planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
"Bury me here".
Kim Jong-un 'looking a wee bit peaky' speculation here
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"Bury me here".
Excellent thread title choice, planetgeli 
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Excellent thread title choice, planetgeli
All yours Sue as you know.
It's Sunday lunchtime. I do requests.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
styled after Khrushchev, it seems
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Somewhere, one day, we're gonna find the archive of all the notes people make when with him. Every single picture you see, there's people with a notebook and pen.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
He doesn't look the picture of health in that photo tbh, however if he has shuffled off this mortal coil (cue violin music in the background) it won't become public knowledge until the succession is sorted and there has been a purge of those who supported the wrong candidate.
Then his death will be announced to fanfare and a vast outpouring of public grief (first person to stop crying gets shot)
Then his death will be announced to fanfare and a vast outpouring of public grief (first person to stop crying gets shot)
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Hope he has died the vile turd. Hopefully a painful end.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
that grief on display is, er, rather performative
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
No one wants to be the person who cried the least.
I think there was once an American defector in North Korea whom was a bit of a man mountain.
Edit: Quick Google search James Joseph Dresnok - Wikipedia
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Reckon he got bumped off by his sister.
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
Fascinating story at least Snowden gets to stay in Russia. Though having watched the video he's seemed happy enough with the life he made for himself. Must have been quite a life being the pet American.
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
There's a newly released batch of photographs of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on a series of site visits. The dozens of photos all have one curious detail in common - the leader is surrounded by officials and generals making notes in identical notepads, writes Kathryn Westcott.
In the photographs - from the country's official Central News Agency (KCNA) - Kim Jong-un observes a unit of women conducting a multiple-rocket launching drill. He strides around a fishery station. He gives a pilot on flight training a pep talk. He enjoys the facilities at a renovated youth camp.
But who are those men meticulously taking notes? They're not journalists, but soldiers, party members or government officials, says Prof James Grayson, Korea expert at the University of Sheffield. What is happening is a demonstration of the leader's supposed power, knowledge, wisdom and concern, says Grayson. It's "on-the-spot guidance", something instigated by his grandfather Kim Il-sung in the 1950s. "It's part of the image of the great leader offering benevolent guidance," says Grayson.
What might that guidance be? Well, if Kim's anything like his grandfather it could be practical advice. Very specific practical advice. After Kim Il-sung visited a fishery in 1976, KCNA published this: "Watching a truck at work, the president said that its bucket seemed to be small in comparison with its horsepower. He said the problem of carriage would be solved if the bucket was enlarged. Afterwards the truck's bucket capacity increased to two tons from 800 kg. As a result, 20 trucks were capable of carrying the load to be done by 50 trucks."
Despite the fact that tablets are available in the country, paper notebooks remain the favoured medium. "These are pictures that will be broadcast on television and shown in the state media, so those who are there want to be seen recording Kim Jong-un's every word," says Grayson. "It's about presenting him as having broad knowledge - however, it's ridiculous, he can't possibly know about all of these different things. It's important, however, that the apparatchiks that surround him are seen to be hanging on his every word."
According to Prof Steve Tsang, chair the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, The note-takers will be writing extremely carefully. "They wouldn't want to write down anything that was, say, politically inaccurate, or it might come back to bite them." The notes are not usually published or available for the public to view, says Tsang. "If anything comes out of them, it would be via the propaganda department. Whether it was what was actually said, or is different to the guidance given at the time, doesn't matter. No-one will ever question it. If you were at the factory and the advice that was released wasn't quite what you had in your notebook - what are you going to do about it?"
Why is Kim Jong-un always surrounded by people taking notes?
A newly released batch of photos of the North Korean leader show him surrounded by note-takers - who are they?
www.bbc.co.uk
He's been on holiday all this time according to officials in the South.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
Maybe they believed that's how Americans naturally look and so need to be fed a lot, like pandas.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The grief was real. DPRK is a strange place, its citizens adore their leader. I think we sometimes forget that it is populated by real people with real life hopes and dreams, yet are brainwashed from birth into a system that is utterly alien to the one we were brought up with.
Not to say the Kims aren’t cunts, cos they are.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Along with three other defectors he was in the film Unsung Heroes which funnily enough got the Kim II-sun medal
Bloody hell, I never knew you were a North Korean film critic.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
seventh bullet is your man
seventh bullet
sovietwave
There's a documentary from 2004 called Crossing the Line, about US army defectors including Dresnok.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Who ate all the o-pies-ition?
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
There's a newly released batch of photographs of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on a series of site visits. The dozens of photos all have one curious detail in common - the leader is surrounded by officials and generals making notes in identical notepads, writes Kathryn Westcott.
In the photographs - from the country's official Central News Agency (KCNA) - Kim Jong-un observes a unit of women conducting a multiple-rocket launching drill. He strides around a fishery station. He gives a pilot on flight training a pep talk. He enjoys the facilities at a renovated youth camp.
But who are those men meticulously taking notes? They're not journalists, but soldiers, party members or government officials, says Prof James Grayson, Korea expert at the University of Sheffield. What is happening is a demonstration of the leader's supposed power, knowledge, wisdom and concern, says Grayson. It's "on-the-spot guidance", something instigated by his grandfather Kim Il-sung in the 1950s. "It's part of the image of the great leader offering benevolent guidance," says Grayson.
What might that guidance be? Well, if Kim's anything like his grandfather it could be practical advice. Very specific practical advice. After Kim Il-sung visited a fishery in 1976, KCNA published this: "Watching a truck at work, the president said that its bucket seemed to be small in comparison with its horsepower. He said the problem of carriage would be solved if the bucket was enlarged. Afterwards the truck's bucket capacity increased to two tons from 800 kg. As a result, 20 trucks were capable of carrying the load to be done by 50 trucks."
Despite the fact that tablets are available in the country, paper notebooks remain the favoured medium. "These are pictures that will be broadcast on television and shown in the state media, so those who are there want to be seen recording Kim Jong-un's every word," says Grayson. "It's about presenting him as having broad knowledge - however, it's ridiculous, he can't possibly know about all of these different things. It's important, however, that the apparatchiks that surround him are seen to be hanging on his every word."
According to Prof Steve Tsang, chair the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, The note-takers will be writing extremely carefully. "They wouldn't want to write down anything that was, say, politically inaccurate, or it might come back to bite them." The notes are not usually published or available for the public to view, says Tsang. "If anything comes out of them, it would be via the propaganda department. Whether it was what was actually said, or is different to the guidance given at the time, doesn't matter. No-one will ever question it. If you were at the factory and the advice that was released wasn't quite what you had in your notebook - what are you going to do about it?"
Why is Kim Jong-un always surrounded by people taking notes?
A newly released batch of photos of the North Korean leader show him surrounded by note-takers - who are they?www.bbc.co.uk
Newly released six years ago, so probably not much of an indication of his current state of health.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I quoted an article to answer beesonthewhatnow about the note takers. I deliberately didn't include the pictures. The picture in the OP is the most recent photo of Kim, from April 10th.
Try and keep up before you post eh?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Fucking state of it. Everyone taking notes!
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