DPRK celebrates the birth of Kim Il-Sung

http://theredphoenixapl.org/2012/04/15/dprk-celebrates-centennial-of-kim-il-sungs-birth/

So happy birthday to the dear leader.

Happy 100 Dicktator Sunny!

It's hard to take their military seriously after that rocket launch. I've actually managed to uncover amateur video of the launch.

Because you know North Korea is the "only" country to have a failed rocket launch.

19 million: Estimated North Koreans who could buy a year's worth of food with the $850 million their country's leader, Kim Jong Un, spent on the rocket.

Seems like a lie to me.

That came from TIME.

The same people who gave Adolf Hitler the man of the year award means very little to me, also being from a western media there are going to betray North Korea in a negative light.

A lot can change about a news source in 67 years you know. And its not like they are stating an opinion or something. The rocket costs 850 million dollars. They compared that to how much a year's worth of food cost in North Korea and then figured out how many people could buy a year's worth of food with that money.

Portray goddammit. And Time's man of the year award simply means that he was a big, important figure that year, not that they like him.

I would just like to point out to you that his birthday is on the same day that you have to file your tax returns.

Viking, don't be another Che. North Korea sucks. It's probably the worst country on the planet to live in. It's definitely in the running. The entire international community condemned them for their launch, as it specifically violates the restrictions placed on ballistic missile development that North Korea has to abide by. They're not communists, they're not socialists, the regime ruling the country is essentially a monarchy, and they've contributed absolutely nothing to the development of either humanity or their ideology in the duration of their entire existence. No rational human being would ever support North Korea.

lol

It is a soviet-style socialist country. It has the one-party system with the puppet parties and they have a soicalist economy.

Just because the head of state is hereditary and teh country is de facto a monarchy, that is not a reason to say it isn´t a socialist country.

All it is is a backwards country. It is not socialist in the slightest.

Because? Can you give me reasons to defend that idea?

I agree that North Korea is really bad socialism, and the ultimate example of why liberty should be placed over security.

It sucks there.... North Korea will place miltary over food. Citizens there don't know the conditions suck because they don't know freedom.
Only a small percent there (like matrix almost) try, and manage to escape, even though in china they can get deported to die, or be prosituted (if ur female).
escaping to south korea or japan is hard because there is a sea to cross. Hopefully the Swiss taught Kim Jong Un something useful lol
Kim il-sung (who actually wanted to liberalize a little, i learned) devoloped juche, which is well known for not working. Basically it puts North Korea first, making it isolated, and also apparently 100% centralized. I guess socalism is a base, yes. This makes N. Korea unpredictable and obviously dangerous since 1950... and why South Korea has a 99% approval rate of American miltary prescence.

South Koreans hate the American military presence.

The people who hate the US miltary, according to my dad, are the 10% of mostly youth who don't take North Korea seriously; they want to reunite Korea, which hasnt been a single nation since 1910's. South Korea likes Obama more than most Americans, and most elders remember Americans, and the UN coalition, for stopping North Korea. Cuz they hate North Korea, Japanese, communists, Chinese, etc. You might be confusing with Japan....

Well, I have never been to any of these places, but my step dad was a Marine stationed in the Pacific, and he said most people in countries with an American military presence despise it. He said the majority of Koreans see us as a barrier to peace, as antagonists. But I don't know.