j13

This is from the Korean Central News Agency's website:

"Mysterious phenomena in Korea

Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- Mysterious natural phenomena are being witnessed in different parts of Korea while provincial party conferences adopt resolutions on recommending Secretary Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. White flowers came into bloom on a pear tree, attracting butterflies and bees at a factory in Pyongyang on September 27. The tree is as old as the factory. On their way to work, factory workers witnessed this phenomenon and said nature also welcomes the festive event. More than 100 blossoms opened on an apricot tree at the film processing plant in the city on that same day. Eighty-five blossoms were witnessed on five ten-year-old apricot trees and two fifteen-year-olds on a stock farm in Sangwon county on September 25. Fifty pear trees on the Jangchon Cooperative Farm in Sadong district made thousands of blossoms open between September 22 and 25. About 400 blossoms came into bloom on a 20-year-old wild pear tree in a park in front of the Kaesong Municipal Party Committee building in the same period. On the morning of September 22, fishermen of the fishery station in Rajin-Sonbong city caught a 10 cm-long white sea cucumber while fishing on the waters off Chongjin. They said the rare white sea cucumber has come to hail the auspicious event of electing Secretary Kim Jong Il as Party General Secretary. Seeing the mysterious natural phenomena, Koreans say Secretary Kim Jong Il is indeed the greatest of great men produced by heaven and that flowers come into bloom to mark the great event."



You can search DPRK News archives on nk-news.net - very entertaining stuff! (Not to cheapen the regime's victims of course)

Ri Fhionngaill

'Come on, Dubya, keys in the bowl,' one senior North Korean diplomat, named by an informed source as Suk Mi Dong, is quoted as saying.

Heinrich

i like his 140.000 girls in spandex shows on tv

augustus

I'm telling you, people, you just have to check out this country's "official" (in fact, probably only) website; it's unreal.

Some years back on the site, I read an article whose author positively drooled over the "fact" that a university, located somewhere in the jungles of Peru , awarded the "Dear Leader" (er, that's Kim Jong-il in case you don't know, you yankee imperialist dog!) an honorary degree in appreciation of his unrelenting efforts to bring world peace into fruition. Well, I decided to do a search on this Peruvian "university" and guess what? The institution simply doesn't exist, nor did it ever!

Ri Fhionngaill

What do the people who make this stuff - who obviously know it's false - think of the Dear Leader? Now that's an interesting question.

I can just imagine him sitting there half-naked with an old plate of chicken wings typing onto his blog. Kim Jong-Il thinks one of his family members is gay. Barack Obama likes this. Some Japanese student takes his blog, and transforms it into news.

Heinrich

I dont think anyone will even question it there ..and why would they ?
Weve cut them off also from any outside source to compare the national news to ...and besides ..in a culture one just wants to show its best side ,there will be no doubts.All they wanted to show was their strong points ..
Seen a long documentary of BBC journalists from a year or two back them moving around in NK and its cities ..offcourse the team was 'different' as those "Brits'or 'Americans' they aimed their statements against ..they loved them and they cried when the team left for home again ..a very moving and sad documentary .

j13

If high-ranking defectors are anything to go by, there's usually a moment of disillusionment which spirals into cynicism (though not necessarily at the expense of loyalty). Problem is, if you say what you think and it happens to contradict "The Text", you disappear - and so does your extended family.

augustus

Wrong. "We've" cut them off from nothing; their govt. is solely responsible for that crime. Those lucky few who are "permitted" to own radios, a luxury in N. Korea, will find them "melted" to state-run stations only. They're periodcally checked by, and registered with, security forces for any attempts at tampering to pick up naughty, free-thinking "outside" influences. If caught, the "criminals" are subject to decades-long imprisonment in "re-education" camps; and they're lucky if not each and every family member doesn't have to join them. Also, showing off one's "strong points" shouldn't include propagating bald-faced lies, now should it?

btw -- The state was kind enough to let its subjects view the recent World Cup N. Korea vs. Portugal match. After Portugal scored its 4th goal, the broadcast was abruptly terminated with the N. Korean announcer declaring that the match was over and Portugal had won 4-0. The actual final score was 7-0 in favor of Portugal but the state didn't want to let its subjects in on the possibility that it could be beaten that badly. Par for the course is all...

Heinrich

So very quickly to speak a wrong .Its like you think that we export newspapers or anything to them ?
Theres a complete trading ban on NK ..so yes we are cutting them off ..in everyway we can too .

augustus

Poor example: newspaper exports are there to anyone on the planet who wants them; the publishers of which care only about the color green, not politics or ideology. Sure, there's loads of economy-crippling sanctions (and "trading bans") imposed on the DPRK and enforced by US-led strongarm tactics, but the concept and dispensation of freedom of expression, speech and the press isn't one of them. If you aren't aware of the fact that its Lil Kim and his henchmen who are the ones directly responsible for their nation's hermetically-sealed relationship (if you can call it a relationship) with the rest of the world, well then, I really don't have much more to talk to you about...

Simply put, the DPRK is a totalitarian nightmare that Orwell himself wouldn't have dared to imagine would ever come into existence -- and the fault lies with Kim il-Sung and the bastard he spawned, not Western "censorship".