lights on. This includes lights for things like street lamps, of which most do not function anyway, and other infrastructure.

Only a few government buildings and propaganda pieces are kept lit, most of the power consumed in North Korea is in Pyongyang's massive underground military and research compounds. Civilian areas that are not important to Pyongyang's political goals have been cut off from electricity totally for some years now.

But of course you don't have any evidence that these outrageous claims are true. To actually present evidence of anything you say on these forums, well that would be just completely unacceptable!

 

[amadeus]

U.S. State Department reports, reports from Doctors Without Borders, books written by N. Korean expatriates, reports filed by BBC journalists, books written by professors that have traveled to North Korea, and so on.

Sources? Yes sir, not a one.

 

[Perfection]

I wonder, Pasi, how this webpage fits in with your conspiricy theory...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Like I said, to actually present evidence is completely out of the question! I mean, why present evidence when you can make asinine statements like "everybody knows this is how it is!"?

 

[Perfection]

Like I said, to actually present evidence is completely out of the question! I mean, why present evidence when you can make asinine statements like "everybody knows this is how it is!"?

I thought everyone did, I guess I was wrong. There are quite a few of these sorts of pics out there.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

I wonder, Pasi, how this webpage fits in with your conspiricy theory...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html

It's an American government website. The American government has a vested interest in keeping the Korean people down. It's like going back in time and reading a publication in Nazi germany on the evils of the Jews.

My previous post was posted at the same time as yours and directed at rmsharpe; hence the way I phrased it.

 

[Perfection]

It's an American government website. The American government has a vested interest in keeping the Korean people down. It's like going back in time and reading a publication in Nazi germany on the evils of the Jews.

And they do this by altering every single satelite photo they can get thier hands on? Throughout multiple administrations?

It's silly to believe there's a vast conspiricy when there is a much simpler and more evidenced explination. North Korea is a hell-hole!

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Christ, for the last time, nobody is denying that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is enduring hardships. Nobody's saying it's some paradise. It's just that the hardships the Korean masses are enduring are not nearly as bad as you have been led by your governments to believe, and came about for completely different reasons than your governments have led you to believe, certainly not economic mismanagement.

 

[MobBoss]

It's amazing anyone could be moronic enough to believe that picture. I mean it just looks fake, a photoshopping job done by the editor's eight year old daughter.

To be fair, the DPRK does routinely conduct blackout drills to prepare for the possibility of night bombing raids by fascist Americo-Korean forces to deny them lights as aiming points, but those aren't conducted every single day. The picture is fake, that's the bottom line.

Now wait a sec. Are you claiming its photoshopped? What proof do you offer or is it just another conspiracy theory gone wild?

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

And of course, when demanded to present proof of his wild accusations, rmsharpe scampers off to google and wikipedia to hurriedly search for something that he agrees with. Where's your so-called "expertise" now, sharpe?