Category Archives: Koreas

Vice News clip in 7 parts on a North Korean Gulag in Siberia

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This is just really great watching.

BTW: The Gulag Archipelago as an audio book is usually available free, or for pennies on Audible in 3 parts. It is a hell of an undertaking to listen through it. I only made it to maybe 15% into the second volume. But it was worth it. Great for dog walks or housework if you want to understand communism in practice.

One observation after watching parts 3 and 4. The Russians who were placed in Gulags knew they were prisoners and slaves, even if they had no idea why. Many if not most after all, where taken away to Gulags on a quota system and one town if memory serves had nearly half the population taken away.

But in the North Korean Gulags, the people’s sense of patriotism is what is keeping them in chains. At least according to the guard at the gate. “They do not run away because that would be a betrayal.” I think the model being built around the Anglosphere is more similar to that one. Loyalty to state narratives about global warming and anti-racism is what prevents people from rebelling pianist their own utter and total destruction, even as a memory of what we all once were.

In part VI you can feel how palpably afraid one of the NORK forest ‘workers’ are when asked an honest question about why he was there. He simply answered with what “he should not say”.

Granted we are not to scale anywhere near the amplitude of this kind of self censorship yet in Canada. But increasingly conversations between strangers contain more and more samizdat whether the speakers realize that formally or not.

Fear of consequence for saying things that are obviously true is becoming normalized in Canada, while the opposite is being normalized in the USA.

 

Video of a claim that Israel struck NORK and Iranian military assets in Syria last night

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This info is pretty specific and not delivered like a hoax or conspiracy.

If anyone is in the mood to search for video evidence of this attack, it could be very interesting indeed. Much of it follows logically. Iran and NORK are clearly working to mutual interests. It doesn’t even seem implausible, but this source is new to me and there is nothing related to it anywhere I have seen so far.

Also for the: “I have no idea if its true” file.

Could President Trump have ended the Cold War?

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North Korea launches another missile, lands in Sea of Japan

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Back to our regularly scheduled catastrophes:

CNBC: North Korean missile lands in Sea of Japan, Pentagon says

North Korea on Tuesday fired a missile that traveled about 1000 km before crashing into the Sea of Japan, the Pentagon said in a statement.

 

The Department of Defense said that initial assessments indicated the missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM. In a news conference, Japan’s defense minister also said it seemed to be an ICBM.

The missile went higher than any shot North Korea had previously taken, according to Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered an emergency meeting of Cabinet ministers following the launch, North Korea’s first since Sept. 15, when one flew over northern Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.

Yonhap News: (LEAD) N.K. may announce completion of nuke force next year: Seoul official

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s unification minister said Tuesday that North Korea may announce the completion of its nuclear weapons programs next year as the North has been working on its nuclear arsenal at a faster pace.
Cho Myoung-gyon made the remark as North Korea seeks to develop nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching as far as the U.S. mainland.
“North Korea has been developing its nuclear weapons at a faster-than-expected pace. We cannot rule out the possibility that North Korea could announce its completion of a clear force within one year,” Cho told foreign correspondents in Seoul.
He said that next year will be a key year for North Korea as the wayward regime marks the 70th anniversary of its establishment in 2018.
The North conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test in September and fired two intercontinental ballistic missiles this year. But it has refrained from provocations following its launch of an intermediate-range missile over Japan on Sept. 15.

Daily Mail: BREAKING NEWS: North Korea launches new ballistic missile which flies for 50 minutes before it splashes down in Japanese waters

North Korea has fired another ballistic missile, which flew for 50 minutes, travelling around 620 miles, before landing in Japanese waters.
The intercontinental ballistic missile was launched eastward from Pyongsong in North Korea’s South Pyongan Province in the direction of the Sea of Japan at around 3.30am local time (6.30pm GMT), the South Korean military confirmed citing its joint chiefs of staff.
South Korean and American officials are currently working together to confirm the missile’s exact trajectory and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered an emergency cabinet meeting.
[…] “The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) determined the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America, our territories or our allies,” Manning added.
CNN also confirmed the launch with the South Korean military leaders.
“North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile early this morning from Pyongsong, South Pyongan, to the east direction. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff is analyzing more details of the missile with the US side,” said an official at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the South Korean military carried out a “precision missile strike drill” just minutes after North Korea’s missile launch.
The precision missile strike matched the flight distance of the North Korean missile and landed in waters off the east coast of South Korea.
We will update this post till Midnight with any other materials. Please leave more items on this topic in the comments under this post for now.
H/T Richard.