Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[IronyOwl]

Apparently it mostly exists to be a census and to catch the really unwise dissidents.

Based on the poster, I'm curious if it's not also intended as a sort of teambuilding/affirming exercise, sort of akin to American schoolchildren reciting the pledge of allegiance.


Regarding Twitter, do we know anything about upper-echelon NK internet access? It feels bizarre to think they wouldn't have and routinely use it, but it's a bizarre place.

[Helgoland]

I thought of a neat trick.

[Starver]

A few years ago, I recall there having been much made of surreptitious tapping into SK telecom clusters near the border (by,  presumably, SK-resident collaborators) but these days there's apparently a limited-accessibility official connectivity, maybe through Taiwan.


It seems to be made available for high-ranking officials (which would include Supreme Leader), the cybercrimes cadre (esp. those gaining foreign currency through automated game-grinding and out-of-game object selling) and foreigners like journalists (one assumes that this is monitored to the max). There's some very limited official national use made of the connection, though, with serious examinations of the NK infrastructure showing very few official IPs and hardly any on-shore web presence. Most NKians wouldn't even be aware of the Internet, given the population psychological and educational lock-down. Probably most who do shouldn't know about it, but will know of it only as rumour anyway.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: this day in history (click to show/hide)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

He isn't even displaying the flag emblem. And are those dress pants?

[martinuzz]

Kim Young One responded to Trump's speech at the UNGA.
He called the speech "the most insulting declaration of war in history", and promised that the US "will pay the greatest price for the speech of a mentally retarded president".
"He is unfit to be a president, a villain, a gangster that likes playing with fire, most certainly not a president. A scared dog barks louder than Trump", Kim said.

Meanwhile the NK minister of foreign affairs says that NK will possibly respond to the declaration of war by testing a hydrogen bomb "like never seen before" over the Pacific Ocean.

[Egan_BW]

How can it be a declaration of war when we're technically already still at war? Checkmate, atheists.

[Paxiecrunchle]

How can it be a declaration of war when we're technically already still at war? Checkmate, almost everyone born after the Korean War.

Fixed that for you.

[Tiruin]

Kim Young One responded to Trump's speech at the UNGA.
He called the speech "the most insulting declaration of war in history", and promised that the US "will pay the greatest price for the speech of a mentally retarded president".
"He is unfit to be a president, a villain, a gangster that likes playing with fire, most certainly not a president. A scared dog barks louder than Trump", Kim said.

Meanwhile the NK minister of foreign affairs says that NK will possibly respond to the declaration of war by testing a hydrogen bomb "like never seen before" over the Pacific Ocean.

His response is very scary, but well written- I mean...

How can it be a declaration of war when we're technically already still at war? Checkmate, almost everyone born after the Korean War.

Fixed that for you.

Mostly along these lines.

I'm unsure how the feeling of reading certain communication styles are for native speakers, but in how familiar we are here with how things are said...

His remarks which described the U.S. option through straightforward expression of his will have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last.

This is frightening ._.
But he is on point in describing how badly Trump spoke to an international audience.

[Loud Whispers]

burn the political heretic

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Oh hey, he finally called Trump a gangster. That's one of the less common ones, haven't seen it for a while. Now we just need the return of "headless tail".

[IronyOwl]

His response is very scary, but well written- I mean...

This is still rather overblown and hypocritical, but much more coherent than I was expecting. "A scared dog barks louder" is hilarious coming from NK, but still a coherent analogy rather than calling a foreign leader names again.

[Egan_BW]

Donald the gangster and Kim the rocket man insulting each other is the most truthful thing to come out of either's mouths.

[Antioch]

It is rather frighting that the leaders of 2 nuclear armed states have devolved into something that looks like 2 internet trolls insulting each other.

[Reelya]

It is rather frighting that the leaders of 2 nuclear armed states have devolved into something that looks like 2 internet trolls insulting each other.

The way it's heading is that Russia and China are looking like the only sane ones with nukes these days. It's going to be a sad day when Putin is consider the moderate voice of reason in international nuclear standoffs.