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thebongomediaempire · 5 months

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A whole sweet potato? To share with the wwhole family? Wow, they're gonna be popular.

Well, poular THERE. 🤐

#propaganda #people's democratic republic of north korea #beloved leader #kim jong un #kim jong un wants you #glorious new space pilot training program #in just two days #become a space pilot #get extra sweet potato to share with family #no need to apply #if we want you we will come and get you #2024 bongo's nifty propaganda poster #no rights reserved #charles bongo garrett

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mioritic · 1 year

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North Korean postage stamp depicting hibiscus flowers, 1960

#dprk #north korea #democratic people's republic of korea #1960 #korea #postage stamps

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workersolidarity · 2 months

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THE DPRK CONTINUES TO DEVELOP LONG-RANGE MISSILES TO DELIVER ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS

📹 Footage published by the DPRK showing the North Korean leader, Kim Jung Un, as he oversees the testing of long-range missile systems their military has been developing.

Despite wide-ranging and devastating Western economic sanctions, the DPRK has continued to develop nuclear weapons, along with the missile systems required to strike at the countries antagonizing the east Asian nation.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 7 months

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#DPRK News Service #Democratic People's Republic of Korea #North Korea #Halloween #LOL #funny #trick or treat #religion is a mental illness

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kontextmaschine · 1 year

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Does North Korea believe in the "fan death" thing?

#fan death #south korea #north korea #republic of korea #democratic people's republic of korea

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playitagin · 11 months

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1994-Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung[d] (/ˈkɪm ˈɪlˈsʌŋ, -ˈsʊŋ/;[3]Korean: 김일성, Korean pronunciation: [kimils͈ʌŋ]; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a Korean politician and the founder of North Korea. He ruled the country from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. Afterwards, he was declared its eternal president. His birth name was Kim Song Ju (김성주).

Several sources claim the name "Kim Il Sung" had previously been used by a prominent early leader of the Korean resistance, Kim Kyung-cheon.[33]: 44 The Soviet officer Grigory Mekler, who worked with Kim during the Soviet occupation, said that Kim took this name from a former commander who had died.[40] However, historian Andrei Lankov has argued that this is unlikely to be true. Several witnesses knew Kim before and after his time in the Soviet Union, including his superior, Zhou Baozhong, who dismissed the claim of a "second" Kim in his diaries.[12]: 55 Historian Bruce Cumings pointed out that Japanese officers from the Kwantung Army have attested to his fame as a resistance figure.[25]: 160–161

According to the 2019 book Surprise, Kill, Vanish by investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once concluded that Kim Il Sung was a blackmailed imposter operated by the Soviet Union.[41] The dossier titled "The Identity of Kim Il Sung" ascribed the leader's true identity to Kim Song-ju, an orphaned child caught stealing money from a classmate who killed his classmate to avoid embarrassment. The dossier alleges Soviet intelligence officers identified the opportunity to blackmail Kim Song-ju into leading the North Korean Communist Party as a Soviet puppet under the name of the real war hero Kim-Il Sung, whom Stalin had disappeared. Jacobsen also writes that the CIA learned "specific instructions [were] given to the leaders of the regime that there should be no questions raised about Kim [Il Sung]'s identity."[41]

Historians generally accept the view that, while Kim's exploits were exaggerated by the personality cult which was built around him, he was a significant guerrilla leader.

#Jul.8.1994 #date of death #Kim Il Sung #North Korean commander #President of North Korea #history today #Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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minnesotafollower · 6 days

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U.S. Excludes Cuba from List of Non-Cooperators Against Terrorism

On May 15 U.S. Secretary of Antony Blinken released the State Department’s annual list of the following four states that did not fully cooperate with the U.S. anti-terrorism efforts: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. [1] The Secretary also stated that the U.S. had determined that the circumstances for the [prior] certification of Cuba for this list had changed and…

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#"State Sponsor of Terrorism"#Colombia #Cuba #Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez #Democratic People&039;s Republic of Korea (North Korea)#ELN #Iran #Syria #U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken #U.S.-Cuba police cooperation #Venezuela #Vidant Patel

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ranjith11 · 8 months

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10 Weird Things That Only Exist In North Korea

An enthralling journey into the reclusive nation of North Korea, unveiling a myriad of bizarre and unique phenomena that can't be found anywhere else on the globe. From eccentric architectural marvels and peculiar customs to mind-boggling rules and traditions deeply rooted in the nation's culture and regime, this video dives deep into the enigmatic world of North Korean oddities. Narrated with insightful commentary, striking visuals, and firsthand accounts, this exploration provides a rare window into the unusual and often misunderstood facets of North Korean life. Strap in for a captivating exploration that's as educational as it is astonishing!

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lighthouse1138 · 1 year

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I'm still trying to figure out how communism and hereditary inheritance of governing power can coexist. Like I'm certain a lot of stories about the DPRK are bullshit as I don't trust their enemies, but still. How the fuck does the logic work? Juche is so fucking weird.

#dprk #democratic people's republic of korea #north korea #kim il sung #kim jong un #communism #anarchy #this shit makes no sense

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kirstythejetblackgoldfish · 1 year

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#China #People's Republic of China #North Korea #Democratic People's Republic of Korea #DPRK #Arab League #Syria

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dcoglobalnews · 2 years

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DPRK REJECTS ROK's ' AUDACIOUS INITIATIVE'

DPRK REJECTS ROK’s ‘ AUDACIOUS INITIATIVE’

Kim Yo Jong, a senior Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) official, rejected what Yoon Suk-yeol, president of Republic of Korea (ROK), described as an “audacious initiative” on Thursday, according to Korean Central News Agency.Kim, the vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, said the plan was “absurd” and the DPRK would never use nuclear weapons…

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#NorthKorea SouthKorea #a senior Democratic People&039;s Republic of Korea (DPRK)#Kim Yo-Jong #North Korea #president of Republic of Korea (ROK)#South Korea Asia #Yoon Suk-yeol

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triviallytrue · 1 year

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Korean War just seems so…unmythologizable? like obviously people do. Pro-American liberals and capitalists see it as the defense of an anticommunist free republic, mls see it as the defence of a proletariat state against the encroachment of empire. but really it was just senseless bloodshed. sad, broken hopes of democracy; soldiers fed on the dream of unbridled freedom after a horrendous occupation used as nothing more than cannon fodder by heroes turned rivalling petty despots. i dunno, i’m sorry for drunk ask-ing in ur in box. but like. history sucks. not the academic study. just the knowledge that all these people just like me. and i think my life so big so beautiful. but their lives were too. and they ended, unimportant, unmythologizable. in the cold uncaring mud. and for what? for dfucking what???

Yeah, I think the mythologizing on both sides hits a wall when you dig deeper into the historical realities of the time, which has left me in the somewhat unenviable position of disagreeing with what feels like basically everyone on this

The pro-American liberal idea of the Korean War as a just war in defense of a sovereign nation falls apart pretty easily - the split between North and South Korea was recent and done by imperial powers (the US and USSR) as a means of demarcating their respective zones of control, not a true split in any sense. The US went out of its way to sabotage any attempt at reconciliation in the years following the split, and the guy they put in charge arguably had a lot less popular legitimacy than his communist counterpart (and embarked on a campaign of right wing political violence to shore up his incredibly weak position)

So if you squint and ignore the context, you can say that the US was defending a sovereign nation, but it's one they created with no popular legitimacy at all, with a leader that brutalized his people. And none of it was necessary! The thing about the overwhelming power of the United States and its massive fucking military is that the whole "we need a right wing dictator to shore up this country against communism" routine is so transparently because the US wanted to support right wing dictators, not because it was in any sense necessary to ensure that the country wasn't communist. If anything, doing the whole sham democracy thing where you force everyone to vote for the asshole you put in charge massively benefits the communists! No wonder there was a massive insurgency going on

This is without even getting into the horrifying details of how exactly the war was prosecuted

And then there's the ML narrative, which correctly identifies the mass of popular support behind Kim Il-sung due to his time fighting against the Japanese occupation and conveniently elides historical details like "which side actually invaded the other, starting the full blown war" and other such unimportant details, like the subsequent structure of the North Korean government making it virtually impossible for anything resembling democratic influence on the political process to occur

If there's something to be said for Syngman Rhee, it's that his grandson is not currently ruling SK. He was deposed in 1960, and then after decades of political turmoil and various deeply shitty leaders (again, much of which probably could've been avoided if the US hadn't insisted on Rhee as their man in the 1940s) SK eventually became a place where you could vote and were a lot less likely to be the victim of political violence.

As for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, well. If your take on the Korean War is "I wish that instead of just the people of North Korea, everyone in Korea would have to live under the current North Korean government" I don't really know what to say about that. North Korea is repressive and isolated in the extreme - if you think that is the result of "people's committees" and the North Korean population's natural devotion to the Kim family spanning three generations now, you are at best a mark.

So yeah, it's a tragedy - the Japanese occupation of Korea was fucking horrifying, then the US and USSR arrived to artificially split the country with no serious attempt at reunification while putting two real bastards in charge, and then it escalated into a shooting war where millions of people died just for the 38th parallel to still be the dividing line.

So who benefited? Everyone but the Koreans, I suppose. The US gained a client state, managed to use the UN to do whatever it wanted, and demonstrated its commitment to suppressing communism via military force. The USSR gained a client state and saw the US spend a bunch of its military capacity on a war that cost the USSR very little and wasn't even won by the US. China got a buffer zone between it and the US empire and solidified their victory over the KMT, albeit at tremendous cost.

Hopefully someday the Korean War will end.

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mapsontheweb · 6 months

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Diplomatic missions of North Korea in European countries.

In a letter posted on the website of the People’s Communist Party of Spain last month, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, stated it was closing its embassy in Spain. The leaders of Angola and Uganda also received “farewell” visits from North Korean ambassadors recently, according to North Korea’s state media.

The South Korean Ministry of Reunification claims that a fourth of North Korea’s 53 diplomatic missions in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe are also scheduled to close. Analysts say that the closure of these embassies is a sign that international sanctions are making it harder for North Korea to earn money.

What impact do you believe the closures will have on North Korea’s internal relations?

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“Fin de la misión diplomática de la República Popular de Corea en el estado Español.” Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España. 28 October 2023.

“N. Korea closes embassy in Spain following shutdown of missions in Africa.” The Korea Times. 1 November 2023.

O’Carroll, Chad. “North Korea to close embassy in Spain due to sanctions: Spanish political party.” NK News. 1 November 2023.

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#maps #anthro.atlas #igsourced #north korea #embassies

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radiofreederry · 1 year

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Happy birthday, Kim Il-Sung! (April 15, 1912)

Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994, Kim Il-Sung was born to a Presbyterian family in South Heian Province during the period of Japanese rule over Korea. Kim's family was active in struggle against Japanese rule, and in 1926 Kim founded the Down-With-Imperialism Union. He became interested in communism in the early 1930s, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1931, fighting as an anti-Japanese guerilla in northern China for several years. He became a leader to the Koreans involved with the CPC due to his actions in the Minsaengdan incident, an attempted purge of Koreans from the CPC in Manchuria. After the end of World War II, Kim, extremely popular for his leadership in the anti-imperialist struggle, became leader of the socialist government established in the northern half of the Korean peninsula. Under Kim's leadership, healthcare was made a human right and made available to all citizens, land was redistributed, industry was nationalized, and working hours were reduced to eight hours per day. For a considerable amount of time, prior to the destruction of a large portion of the north's infrastructure by American forces in the Korean War, the standard of living in the DPRK was much better than that in the southern Republic of Korea. After the war, Kim undertook efforts to rebuild his country, while also establishing the DPRK on the world stage and charting a middle path through the Sino-Soviet Split. Kim also established the state ideology of the DPRK as juche, a form of Marxism-Leninism applied to the material conditions of the DPRK, emphasizing self-reliance. He died of a sudden heart attack in 1994.

"Socialism is a human ideal, an inevitable course of historical development, and therefore it is perfectly clear that socialism will rise again in the end."

#birthdays #kim il sung

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 3 months

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by Phyllis Chesler

On Monday, a J Street and Democrat party operative posted a piece at her Substack. I am choosing not to name her or to link to the piece because I don’t want even more people to read it. The piece is titled in this way: “Elie Wiesel on indifference. A child killed in Gaza every 15 minutes. Two mothers every hour. Seven women every two hours. Are you OK with that?”

READ MORE: History Isn’t All Black and White. Just Look at Israel.

The piece then proceeds to trot out a series of mainly fake news talking points about the deaths of women and children in Gaza, hour by hour, day by day. How many J Streeters have expressed similar moral outrage about the much larger body counts in Ukraine (an estimated 30,457 civilians and 31,000 combatants, or 61,500 all together) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (an estimated 5 to 6 million civilian deaths thus far)? We cannot trust the estimates of civilian and/or combatant deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, China, North Korea, Sudan, Somalia, and so on.

To the best of my knowledge, few J Street–style journalists have presented the much larger body count in Ukraine and warned us against being indifferent to it — at least, not again and again, day after day.

The above-mentioned Substack piece is in gruesome lockstep with the New York Times, which, on the very same day, had five full pages of photos of murdered Gazans, all identified by age, name, and profession. In the paper’s pages, murdered Israelis rarely appear, nor do the many hundreds of thousands of displaced Israelis. They remain nameless and faceless, as do the Israeli hostages who’ve been hidden in Gaza for five months while they’ve been beaten, raped, tortured, starved, and murdered.

I sometimes wonder whether both the New York Times and J Street are on the Hamas/Iran payroll, whether they are simply funded by Soros — or whether they are true-believing Jew haters. One damning piece of evidence that they are Jew haters is their refusal to acknowledge Hamas’ complicity in civilian deaths. Hamas doesn’t just hide behind civilians when they are available; Hamas operates and maneuvers mostly in civilian areas, a clear violation of international law. Given this, and despite Israel’s almost suicidal efforts to prevent civilian deaths, J Street argues that Israel has no right to fight back against those trying to destroy them. (READ MORE from Phyllis Chesler: Silence of the Feminist Lambs: Not a Word on Hamas Horrors)

The piece up at Substack essentially dares to turn Elie Wiesel’s moral authority into a sock puppet in order to use his Holocaust-era perspective to condemn Israel and to warn us against our own “indifference” to Gazan civilian suffering. What Wiesel said, however, was far more relevant than the phrase quoted at Substack. Please allow me to quote from an interview given by him to Merle Hoffman in 1991, as reported in On the Issues magazine (full disclosure: I was the magazine’s editor at large at the time):

HOFFMAN: You have been severely criticized for not condemning Israel about the intifada. What is your current position on the Palestinian situation? WIESEL: I have been criticized for many things… Yes, I refuse to systematically condemn Israel. H: For anything? W: There are certain red lines that I will not cross. If I had known at the time that Israel was involved in torturing I would have spoken out, but it was too late. When I found out, a commission had already been formed and justice prevailed, but I don’t feel I have the right to apply public pressure on Israel. H: But you have the moral authority. W: But what if I’m wrong? H: Can’t you afford to be wrong? W: Yes, but only if I pay the price. What if I am wrong and they pay the price? What if I apply such pressure on a decision and that decision may bring disaster or at least tragedy to Israel? Do I have the right to do this? It is their children who will pay the price, not mine. I do go to Israel and speak to the leaders there[.] I can say what I feel. But here, especially here, I have no right to speak out publicly…. I am offended when I see Jewish intellectuals who all of a sudden remember their Jewishness only to use that Jewishness to attack Israel. These are men and women who have never done anything for Israel [and] all of a sudden they remember they are Jews.

I hope and pray that J Streeters and Democratic Party operatives pay attention to these words of Weisel as well as to those they manipulate in order to condemn Israel.

#phyllis chesler #j street #new york times #elie wiesel #substack #gaza #hamas

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spann-stann · 1 month

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Setting Map: The World (2125-2800)

The Corporate Empire (CorpEmp): The big kahuna, and hegemonic empire to end all hegemonic empires. Their territory is more porous than they like to let on, as there are plenty of survivalist, pacifist, and millenarian enclaves (or folks that forgot to fill out their census paperwork) known collectively as the Reserves.

World Congress of Freedom (WCOF): Several urban centers and islands were designated as Cordons Sanitaire, semi-independent penal colonies where aaaalllllll the people that didn't want to be CorpEmp could go live. After Emperor Ignacio died in 2100, multiple Cordons revolted. The left-wing coalition of rebels formed the WCOF. Although they didn't overthrow CorpEmp, they won the next best thing: CorpEmp's begrudging recognition.

United Markets (UM): The right-wing half of the Cordon rebellion, though they preferred to bribe their way to freedom from CorpEmp than fight. The peace treaty that ended the Cordon Rebellion was signed in Las Vegas (all parties involved got comped rooms!) They are an equal mix of Anarcho-Capitalists and billionaire/tech-bro megacorps.

Green Consensus: The Long Island Cordon was full of hippies and less smelly environmentalists, so CorpEmp didn't invest too many resources in monitoring them. Then Ignacio dies, and all hell breaks loose across the Cordons. While the new Empress unleashed Operation JANISSARY on the rebels, the newly christened "Green Consensus" plants their environmentally friendly flag on the Amazon, Galapagos, and various islands (how Heinan and North Island ended up joining is a mystery). CorpEmp didn't contest, after fighting a 25 year war with two other factions.

DPRK Remnant: No one knows why the remains of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea got the San Marino treatment during the creation of CorpEmp. All modern historians know is that the Mount Paektu bloodline were left alone to rule their namesake. Not much info comes out.

Cordons Sanitaire: These are the ones that didn't make it. CorpEmp was able to take these Cordons during the Rebellion and kept them as Cordons in the Treaty of Las Vegas. It's Escape from New York 24/7/365 here.

Common Prosperity Coalition (CPC): They're not on the map, because no one wants them on it. They're the descendants of the many, many criminal organizations that survived WW3, the Warlords' Wars, and the creation of CorpEmp. They like to think they're on par with the Big Three (much to the Big Three's chagrin).

#my setting #setting #worldbuilding #setting lore #setting map #feedback appreciated #need to add more wcof/um/cordons in the 3rd map but not sure where

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