The Glorious Blog of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea

[frank ryan]

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Please be a real twitter account because that's awesome.

[myboynoah]

In North Korea, Chinese tourists take a trip down memory lane

After another gift shop, the final stop on the tour was a kindergarten, where 5-year-olds welcomed the tourists in Korean and Chinese. The most popular performance featured five boys dressed as North Korean soldiers going through field exercises. Then out came two dressed as Japanese soldiers, with rats’ tails, and then one as a senior American officer, with a wolf’s tail. The Chinese tourists lapped it up.

“Young kids in China these days are too spoiled, too materialistic,” said Qi, a man from Liaoning province. “We should have more nationalist education in our schools. Look at North Korea. They know how to educate kids!”

[Katy Lied]

Charming video uploaded today on youtube interviews two defectors from North Korea (now emigrated to South Korea) about what they thought when they first got there. Cute story starts at 6:35, but if you dont want to watch, here is the transcript:

(Background: For the first few months, the South Korean govt houses the defectors and teaches them about life in a modern country. )


In Hanawon, they teach you how to use the remote, TV and elevators etc because we don't know anything. So we get trained for about 3 months. They even teach you how to ride a bus. But I slept through the training on to ride a bus. Yeah, I fell asleep. So when I finally got out to join society, I totally didn't know how to ride a bus. I figured I could just copy what people in front of me were doing.

So I went to a bus stop, and saw a man and a woman lining up in front of me. When a bus arrived, the man got on and tapped his butt onto the machine. He literally tapped his butt. I was like "In Korea, all guys have to do is tap their butts!"

(Interviewer): You didn't realize his bus card was on his back pocket?

Next, the woman tapped her handbag onto the machine. "Right, so men tap their butts to ride a bus and women just have to tap their handbags." Because I was obviously a girl, I just took off my backpack and tapped it. But whereas I could hear a sound for the people before me, it didn't make any sound for me, which really impressed me once again.

"How could they tell I was from North Korea and not make a sound?"

That's what I thought. Then I thought...maybe I had to tap my butt like the man did. But I was too short to tap my butt on the machine.

(Interviewer): You couldn't reach it?

Not with my butt. So I started jumping trying to tap my butt, and the bus driver was like, "what are you doing?" I was like, "how do I get to this place? I can't make any sound." The driver then told me not to worry about it so I got a free bus ride.

[Katy Lied]

Here is another vid of North Koreans trying American BBQ. Many have never eaten meat in their lives, and eating beef is a capital offense.

Also funny is the North Korean man's innocent question, "Why is this bottle of Texas BBQ sauce so much bigger than the bottles from the other states?"

[Topper]

Here is another vid of North Koreans trying American BBQ. Many have never eaten meat in their lives, and eating beef is a capital offense.

Also funny is the North Korean man's innocent question, "Why is this bottles of Texas BBQ sauce so much bigger than the bottles from the other states?"

That is fantastic.

[SCcoug]

Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un's half brother, was killed this week in Malaysia. One of the suspects was wearing a LOL shirt and allegedly a prankster who may have been unknowingly tricked into killing him.

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[falafel]

Wow. What was in the spray?

[Moliere]

Wow. What was in the spray?

Bear?


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[YOhio]

They have a missile called the no dong.

[SCcoug]

Wow. What was in the spray?

VX nerve agent.

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[wuapinmon]

This is some funny stuff....the baby rolling in cracks me up....and then the wife's mad dash....it's just too much.

[BigFatMeanie]

This is some funny stuff....the baby rolling in cracks me up....and then the wife's mad dash....it's just too much.

Much debate online about whether that was his wife or a nanny.

[Jeff Lebowski]

That might be my all-time favorite viral video. I have watched it a ton of times.

This is a fun breakdown of the video:

https://medium.com/@benthompson/brea...57b#.dsrx2lc78

[Clark Addison]

That might be my all-time favorite viral video. I have watched it a ton of times.

This is a fun breakdown of the video:

https://medium.com/@benthompson/brea...57b#.dsrx2lc78

Completely agree about this being one of the best ever, and the reason is that it starts awesome, and then tops itself 3 times. Each time, you think it can't get better, and it does. This would have been a moderately funny video with just the first child strutting in like she owns the place, but then you get the second child saucering in, you get the wife/nanny flying through the door like Tom Cruise in Risky Business, in obviously complete panic, and then you get the door-closing, where she is obviously hoping that if she stays close to the ground she will not be on camera. Any parent who works at home identifies with this video.

[wuapinmon]

Completely agree about this being one of the best ever, and the reason is that it starts awesome, and then tops itself 3 times. Each time, you think it can't get better, and it does. This would have been a moderately funny video with just the first child strutting in like she owns the place, but then you get the second child saucering in, you get the wife/nanny flying through the door like Tom Cruise in Risky Business, in obviously complete panic, and then you get the door-closing, where she is obviously hoping that if she stays close to the ground she will not be on camera. Any parent who works at home identifies with this video.

I think it's far funnier if she's the mom rushing in in a panic. Like, she's all proud to watch her husband on TV while she's in the living room, and then, "OH SHIT!" as she rushes toward him, but by the time she gets there, the walker baby is in there too, and she's got her shoes off...because>>>>Asia, so she slides around in her socks like it's wet ice, while Jason Isaacs's brother tries to regain his composure.