In today's globalized world, we sometimes forget how intense the hostility between nations can be - especially when one of them is a paranoid dictatorship.
But watch the above video from North Korean state television of an angry mob in Pyongyang. What are they angry about? The crimes of this poor effigy, which happens to be that of South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak.
But, no, death by hanging isn't even enough for the dummy. So they set attack dogs on it. Not enough? Try a big bad military tank. Didn't do the job? Throw rocks at the dismembered head. (Don't worry, this isn't a human it's just plastic.) Finally, job done, one hopes.
It is a mysterious country, North Korea. We rarely get pictures from there, but I guess this is how they want the world to see them.
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They are paid to act like that. Or given food to act like that. Probably the latter.
Most likely they got to not get a bullet in the skull for acting like that.
Or may be they did get the bullet in their head after this....
You see, a dictator does need his people sometimes! They are good enough for him when it comes to play a – passive – role or do what they are told.
You are probably correct! It's sad!
Henry is correct.
Really, paid or given food for that? How the heck to people know these things. I don't suppose it is possible that North Koreans just hate South Koreans. It is amazing that we all talk about how they are brainwashed and act a certain way because they are told to... Maybe we are brainwashed to believe this?? Who knows I guess.
you should probably learn a little about North Korea, before opening your ignorant mouth?
You should read Escape from Camp 14 if you want to learn something about the society in North Korea and how it is run by fear and terror.
LOL. You're right. Maybe NK is a brutal, Stalinist dictatorship where any notion of human rights are completely absent. Or maybe everybody who claims to know anything about them is lying, and it's really a communist utopia where the peoples' will is perfectly in sync with the leadership. As with anything, the truth is probably somewhere between. Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
you really need to get out more often
All I was saying was, it is amazing that NK is supposed to be the most secretive place on earth, and yet, everyone seems to know exactly why the people there do what they do...this is a contraction. I don't pretend to know what goes on there because I don't know, but I have seen some pretty amazing footage. Oh, that is right, I have only seen what "they" want me to see. LOL
Mike, your comment is one of the silliest I've ever read. And I've read a lot of silly ones.
I hear you MikeB. The fact is there are sheep on both sides of the fence.
Either read up or watch a video on those who have escaped N. Korea. Then you will have a general idea on why we say these things, nimrod.
my grandparents escaped north korea AFTER, seized my grandmother's side family who were educated in America (rare for late 1800s) and started a trade business bringing in Lumber from the US, they were also close with US missionaries and also created housing for their factory workers, all this was taken by Communists, my grandfather's side? my great grandparents were sent on a death march up the mountain barefoot. All reasons why my family fled North Korea and moved to the U.S... i doubt there is a double standard, as some relatives were unable to make the escape and might still be in North Korea.... US brainwashed? North Koreans aren't allowed to leave the country and they don't even have access to world news. it filters through the government. You ignorant Americans need a better education on foreign issues. Stop relying on the media for your main source. talk to people, read a book for a change.
Also, there are tons of spies going back and forth between Nkorea and Skorea. If you youtube some north korean footage, you can see what the world looks like there through a hidden camera. just youtube "north korea hidden camera"
Oh, and i forgot to mention. there are also Nkorea spies in the U.S. . It's been confirmed, just look up articles.
i apologize for the typos in the first paragraph.. i also meant "deathmarch, barefoot up a mountain, in SNOW"
spend less time inhaling the indoctrination political correctness and spend more time looking at the obvious for what it is. that scene in NK was staged. you'd have to be vacant of common sense NOT to see that.
To answer the N. korean mobs call, S. Koreans should take a trucj load to the DMV and make them crawl like dogs to get the Ramen noodles. N. Koreans are hungry, they will do anything for a gain of rice!!!
This emotional response is actually encouraged as natural by the regime. Even if they are paid or given food, I think the main reason for the response is that it is cultural. Here's a podcast that discussed the cultural background a bit: http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/122611-making-sense-north-korea
II effed up my Teddy Ruxpin when I was a kid because he stopped singing me songs. I didn't know he took batteries.
That totally explains why Ruxpin became a serial killer.
I stuffed mine in a closet when the batteries ran low, and he started talking all low and slow and creepy... reeed aaand yeeellowww aannddd bbluuueee.... preeecciissely
Oh my god I just spent 7 minutes trying to read your post to my wife, but had difficulty doing so through the tears and laughter. Thank you for making my night.
there is no room, time or hope for rehabilitation of this garbage. WE MUST KILL THEM ALL, they are just too fanatical and dangerous to this world....
I USE ALL CAPS TO MAKE MY TOUGHGUY POINT! RAWWWWR!!!!!!111
He used some CAPS for emphasis which is appropriate. Your entire sentenace was in caps, you therefore are more of an offender than the original poster. Learn English you self-righteous fool.
dangerous and fanatical? I hope you mean you.... killing an entire race, genocide against them wouldnt be dangerous and fanatical at all...
@ ryan c
Tbone didn’t say who “ALL” was, but lets assuming they meant the NORTH Koreans. If you killed every single NORTH Korean you wouldn’t be killing an entire race. SOUTH Koreans might have something to say about it. That said…kill them all does seem a bit fanatical no?
These people were, more than likely, coerced into this. They are oppressed and starving. It is their dictatorship that needs to go for them to have a chance at a real life. Why would you want to harm victims?
Here, take this rifle and defend yourself from one million North Koreans comming at you at the height of a North Korean winter. You go first. I spent a year on the DMZ and I can tell you that it was no fun.
N. Koreans need to do like Libyans were doing to Kaddafy....Hang that kid (N. Korean president), feed to the dog, drag with tank, and chop his head of like they were doing to the plastic. Then S. Koreans can distribute a pack of Ramen Noodle to every hungry N. Koreans as reward.
Dom't worry its just hunger driving these idiots
It must be ignorance and stupidity driving yours. This is Pyongyang where loyalists live. Even during a famine, most of these guys are fed luxuriously compared to those that are starving (in concentration camps). Still, meals people eat in the US make North Korean loyalists' meals look like a small snack.
I just got back from there. I wouldn't be surprised if they were stirred up to attack that dummy as part of a demonstration piece.
Their national paper (there's really only one kind) is filled with articles denouncing South Korea, especially its current president. The rhetoric against the US in the same papers is muted – probably because we were in talks with them, though they still blame us for atrocities in the Korean War.
As for "killing them all", that's a little ridiculous given that not all of them are like this. At least face to face and without the eye of the government putting them on public television.
What brought you to North Korea? Unless it's in the best interest of N K I know they won't allow US citizens in the country (with exception of eye doctors, food aid, etc).
Yeah they REALLY REALLY are the darkest of communism, probably worse than Nazi Germany. They invaded the South first. Fighting was fierce, but the South had almost captured Pyongyang the capital of NK. Then, of course like they always do, the Chinese sent 100,000 Royal Honorary Guards to charge South. So yeah point the finger wherever you want North Koreans, but its all your fault.
Except that, y'know, the Nazis weren't communist.
They started letting in US citizens in again recently, I think starting in 2009. The only thing you can't do is ride the train in or out of the country for some reason. An airplane is the only way for US citizens and you have to be approved for a visa prior to that. Brits, Canadians, etc. can all hop on the train. If you're South Korean, don't even think of trying to get in unless it's at that designated cooperative trading city along the DMZ.
They eat dogs!
That isn't so bad, dog is actually pretty good. I have been places where the people eat far worse.
Actually I'm very fond of horse myself...tasty when marinated and aged. With a turren of goat eye soup it's wunderbar.
Umm... so? US eats cows and pigs religiously. I don't support North Korea but at least they don't eat religious animals *aka cows symbolic in Hinduism*.
And trust me eating dogs is not the worse thing in the world. Pigs are just as intelligent and "lovable" as dogs too, it's just we genetically engineered dogs to be man's best friend. But it's OK to kill pigs and eat them but not OK to eat dogs? I never eaten one but I do want to try it one day much like how I want to go to Vietnam and try snake. I also want to try horse meat, cajun crocodiles, frogs, squirrels which you can all find a place to eat here in the US as well. Some South American countries eat gerbils and those in the North Pole hunt and eat those huge seals RAW. We could use some more dog-eaters too; what with overbreeding and overpopulating the dog market of greedy puppy mills.
Also, dog meat and horse meat are considered much safer, healthier, and better nutrition than beef and pork. Horse meat has nutrition that is in no other red meat AND has no fat whatsoever (lean meat, and surprisingly tender and not so chewy according to others who tried it). So what would you rather eat? Cows that are born in a pile of manure, live in a pile of manure eating other cows, corn, manure? The beef and pork most people eat in America are not fresh and have 1% fecal traces.
Joh, we could start super-puppy mills and breed them like cattle...the small ones can be popcorn-puppies deep fried and salty. Chicken fried canine...Dog-tenderloin... We could serve a Pug soup and call it Pug in a mug. Lightbulb.
If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are animals made of meat?
JOH
No animal is religious to me and I don't follow hindu. so who cares.
... and?
They eat bark. And grass.
They will eat anything they can find including mice, rats, bark, leaves and grass. Hundreds of thousands have starved to death .
Seems like the Fat Boy fearless leader finds that food. Now you know were it is all going. Right to the fearless leader's table. Nothing like leading by example. He will never know the word hungry.
They're just jealous, playa haters. Enjoy your mouse sandwich.
What's so embarrassing is that this is offical video leaked by NK. They ARE proud of this video and this is what they want the world to see. The stuff they try and censure is just as stupid and embarrassing from the perspective of the sane world. Don't they know we all laugh and ridicule them? Are they really that delusional?
Well for one, they don't care how the world perceives them. They have a political/social philosophy they abide by that was founded by Kim Il Sung called "ju-che" which is pretty much a middle finger to everyone that isn't them. There is no foreign policy technically which is why meetings between the South Korean/US joint forces with North Korea is so rare (right on the 38th parallel is a building where soldiers/officials from both sides can meet.
The informational censorship is just a means of control and manipulation whereas this video is just them spewing hate on something they don't approve. They couldn't care less if we're laughing at them or not. It's just not in their style. They aren't like Westernized people that obsess over approval from others. So it's very different there yes, and it is a waste of time doing what they did in the video as it shows immaturity and the like... but you can't save people from themselves.
The people involves were either officials, blind patriots, or in it for the food but if you live in Pyongyang you get decent food whereas the ones in concentration camps are the ones who has no food and are starving. Children born in and die in concentratiaon camps.
JOH – They do not know what the world thinks. They are not allowed to receive broadcasts from other nations. When purchasing radios or one of the rare TV sets, it is "fixed" to not pick up anything but NK sponsored transmissions.
Read "Nothing To Envy" for an eye opening take on NK, from the mouths of those luck enough to escape and live to tell about it.
Well said, apparently they don’t. Or they just don’t care. That to me would seem the right way of putting it. They are a clouded and delusional country. I personally wish the earth would just open up and swallow no more problems!
At least they attacked a manikin were Islamist Extremists would have used a live person...
Dumb..
Your post made my day.
I'm concerned about the dogs.
You don't need to be concerned for the dogs. They taste delicious.
*sarcasm*
Yes, sarcasm...but, seriously. Have you tried the Korean BBQ? I recommend the dog.
I remember about 25 years ago in Rochester, NY, a Korean restaurant was shut down by the Health Department because they actually killed a dog and cooked it. Not sure if any customers ate any of it, but eww.
OK, so we should just drop off a bunch of religious extremist whafckos and let them take each other out. Bring yur popcorn!
This is typical video "news" footage created for dissemination, over state run media, to the North Korean people. Since the establishment of the DPRK in 1948, close to 4 generations of human beings have been taught nothing but the hate for, and a fervent desire to kill the government's "make believe" enemies. Giving up control over their own lives, all a North Korean citizen has to do is endure the injustices of famine, mandatory self criticism by committee, internal gulag prison camps such as slave labor camp 14, just to name few.
Kim Il Sung called this place he created, the "People's Paradise!"
When was the last time a US foreign minister, diplomat, secretary of state or president ever traveled to NK or entertained that notion in the sake of peace and friendship? Is the western world too good to sit down and talk to the North Koreans and stop alienating them for a change? let's face it, if you want your enemies to become friends, you have to begin by breaking the ice and convincing them that you're willing to set aside differences and begin a new path to friendship! But all the west has done is poked, laughed at and make fun of the North Koreans for decades! And what is even worst is that now they have a new leader and there is a chance to help NK seek a new path, we're still continuing to deal with NK in the way arrogant ways that we have been dealing with it for decades! I don't think NK is the problem, I think we are! let's face it, if diplomacy is our strength, we're sure doing a very bad job with NK!
The western world is NOT too good to sit down with the North Koreans. Media elites may have done it, but I can assure you, the US government has never poked, laughed at nor made fun of North Korea. North Korea is treated with the respect it deserves for the actions which it solely creates.
Before I ask my president, my vice president, or my secretary of state to sit down with an obviously cult driven and loony bunch I would have to make sure that they would not be treated as the dummy was, of this I am not so sure...
Well said, Blah blah.... Just never mind these uneducated lemmings here who have absolutely no knowledge of North Korea!
I liked it when the tank rolled over the head. Wait, so you're saying the rabbit worked for internal affairs? Hold on, I have to go to zeee lobby.
Took a log time to mention that it was a plastic dummy.
If by now we do not recognize the orchestration, the intimidation, and the order to assemble that forces these people to cry on demand, and be angry on demand, nothing will...Rather than be intimidated by their acts, feel sorry for them when the show is over...
It's too bad the reality is that will be their own leader soon as the citizens revolt against the tyrants......
I heard it was a Real Doll.
The only thing North Korea can get right is that excessive hand clapping they do in unison!
I heard they eat babies. No wait, thats china. No? That was made up? Oh well – nevermind.
NK supreme leader Hu Flung Pu angered them by telling the people "I have good news and bad news. The bad news is all we have is horse manure to eat. The good news is, not enough to go around".
So much for foreign aid to these creeps. let them all starve to death. obviously they don't want any help from other countries acting in this behavoir.!!!
Where was the fearless leader? Fat boy is probably chowing down on a double, no triple layer Chocolate Cake loaded with 6 gallons of ice cream while he watches replays of his failed fireworks. Doesn’t he know that someone has already invented fireworks?
I would not call this a mob: should better look again at the Arab Spring thing to see what angry mob is!
I'm ronery......
They're brain-washed, not paid.
as Sam Kinison would say, BECAUSE THEIR LIVES BITE THE REALLY, REALLY BIG ONE?
What a surprise they will be in for when this regime falls and they get to see that the rest of the world eats, drives, and doesn't have to bow to their leader... they think their lifestyle is "Normal"... Poor people. I wanna help, but don't know how....
The supreme wacko leader told them to be angry, and rather than be sent to a "re-education" camp, they complied.
What a life ! But the biggest different between us and the North Koreans is the size of the box that keeps us all trapped, brainwashed, and isolated. Just think about it for awhile.
Then afterwards they all ate the effigy as there was no other food around. They had tried the attack dogs but they would just bite back.
I feel terrible for these North Koreans. They honestly don't know a thing about the outside world. They are poor, hungry and controlled! The North Korean regime must fall, and this must happen quickly. Those people are no different than South Koreans, who are VERY productive people and contribute a lot to this world. The only difference is, they don't know better due to the fact they don't know what real life is. Truly sad!
People always revolt against tyranny, in the end. People will revolt against Kim Jong Eun or whomever succeeds him, eventually. Whether it's in one year, or five years, or twenty years, the will of a human is to seek freedom.
And when it happens, and the atrocities come out, the history books will name the Kim Dynasty as one of the most grotesque dictatorships that happened in the post-industrial era.
I agree.
Hopefully more cell phones in North Korea will allow for the coordination of the democratic revolution.
NONE of them look obese in the slightest. Hungry people will do things they normally wouldn't. Maybe someone told them that the man this effigy represents took their food.
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Why is this crowd so angry? Ahh, who really cares?
Those poor, poor people. Once the cult of personality falls, I wonder if they can be assimilated in the 21st Century?
This is a propaganda video staged for the people of North Korea... most of their demonstrations (attacking S. Korea, blowing up stuff, rocket launches) are for the purposes of controlling their own people through state run media.
Most S. Koreans ignore these displays as they are so used to them.
I have plenty of pictures from this place at my blog, cyruskirkpatrick.com. It's just you don't see mainstream pictures because they don't allow mainstream press to cover the place. However, Fareed, you can use my photos if you're reading this. Just drop me a line. People tend to only cover the dark side of the country in pictures like this one.
Scary ... if the irrationality displayed in this clip is representative of the leadership of NK and its populace, then SK, the region and the world is in a whole lot of trouble! I wonder what the leadership of China thinks about all the stuff its earnest-while friend is doing? Are they nervous, exasperated? How long are they going to let this go on before they start exercising the considerable influence and pressure they can bring to bear? At what point will China finally come to the realization that it must choose between its obligations to the international community that are consummate with the great nation that it is becoming or side with a way ward friend that is at best politically, socially, economically and emotionally unstable and at worst, a nuclear black mailer that threatens to hold the world hostage?
They are just letting off a little steam, no harm done. I did the same thing to an effigy of Obama, and it felt really good.
bet they got an extra bowl of rice !!!
If one person begins to act like an imbecile, the rest are expected to join in. If they don't, they will be snitched on. People have been sent to labor camps for less.
Must be Hate Week.
Are you sure it wasn't just the daily Two Minutes Hate?
Another spontaneous North Korean demonstration. Banana peels for everyone!
Got to love Fareed always digging up international stories. I enjoy Fareed's wit too. What a great way to end the segment.
"I guess this is how they want the world to see them."
Lol, pure genius.
I say just to starve them out and maybe eventually the people will rise up against the leadership! I doubt it would happen though.
I I wish we would do that with Bush's effigy.
The North Korean government would rather be feared than respected. Too bad they are neither by most of the world, only feared by those in their own country.
Kinda reminds me of Hate-Week and the daily Two-Minutes Hate in Orwell's 1984. The crowd is worked up into a blind frenzy of hate for those that the regime considers its enemies. No serious thought on the part of the protesters is required for this as long as they are sufficiently brain-washed into absolute loyalty to Big Brother (or Dear Leader, Great Leader or whatever the dictator there is called now).
There's a part of me that understands and agrees with the points made for entries between "Boom Howerd" and "matty bones" - that essentially they are posturing and blowing off steam! Well people dismissed Hitler and the Nazi's as being pretty much the same thing and we all know how that turned out! And BTW, if you can imagine doing to a person what you can do to an effigy, then a "Holocaust" redux is possible.
North Korea is an asylum for the criminally insane and the inmates are in charge.
They are probably upset because someone stole thier KIm Jong Underwear or their Kim Jong Ildos
They get favors for doing that, such as never having to fear retribution by the government. A lot of it is just false acting out because they don't have a choice. Even the tears shed aren't real. If they show resistance to the government, their lives become living hell.
If China was to open its boarder with North Korea and accept refugees in, then I'll bet 80 percent of North Koreans would end up in China. Which will definitely create a havoc.
Guess people should reread 1984 from Georges Orwell. The North Korean regime seems to apply the rules of 1984 and this one looks like the 2 minute of hate in the book 1984. And they have Big Brother as the Kim Jong II and his son now...
I'd be mad too if I had to live in North Korea.
I love fish.
Well if you can't launch nukes at em, why not make an oversized voodoo doll and begain the big bad voodoo jinx at it to show your technological and cultural progression.
The North is a scared country, the down fall of many dictators have ben arise and many more will follow what bettter way to keep control of a fraile country by bringing them together in such a manner,trying to give them unity. only time will dismember this regime allow internet in this country see if the arab spring rubs off into an asian sprung hahahahaha
There is no angry mob scene. You have a rally in one shot and some clowns playing with the effigy the other shots. At most, you have 10 people throwing rocks but the effigy isn't in that shot. When you see rocks thrown at the head, there is only one or two coming in at a time. This is irresponsible journalism on CNN's part.
Isolation plus propaganda equals unquestioned loyalty to the leader.
"Mob" implies spontaneity, Fareed. Do you really believe there is anything spontaneous or unplanned about this "demonstration?" Sometimes I honest believe that Zakaria is totally delusional.
This is a difficult question, but let me guess.
Is it because they either choose to be a part of an angry mob, or choose to be transported to their country's notorious concentration camp.
Any prize for the correct answer?