Well, they may not exist by next month with all of the politics,

>>94632228
It's all talk, nothing is going to happen.
Just like the last time that something ALMOST happened with NK.

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>>94632934
Obviously. But fuck it, any excuse I can get to post this comic. I love it.

>>94633447
Imagine all the stuff we will learn when/if the regime falls.

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>>94633613
It's hard to even imagine, based on the testimony of the defectors.

What an unreal world.

>>94632516
good thing he just sketched it instead of taking it for reference IYKWIM

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>>94633908
Well, you aren't allowed cameras. Even if you were already allowed cameras.

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>>94632240
>>94632312
>armed with radio and a copy of 1984

I'll give this a shot, but it's already sounding pedestrian as fuck in its pretensions by appealing to the one book on totalitarianism every kid in junior high has probably read or at least been told about.

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>>94633947
>Image in a storytime
Fuck you.

>>94633898
Does the U.S. really do this?

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>>94634148
In theory, I suppose. The problem would be that if there is a real effort like is being described here, it can't be reported on for political reasons. It would have to be a secret.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/776082/ap-exclusive-us-remains-in-northh-korea-lost-in-political-limbo

>>94633942
>you aren't allowed cameras
You're allowed cameras; there's just a lot of things you aren't allowed to photograph without you being detained or having your film confiscated.

Typical nazi propaganda trying to disparage a perfect socialist utopia with it's lies.
That was sarcasm, of course

>>94632228
Read this before, and it's a hell of a good storytime, but Guy strikes me as a real piece of shit.

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>>94634595
Which is basically everything. So again, you aren't really allowed cameras - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULO3i5Xra0

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>>94634662
Hah?

>>94632228
Why would they not exist? I am confused to that statement. Nothing will happen, just need a new boogeyman to deflect from the current administration doing a piss poor job. Smoke and mirrors anon, smoke and mirrors. We are not going to do shit that would upset China and put South Korea and Japan at threat.

Interesting comics regardless.

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>>94634682
How so? Guy has done a lot of these, and I've never really gotten a sense of him as a person out of any of them. He always presents himself as more of a casual viewer than anything else. That's always been my impression.

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>>94634712
It was a joke. I don't think shit is going to happen now, anymore than it's happened since the 50's.

>>94633613
It won't fall, east Asian countries are smart enough to understand that creating a political situation that will enable tens of millions of refugees with no skills relevant to living in a 21st century world to jump the border would be a social/economic catastrophe. Even China hates NK but they keep them propped up just so they'll keep the borders contained, if they catch anyone escaping they ship them back.

>>94634728
Just the way he fucked with his interpreter with no real consideration as to the consequences of his actions, and when he ratted out that guy picking fruit illegally, despite the fact that silence would've cost him nothing and would've potentially saved his life.

If either of those weren't fictional dramatization, then Guy was being a dick.

>>94634712
>upset China
I dunno, man, China's relationship with NK has been pretty frosty of late

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>>94634803
That's fair, but I think the problem is that we all have years of "understanding" of Best Korea, and Guy is just presenting what he experienced. I genuinely get the impression that he had no agenda one way or the other, and the problem is that he didn't think about these things that hard. Consider yourself - fucking with a tour guide and reporting fruit pickers. Is that something that would get anyone in trouble? In 99% of the world, no. Not really. In Best Korea? Yeah. Those people probably died. But I have to imagine it would be hard to keep that in mind, because it's not our regular reality.

>>94634883
China tolerates NK because a state of war would obligate them to take in a tidal wave of refugees. They don't need to be best buds with the Kim Jongs to understand it's in their own best interests to keep the regime intact.

>>94634897
You make a good point. "Piece of shit" was a bit extreme.

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>>94632228
Guy delosle fag reporting in even tho I had to wait for him at a con for two hours and he never showed up

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And that was a Journey to Best Korea.

>>94634931
I can imagine China very quickly DMZing and gunning down anybody fleeing or simply making them disappear.

>>94634969
That's Spanish, but some of it is cut off so I can't make it out. What did he say?

>>94634712
Didn't China already tell N Korea that they'll completely stay out of a (short as fuck) war between NK and the US if NK made the first move?

>>94635026
Yes. IF North Korea starts it first.

>>94634995
China already operates on a policy of returning anybody they catch sneaking the border even when it almost guarantees that it'll kill them. Defectors have to sneak all the way out to Thailand before they can fly back into South Korea. If a true state of war erupts again they won't be able to escape the international scrutiny to keep operating under those terms. Even if the war itself were short and easy the immense power vacuum would still create an insane refugee crisis that nobody in Asia wants to have dropped onto them, including/especially South Korea itself.

It's all completely moot anyway, the same thing will happen every other fucking time this happens, the NK governemt will quietly offer to deescalate in exchange for more food aid.

>>94635018
united states is invading another country to distract their population from domestic issues again

>>94635145
So, that was penned in 2003/2004?

>>94635145
Feels like domestic issues are what's being used to distract from international issues right now.

>>94634662
each time someone shills north korea on social media i can never tell if they're serious anymore

>>94635178
well, they made it full circle then

>>94635181
Christ, the world we live in it's impossible to discern sarcasm at any point. No matter how stupidly insane something is, it's potentially a real ideology.

Reminder all of this has been refuted by people who have actually been to North Korea, unlike this fraud who was contracted in China and NOT Pyongyang.

>>94635222
Source?

>>94635236
>>94635222
Also, why would you try and shill in favor of Best Korea? You don't live there - they don't have internet.

>>94632228

Cheers OP, that was great.

What I genuinely don't understand is why Best Korea is allowed to continue. Other countries with lesser wealth, who treat their citizens better (admittedly still very poorly, but better), and have less mineral wealth have been 'annexed' and partitioned, and other countries have been used as buffer zones to a far better degree.

Don't get me wrong, this current political situation is daft, and if anyone is stupid enough to use nukes on either side, every country in the UN is legally obliged to act in one way or another. I just genuinely see no purpose in the Kim hegemony for China, when Hong Kong is slowly being absorbed despite the far greater value it presents to China as an 'independent state'.

>>94635762
I'm not going to claim to be an expert or even knowledgeable on the subject. But my understanding of Best Korea is that it's been propped up for decades because China does not want to deal with the inevitable refugee crises that will result from the Kim regime falling. That's basically it. And I don't blame them. Having nearly a million people with no skills and no understanding of the world suddenly begging for food and work? It's a fucking nightmare scenario. On top of that, South Korea can and would be destroyed within hours, and they're one of the global economies. Everyone on the planet would be hurt by South Korea suddenly disappearing in a hail of NK artillery fire.

So, it's not about a war. There isn't anyone on this planet that thinks that NK would be a force to be reckoned with. It's all about how to deal with the fallout, and what to do with their citizens afterwards. And unfortunately from the perspective of America, we have a shitty fucking record of dealing with peace-keeping/nation-building.

>>94635051
There's no legitimate reason to believe the US would even attempt to strike first. The entire gameplan is to make NK stand down now that its missiles are an actual threat to allied countries and US territories.

>>94636378
I'm just repeating what China said. They will not get involved in a war IF best korea makes the first blow. Which, as you said and realistically speaking, means China won't get involved in any war that involved best korea.

>>94636480
Basically nothing to worry about unless Un goes full retard, and then only the victims of said gun-jump and the entire country of North Korea are the only ones to worry.

What a crazy fucking time to be alive.

>>94633205

I mean this is fun and all but that nigga is deaaaaad

>>94636559
Well, no. The entire world world economy has to worry. Again, Seoul will be wiped out in minutes. North Korea will not survive a war. I'm pretty sure even they aren't even insane enough to believe otherwise. But they can and will destroy South Korea, which is a major world player. That's going to fuck hard with everyone else on the planet. Nuclear weapons are frankly just a play from North Korea. They honestly don't matter in the long run. What does matter is all of the conventional artillery and missiles that NK has had for decades and can use right now.

>>94636676
And Japan, don't forget Japan.

>>94632276
>>94632297
You skipped page 006 OP?

>>94636875
probably a blank page, 4chan detects it as a duplicate page.

>>94636837
Japan is part of the world economy. But I assume you're talking about them being destroyed by conventional weaponry as well. They'll take a hit, but Japan won't suffer anything worse than what Planet Earth does on a regular basis. They aren't looking at anything worse than the last Tsunami. North Korea ain't got shit on Fukushima, is what I'm saying.

>>94634937
>>94634961
And 183 as well? Or did you just misnumber them?

>>94636923
>>94636875
This. Literally another blank page. It flagged >>94632249, so I just went on. Nothing was lost.

>>94636931
Same as >>94636960
If you want the same count as I have, just download 002.jpg three times. Seriously, it's a complete rip of the book, so blank pages were included in the source that I dumped.

>>94635222
None of this shit was "refuted" by the author of this book, who has been to North Korea. You should also read/listen to Michael Malice. He spent time there and read tons of their own books and talked to refugees as well.

>>94636676
That's true about South Korea. It would hurt the world. It wouldn't, however, hurt the world to the extent that a full war with China would. Then there's the fact that South Korea is the only place left that makes good movies, so that's another tragedy.

>>94637220
Well, yeah. Humanity would survive. China doesn't want to go to bat for Best Korea, so we're not looking at a nuclear apocalypse. Still, even China imports shit from SK. EVERYONE will be hurting.

>>94636676
An asian war on that scale and with that many problems would likely be an incredible boon to the world economy. Wounded China taking on more mouths to feed and destabilizing their social structure (and in effect, their financial solvency with its wonderful turns on labor costs), a new nation to build a world banking site around (we're down to, what... 4 nations left that aren't a part of the world banking conglomerate?), and a hostile foothold of direct land contact against China with occupied norkland that would force them to the capitulate more than ever to pro-western doctrine.

>>94634148
On and off.

>>94634682
He just seems French to me.

>>94634931
China wants a buffer state between them and South Korea.

>>94636378
I'm not even sure I'd go that far. Simply showing that NK's usual play of throwing a fit and then trying to extract economic concessions isn't going to work with this administration seems somewhat likely.

>>94636480
Don't take a statement from the chicoms at face value. China might be angling for a deal out of it. I bet china would trade North Korea for Taiwan for example.

>>94632228
>TFW there was almost a film adaptation of this until the studio pussied out because of the Interview

>>94637334
Fuck this gay Earth.

And I still like The Interview. That was a funny movie.

>>94637019
Utterly fake. Anything that presents North Korea as being a literal Orwellian dystopia is fake. It's actually a very normal country with a market based economy.

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>>94637425
>It's actually a very normal country with a market based economy.
...proof of that statement?

>>94637299
Oh definitely. It wouldn't be good times financially.

>>94637425

Why don't you actually prove it instead of going "Fake fake fake"? How about links? Pics? etc.

>>94637388
the interview was seth rogen trying too hard to be the next south park

you can see this happening with sausage party too

>>94637425
Kim, stop shitposting.

>>94637574
I never watched Sausage Party.

All I know is that I spent money to watch The Interview on Youtube because at the time I was desperate to support the idea of new movies being released digitally and The Interview was the first movie to do so. I don't want to spend $20 going to a theater when I have a computer.

We're seeing a lot of movies today getting digital releases in the same format - $5 or so for a two day "rental". I want to believe I helped promote that idea as financially viable.

>>94637425
t. Kim

>>94635018
I only have one class of experience and Spanishdict.com, but here goes

"United States invade another country to distract its population of domestic problems."

I hope that helps

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>>94637621
>>94637784

SOMEDAY YOU'LL SEE THE TRUTH.

>>94638228
Thank you.

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>>94638298
Shut the fuck up Navarre.

Thanks for the storytime, OP. You are most certainly not a faggot.

Poor Best Koreans.

>>94634969
>>94638228
Why would a french-canadian guy write a message in Spanish? Even the book in the picture is the spaniard version. It might be fake.

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>>94638427
Thanks.

>>94633388
This page. This page and the one with the kids playing strings. Always gets me.

It's so fucked up.

>>94632895
>toothpicks are handcarved

that's so fuckin creepy

>>94638706
For me it is >>94633885
They are fucking everwhere,

>>94632934
No, this time is different because of President Trump. Every other President cared about preserving the North Korean status quo. Trump doesn't. He's a significant change in variables. Hopefully skug people like you turn out to be right. I'll take the whole "I told you so" gloating over a major humanitarian crisis any day. But don't pretend that the world exists on a set of rails. Just because it doesn't happen doesn't mean it couldn't happen. And the reason it doesn't happen is because there are people who are aware that these tensions don't resolve themselves naturally, despite what smartasses like you insist in the comment section of every news site ever.

>>94639264

>implying there aren't enough people around him to stop him from causing ww3

he barely shows up for work, i really doubt he'll be able to start ww3.

>>94634788
that's so fucked up

>>94634788
It's horrible. These people deserve to be free. They live in the worst standards in the world, even worse than the shittiest African countries. It's not their fault, either. They aren't devout followers of some bullshit religion like Islam. They're lied to, but few really believe all of the propaganda.

Yet I've never seen a liberal speak up for North Korean people. Fucking countries like Sweden and Germany are taking in hordes of refugees who end up turning the place to shit because of inherent cultural differences, but North Koreans don't follow a religion that tells them to rape western women.

The progressives of the world are focused on the wrong reason. Right side of history my ass. When our grandchildren look back after the regime fell, they'll ask "If everyone knew what was happening, then why didn't they do anything?" The same way students of today ask this about the holocaust.

>>94632934
Nothing is going to happen because they know the exchange will go down something like this.
https://youtu.be/-SZcHYgv5Yg?t=4s
unless they have no sense of self preservation.

>>94639315
It's refreshing to see someone with a heart. The amount of comments I see mocking the people. Not the government but the people. It sickens me.

That fucking Cracked article "Why North Korea is the most hilarious dictatorship ever". Fuck them. I hope they go to Hoerenyang

>>94639315

Think about it. Imagine being a south korean in their 20s studying and getting a career. Tons of refugees flooding in from the north would fuck you and your friends' futures up. It would be a disaster. A flood of uneducated, poor, unskilled refugees is not going to go well. I know it sounds fucked up, but that's the way it is.

>>94639387
The difference is that the Middle East has an obscene amount of wealth that can be directed towards sympathetic international PR and the motivation of an ideology that demands global cultural expansion at all costs.

North Korea is the complete opposite, whatever little wealth the country has is directed toward an insular cult of personality that aggressively promotes an insular self-reliant hermit society that wants nothing to do with the outside world. They don't feel any need to sell themselves in a way that makes them fashionable for blog virtue-signalling.

>>94639387
>Finds a way to blame liberals for North Korea
Anon, you might want to take a step back from politics, even just a small one.

>>94639676
They suddenly seem to be very pro-NK now that it happens to be Trump that's using hard language against them. Where they were for the last six decades worth of presidents on either party using the exact same kind of language who knows, but...

>>94639721

>They suddenly seem to be very pro-NK

what are you talking about you fucking maniac

>>94636378
>and US territories.
I thought they still can't get even a fraction of the way to HI.

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>>94639721
Libertarians, you mean

>>94639873
>It's legal to blaze it up in NK? WOAH MAN, they are like, so free!
I didn't know the Libertarian party was full of ignorant stoners.

>>94637425

Lol, found the tankie

>>94637425
How do you patrol the southern border fence and post on a banned website at the same time?

>>94639817
If they have more missiles that can do what the last few tests did can they can theoretically hit the west coast
the thing there is that for every super scary missile they fire that could actually do something, they have another one blow up on the launch pad, so it's not especially worrying to the country with the most advanced missile defense in the world.
The real worry is that they won't try to shoot at the united states (which has the tech and ability to react) but instead shoot somewhere else, where, which thanks to sheer speed of a IBCM, won't have any time to react. Like Guam or SK
although i've heard they have so much conventional artillery pointed at seoul that a missile would be a waste of effort.
Ultimately, i'ts not likely to happen because most of the hard power of NK rests in the power of army generals who like living comfortable lives, who know perfectly well that the entire country will get turned into a crater if Un decides to actually hit the big red button.

>>94634261
I hope it collapses.

>>94639652
NK's state is one of the best arguments against anti-globalization really.

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>>94639873
>420 BLAZE IT

>>94640057
If you're a tiny-as-fuck country like North Korea that has very little mineral wealth, sure. It's a tad different in the context of a country like, say, the US that outsources its needs more out of corporate convenience than actual necessity as far as resources or manpower is concerned.

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>>94636378
I don't think NK want to play the same nuclear deterrence game USA and Russia has been playing for so long, they want to show power and the only way to do it is strike first, USA will keep his cards until the very end.

>>94634788
SK has accepted a trickle of BK's refugees from time to time. Same with China.
https://youtu.be/DyqUw0WYwoc

The stories they tell are surreal.

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>>94639915

>>94632240
>man made catastrophes

one of those being the absolute complete bombing of the entire country by the U.S. which included a dam and killing civilians?

>>94635178
that's how it always is. that's one of the reasons wars are started, because presidents have low approval ratings and war is profitable. left to our own devices, we and the people would all be international socialists and bring peace on earth

>>94634788
this is the most observant, eye-opening political comment i've read in ages. thank you.

>>94635910
you're right about one thing. you're not an expert

>>94639304
that's what i like best about him

>>94639387
>These people deserve to be free
No one deserves to be anything. Freedom is bought with the blood of tyrants and patriots. COLD TRUTH: It's tolerable.

>The same way students of today ask this about the holocaust
which holocaust?

>>94640303
Thank you for posting this video, it was quite informative, and most appreciated.

>>94632881
>It feels like a videogame
So North Korea hasn't updated its graphics since original Doom?
Man, what a shitty place.

>>94639915
Really? That's basically their entire base.

>>94634931
China also wants NK to stick around because starting shit with the US or an ally would not only cause one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the last hundred years, but also likely result in the US setting up military bases right next to China's NK border, after tearing the country to shreds.

China doesn't want millions of refugees, and it doesn't want more US military installations right at its doorstep.

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>>94639817
Guam is US Territory, and is used as a unsinkable air craft carrier by the US navy. 160,000 people live on the tiny island.
https://youtu.be/rfWgIBwuH_Y
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-guam-north-korea-threat-20170813-story.html

>>94634063
>I'll be going at 4X4 later
>With friends?
>Yes.
>Leaves the guy behind
I just find this so damn funny.

>>94643159
>as a unsinkable

*as an unsinkable

>>94634046
So what kind of game was it?

>>94634774
>I think up a few tortures of my own
What a fucking creep.

>>94639466
>>94639629
It's a shame, because honestly, it would be simple to change if human beings could just own up to their mistakes and recognize how to move forward for the better.

A peaceful regime change to short-lived Chinese rule as to create a more effective infrastructure and actually get people fed would be fairly simple, but the NK leadership would never allow it out of pride.

I can't think about NK too much because it just pisses me off.

If someone would make a comic about "behind the scenes" of NK, it would be some Maus-level shit. Some really fucking horrifying stories from many defectors. Like the story of one labor camp guard who defected and escaped the country when his colleagues raped and killed a pregnant woman, stuck a shovel deep in the corpse's vagina and threw the carcass on a huge pile of corpses. This happened in early 90's during Kim Jong Il's regime but I could imagine those death camps still exist there.

>>94645078
Read onward, they will reveal it.

>>94640797
Competition for resources, and oppressing other people for fun and profit is a fundamental part of human nature. The closest things to international socialisim that have ever existed on the planet were certainly no exception.

>>94642854
Check the chunky pixels on their card graphics.

>>94646125
Big problem with your idea: China doesn't WANT to run NK. It would go over like trying to fix the US border problem issues by annexing mexico, or having Japan, Korea and Taiwan give up their languages in favor of Mandarin.

It's not just pride and greed here. NK deliberately designed their society to be independent and isolated from outside cultural influences as possible.

>>94646606
You could also add that previous Korean dynasties conditioned entire peninsula for this kind of obedience and subservience.
The fate of gommunism in each of its states was closely intertwined with qualities of each society.

>>94639935
A tankie would never defend a "normal country with a market based economy". Their entire schtick is "actually communist regimes are awesome, you're just brainwashed by western imperialism and capitalism, you bourgie liberal fuck".

>>94646606
>Big problem with your idea: China doesn't WANT to run NK

Oh, I agree. It's a pie-in-the-sky idea, but it's one that shouldn't be a problem. Hell, having the Kim's just go to Chinese leadership to ask for logistical planning help would be a step up, but i think he's too proud even for that.

>NK deliberately designed their society to be independent and isolated from outside cultural influences as possible.
This is the other problem. People think of NK as a communist state, but it's degenerated into feudalism. Who's to say what massive psychological damage the culture shock of the NK people finding out about the outside world could have?

>>94632228
You don’t have to like North Korea to recognize that they are not and have never been the aggressors in the current conflict. The U.S. committing genocide during the Korean war. We bombed damn near everything in the country and it was estimated that we killed 20% of the population. They are still digging up mines and explosives left behind by the Korean War TO THIS DAY.

Say what you will about how their government treat their citizens, but the United States has proven entirely willing to do much, MUCH worse and any understanding of the North Korean conflict that paints them as the sole aggressors is fundamentally ignorant of history. America is not and has never been the good guys here.

>>94647182
But the North were the original aggressors, here, anon.

I agree that the war became unnecessarily brutal in it's later stages, but the term genocide is inappropriate; there was no attempt to exterminate the North Korean people - unless you're suggesting that atrocities such as the Dresden bombing were attempts to exterminate the German people.

In reality, that conflict is a result of Japanese colonial rule and American/Soviet mishandling of diplomatic talks in the Far-East post-WW2 (mostly due to pride).

>>94632228
>Well, they may not exist by next month with all of the politics
Trump just told them to sit on a dick, he didn't start a countdown, chill.

>>94639387

>It's horrible. These people deserve to be free. They live in the worst standards in the world, even worse than the shittiest African countries. It's not their fault, either.

World is much more cynical than you think. NK and its atrocities are tolerated purely for monetary reasons. Its a poor country filled with humanitarian crisis and uneducated people, it would be a tremendous burden for China and SK if borders were opened.

Only feasible way for the regime to end quickly would be if NK would discover Oil in its land. Then suddenly every major power wants to save its people from the tyranny of its dictatorship. Thats just the way things go.

>>94647182
Bullshit, the Norks started and got backing by Stalin as a nice little proxy, hoping to get all the peninsula. Then the UN got involved, Stalin died, the SU collapsed and the NK government threatens bombing Seoul or Tokyo every year so the world will give them free stuff. Can't wait till they're gone. Whether it's being ruled by China or forced to integrate with the South, at that point anything will be better than what they have now, and the worst part is the common citizen already knows it. That's why there's reports coming in of the younger generations being cynical and detached from all the propaganda. Once China started smuggling in media, they found out why they got stuff like food from the US in the 90s despite being told how the US will invade any second. They no longer believe in the lofty dreams of the Party.

https://youtu.be/DyqUw0WYwoc

2 interviews on actual north korean defectors, in case you're interested. Both lived in the country so it paints a much more depressing picture than the comic does. On the upside apparently north koreans themselves are aware everything is better outside by now.

>>94632383

>They force you pay respects to their supreme leader

This makes me sick, and the worst of it all it's that I know people who defends NK and the USSR due to my career...

>>94646792
Absolutely true. I'd also tack on, massive xenophobic hostillity to anyone who's not korean to the end of that.

>>94647111
It's not a matter of logicistcs. It's a combination of being disengaged fromt he world economy, and that the priority of the state is maintaining Kim and the milltary in power. Feeding the people isn't that high of a priority by comparison.

>>94633947
>the one book on totalitarianism every kid in junior high has probably read
Not in France. People know the book but I doubt any teacher ask his students to read it.

>>94640303
>Surreal

Funny word for 'Fake'.

>>94643159
>unsinkable

Why would you call it that when it's so overdeveloped that a US senator had to voice his concerns that it'd sink into the ocean?

>>94632445
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>>94632490
It's kinda feel surreal that any companies, and most specifically an animation company subcontracts in North Korea.

>>94649954
>It's kinda feel surreal

>>94649093
Let me guess: You work in academia.

>>94649954

You have to get the experts somewhere since you've already liquidated the ones living in your country as "partisans".

>>94649954
Yeah, what the fuck is up with that? Might as well employ slaves.

>>94646606
>Taiwan give up their languages in favor of Mandarin.
kek

>>94639873
as a member please fucking ignore our pr on twitter is a disaster

>>94651069
Use fucking commas.

>>94649093
One thing I've come to appreciate it how we can make fun of and criticize figureheads to extreme extents without risking the gulag. For now.

It's just a hilarious thought all the shit China has banned/censored like Winnie the Pooh because people were memeing his likeness to their president.

And in South Korea they throw people in jail for having best korean mp3 music on their ipads. It's asians. They like it that way. Leave them be.

>>94632228
Man, I feel bad for the real people who died for this comic to happen. Those 2 NK translators have to be dead.

>>94649440
>logicistcs

>>94639915
Pretty sure "Libertarian" translates to "ignorant stoners" in some language.