you could make any shit up about north korea and some people would believe it
“North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has declared himself the only person allowed to do the Macarena. A person had been found performing the dance, and has been personally thrown by the leader into a big pool filled with genetically-engineered superpiranhas.”
I can’t believe North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has killed thousands of people for performing the Macarena!
how dare they steal dear leader’s dance moves! America would never do something like that, they’d just kill those around the one who steals the dance moves and charge them for crimes not illegal in the home country
If a hot air balloon can reach low Earth orbit then why are we wasting money on rockets? Just tie those satellites and space station components to a balloon!
This actually exists, although the most you can do with it is fly around and take measurements, no near-space stations.
Buoyancy can’t take you out of the atmosphere by principle. The stratosphere is fake space! It’s under the Karman line.
spoiler
I recently learned you cannot express support for NK in SK without a penalty/legal issues. And despite all their Western money (but because of Western influence) they’re a country of plastic, superficial, hedonistic, depressed, aimless and collectively suicidal (birth rate wise) people. Jeez. It’s gonna be interesting to see the eventual reunification.
Yep! The woman who made the documentary My Brothers and Sisters in the North, humanizing people in the DPRK, was stripped of her ROK citizenship despite popular critical approval of the documentary (from those who saw it).
wikipedia says that she chose to give up her south korean citizenship. lol
was she planning to go back and live in SK?
You’re asking the wrong guy, I learned of her through this post but I suspect op would know
She had to do so in order to film the documentary.
Sometimes people sacrifice things for principles. What’s funny about that?
the funny part is how Wikipedia describes it.
It says:
She was the first South Korean director who was allowed to visit North Korea after Korean War without being charged for treason by South Korea, because she has a German passport. She gave up South Korean citizenship and took the German one just for making this documentary and getting a visa and the permission of shooting from North Korea
The phrasing is a bit odd, but the reference goes to a DW article, the subheading of which is:
A new film made by Sung-Hyung Cho attempts to give outsiders an insight into life in North Korea. The director, who even had to give up her South Korean nationality to shoot the film, spoke to DW about the project.
that odd phrasing is what’s funny to me because it struggles to find a neutral tone for a clearly authoritarian policy.
i didn’t look at the dw article.
Yeah it is rather funny the more I read it. Like, just copy the article language or paraphrase it quickly. Reminds me of reading state ballot measures in the us.
