Kim Jong-Il Dead

[Martinus]

Awesome talk that summarizes a lot of the stuff from his book "The Cleanest Race"

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/292562-1

B.R. Myers takes an in-depth look at North Korean society and the domestic propaganda to which its citizens are exposed.  Myers argues that North Korea is a paranoid, military-dominated nationalist state with a government that is influenced heavily by Japanese fascism.  ...

You are such an idiot. 

[jimmy olsen]

It's a great book, people here liked Hitchens review of it.

Also, he refutes the typical analysis of the nation as a Stalinist Marxist Leninist Confucian state and argues that it's ideology is entirely reliant on a plagiarized Korean version of Japanese blood nationalism.

[Razgovory]

I imagine Hitchens would like something waves off the Marxist foundations of the NK state.  I believe he described NK as a theocratic state, but for him it "religion" is just synonym for "stuff I don't like".

[Martinus]

It's a great book, people here liked Hitchens review of it.

Also, he refutes the typical analysis of the nation as a Stalinist Marxist Leninist Confusion state and argues that it's ideology is entirely reliant on a plagiarized Korean version of Japanese blood nationalism.

Confusion? 

[Eddie Teach]

The natural state of Tim and Martinus when attempting to communicate with each other.

[jimmy olsen]

It's a great book, people here liked Hitchens review of it.

Also, he refutes the typical analysis of the nation as a Stalinist Marxist Leninist Confusion state and argues that it's ideology is entirely reliant on a plagiarized Korean version of Japanese blood nationalism.

Confusion? 

Fucking spell check betrayed me!

[Eddie Teach]

(From Google search for "poor workman blames tools" )

[HisMajestyBOB]

Biased pool.  Those people are defectors.  Nobody knows what the average North Korean actually thinks about this stuff.  It's not like there are opinion polls, town halls, or letters to the editor.  Perhaps we will find out if this regime falls apart.

It's not just from defectors, but also from people who smuggle back and forth across the border and from second-hand info.

[Martinus]

You gotta give it to Kim, they don't make dictators like this anymore. For example consider this story of a South Korean movie director:

In 1978, actress Choi Eun-hee, recently divorced from Shin, was kidnapped from Hong Kong to North Korea. When Shin traveled to Hong Kong to investigate, he was kidnapped as well. The kidnappings were on orders of future leader Kim Jong-il, who wanted to establish a film industry for his country to sway international opinion regarding the views of the Workers' Party of Korea.[4] The North Korean authorities have denied the kidnapping accusations, claiming that Shin came to the country willingly. Shin and Choi made secret audio tapes of conversations with Kim Jong-il, supporting their story.

Shin was put in comfortable accommodations, but, after an escape attempt, was placed in prison. He was brought to Pyongyang in 1983, to learn why he had been brought to North Korea.[4] His ex-wife was also brought to the same dinner party, where she first learned that Shin was also in North Korea. They re-married shortly afterwards, as suggested by Kim Jong-il.

From 1983 Shin directed seven films with Kim Jong-il acting as an executive producer. The best known of these films is Pulgasari, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla. In 1986, eight years after his kidnapping, Shin and his wife escaped while in Vienna for a film festival[4]. They managed to seek political asylum from the United States Embassy before they were found out. Kim Jong-il became convinced that the couple had been kidnapped by the Americans. They eventually fled safely.

[Camerus]

Kim Jong-Il looking at things:

http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

[The Minsky Moment]

It's a great book, people here liked Hitchens review of it.

Also, he refutes the typical analysis of the nation as a Stalinist Marxist Leninist Confusion state and argues that it's ideology is entirely reliant on a plagiarized Korean version of Japanese blood nationalism.

Confusion? 

Tim's spelling difficulties may have caused him to stumble into an accidental insight.  I can think of no better description of the NK regime than a Stalinist Marxist Leninist Confusion state.

[fhdz]

 

[The Minsky Moment]

The new Mr. Evil.....

Looks like he ate all the food his people should have had

V

He looks a lot like his gradfather.

[Ed Anger]

[garbon]

Kim Jong-Il looking at things:

http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

Yeah I saw that with a comment of "now who will look at all the things".