Laughter Banned for 11 Days in North Korea

[The Deadman]

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/northkorea-kimjongun-laughterban/2021/12/20/id/1049427/

North Korea has imposed an 11-day laughing ban on its citizens to honor the death of former Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il, the father of current leader Kim Jong Un.

According to the Washington Examiner, North Koreans are prohibited from laughing, consuming alcohol or engaging in leisure activities.

The ban went into effect on Friday, the 10th anniversary of the leader's death. A report stated that North Koreans were forbidden from buying groceries that day. A resident of Sinuiju, North Korea, said that ''in the past, many people who were caught drinking or being intoxicated during the mourning period were arrested and treated as ideological criminals. They were taken away and never seen again.''

The ban is so strict that even a family tragedy does not allow people to show emotion. The resident stated that ''even if your family member dies during the mourning period, you are not allowed to cry out loud, and the body must be taken out after it's over. People cannot even celebrate their own birthdays if they fall within the mourning period.''

A resident of the southwestern province of South Hwanghae said that ''it's a monthlong special duty for the police. I heard that law enforcement officials cannot sleep at all.''

[triplexxx]

Saw this back on Friday and thought about posting it, but knew what that's going to lead to. And guess what happens if anyone tries to leave. How people have tolerated tyranny like this for so long, I'll never understand.

[frank_one]

How people have tolerated tyranny like this for so long, I'll never understand.That's the only reality they've ever experienced.

[Andrew NDB]

This kind of stuff goes on, but America is the country of oppression and systemic racism and injustice. Nothing to say about North Korea.

[Bahamut810]

Tracking the new sourses back it goes back to Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-bans-laughing-11-days-mark-kim-family-anniversary-report-1660888

[IndigoErth]

Been saying it forever, that place is far more a cult than a country. :tconfuse: When is someone finally going to take that vile family out.

Sounds like face masks would have another benefit there than Covid... that and big dark sunglasses.


This kind of stuff goes on, but America is the country of oppression and systemic racism and injustice. Nothing to say about North Korea.
People have been talking about them forever and you'd have to live under a rock to not know that. Though their insanity doesn't erase any room for improvement us or any other nations have.

[oldmanwinters]

On the 12th Day of [censored]...

[Andrew NDB]

People have been talking about them forever and you'd have to live under a rock to not know that.

Really, lots of protests and boycots and Facebook banners and stuff? I haven't seen any. I've only seen about America.

[IMJ]

Another notch in the belt of $#!(bags countries in the world. But the left can complain here because their school loans aren't forgiven. I'd take the good general population of the Korea's any day who would be here and love this country.

[Sumac]

I wouldn't trust this stuff. A lot of outrageous information about NK comes from South Korea and they are pretty biased for obvious reasons.

Don't misunderstand - North Korea is a totalitarian hellhole ruled by dickhead monarch, but I suspect that he is not so far gone to literally play the role of a cartoon villain.

How people have tolerated tyranny like this for so long, I'll never understand.
I ask myself this question, every time when I hear about inhuman regimes, like that of Stalin. And apparently answer - people are scared. Fear is truly a weapon of mass destruction.

[triplexxx]

Another notch in the belt of $#!(bags countries in the world. But the left can complain here because their school loans aren't forgiven. I'd take the good general population of the Korea's any day who would be here and love this country.In that case, maybe forces ought to be sent to Korea, annihilate the dictatorship and all on its side, and invite the population over. Not that that idea hasn't been thought of millions of times before and the repercussions of which considered.

[IndigoErth]

Really, lots of protests and boycots and Facebook banners and stuff? I haven't seen any. I've only seen about America.
For probably no more the reason that you likely never have either, because North Korea doesn't really impact us personally, even though most would probably agree that it's awful and needs a drastic change of power that us average people will never have any impact on with a sign or shaking fists in our own streets, far from where action actually needs to happen.

Of course it's about America when Americans feel moved to protest for things that do impact them...

I wish China or someone big in that side of the world would tire of them and just bomb them. Very targeted though to spare the general population as best as possible. Would be nice to someday see what North Korea could be without that family keeping rule over them.

[Sumac]

In that case, maybe forces ought to be sent to Korea, annihilate the dictatorship and all on its side, and invite the population over. Not that that idea hasn't been thought of millions of times before and the repercussions of which considered.
It would lead to a colossal humanitarian disaster.

For one, if army invades North Korea, NK will bomb major parts of South Korea to dust, including Seoul, which is a megapolis populated by millions.

Second, given how brainwashed NK army, invaders will face a protracted guerilla warfare and acts of terrorism. Think modern day Afghanistan, but instead of religious zealots you have commie ones.

Third, even if NK army is defeated you have millions of people who don't know how to live in any other society, but North Korean one. South Korea, assuming most of it survives the war, will need to take care about badly qualified brainwashed North Koreans, who have very little idea how to live in a Western and relatively free society.

Fourth, South Korea won't be able to integrate North Korean economy right out of the bat, which will led to South Korean being crippled for decades.
For example how it works in real life - there is still difference between former Eastern and Western Germanies, with Eastern regions being poorer, despite decades since reunification.

Fifth, China and Russia will need to take care about millions of refugees running away from the war and I am sure they are thrilled about it.

I hate North Korean regime as any other sane person, but direct invasion is not a good way to solve it. Unless you can 100% guarantee, that they won't be able to attack South Korea at all.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

I wish China or someone big in that side of the world would tire of them and just bomb them. Very targeted though to spare the general population as best as possible. Would be nice to someday see what North Korea could be without that family keeping rule over them.

China will never bomb them, China and North Korea are allies. North Korea acts as a buffer to keep American troops as far from China as possible, as there are many American troops stationed in South Korea.

If you take out the Kim family, North Korea ceases to exist altogether. The entire regime is built on the personality of Kim Il Sung, he is to North Korea what Hitler was to National Socialist Germany.

Take out the leader who is the very core of the ideology, and the entire structure will collapse.

[AquaParade]

I wonder how Joker would react.

[IMJ]

In that case, maybe forces ought to be sent to Korea, annihilate the dictatorship and all on its side, and invite the population over. Not that that idea hasn't been thought of millions of times before and the repercussions of which considered.

It doesn't work that way.

Posts like this routinely remind me of the level of interaction and reason here at the Drome.

I wish China or someone big in that side of the world would tire of them and just bomb them. Very targeted though to spare the general population as best as possible.

Aannnnddddd..... again.

-sigh-

[triplexxx]

It doesn't work that way.

Posts like this routinely remind me of the level of interaction and reason here at the Drome.Hence, repercussions have been considered.

[IMJ]

Hence, repercussions have been considered.

If you specifically meant global repercussions against the U.N. charter of invasion absent an uprising and formal request for aid, then sure.

[neatoman]

Does this mean a baby who randomly laughs is thrown into prison?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Eastern and Western Germanies, with Eastern regions being poorer, despite decades since reunification.

That's just a small price to pay, compared to the horrible Berlin Wall that divided and shaped Europe for many years.

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[frank_one]

Does this mean a baby who randomly laughs is thrown into prison?His parents are responsible for their baby and would pay for his actions.

[robertfiduciary]

"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." - Matthew 7:5

America has a lot of problems. If you don't see them, it doesn't mean that they don't exist. And the folks who choose to point them out, to look for solutions and work on those issues, well... I'd suggest they love this country, and actually seek to make it "a more perfect union."

Also, IMO your repeated assumption that the only things that exist are what you yourself have seen on social media says a lot more about you (and your social media feed) then it does about the world at large.

And perhaps it makes me a hypocrite to point that out (especially after that Bible quote), but we are all only human.

Really, lots of protests and boycots and Facebook banners and stuff? I haven't seen any. I've only seen about America.

[Sumac]

That's just a small price to pay, compared to the horrible Berlin Wall that divided and shaped Europe for many years.

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In case, of Germany where both sides wanted to re-unify it is.
In case of North and South Korea, not so much.

Even though on outside, situations can be considered similar - one country divided into two, wit different economy models, it is pretty much where similarities end.
GDR was a "poster child" of Socialism and USSR had put a lot of money and effort to keep it relatively modern, compared to many other parts of the Warsaw Block. So reunification was relatively painless. Especially since both parts wanted to be one again.

Compare it with North Korea, which was ruled for many decades by family of ruthless monarchs, who starved and brainwashed its population into state of obedience.