Sometimes I'm asking myself if there were all smoking some funny stuff prior to taking such images ? ... they are smiling the same way each time.
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Sometimes I'm asking myself if there were all smoking some funny stuff prior to taking such images ? ... they are smiling the same way each time.
Miragedriver
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Probably! At least it makes getting shot after laughing and Fearless Leader tolerable. LOL
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un poses for a photo with soldiers as he attends an anti-aircraft shooting contest at an undisclosed location, North Korea
Picture: EPA/RODONG SINMUN
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Miragedriver
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets two female fighter pilots, Jo Kum-hyang and Rim Sol, after their training flight, at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
Picture: EPA/Rodong Sinmun
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TerraN_EmpirE
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the flight suits look almost modern. note the older model mig in the back ground theses make the bulk of the North Korean Air force
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a newly built terminal at Pyongyang International Airport (inset) with his wife Ri Sol-ju...
Picture: EPA/Rodong Sinmun
...It marked Ri's second public appearance this year after she watched a soccer match with Kim in April.
Picture: EPA
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North Korea Asks Iran For Help Fighting Drought
July 1, 2015 | 4:40 pm
North Korea has asked Iran for urgent humanitarian aid to help survive what the North Korean government has called "the worst drought in 100 years."
"[Iran] is duty bound to render humanitarian aid to all countries," the head of the Iranian Red Crescent, Amir Hossein Ziaee, said, according to the Iranian state news agency IRNA. After meeting with the North Korean ambassador to Iran on Tuesday, Kang Sam Hyon, Ziaee said Iran will "spare no efforts," though no details of the aid package were yet announced.
The North Korean state news agency KCNA issued a report that more than 30 percent of rice paddies around the country were "parching up" because of a lack of rain.
South Korea's Unification Ministry, a government agency that works toward a reunited North and South Korea, said rainfall in North Korea was unusually low in May, and food production could decline significantly if that continued.
According to the most recent survey by UNICEF, 28 percent of North Korean children under 5 were chronically malnourished.
In North Korea, the food supply is tightly controlled by the central state and shortages are not uncommon. A shortage known as the Great Famine killed between 2 and 3 percent of the population in the 1990s. In 2013, North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, initiated minor agricultural reforms that allowed farmers to keep up to 30% of their own crop yields. During the last drought, in 2014, Korea actually increased its agricultural output, according to Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at the University of Seoul.
It seems that the North Korean government is already taking measures to minimize the drought's impact. "Farm managers reported receiving training in dry rice planting techniques and other measures that they were trying to conserve water," Linda Lewis of the American Friends Service Committee, which runs farm projects in the North, told Reuters on June 17.
The UN says humanitarian operations in the country are severely underfunded, and in April it requested $111 million in additional aid money. Funding for UN agencies that deliver aid to North Korea fell to less than $50 million in 2014, down from $300 million in 2004.
Still, some are skeptical of North Korea's cry for help, noting that in 2001, it announced it was experiencing the worst drought in 1,000 years.
North Korea's request for Iranian aid comes as both countries face international sanctions. In recent years, humanitarian assistance from the US and South Korea have been cut back, as tensions over the North's nuclear program intensified.
July 1, 2015 | 4:40 pm
North Korea has asked Iran for urgent humanitarian aid to help survive what the North Korean government has called "the worst drought in 100 years."
"[Iran] is duty bound to render humanitarian aid to all countries," the head of the Iranian Red Crescent, Amir Hossein Ziaee, said, according to the Iranian state news agency IRNA. After meeting with the North Korean ambassador to Iran on Tuesday, Kang Sam Hyon, Ziaee said Iran will "spare no efforts," though no details of the aid package were yet announced.
The North Korean state news agency KCNA issued a report that more than 30 percent of rice paddies around the country were "parching up" because of a lack of rain.
South Korea's Unification Ministry, a government agency that works toward a reunited North and South Korea, said rainfall in North Korea was unusually low in May, and food production could decline significantly if that continued.
According to the most recent survey by UNICEF, 28 percent of North Korean children under 5 were chronically malnourished.
In North Korea, the food supply is tightly controlled by the central state and shortages are not uncommon. A shortage known as the Great Famine killed between 2 and 3 percent of the population in the 1990s. In 2013, North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, initiated minor agricultural reforms that allowed farmers to keep up to 30% of their own crop yields. During the last drought, in 2014, Korea actually increased its agricultural output, according to Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at the University of Seoul.
It seems that the North Korean government is already taking measures to minimize the drought's impact. "Farm managers reported receiving training in dry rice planting techniques and other measures that they were trying to conserve water," Linda Lewis of the American Friends Service Committee, which runs farm projects in the North, told Reuters on June 17.
The UN says humanitarian operations in the country are severely underfunded, and in April it requested $111 million in additional aid money. Funding for UN agencies that deliver aid to North Korea fell to less than $50 million in 2014, down from $300 million in 2004.
Still, some are skeptical of North Korea's cry for help, noting that in 2001, it announced it was experiencing the worst drought in 1,000 years.
North Korea's request for Iranian aid comes as both countries face international sanctions. In recent years, humanitarian assistance from the US and South Korea have been cut back, as tensions over the North's nuclear program intensified.
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Kim Jong Un had terrapin farm manager executed, says source
Kim Jong Un had ordered the execution to make an example of the manager – and to reinforce North Korea’s politics of fear.
SEOUL, July 6 (UPI) -- may have executed the manager of a terrapin farm the North Korean leader visited in May, according to a source in Pyongyang.
The terrapin farm after May 19, when Kim expressed his displeasure regarding its operation. South Korean news outlet Daily NK reported Kim might have executed the farm manager for not supplying sufficient water to aquarium tanks.
According to the news source, Kim Jong Un ordered the execution of the manager after providing field guidance at the Taedonggang terrapin farm.
"Food and water for the turtles were not being supplied sufficiently, that was the reason for execution by gun," the source said.
South Korean news outlet Newsis reported North Korea's charges of incompetence ignored the real reason for the supply issues.
Power outages were common at the farm, said the source, and the farm was not provided with adequate amounts of food for the turtles.
Kim Jong Un had ordered the execution to make an example of the manager – and to reinforce North Korea's politics of fear, according to South Korea press.
During his visit in May, Kim reportedly reprimanded the farm's management and said the managers were ruining the North Korean leader's mission and the farm could not resume normal production levels.
"Ten million loyal citizens and military personnel are tirelessly preparing gifts for the 70th anniversary of the Korean Workers' Party, by night and by day. I don't know what this farm is planning for the celebrations in October," Kim had said.
Daily NK's source said the execution of the manager follows an ongoing trend in North Korea.
Subordinates at the turtle farm who wished to display their ultimate loyalty to Kim might have facilitated the death of the manager, said the source.
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Kim Jong Un had ordered the execution to make an example of the manager – and to reinforce North Korea’s politics of fear.
SEOUL, July 6 (UPI) -- may have executed the manager of a terrapin farm the North Korean leader visited in May, according to a source in Pyongyang.
The terrapin farm after May 19, when Kim expressed his displeasure regarding its operation. South Korean news outlet Daily NK reported Kim might have executed the farm manager for not supplying sufficient water to aquarium tanks.
According to the news source, Kim Jong Un ordered the execution of the manager after providing field guidance at the Taedonggang terrapin farm.
"Food and water for the turtles were not being supplied sufficiently, that was the reason for execution by gun," the source said.
South Korean news outlet Newsis reported North Korea's charges of incompetence ignored the real reason for the supply issues.
Power outages were common at the farm, said the source, and the farm was not provided with adequate amounts of food for the turtles.
Kim Jong Un had ordered the execution to make an example of the manager – and to reinforce North Korea's politics of fear, according to South Korea press.
During his visit in May, Kim reportedly reprimanded the farm's management and said the managers were ruining the North Korean leader's mission and the farm could not resume normal production levels.
"Ten million loyal citizens and military personnel are tirelessly preparing gifts for the 70th anniversary of the Korean Workers' Party, by night and by day. I don't know what this farm is planning for the celebrations in October," Kim had said.
Daily NK's source said the execution of the manager follows an ongoing trend in North Korea.
Subordinates at the turtle farm who wished to display their ultimate loyalty to Kim might have facilitated the death of the manager, said the source.
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Displease a god and be struck down. displease a individual raised to believe himself a god and be shot or disappeared.