Yeah⌠this is according to a Chinese source. The North Korean regime may be crazy, but this seems a bit over the top for even them. According to the report some of the band members were found carrying Bibles? Really? Coming soon as talking points from a conservative religious organization asking for your money.
Authorities worldwide are hoping that this so-called âPyongyang Styleâ does not become a viral hit among pop-culture-crazed youthâŚ
I agree that Chinese sources arenât necessarily reliable, but if I was going to label something as OTT, donât know that their nuclear brinkmanship escapades are more sane then this. Also agree itâs weird that they linked Bibles and sex tapes, things that donât always travel in the same circles.
Sorry to be a fuddy-duddy, butâŚugh. Consider yourself finger-wagged.
I agree that itâs an arguably tasteless joke; but whereâs the line between âclose enough to be salientâ and âdistant enough or outrage-fatigued enough that emulating pious concern is its own slightly ghoulish exerciseâ?
Itâs well known, has been for years, that North Korea is a grim place, and their prison camps worse, with lots of procedurally questionable punishment and death. The world has mostly looked on and made vaguely concerned noises. Do I pretend that âNorth Korea does something dreadful, againâ actually stirs concern at this stage? Do I remain silent? Is it ever acceptable to joke about bad things that you cannot change?
Do the leaders of N.Korea suck? Yes, totally. But this sounds like propaganda.
Like Sadam Hussain and Osama Bin Laddin, the link is âdisliked by the regime.â Itâs the logic of âI hate them both so they MUST be in cahoots.â
Itâs the execution by mortar that gets me. WowâŚ
Dafuq. The thing with skepticism is that without some sort of reasoning behind it, itâs merely opinion.
The Chinese and NK dissidents are usually the only sources for everything on NK because only they have the first-hand, non-scripted experience of the place.
But this sounds like propaganda.
Whose propaganda? The Chinese are NKâs allies and South Korea, while they hate NK, wouldnât just run bullshit for the purposes of propaganda. If they just wanted to sully the name of NK then why not make up something more believable? Also, if we never see or hear about this woman again then thatâs a pretty good clue itâs real. She was a famous nationally-recognised pop singer.
Regarding the bibles, itâs not that unusual. Considering the strange charge of making pr0n thereâs a good chance both that and the bibles is just a trumped up charge in order to kill this woman who Lilâ Kimâs wife might have beef with. The other option is that, like Soviet Russia, the ban on religion might mean that the forbidden fruit is tempting and accessible, especially for âcreativeâ types such as musicians. Thought-crime is cool yaâknow?
Letâs all enjoy Hyonâs rousing Excellent Horse-Like Lady:
They can be as crazy as they want because they have nuclear weapons.
If true⌠WTFFFS!?
My Korean is a bit rusty. Does this mention, âWhere are you going, with your fetlocks blowing in the wind?â
Kim Jong Un is a tinpot tyrant. Nobody debates that. So were his pa and grand-pa before him.
In the old days, the US and the Soviets used countries as buffer zones, bumpers to grind into poor meal to prevent getting in direct conflict.
Then the Soviet Union fell apart and the buffer countries all lined up to join the EU and that freed up the RFS (Russian Federation of States,) to get down to business, and create a few billionaires.
They no longer need those buffer states anymore.
This report came from China, China people.
What does this bode for âBest Koreaâ?
Maybe China feels it no longer needs buffer states anymore either? (Their major trading partner is their old enemy.)
The reunification may be coming, but not in the way that the Kim dynasty thought it would and not in the direction that the Kim dynasty thought it would.
Think about it, if you were a rich country, like China is becoming, wouldnât you be more at ease with a prosperous southern neighbor than a really poor one.
The best part is that wealthier South Korea would get stuck with the tab for the reunification. (And believe me, thatâs going to be one Hell of a tab.)
Whoever made this video should be put up against a wall andâŚ
Oh. Never mind.
yeah South Korea doesnât want reunification with Best Korea. But I think thatâs short sighted. South Korea is lacking in a very key strategic component that unification would help boost in the long term future: Land. North Korea is small by superpower standards, but it is still enough to double the land mass for a single capitalistic Korean nation to develop. Not only this but the direct connection of China would make trade really attractive in both directions.
A unification would appear extremely costly for public resources in the South to absorb the load of an additional Northern population, but itâs not unreasonable to think that the North could quickly bounce into self-reliance once agriculture and industry was kickstarted.
A unified Korea makes a lot of sense - now or anytime. The way the two Koreas were cleft apart was unnatural and not in any of the populaceâs interests. Today, reunification feels odd because thereâs been a forced alienation thatâs about to jump generation. Tomorrow, there may be nobody alive that directly knows someone on the other side. Today, you can have two people who remember each other be reunited.
Iâm sure that Unâs apologist, âFetchitâ Rodman, will look at this as âcool as hell.â
North Koreaâs biggest export is sad news. 
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