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| Workers Paradise - Videos from North Korea 'tour'. |
| 2008-07-13 |
| Link goes to the first of a set of 14 videos of Shane Smith's guided 'tour' of North Korea. I saw a highlight of this on CNN and tuned into the 'News to Me' show to catch the tail end. He basically points out that N. Korea is the 'land that time forgot'. Episode's 1,4,9, and 12 I found particulary interesting. Personally I think all those North Korean people are going to be mightly pissed off when they find out what they have been missing on the outside. Hey kids, VBS founder Shane Smith is going to be on CNN's News To Me this weekend at 7:30 PM, half-past midnight, and again at 5:30 in the morning both Saturday and Sunday to talk about his exploits in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. If that doesn't sync up with your tubin' schedule you can also see the interview online at the link we just gave you sometime after Saturday night, we think. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #6 They show off the Pueblo still, hmm. Tomahawk ought solve that. Its our property. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-13 17:43 |
| #5 Simply amazing. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-13 17:34 |
| #4 thought I was gonna watch one clip -- wrong.. totally worth the time. thanks for the great link. Kimmie luvs show tunes and broadway type musicals --- frigin sweet hilliarity. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2008-07-13 13:55 |
| #3 If you start watching this, you won't stop. It's so bizarre that it's mesmerizing. And they did take some big time chances. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-13 13:35 |
| #2 Watched all 14 of the episodes, couldn't stop. I'm not familiar with Shane Smith, I suspect he was going to try to put the hippie, liberal spin on things until he saw how truly f*cked up Nkor really is. He took some real risks to make this, it's the most film I've ever seen out of NKor. Very interesting and worth the time to view. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-13 12:15 |
| #1 I'd be awful careful up there... South Korean tourist shot dead by North soldier SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean soldier gunned down a 53-year-old South Korean woman tourist who wandered into a military area at a mountain resort in the North in the predawn hours of Friday, a South Korean official said. The woman identified by her family name Park, was killed in an incident that comes as ties between the two states have chilled since a new South Korean president took office in February promising to get tough with Pyongyang. Park was strolling on a beach and entered a fenced-off North Korean military area near the Mount Kumgang resort, just north of the border on the east coast, and was shot in her torso and leg by a sentry, the official said. South Korea will halt tourism to the resort from Saturday, Unification Ministry official Kim Ho-nyoun told a news conference. ...and the inevitable Norkie response The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) regrets the death of a South Korean tourist killed by a DPRK soldier but the woman should take full responsibility for the incident, a DPRK spokesman said Saturday. South Korean government should take full responsibilities, make an apology to the DPRK and promise that a similar incident would never happen again, said the spokesman for the DPRK Guidance Bureau for Comprehensive Development of Scenic Spots. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-13 11:48 |