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Originally posted by Dukla Dukla wrote:

Interesting reaction to the Kenneth Bae question. Surprised Rodman isn't walking around with a Korean workers party badge. I'd say the CIA has a pretty big file on him by now. Wonder what the North koreans make of him LOL
 
 
he is a loose cannon , i was hoping he was working for the CIA , one of his entourage must be , maybe matt cooper is LOL
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How is Matt Cooper involved?  Someone said he went as an observer. Well ho does that work? I cant go to some birtday party in the white house as an observer so how can he go to pyongyang?
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http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/matt-cooper-we-felt-watched-at-all-times-during-north-korea-trip-29905690.html
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Originally posted by kimbap kimbap wrote:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/matt-cooper-we-felt-watched-at-all-times-during-north-korea-trip-29905690.html


No!!!! What does he expect?? He is in a nation full of midgits with slanty eyes and he is walking around with a nutjob mouthy 6ft 7'' black man with earring in his nose singing happy birthday to a dictator who plans nuclear war!  Of course they are going to stand out!!
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Originally posted by kimbap kimbap wrote:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/matt-cooper-we-felt-watched-at-all-times-during-north-korea-trip-29905690.html


No!!!! What does he expect?? He is in a nation full of midgits with slanty eyes and he is walking around with a nutjob mouthy 6ft 7'' black man with earring in his nose singing happy birthday to a dictator who plans nuclear war!  Of course they are going to stand out!!


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On a side note, anyone have any good documentaries to recommend on North Korea.
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Vice have done a few good ones. Went on a full tour of the country in one, in another one they accompanied Rodman on his first trip (haven't seen that one yet) & another one was about labour camps the north koreans run in Russia which was extremely odd, one or two were left abandoned & they were walking around them with a local police officer, the whole thing was like something straight out of a sci-fi film, by pure coincidence Kim jong il was at a meeting with either Putin or Medvedev cant remember which in the same region of Russia at the exact same time.
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Originally posted by SteviesGranny SteviesGranny wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Originally posted by kimbap kimbap wrote:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/matt-cooper-we-felt-watched-at-all-times-during-north-korea-trip-29905690.html


No!!!! What does he expect?? He is in a nation full of midgits with slanty eyes and he is walking around with a nutjob mouthy 6ft 7'' black man with earring in his nose singing happy birthday to a dictator who plans nuclear war!  Of course they are going to stand out!!


So True

On a side note, anyone have any good documentaries to recommend on North Korea.

Land of Whispers is on Youtube,its fairly good.BBC Panorama did a good one a while back its on the torrents sites.


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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Originally posted by kimbap kimbap wrote:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/matt-cooper-we-felt-watched-at-all-times-during-north-korea-trip-29905690.html


No!!!! What does he expect?? He is in a nation full of midgits with slanty eyes and he is walking around with a nutjob mouthy 6ft 7'' black man with earring in his nose singing happy birthday to a dictator who plans nuclear war!  Of course they are going to stand out!!


Don't really know what Matt was expecting but even a quick glance on here before he went and he would have read that foreigners don't go around unaccompanied in N Korea.

I'll be surprised if there is a more bizarre story this year.
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Saw the Panorama, the one on Nat Geo but the best one was probably the Channel 4 one that was on a couple of months ago (or maybe more recently?). Had recorded it but only watched it over Christmas.

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http://www.independent.ie/world-news/irish-whiskey-and-a-handbag-paddy-power-denies-breaking-un-sanctions-with-gifts-for-kim-jongun-29905910.html

And weirder it gets,

Paddy Power (according  to their number 2 spokespersonConfused) Gave Kim gifts consisting of a bottle of booze,a handbag and a baby dress.
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"One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942.
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The American kid, Otto Warmbier, who was arrested last year at the airport by North Koreans (for trying to steal a North Korean flag) returned home last week in a coma. Sadly he passed away yesterday.

He was sentenced to 15 years hard labour for his "misdemeanour". The battering(s) he got turned him into a vegetable.

So sad. It'll be a hard one for his parents to take.

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Originally posted by colemanY2K colemanY2K wrote:

The American kid, Otto Warmbier, who was arrested last year at the airport by North Koreans (for trying to steal a North Korean flag) returned home last week in a coma. Sadly he passed away yesterday.

He was sentenced to 15 years hard labour for his "misdemeanour". The battering(s) he got turned him into a vegetable.

So sad. It'll be a hard one for his parents to take.

Thats bloody awful. Over to you Donald.

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Very sad story alright. I'd have grave reservations about going into North Korea as it is, I would absolutely 100% go nowhere near the place if I was travelling on a US passport however. 
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Only chatting bout this over the weetabix in the canteen there, why would any American in their right mind go to N Korea? Doesnt in anyway excuse what happened, you should be able to travel anywhere safely but the reality is such that you are literally taking your life in your hands as a yank. 

In saying that, I'd love to go to N KoreaLOL
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Marching around Pyongyang with a bag of cans singing about Kim Jong-un with the obligatory face masks of the glorious leader too.



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Originally posted by horsebox horsebox wrote:

Marching around Pyongyang with a bag of cans singing about Kim Jong-un with the obligatory face masks of the glorious leader too.



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