14days Inside North Korea

As North Korea struggles to come to grips with its need for a free market society, and economic reforms. Tourism is trickling into Pyongyang and bringing more and more Canadians, Europeans, Chinese and Indians into the country. This influx of tourism is exposing some the citizenry of North Korea to the many nuances of life outside their boarders. Against this backdrop the affluent and not continue on with their daily lives, much as anywhere else in the world. Going to work, school, shopping or even to the ocean for a picnic and a swim.

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[thenameisjesse1]

@baznian so tanks could get through

[acidbubblebath77]

@freandwhickquest People who romanticize this stuff should do all of us a favor and live under those conditions for a period of time before going off on a tangent about how crappy they think they have it now. At any rate, they cannot tolerate differing ideologies, freedom of speech, religion, enlightenment, or anything perceived as contradicting to conformity. Having experienced it myself, I find communism to be a disgusting and barbaric parasite completely bankrupt of human dignity and hope.

[acidbubblebath77]

@acidbubblebath77 Damn auto spell! Meant to ask "Any ideas? Curious what yours or anyone else's thoughts are on this."

[acidbubblebath77]

@itzahazylife There are probably other benefits to humanity I haven't mentioned as well. However, I think you basically summarized it on why it hasn't worked in ideological terms, so far anyway: How do you enforce cooperation from the public on a national level if, ideally, its not supposed to have a large central government as a means of authority? How can a system such as this function while not infringing upon civil liberties? Any idea? Curious what yours or anyone's thoughts ate on this.

[acidbubblebath77]

@itzahazylife My arguments below were in reference to state run communism under the assumption that the target audience reading them is cognizant of the difference between state run communism and communism in ideological terms. With that said, I agree that if communism could actually work in its true form, then perhaps we would be living in a utopic world free of nationalism, armed conflict over individual nation state sovereignty, resource inequity, and ethnic strife.

[itzahazylife]

@acidbubblebath77

state run communism is not actual communism..true communism is against a state authority..communism is beautiful on paper, but human still need a government to enforce it, which always end up perverting it.

[GoodyWillPwnJ00]

@acidbubblebath77 Yeah or you could just say America hahaha

[CarlosTadeus]

North Korea is receiving immigrants to work in the industry, who qualifies?

[LVJANISLV]

i hope Kim Il-sung burns in hell

[freandwhickquest]

@acidbubblebath77 Thank you for answering me. I compelety agree with you.

[acidbubblebath77]

@freandwhickquest I'm kinda curious why your questions were marked as spam?? These are quite legitimate questions IMO. But then again, I suppose this is what we can expect from people who embrace a "big brother" sociopolitical system who have no clue whatsoever what it is like to be forced to live under these conditions. My guess is you would get the "western propaganda" response anyway. Having lived in China I can attest who is getting the short end of the stick with human rights.