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Originally Posted by monkeytennis
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the vice news report on north korea was classic... they sent a reporter in and he was allowed in but it's basically controlled where you can go and who you can talk to... so basically the north korean govt approved version of tourism
it's pretty clear that the entire experience was more or less just a series of staged interactions by the govt. there was one part where he was invited to get a taste of a north korean 'restaurant.' when he went in... there were no customers or anything in there. just a single clerk. it was pretty obvious the entire operation was a staged attempt to convey a false image of north korean wealth and prosperity. pretty surreal/creepy documentary.
i like how dennis rodman went there to visit and came back with nothing but positive things to say... you know you're in good company when you get the dennis rodman seal of approval
another funny event was when their satellite launch failed, and in true north korean fashion they denied this to their citizens and even bragged that the satellite was in space broadcasting n korean propaganda to the rest of the world.
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In 2009, North Korea's propaganda machine bragged that its communications satellite was spinning the Earth and broadcasting paeans to Kim Il Sung and then-leader Kim Jong Il.
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North Korea satellite launch fails quickly after liftoff - latimes
they also tell their people the whole world loves n korea and sides with them against the evil imperialist americans. funny thing is that in some liberal circles, the second part is not such a far cry from the truth. of course n korea has few supporters worldwide, but i have seen anti-american liberals say they would prefer russia or china as the world's main super power to american imperialism... pretty funny considering these same people would likely be sent to the laogai to be used as slave labor if they lived in china and tried the same kind of activism that they regularly practice in the west.