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maybe not!


How dare you insult the Supreme leader of North Korea?How dare you?

GOD bless The fearless man of the people ,The Freaking leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea

just kidding....

Russia Using Tens Of Thousands Of North Korean ‘Slave” Laborers

Human rights groups claim that Russia is using tens of thousands of North Korean laborers in its construction industry, in what has been termed as "slave labor." North Korea is facing its in over a century and massive food shortages. United Nations has also warned of mass starvation in the country.

North Korea earns $2 billion via 'state-sponsored slavery'
Supplying overseas workers is one of the major sources of cash for Pyongyang. It sends tens of thousands of "state-sponsored slaves" abroad only to seize their wages. Amid cash-crunch, dictator Kim Jong-Un has dramatically increased the number of workers sent abroad. For well over a decade, North Korea earned money through illicit means such as drug smuggling, arms sales, and counterfeiting U.S. dollars.

Due to sanctions from the United Nations and major economic powers, the North Korean economy is in dire shape. According to , tens of thousands of North Korean people are working as slaves in the remote far east of Russia. reports that Kim Jong-Un has "doubled" the number of workers sent abroad.

North Korean regime generates approximately $2 billion by exporting "state-sponsored slaves." That money is used to fund multiple projects in the country, including . ABC News added that about 90,000 North Korean people are working in nearly 40 countries. Of them, at least 25,000 are in Russia, mainly involved in the construction industry.

Russia, North Korea enjoy warm relations
Russia is one of the very few countries Pyongyang has cordial relations with. In March, Kim Jon-Un that his regime would celebrate 2015 as the "year of friendship" with Russia. The two countries have stepped up economic ties and cultural exchanges.

Last year, the U.S. State Department condemned the Kim Jong-Un regime for its attitude towards laborers. The U.S. asked North Korea to "end the use of forced labor in prison camps and among North Korean workers abroad." NK Watch has also urged the United Nations to investigate the "state-sponsored slavery."


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North Korea prepares to launch new long-range rocket: Yonhap

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea is preparing to launch a new, long-range rocket, possibly in October, having completed an upgrade at its main satellite launch base, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday.

Any such launch would almost certainly be viewed by the international community as a disguised ballistic missile test and result in the imposition of fresh sanctions.

Quoting an unnamed government source, Yonhap cited "credible intelligence" that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had ordered the launch of a satellite to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North's ruling Workers' Party on October 10.

"We think (the North) will carry out a provocation around the 70th anniversary," the source said.

The South Korean Defence Ministry declined to confirm or deny the Yonhap report.

"As to the construction of North Korea's long-range missile launching facilities, we've been watching the North's moves very closely," a ministry spokesman said.

According to the Yonhap source, North Korea has completed work on an extended 67-metre (220-foot) gantry capable of handling a rocket twice the size of the 30-metre Unha-3 rocket launched in December, 2012.

The Unha-3 launch was widely condemned overseas as a ballistic missile test and triggered additional UN sanctions.

North Korea, which insisted the launch was purely scientific in nature, responded three months later by conducting its a third nuclear test -- the most powerful to date.

North Korea is banned under UN Security Council resolutions from carrying out any launch using ballistic missile technology, although repeated small-range missile tests have gone unpunished.

The upgrading of facilities at the Sohae launch centre have been closely monitored by satellite imagery analysts at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

In a recent report, the institute estimated that an October 10 launch would be "difficult although not impossible".

North Korea, meanwhile, has made its intentions very clear.

Visiting a newly-built satellite command centre in May, Kim Jong-Un had vowed to push ahead with further satellite launches despite the sanctions threat.

"Space development can never be abandoned, no matter who may oppose it," Kim said.


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Jeff Head said:

Welcome to friendly North Korea...a true worker's paradise. Thanks be to the beloved leader!

All kidding and satire aside...anyone chosen for that duty is going to be hard, and absolutely loyal to the regime.

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Not shown in that photo is the layout of the guards at the DMZ.
One guard faces forward two flanking facing each other. The man facing the boarder is watching the DMZ and the two guards in front of him. The guards facing each other are watching each other and the man facing the DMZ basically its a configuration designed to prevent the guards from making a run for the south. If you look at the guards on the south side they all face the DMZ and only watch for possible inclusion or would be kidnapping of other guards. In the past there have been attempts at grabbing South Korean or American soldiers and dragging them off into the North.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un watches an air display given by the Korean People's Army during a visit to Kalma Airport
Picture: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media


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Oh man that's... just sad.

North Korea push clocks back as a snub to Japan
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has no time for Japan. Not anymore, at least.


The country will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back by 30 minutes its current standard time, a legacy of the Japanese colonial rule.

The new time zone will take effect Aug. 15 — the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule at the end of World War II, North Korea's official Central News Agency said Friday. The establishment of "Pyongyang time" will root out that legacy, it said.

Local time in North and South Korea and Japan is the same — nine hours ahead of GMT. It was set during Japan's rule over what was single Korea from 1910 to 1945.

"The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time while mercilessly trampling down its land with 5,000-year-long history and culture and pursuing the unheard-of policy of obliterating the Korean nation," the KCNA dispatch said.

The North's move appears to be aimed at bolstering the leadership of young leader Kim Jong Un with anti-Japan, nationalistic sentiments, said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. Kim took power upon the death of his dictator father, Kim Jong Il, in late 2011.

Many Koreans, especially the elderly, on both sides of the border still harbor deep resentment against Japan over its colonial occupation. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans were forced to fight as front-line soldiers, work in slave-labor conditions or serve as prostitutes in brothels operated by the Japanese military during the war.


South Korea says it uses the same time zone as Japan because it's more practical and conforms to international practice.

Seoul's Unification Ministry said Friday that the North's action could bring minor disruption at a jointly-run industrial park at the North Korean border city of Kaesong and other inter-Korean affairs. Spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said the North's new time zone could also hamper efforts to narrow widening differences between the Koreas.

The two Koreas were divided into the capitalist, U.S.-backed South and the socialist, Soviet-supported North after their 1945 liberation. They remain split along the world's most heavily fortified border since their 1950-1953 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

Most time zones in the world differ in increments of an hour and only a small number of countries like India, Iran and Myanmar use zones that are offset by a half-hour. Nepal is offset by 45 minutes.

The time zone that North Korea plans to use is what a single Korea adopted in 1908, though the peninsula came under the same Japanese zone in 1912, two years after Tokyo's colonial occupation began. After the liberation, North Korea has maintained the current time zone, while South Korea had briefly used the old zone from 1954 to 1961.


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DPRK pilot: "Don't you dare laugh. My wife sacrificed her life to make this doilie ejection seat. Maverick and Goose can only wish they had what I had."

N. Korea's vice premier 'executed'

North Korea's vice premier Choe Yong-Gon has been executed for voicing frustration at the policies of leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, citing an anonymous source.

Choe, who took the job in June 2014, was executed by firing squad in May after voicing opposition to forestry policies promoted by Kim, Yonhap said, citing the source "with knowledge of the North".

Choe was last seen in the North's state media last December at the death anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong-Il, South Korea's unification ministry said Wednesday.

Seoul was "closely monitoring the possibility of any changes in Choe's circumstances", said the ministry, which is in charge of cross-border affairs.

Choe's death, if confirmed, would be the second reported this year. Defence minister Hyon Yong-Chol was said to have been executed in April by anti-aircraft fire for insubordination and dozing off during formal military rallies.

Such a violent method of execution has been cited in various unconfirmed reports as being reserved for senior officials who the leadership wished to make examples of.

The North has not officially confirmed Hyon's execution -- reported in May by Seoul's intelligence agency -- but announced his replacement, Pak Yong Sik, in July.

The South's spy agency also claimed in May that Kim had executed dozens of officials -- including his own uncle -- since taking power after the death of his father in December 2011.

Pyongyang in December 2013 made an unusually public announcement of the shock execution of the uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, for charges including treason and corruption.

Kim, believed to be in his early 30s, has repeatedly reshuffled senior army officials in a move analysts say was aimed at forcing them to remain loyal to the young ruler.

The Kim dynasty has ruled the impoverished and isolated North for more than six decades with an iron fist, a pervasive personality cult and almost no tolerance for dissent.


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Throughout history dictators remove the threat before the threat becomes present.
It's called a purge. A Dictator is just getting rid of people who are too comfortable in their positions of power.

Stalin did in 1922 and most Russian army officers in thirties before WWII.

Hitler did in 1934 when he murdered 85 people during the Night of the Long Knives.

Saddam executed 62 of his own tribesmen in 1978.

If the "Leader" doesn't do that then they make the same mistake that Julius Caesar, Nero, and Caligula did, executed by threats from within not from without.

In North Korea anyone who speaks out against the "The Great Leader" (AKA chubby fellow with the bad haircut) are immediately rounded up and executed without a trial. And in some cases a family member turns another family member in. These types of governments always uses ruthless and even senseless violence so no one dares to dethrone "The Great Leader" .


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