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| KCNA: Achievements of Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade |
| 2003-08-27 |
| The Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade is greeting the Youth Day, August 28, with tremendous achievements in major projects. It has completed in the main the reconstruction on a modern basis of the Tudan Duck Farm, which covers an area of over 907,000 square meters. It is now giving a finishing touch to the interior project of the farm. Real baby ducks... Wabbits and Giant Gerbils coming soon... The shock brigade undertakes difficult and laborious projects for the socialist economic construction. Yep. The "economy" doesn’t exist Leader Kim Jong Il organized the shock brigade in May Juche 64 (1975) and named it "Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade." Catchy... just trips off the tongue. Under his wise guidance, it has performed brilliant feats in the socialist construction by giving full play to the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard work to live up to his expectation. They even gave up tree bark soup (yummm!) and ate dirt during the speed campaign for the Baby Ducks Farm project. That’s the spirit! It built ten-odd revolutionary battle sites and revolutionary sites including Wangjaesan, Samjiyon, Oun and Hoeryong. Yes. Ten odd. There were no battles there, but that just shows how revolutionary the Dear Leader is! It also erected tens of monumental edifices including the International Friendship Exhibition, the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace, the Grand People’s Study House, Pyongyang Department Store No. 1, the Youth Hotel and the Changgwang Health Complex. It constructed over 2,000 kilometer-long railroads including the Manpho-Hyesan Youth Line and Kumgangsan Youth Line, and the Youth Hero Motorway, carried out railway electrification projects and erected 49 major industrial establishments including the East Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex. They were augmented by hundreds of unemployed Hollywood PR types to think up the catchy names, too. Dwelling houses of the Changgwang, Munsu, Kwangbok, Thongil and other streets were associated with the labor feats of the young builders. Street housing, once again, we’re talking revolutionary. It has produced some 20 labour heroes, over 120 winners of Kim Il Sung Youth Honour Prize and 39,260-odd state commendation and order recipients. Yes, we have many, many medals. No food, you understand, but medals? Hey - we got shitloads of ’em. The latest revolutionary idea from the Dear Leader is to make the medals edible. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #9 *holds up card* 7.0 Glamorisation of forced child labor...good. "Monumental edifices", "revolutionary spirit", "labour heroes" and a mandatory "Juche"...nice. However, a bad faux-pas by referring to the Dear Leader as only a vanilla plain ole "leader" cost heavily...writer to be shot in the morning for lesse majeste. |
| Posted by: Watcher 2003-8-27 8:50:49 PM |
| #8 *holds up card* 7.6. I concur with Crescend in all judging points. The mention of Juche is incidental, but enlightening. The Duck Farm is finished. No mention, however, on whether there are any ducks left to populate it... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-8-27 3:27:15 PM |
| #7 In a theoretical sence, you could generate a nominal amount of electrical power if these Korean Cub Scouts manned giant gerbil excercise wheels. As an alternate renuable fuel, many states would provide a tax break as an incentive. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-8-27 1:55:55 PM |
| #6 How much work does it take to build a duck farm? And where are they going to get ducks? Anyone who has visited the DPRK lately has commented on the lack of birds (like none). Sounds like busy work to keep the minds off the fact that they are STARVING TO DEATH! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-8-27 12:37:41 PM |
| #5 A tad more domestic than usual (sadly lacking in Seas of Fire and Running Amuck), but all in all, a good show! 7.9! |
| Posted by: Crescend 2003-8-27 12:22:10 PM |
#4 constructed over 2,000 kilometer-long railroads 2000 1km railroads? That's a lot of short railroads. I wonder if they're from the front doors of military and party leaders to their offices? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2003-8-27 11:05:24 AM |
| #3 SOG475 - You're absolutely right. And, in addition, they've never known anything but what these insane "Leaders" have told them. When they are finally freed, it will be like a prisoner from a dungeon who's never even heard of, much less seen, the sun. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-8-27 9:39:52 AM |
| #2 And after working at the Pyongyang "Thermal Complex", the Norks can save on electricity because the "speed youth brigade" now GLOWS IN THE DARK. It is a travesty that the world media doesn't do more to paste this regime. There are thousands and thousands of people in PRNK that die of starvation every month. We can joke about bark soup and eating dirt and chalk but the fact is that these people are starving and the world media seems to turn a blind eye to the atrocities of this and other communist/marxist/stalinist regimes. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-8-27 9:26:01 AM |
| #1 Damn! Speed Youth Shock Brigade, thats even better than a Hero of Labor. These kids sound like they got ahold of some good chrystal juche. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-8-27 7:41:59 AM |