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hotfoot
10-15-2006, 09:42 PM
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755

This guy's pics are really interesting. Don't get to see much of the inside of North Korea.
Soul Queen
10-16-2006, 01:25 AM
Thats really interesting to read about.

There are lots of places in the world that I don't know much about. Cool thread.
Ag Au
10-16-2006, 03:29 PM
those pictures are great, and his commentary is really interesting. the design style of the propaganda hasn't changed since the fifties, how boring.

this is a link to a new graphic novel that deals with contemporary life in NK. it looks pretty interesting as well.

http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0534,bkpark,67082,10.html
Hans Brix
10-16-2006, 04:21 PM
amazing
cuscus
10-16-2006, 04:59 PM
Cool as hell to see those PIX
Talking Sandwich
10-16-2006, 05:28 PM
Very interesting thread . .
btw. .Nice avatar cus, lol . . you too brix. . .lol
Padrote
10-16-2006, 06:36 PM
Old folks are so funny. it is amazing to see that they would prefer to live in shambles than change the old ways!
I probably have been caught pissing into a river or two.
andikay
10-16-2006, 09:35 PM
Wow. Fascinating
larryhead
10-17-2006, 12:33 AM
Nice post.. I actually spent a whole day reading that same thread awhile back. I find North Korea to be extremely fascinating and completely fucked up. It's probably the closest place on the planet to implementing the literal ideologies of "1984". Their citizens are willing to die for their "great leader" yet they are starving and living in squalor. If you look at a map of the globe at night time, the whole space of North Korea is black because they cannot afford to power lights.

I can't find the pics right now, but the two photos from that thread that struck me the most were the downtown skyscraper buildings with hundreds of slum shacks crowded around at their feet... and the other picture was of that gigantic hotel that they could not afford to finish building, so it just sits their vacant and rusting, towering hundreds of feet above the city serving as a gloomy reminder of failure and hopelessness. You are not supposed to talk about it and it's illegal to photograph it.
Ag Au
10-17-2006, 01:43 AM
it seems like everywhere i turn there is another reference to 1984. as i am currently reading it, i am completely freaked out about the state the world is in. now i know that 1984 has been quoted for a long, long time ( it was copyrighted in 1950) but seriously, have things really come to this?

whoah, reading really is bad. ban this book! ; )
hotfoot
10-17-2006, 05:21 AM
I can't find the pics right now, but the two photos from that thread that struck me the most were the downtown skyscraper buildings with hundreds of slum shacks crowded around at their feet... and the other picture was of that gigantic hotel that they could not afford to finish building, so it just sits their vacant and rusting, towering hundreds of feet above the city serving as a gloomy reminder of failure and hopelessness. You are not supposed to talk about it and it's illegal to photograph it.

That building is currently my windows background.

http://uncle.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/275pxryugyong_hotel_closeup.JPG