North Korea is a huge science lab where we can observe how intellectual deprivation can control human thought processes. We often wonder how cults form and continue without some person of reason questioning the mantra. This country of primitive social skills give sociology and psychology fields a wonderful trove of insight.
I noticed one stark point in this. The mourners seemed to be the "well to do" class . . . people that were doing well because they were favored by connections. Look at the photos closely. The masses don't seem to be in mourning. They haven't received anything from their former leader except lack of everything and misery. Tough to feel sorrow for someone that has failed to provide
Surreal
Absolutely unimaginable orwellian pictures of the NK reality - from a'la Lenin glass coffin to the weeping citizens...What a peopleants the most brutal dictatorship made from its own population!
Stand in line and "cry or die" was the ultimatum given by the North Korean military as the propaganda cameras prepared to roll.
Let's hope that Gremlin II doesn't try to show his new given power by doing something boneheaded stupid. We have 28,500 military personnel on the border of North and South who should stay out of harm's way.
I am SO not caring that this monster is dead. He lived the life of a rockstar while abjectly torturing and killing millions of his own people. All in the name of socialism. Whats his name in the WH and his 100K-vacation-taking spouse are examples of this, while unemployment jumped from 6% to 14% in the past 3 years. Vote wisely in 2012.
This is the type of ignorance which allows a country such as North Korea to flourish. When the electorate is ignorant it is easy for greed and egomania to wrangle control of the government.
I wonder how many of the "mourners" are appearing under the coercion of their own government - under the threat of torture or death. Their government controls EVERYTHING - every small, insignificant detail that they think will affect the international "image" of North Korea. On the rare occassion when they permit an international visitor, they even control such things as how many people are seen walking dogs in their parks to enhance their image.
Reread Orwell's 1984, and you will begin to understand the methods used to get inside the minds of the hapless North Korean people. http://www.leadfootedrabbit.com/2011/12/stockholm-syndrome.html
1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 - For YOU yourselves know quite well that Jehovah's day is coming exactly as a thief in the night. 3 Whenever it is that they are saying: "Peace and security!" then sudden destruction is to be instantly upon them just as the pang of distress upon a pregnant woman; and they will by no means escape.
@hawkeyenick December 20, 2011 5:05 AM EST says:
"take your bible beating elsewhere, it's culturally insensitive
most of the world aren't christian, you realize this, right?"
And your objection to a fellow American's opinion is even more insensitive, bro. He is free to express anything that doesn't deride someone else. You, however, are wrong to single him out personally. He said nothing against you personally. Get a thicker skin, my friend, and defend someone's right to express themselves. Your personal attack is not part of free speech.
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Absolutely unimaginable orwellian pictures of the NK reality - from a'la Lenin glass coffin to the weeping citizens...What a peopleants the most brutal dictatorship made from its own population!
Let's hope that Gremlin II doesn't try to show his new given power by doing something boneheaded stupid. We have 28,500 military personnel on the border of North and South who should stay out of harm's way.
most of the world aren't christian, you realize this, right?
"take your bible beating elsewhere, it's culturally insensitive
most of the world aren't christian, you realize this, right?"
And your objection to a fellow American's opinion is even more insensitive, bro. He is free to express anything that doesn't deride someone else. You, however, are wrong to single him out personally. He said nothing against you personally. Get a thicker skin, my friend, and defend someone's right to express themselves. Your personal attack is not part of free speech.