Laughter Banned for 11 Days in North Korea

[frank_one]

Originally Posted by neatoman

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.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

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

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.