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Street View, North Korea
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#32I recognize a Soviet car: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/-74CU7C3XYKmnkAtpVwiQA and http://mapillary.com/map/im/StWpR2MuX2z3Xhd1LWd9QQ , that's a 1979+ ВАЗ-2105 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%90%D0%97-2105 It looks (and is) dated, but actually was produced until recently and a common sight in Russia. I wonder how they get there.
Wasn't the Soviet Union main trading partner of NK for quite a while?
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#33I recognize a Soviet car: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/-74CU7C3XYKmnkAtpVwiQA and http://mapillary.com/map/im/StWpR2MuX2z3Xhd1LWd9QQ , that's a 1979+ ВАЗ-2105 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%90%D0%97-2105 It looks (and is) dated, but actually was produced until recently and a common sight in Russia. I wonder how they get there.
I wonder more now non Soviet cars get there
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
That book was a huge eye-opener to me. It's practically a Nazi-level concentration camp situation, but because they're only doing it to their own people and one of their allies is China, the world does nothing.
"The world does nothing" The world would have watched Hitler in peace too, had he not decided to blast through Belgium into Paris. After that the world watched China end the lives of tens of millions (as many as, or more than the entire NK population) during the Cultural Revolution. The world watches as Boko Haram and countless other organizations murder and rape their way across Africa. The world watches as Qatar pu…
Generally speaking I agree with you. However when you get to the "someone like the US steps in", I would like to make a few notes.
1. there is no other nation "like the US" but USA. Not even China or Russia have the kind of global presence and military power. Not saying that the US would be able to win a war against these nations, just pointing out that how you phrased it like the US taking steps is like any other nations taking steps, and this is simply not true.
2. Another issue with the US stepping in, is that from experience when the US steps in, that doesn't end well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu
and of course, https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=315&v=0ypIwK6OlFc
I do not in any circumstances blame any leader personally for these things, and I definitely do not associate the actions of the US with the citizens of the US, and I also know that even if the US would've been the most peaceful, least aggressive superpower, some other nation might've done worse things. But I think that the world would be a much better place if the US would've "stepped in" in different ways, or even if they would've not done anything of what in the links are mentioned. (and of course I only scratched the surface here)
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#35What a shame North Korea isn't teeming with enormous fossil fuel burning automobiles carrying around a single individual.
I knew something was wrong when my 7th grade political science instructor showed us how the DPRK can't manage to waste electricity on lights like everyone else.
But, lets avoid that conversation.
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#36I recognize a Soviet car: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/-74CU7C3XYKmnkAtpVwiQA and http://mapillary.com/map/im/StWpR2MuX2z3Xhd1LWd9QQ , that's a 1979+ ВАЗ-2105 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%90%D0%97-2105 It looks (and is) dated, but actually was produced until recently and a common sight in Russia. I wonder how they get there.
Aaaah ВАЗ aka VAZ aka Lada.
What is the difference between a Lada and a golf ball? You can drive a golf ball 200 meters.
How do Lada drivers recognize each other? They already met at the mechanic that morning.
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#37I recognize a Soviet car: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/-74CU7C3XYKmnkAtpVwiQA and http://mapillary.com/map/im/StWpR2MuX2z3Xhd1LWd9QQ , that's a 1979+ ВАЗ-2105 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%90%D0%97-2105 It looks (and is) dated, but actually was produced until recently and a common sight in Russia. I wonder how they get there.
>I recognize a Soviet car:
wait until you see NK missiles :)
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#38South Korean and United States foreign policy is now reunification with North Korea, a switch from decades of "Sunshine Policy" under which relationships with NK did improve. This is contextualized by a number of current events including the rise of China and revisionism of Russia, the fight over the Arctic, America's huge losses in cyberwarfare, the US's push for an Asian NATO, and Japan's reinterpretation of their…
> We can expect to see a great deal more about North Korea, and need to hope that, as larger powers attempt to conquer NK and strip its government, that this can be done as peacefully as possible and without triggering all of the Cold War tripwires breeding in the world today.
I immediately thought on reading this line of how NK is the last stranglehold where U.S. Commerce has not infiltrated. In fact, much of the talk of opening NK up is entirely orchestrated towards bringing in 'capitalism', not democracy. Democracy is the excuse we seem to be persuaded by. It is the "magazine" cover that corporate America likes to parade.
And this sickens me. Why? Because people are much less willing to give up their lives for corporate freedom than they are for a democratic leadership. And yet so many of our soldiers have died for this very pretense.
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#39Notice that there is no ad in the streets !
Yes, a breath of fresh utopia!
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#40This site's usage of browser is ridiculous. Every time you move forward or backwards it adds another history entry, making your back button pretty much useless. If they want to provide deep linking to a particular map location they should change the URL without writing to the history.
Seems like they're using window.history.replaceState, which replaces the current history state. This is in contrast to window.history.pushState which adds to the stack.
I can't help but be curious if it's falling back to #hashurls for you (or something else). From my end, they've come up with a clever technique for persisting map state in a sharable way.