North Korea = Nazi Germany (1 Viewer)

[geoff8695]

There are accounts of German Jews who were WWI vets being lead into the gas chambers outraged that they fought for Germany, showing their medals of valor and the SS just laughed at them as they continued to lead them to their deaths.

They were absolutely German but they were not seen as such by those in power. Hence the outsiders reference.

Good PostingAbout two years ago I met and talked with a holocaust survivor who's family didn't leave Germany in time, mainly because they thought they would be safe since dad was a WWI hero...

Unfortunately dad was taken away on "Kristallnacht" and subsequently beaten and abused so severely (despite insisting he was a German veteran who served the fatherland faithfully in the Great War), that he died a few weeks after being 'returned' home.

Sadly this man and his sister were the only survivors (except for an uncle who came to America early on), the rest of his family all died at the hands of the nazis.

 

[T Bell]

This may be the last straw - you didn't see Hitler making everyone get coiffed like him.

North Korea: Students required to get Kim Jong-un haircut

By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring

Male university students in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, it is reported.

The state-sanctioned guideline was introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, Radio Free Asia reports. It is now being rolled out across the country - although some people have expressed reservations about getting the look.

"Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will," one source tells Radio Free Asia. "It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes." Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. "Until the mid-2000s, we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'," the Korea Times reports.

It seems that haircuts have been state-approved in North Korea for some time - until now people were reportedly only allowed to choose from 18 styles for women and 10 for men. Earlier, North Korea's state TV launched a campaign against long hair, called "Let us trim our hair in accordance with the Socialist lifestyle".

However, there are conflicting reports over the haircut mandate, with the NK News website reporting that recent visitors to Pyongyang did not notice a change in hair styles.

Late leader Kim Jong-il, who ruled North Korea for 17 years, sported a bouffant hairstyle, reportedly in order to look taller.

UPDATE: An earlier version of this story said, according to reports, the haircut guideline applied to men rather than university students.

 

[DiStefano]

In some ways it's worse than Nazi Germany, because the Nazis mostly killed outsiders, whereas the North Koreans commit their atrocities on their own citizens. So a better analogy is Stalinist Russia. To answer your question, there's nothing we can do. China will simply not allow any foreign influence that close to China. That's why the Chinese attacked us when we crossed the Yalu in the Korean War (they also attacked the Japanese in the 16th century when they tried it.) All we can hope for is that the people themselves rebel someday. Maybe, given the Arab Spring, it might come sooner than we think.

Yes, it is interesting to see how reluctant people usually are to classify Stalin and Mao as every bit as bad as Hitler. Both Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler, but I wouldn't like to be tasked with the decision as to which was worse and deserved worse punishment in Hell.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

It seems that haircuts have been state-approved in North Korea for some time - until now people were reportedly only allowed to choose from 18 styles for women and 10 for men.

Reminds me of this old Wendy's commercial - Soviet fashion show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Though it should be pretty easy to infer this was going on I was pretty stunned to see that NK is employing death camps. Very few news stories make me sick to my stomach, but this did.

While I don't know what can really be done about it this is the type of evil that needs to be stomped out. This regime needs to be toppled, but how?

North Korea = Nazi Germany

Should be

North Korea = Nazi Germany Stalinist USSR

The Kims built what they did on Stalin's Soviet Russia in the early 1950's, Stalin killed tens of millions, replete with death camps and all.

 

[MaxThreshold]

Though it should be pretty easy to infer this was going on I was pretty stunned to see that NK is employing death camps. Very few news stories make me sick to my stomach, but this did.

While I don't know what can really be done about it this is the type of evil that needs to be stomped out. This regime needs to be toppled, but how?

North Korea = Nazi Germany

Should be

North Korea = Nazi Germany Stalinist USSR

The Kims built what they did on Stalin's Soviet Russia in the early 1950's, Stalin killed tens of millions, replete with death camps and all.

Everyone thinks Hitler was the baddest guy of that era, but in reality he wasn't. It was Stalin who killed tens of millions of more people than Hitler ever did.

 

[msommer]

Pol Pot was pretty badass too. In four years he managed to kill 25% of his own population. That takes a special kind of evil

But since Kampuchea (Cambodia) is a pretty small country he will always be a second rater...

 

[T Bell]

This may be the last straw - you didn't see Hitler making everyone get coiffed like him.

North Korea: Students required to get Kim Jong-un haircut

By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring

Male university students in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, it is reported.

The state-sanctioned guideline was introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, Radio Free Asia reports. It is now being rolled out across the country - although some people have expressed reservations about getting the look.

"Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will," one source tells Radio Free Asia. "It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes." Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. "Until the mid-2000s, we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'," the Korea Times reports.

It seems that haircuts have been state-approved in North Korea for some time - until now people were reportedly only allowed to choose from 18 styles for women and 10 for men. Earlier, North Korea's state TV launched a campaign against long hair, called "Let us trim our hair in accordance with the Socialist lifestyle".

However, there are conflicting reports over the haircut mandate, with the NK News website reporting that recent visitors to Pyongyang did not notice a change in hair styles.

Late leader Kim Jong-il, who ruled North Korea for 17 years, sported a bouffant hairstyle, reportedly in order to look taller.

UPDATE: An earlier version of this story said, according to reports, the haircut guideline applied to men rather than university students.

Kim's enforcement arm is long.

 

[CBusAlex]

Pol Pot was pretty badass too. In four years he managed to kill 25% of his own population. That takes a special kind of evil

But since Kampuchea (Cambodia) is a pretty small country he will always be a second rater...

Offdee 9: The most evil leader of the subregion, The evilest dictator in the country, etc (more locally terrifying)

 

[johnnycakes]

The CIA knows jack about North Korea.

 

[Sand]

The CIA knows jack about North Korea.

Not surprising. Impossible to infiltrate to the senior levels that really matter.

 

[OC Zed]

The CIA knows jack about North Korea.

This chick is hot.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Just a reminder how awful NK is.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

U.S. would show flexibility in nuclear talks with North Korea: envoySEOUL (Reuters) - The recent nuclear deal with Iran showed that the United States can be flexible with a willing counterpart, including North Korea if it decides it wants talks on its nuclear program, a U.S. envoy said on Monday.

North Korea has said it was not interested in an Iran-like dialogue with the United States to give up its nuclear capabilities, which it said were an "essential deterrence" against hostile U.S. policy.

Despite that, Sydney Seiler, U.S. special envoy for now-defunct six-party talks on ending the North's nuclear program, said the United states left the door open to talks with the North when it is willing to end its diplomatic isolation.

"The Iran deal demonstrates the value and possibilities that negotiation bring," Seiler told reporters in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

"It demonstrates again our willingness, when we have a willing counterpart, and it demonstrates our flexibility when the DPRK makes a decision that it wants to take a different path," he said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Seiler is on a trip to the region that will include stops in China and Japan, is the latest in a series of visits by U.S. nuclear envoys aimed at trying to jump start the North Korean talks which broke down in 2008.

North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests, the last in February 2013, and now calls itself a nuclear weapons state.

The United States and five world powers struck a historic deal with Iran this month that will limit Iran's nuclear capabilities in exchange for lifting U.S., EU and UN sanctions that have crippled its economy.

North Korea is also heavily sanctioned by the United States, European Union and the United Nations for procuring equipment related to its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

News reports said the North has recently upgraded a missile platform and may be readying to launch a long-range missile around the time of a national anniversary in October.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Q10ZB20150727?irpc=932