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Old 10-15-2014, 04:03 AM
 
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Kim Jong Il (the leader, or rather the hereditary "king" of N Korea) is like Pistorius : he "invades" like a parasite the front pages of the medias all the time, while at the same time he is (like Pistorius) of very very little interest and relevance- to me at least. I don't understand the obsession of our media with the N Korean leader and "Pistorius". It mainly proves the laziness of most journalists who prefer talking over and over again of these non-subjects instead of moving their ass to find new topics.
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Old 10-15-2014, 09:16 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Kim Jong Il (the leader, or rather the hereditary "king" of N Korea) is like Pistorius : he "invades" like a parasite the front pages of the medias all the time, while at the same time he is (like Pistorius) of very very little interest and relevance- to me at least. I don't understand the obsession of our media with the N Korean leader and "Pistorius". It mainly proves the laziness of most journalists who prefer talking over and over again of these non-subjects instead of moving their ass to find new topics.
In the US, it's all about maintaining an external threat. The US hasn't been without one since the end of WWII. Get rid of an external enemy and there would be no justification to have a 300 billion dollar annual defense budget.
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Old 10-15-2014, 09:46 AM
 
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Here's a fun fact about North Korea - it is the world’s only necrocracy.
necrocracy (plural necrocracies)
A government that still operates under the rules of a former, dead leader.
Kim Il-Sung is the President of the country even though he’s been dead for 18 years.
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Old 10-15-2014, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Northern Ireland
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I don't care to be honest.
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Old 10-15-2014, 12:32 PM
 
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I would like to know, what are your thoughts on North Korea? I have always been fascinated by that country and I would like to know have any of you been there? Or have you wanted to go?
Due to its communist/dictatorship regime, it is a country that I would never consider traveling to.
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Old 10-15-2014, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Hong Kong / Vienna
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Definitely on my bucket list. Certainly not because I like their political system, though.
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Old 10-18-2014, 03:35 PM
 
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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A country suffering of one of the worst dictatorships - if not the worst - of the world. Kim Jong-un is not human.
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Old 10-18-2014, 06:37 PM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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A country suffering of one of the worst dictatorships - if not the worst - of the world. Kim Jong-un is not human.
Hard to say, there is little objective news coming out of that country.
I assume some African dictatorships are even worse. We only don't care because they don't have nukes and because we basically don't care about Africans' fate anyway as long as it all stays in Africa.
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Old 10-20-2014, 02:27 AM
 
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Right, Neuling. Why for instance is there no MEDIA coverage of the infamous rhodesian dictator, president-for-life Robert Mugabe?
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Old 10-20-2014, 07:51 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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Right, Neuling. Why for instance is there no MEDIA coverage of the infamous rhodesian dictator, president-for-life Robert Mugabe?
There used to be some coverage, but it has long ceased. Zimbabwe is far away from any place that is of interest to the West, so we don't care I'm afraid. Especially our politicians don't care.
I mean, we were not doing anything about Sudan, either, despite the civil war and genocide there...
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