22 Mar 16
Originally posted by TeinosukeJust curious. Why is people going where they want to a bad thing?
From the mid-1950s onwards, the Japanese government began to support the repatriation of zainichi Koreans (i.e., Koreans resident in Japan) to the Korean peninsula. North Korea began to sponsor repatriation in 1959, and for several years, the north was a much more popular destination than the south, despite the fact that most Koreans in Japan originated fr ...[text shortened]... this was depicted, with a straight face, as the "happy ending" for that plot strand in the film.
22 Mar 16
Originally posted by normbenigngoing to a hellhole like N.Korea opens you up to getting detained on whatever idiotic charge (maybe even made up). then your country has to negotiate with one of if not the worst regimes in the world to release your stupid ass. N.Korea uses this as propaganda to further tighten its grip on its people.
Just curious. Why is people going where they want to a bad thing?
there is absolutely no reason to go to n.korea. the place is a craphole. is gawking at some of the most oprressed people in the world something that gets you off? feel like messing around with the most despicable regime in the world?
it would have been different if he were a journalist or a diplomat trying to make some progress in relations or how they treat their citizens. it was a stupid person who is now suffering the consequences of his actions. give him a darwin award and move on.
22 Mar 16
Originally posted by ZahlanziOk, I agree with you that going to N. Korea is stupid. Do you think it is our government's job to eliminate stupidity? Or is one of our rights, the right to be wrong? Past wrongs have often turned out to be right, and those who had the courage to defy the odds are now heroes.
going to a hellhole like N.Korea opens you up to getting detained on whatever idiotic charge (maybe even made up). then your country has to negotiate with one of if not the worst regimes in the world to release your stupid ass. N.Korea uses this as propaganda to further tighten its grip on its people.
there is absolutely no reason to go to n.korea. t ...[text shortened]... erson who is now suffering the consequences of his actions. give him a darwin award and move on.
22 Mar 16
Originally posted by ZahlanziI agree with you 100%.
going to a hellhole like N.Korea opens you up to getting detained on whatever idiotic charge (maybe even made up). then your country has to negotiate with one of if not the worst regimes in the world to release your stupid ass. N.Korea uses this as propaganda to further tighten its grip on its people.
there is absolutely no reason to go to n.korea. t ...[text shortened]... erson who is now suffering the consequences of his actions. give him a darwin award and move on.
Hell has now frozen over.
22 Mar 16
The post that was quoted here has been removedIn the early 1970s, the gap between living standards in the DPRK (North Korea) and the ROK (South Korea) was much much less than it has become today.
So the gap, then is not related to the bombing, but to the difference in governing by the North as opposed to the South. Even so, if the people of North Korea like their form of government, it is of no concern to me. I do think that unification is not in the interests of those in the south, but it's their call.
22 Mar 16
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The post that was quoted here has been removedNever heard of of, yeah, up to 600 people were killed in some sort of rebellion.
Ya reckon they'd have been happier in North Korea, starving , slaughtered, or in a forced labor camp for saying something seditious like "gee it's hot today" and getting reported for complaining that Glorious Leader didn't deliver weather to their liking or whatever?
Fact remains people are dying trying to escape from North Korea . Ain't nobody trying to escape from the South to the North haha deal with that.
23 Mar 16
Originally posted by normbenign"Or is one of our rights, the right to be wrong?"
Ok, I agree with you that going to N. Korea is stupid. Do you think it is our government's job to eliminate stupidity? Or is one of our rights, the right to be wrong? Past wrongs have often turned out to be right, and those who had the courage to defy the odds are now heroes.
and suffer the consequences.
"Past wrongs have often turned out to be right"
that's not how evolution works. wrongs often turn out to be wrong and the one who made a mistake is dead and we can only find fossils of him.
"and those who had the courage to defy the odds are now heroes"
the one who climbed into the first airplane. or tested the first parachute. not the one who impaled his crotch into a pointy fence doing a rad skateboard trick and certainly not the one who is begging north koreans not to sentence him to hard labor.
