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Official North Korea website
Has anyone been? http://www.korea-dpr.com/citizen.html
It makes NK seem like such a wonderful place to live. I mean look at all the freedoms!
"The DPRK practically guarantees the people genuine political freedom and rights according to the fundamental requirement of the Juche idea for enhancing man's independence and creativity in every way.
In the DPRK the rights and duties of citizens are based on the collectivist principle, "One for all and all for one." The Socialist Constitution of the DPRK specifies that the state effectively guarantees all the conditions for the democratic rights and liberties as well as the material and cultural well-being of the citizens.
All the citizens who have reached 17 years of age have the right to elect and to be elected, irrespective of sex, race, occupation, length of residence, property status, education, party affiliation, political views and religion. They also have freedom of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration and association, freedom of religious beliefs and they are entitled to submit complaints and petitions.
The workers, peasants and other working people, as masters of power, participate in state administration and freely engage in socio-political activities in political parties and public organizations.
The working people have the right to work and rest, the right to education and free medical care and freedom of scientific, literary and artistic pursuits. Women are accorded equal social status and rights with men. The state affords special privilege to mothers and children. Marriage and the family are protected by the state.
The working people are guaranteed inviolability of the person and the home and privacy of correspondence. The rights and freedom of citizens steadily increase with the consolidation and development of the socialist system."
Also, I love the tourism section. How many people go (or even can go) on a vacation in North Korea?
Re: Official North Korea website
That is both sad and fascinating to me.
Did you see their flower page? Their national flower is the Magnolia. BUT, there's also this special flower, Kimjonilia
Kimjongilia was developed by Kamo Mototeru, manager of the Kamo Iris Garden, Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He studied a rare begonia for about 20 years and named after General Kim Jong Il to hand down the name of the great man for generations. He presented the flower on his birthday February 16, Juche 77 (1988). From then on it has been called as "an immortal flower" and a "king of flower". Now it has been widely cultivated.
There's also a Kimilsungia.
I know so weird. I mean I assume those stories aren't true. I wonder what its real name is.
I think most of their tourists are Chinese.
I know they used to have a very isolated resort that had a steady stream of visitors from China, but I feel like that might have been shut down.
Have you read "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demerick? I highly recommend it if you haven't.
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It's a good book although it left me wanting more because of course the information is relatively limited and can't be confirmed. There are also some very interesting documentaries on Netflix. I'm on my phone and can't recall the names at the moment.
I have downloaded a new book, Escape From Camp 14, by one of the few survivors who have escaped from the gulag. I hope to start it this weekend. I am fascinated by North Korea.
Sweet! I was totes looking for new annuals for my front flowerbed this year.
They'll look great under my dictator portrait.
There is one that I saw with Vice Video about North Korea. It was entertaining. I wouldn't say it was particular informative, but it was fascinating to see some of the North Korean sites that they filmed when their minders weren't paying attention.
It's called the Vice Guide to North Korea.
Off to the beach
DS 7/18/2010
Handy 2.0 Due Early August
2011/2012 Races
12/17/2011 Christmas Caper 10K
2/11/2012 Have a Heart 5K
3/17/2012 DC RNR Half Marathon
4/22/2012 10M Parkway Classic
10/28/2012 Marine Corps Marathon
Blatant propaganda. I love how the site is in English.
Is there an option to switch it to Korean?
Also, I thought North Koreans weren't allowed on theInternet or is it just heavily censored?
I recently read a photojournal account of a reporter's journey through North Korea. The photos were haunting. He described knowing he was seeing a facade, a fake "front" for stores and everything that is calculated and shown to foreign visitors so the country and its people appears perfect and without flaw or fault.
I'm surprised I didn't see "lol j/k" at the bottom of each page.
I've read about tourism in North Korea. You are accompanied by a guide at all times and you would probably get shot trying to sneak away from the tour group. And obviously the guides will only talk about how wonderful North Korea is.
I also still can't get over the "mourning" videos and photos from NK from when Kim Jong-Il died.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DDo you have a link to the photojournal piece?
Probably went out of business because too many people didn't come back from their 'vacation'.
North Korea makes me feel guilty. It amuses me so, and that is just wrong.
*snort*
kari: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1903919,00.html
also: article
and: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/asia_pac_unseen_north_korea/html/1.stm
Dang it. There were other pictures. One was of two shop girls in a shop that they opened just for show to the visitors. It was bizarre.
I'm showing this to my class next week. Glad to see someone else recommends it!