North Korea Photo Essay and Articles

[Scout26]

Being as how we are still at war with (and have been for 60+ years) North Korea, it's always interesting to get to know your enemy.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/special-glimpse-inside-north-korea-1311548944-slideshow/

Two things struck me about the photo essay and the article about the "digital revolution" taking place.

1)  What is it with Communists and building every damn thing (including mutliple tens of stories skyscrapers) out of concrete?

2)  How long before the "best and brightest" figure out how to get around all the controls, etc. and make contact with and see the outside world.  Denying the populace contact and information is the only way that Communist regime can remain in power.  We've seen the power of Facebook and Twitter in the Middle East. Once people learn that they have been and are continuing to be fed a line of crap, they'll turn against the regime.  Right now the Nork's only know what TPTB want them to know.  When the regime falls (as it eventually will, it's simply unsustainable, unless Jimmy Carter keeps sending them food.) in this nation of xenophobic midgets, the results will be extremely ugly.  I predict a violent revolution, and extremely bloody.  Followed by a very, very difficult reunification.

[Mabs2]

As far as number 2 goes:
Either,
1.  There are no best and brightest because everyone is indoctrinated into being stupid from birth.
2.  The best and the brightest are quickly hired and bribed into helping oppress their fellow countryman.
3.  The best and the brightest are quickly "silenced."

[roo_ster]

Or, they could be like the Han Chinese and be as psychotically chauvinistic even when presented with the big, wide world.

[French G.]

My dad always said we should have carpet-bombed Vietnam with transistor radios, Big Macs, Cokes, and any other item of the decadent west we could push out the back of an airplane. I'm thinking he was right. Here, a bunch of little mini- helium balloons with 10lbs of rice, some canned meat, an I-phone and a solar charger would do wonders for crushing that band of misfit midgets. Put up towers near the border and on a few ships off-shore.  Of course we'd probably do what we always do when we encourage some oppressed group to freedom. As soon as they cried for help we'd ignore them while their masters slaughtered them. Well, start right anyway, put an MP-5 in each balloon too.