This is so sad. People living in the communist state of North Korea are starving. The people are slaves, children beg in the streets for food. ABC News has received proof of the wretched conditions. Even members of the army are starving.
Shot over several months by an undercover North Korean journalist, the harrowing footage shows images of filthy, homeless and orphaned children begging for food and soldiers demanding bribes.
The footage also shows North Koreans labouring on a private railway track for the dictator’s son and heir near the capital Pyongyang.
Strolling up to the site supervisor, the man with the hidden camera asks what is going on.
“This rail line is a present from Kim Jong-il to comrade Kim Jong-un,” he is told.
The well-fed Kim Jong-un could soon be ruling over a nation of starving, impoverished serfs.
The video shows young children caked in filth begging in markets, pleading for scraps from compatriots who have nothing to give.
“I am eight,” says one boy. “My father died and my mother left me. I sleep outdoors.”
Many of the children are orphans; their parents victims of starvation or the gulag.
But markets do exist – private markets that stock bags of rice, pork, and corn. The state no longer has any rations to hand out.
But the state wants its share of this embryonic capitalism. …
How do they keep the people living under such inhumane conditions from revolting?
But this dynasty of dictators has proven that it is more than capable of keeping its wretched population in line through gulags, hunger and a total control over every aspect of life.
That last line reminded a reader of something Nancy Pelosi said while visiting another communist state – China – in 2009.
“We have so much room for improvement … Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory … of how we are taking responsibility.”
She was talking about climate change. But I’m sure the progressives feel the same way when it comes to health care, redistribution of wealth, and any other topic that may come up. But we’re supposed to believe that the communism practiced in North Korea, and every other failed state where it’s been tried, is somehow different than the strain the progressives want to impose on all of us.
Update: Memeorandum now has a thread and linked.
Update: The Conservatory linked – thanks!
Atlas Shrugs linked – thanks!
Yeah saying you should take stock of how you do things is really the same as a dictator “keeping its wretched population in line through gulags, hunger and a total control over every aspect of life.”
Totally! That’s not at all an absurd comparison!
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Let’s see….the factual history just here in America of progressives is a lineage of internment camps, eugenics, forced sterilizations, prohibition, confiscation of precious metals and a host of others, all with the intent of trampling of the individual with the administrative state. The left owns the purposeful systematic elimination of humans in the killing of millions on this planet, and they won’t stop. They rationalize this with the stench of false capacity and arrogant superiority of their “suggestions” that become “nudges” that becomes “shoving”, and then becomes “shooting”. The resulting exemplary progressive utopia is the DPRK. How very sad and very wrong for humanity.
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[...] Conservative has the wrenching details: People living in the communist state of North Korea are starving. The people are slaves, children [...]
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Is there a link to the video mentioned in the article?
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The article indicates that they only had license for the video for a certain amount of time. It may have been 24 or 48 hours, and they had to remove it after that.
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[...] Lonely Conservative writes, "The people are slaves, children beg in the streets for food. ABC News has received proof of [...]
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It’s my understanding that FDR thought it would be good to divide Korea and give part to Stalin. He had two men do the job. One of them was Dean Rusk. Yes, *that* Dean Rusk.
Not one Korean was asked what they wanted done with their country.
Infinitely better, for the US to have guaranteed an independent, neutral, unified Korea postwar.
Then it’d be an Asian Switzerland, the Korean War would never have occurred. Above 4 million deaths would not have happened, Korea would not have been reduced to Stone-Age conditions, and it’d be 15 years ahead of where it is now.
The DMZ would run along the Yalu River instead…
A better Alternate, by far.
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The better alternative would have been for us never to have been involved at all. Notice modern day Vietnam is a hell of a lot better off than the Korean peninsula taken as a whole.
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Yeah, the north just had to murder a couple million South Vietnamese to seal the deal. That’s far better, isn’t it?
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