Inside North Korea 1

Photojournalist Sean Gallagher and reporter Mark MacKinnon (The Globe & Mail) venture deep inside North Korea to offer a glimpse at the world's most reclusive state. 2009

http://www.gallagher-photo.com

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• journalism
• north korea
• asia
• pyongyang
• sean gallagher
• mark mackinnon
• the globe and mail

[lysol5555]

george orwell was right! You can actually have an incredibly isolated and corrupted government that can last a long time! Scary stuff!

[TheTollundWoman]

@bikegirl2

I know about "de-stalinization", the "thaw", etc. Khruschev made some very eloquent speeches, no doubt about it, but he didn't close the GULag, he didn't release the political prisoners, he didn't allow any real criticism of communism, and he continued, just like Stalin before him, in persecuting all dissent against the Party. The USSR remained a one-party totalitarian state long after "de-stalinization"

[TheTollundWoman]

@bikegirl2

De-Stalinization was only superficial, a desperate attempt on the part of a corrupt and violent regime to save face. Stalin was uniquely evil, no doubt about it, but the crimes and atrocities of the Communist regime neither began nor ended with his rule. Lenin and Trotsky had thousands of innocent people imprisoned and even massacred. And the violent suppression of all dissent, the silencing and imprisonment of dissidents, the GULag continued long after Stalin

[bikegirl2]

@TheTollundWoman that was only under the rule of stalin, stalin as not the USSR, read about de-stalinization, you know little about what you talk about!

[TheTollundWoman]

@bikegirl2

Oh yes, life was really "nice" in the USSR- unless you were one of the tens of millions of people ("trotskyites","titoists", "counter-revolutionaries", "rootless cosmpolitans") who were starved, tortured, and enslaved in the GULag, or unless you were one of the millions of farmers ("kulaks") forced from your home at gunpoint, separated from your family and MURDERED. Life in the USSR wasn't exactly "nice" for them.

[TheTollundWoman]

@gopconservative78

The only people who need to be "wiped off the face of the earth" are Kim Jong Il himself and the other leaders of the Communist junta. The rest of the nation is NOT, and never has been our enemy. It is the Communist tyrants who attacked us, not North Korea as a whole. Kim Jong Il needs to be punished for his crimes and his nation LIBERATED

[TheTollundWoman]

@gopconservative78

RE: "wipe them off the face of the earth"??

The North Korean *people* have never actually supported communism, it was imposed on them by Soviet and Chinese imperialists who aided Kim Il Sung during the Korean war. Hundreds of thousands of people have risked their lives to flee to freedom (in South Korea and the US) and millions more have been imprisoned and even executed for defying or questioning the regime in any way.

[siralucard19]

1:26 NK hasn't got this luck, US don't even care much about NK, what to get from it if they invade it? NK has no great resurses,, not even food, all they can do is loot his castle cuz its more rich than Saddam but above all this NK has over one million well armed active soldiers trained to be ruthless killing machines and 10 nukes

[Methuselah18]

@eeayt hahahaa, that's awesome, bro. Right on!

[eeayt]

@gopconservative78 because of bullshit like that you don´t have the world trade center towers anymore