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| Defaced Kim Jong-il Poster: First Signs of Protest in N. Korea |
| 2005-01-18 |
| From the Telegraph The first known visual evidence of dissent within the world's most secretive state emerged yesterday when video footage taken in a North Korean factory showed a portrait of the dictator, Kim Jong-il, defaced with graffiti demanding freedom and democracy. The 35-minute video clip, said to have been taken in November, was posted on the website of an opposition group based in South Korea. It shows a poster of Kim scrawled over with the words: "Down with Kim Jong-il. Let's all rise to drive out the dictatorial regime.'' Kim inherited the leadership of the world's most reclusive communist state in 1994 on the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #6 S'what I thought. Then again, anything that shakes up the NorKs might be good. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-01-18 7:57:43 PM |
| #5 The pic could be "legit" but the work of the documentarians... |
| Posted by: Murdoc 2005-01-18 1:50:08 PM |
| #4 Obviously an evil "long hair" |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-01-18 1:16:07 PM |
| #3 Oh shit - now I have to install the Korean character set? Lol! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-18 12:34:48 PM |
| #2 Cyber Sarge above might be correct. Think about it. The guy(s) who supposedly defaced Kimmy's pic would be certainly marked for death if caught. Equally, if caught smuggling this pic out of NK, the smuggler would be marked for death. Regret to advise: I'm thinking this pic is a photoshop special worthy of dot com. Wish it were otherwise. |
| Posted by: Mark Z. 2005-01-18 12:32:20 PM |
| #1 This was probably done by a foreigner and not a Nork. I am guessing this because it was supposedly seen by a foreigner and they are only allowed in special areas. If this happened in a non-foreign area we would never have heard about it. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-01-18 12:10:02 PM |