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North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

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Re: North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

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Post by wil421 »

JonnieCache wrote: post #5
wil421 wrote: post #3

Look at the women in the center clapping, her face says it all. "Must clap harder or leader will do away with me." Someday these people are going to be free of oppression.

>Someday these people are going to be free of oppression. If only they had some natural resources, then the state of their government would be a massive moral issue for the world. Unfortunately until they strike oil they're just gonna have to rot.

Yea its like nations say Russia cant take Crimea. Yet NK can slaughter and oppress an entire nation and no one flinches.

Re: North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

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Post by JonnieCache »

wil421 wrote: post #11
JonnieCache wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Someday these people are going to be free of oppression. If only they had some natural resources, then the state of their government would be a massive moral issue for the world. Unfortunately until they strike oil they're just gonna have to rot.

Yea its like nations say Russia cant take Crimea. Yet NK can slaughter and oppress an entire nation and no one flinches.

To be fair, russia can take crimea because nobody can stop them. NK can oppress because nobody gives a shit.

(Also IIRC china protects them in order to irritate the west and to use as a bargaining chip.)

Re: North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

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Post by kjjw »

nwh wrote: post #9

I don't follow the reasoning. It's a country that's stuck in a variety of awkward situations with its neighbours, isolated, famine stricken, and threatening to wage war on the South- yet they're worrying about the people having too much freedom with their 10 allowed haircuts? I can't begin to imagine what's going on in their minds. I suppose it could be a distraction from other issues, but restricting to 10 in itself…

I think the point is that it doesn't matter what is going on in 'their' minds. All that matters is what is going on in the mind of one particular person.

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Post by snorkel »

nwh wrote: post #9

I don't follow the reasoning. It's a country that's stuck in a variety of awkward situations with its neighbours, isolated, famine stricken, and threatening to wage war on the South- yet they're worrying about the people having too much freedom with their 10 allowed haircuts? I can't begin to imagine what's going on in their minds. I suppose it could be a distraction from other issues, but restricting to 10 in itself…

Fashion conformity is another type of crowd control. Also makes it easier to spot troublemakers in a crowd.

Re: North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

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Post by InclinedPlane »

nwh wrote: post #9

I don't follow the reasoning. It's a country that's stuck in a variety of awkward situations with its neighbours, isolated, famine stricken, and threatening to wage war on the South- yet they're worrying about the people having too much freedom with their 10 allowed haircuts? I can't begin to imagine what's going on in their minds. I suppose it could be a distraction from other issues, but restricting to 10 in itself…

Do you not understand North Korea at all? It's a tyranny subject to the whims of its ruler. The famines, the violence, the terrorism, the oppression, all of that flows from that tyranny. Haircuts are just one more example of it.

That's how totalitarian regimes work. The word "total" in there, that means the government has total control over whatever they want, including the most mundane and personal aspect of anyone's private lives.

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Post by Issac »

nwh wrote: post #9

I don't follow the reasoning. It's a country that's stuck in a variety of awkward situations with its neighbours, isolated, famine stricken, and threatening to wage war on the South- yet they're worrying about the people having too much freedom with their 10 allowed haircuts? I can't begin to imagine what's going on in their minds. I suppose it could be a distraction from other issues, but restricting to 10 in itself…

Basically I dont think its bad to "force" people go get one of x haircuts in a "country that's stuck in a variety of awkward situations with its neighbours, isolated, famine stricken, and threatening to wage war" for hygienic reasons of the population. But to force them to have this one spezific one is just dumb and certainly only a innnerpolitic struggle for power by Kim Jong Un, same reason i think he is showing this war waging politics and other stuff, or as u mentioned just a distraction.

Re: North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

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Post by S_A_P »

antonius wrote: post #4
willvarfar wrote: post #2

I was really expecting this to be an Onion article or something...

I was too until I read the "North Korea" part. Then it all made sense.

Isn't North Korean media just one big onion bureau? With the unfortunate truth that what they report happens to be at the expense of a whole nation of people minus .01%?

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Post by peteretep »

JonnieCache wrote: post #5
wil421 wrote: post #3

Look at the women in the center clapping, her face says it all. "Must clap harder or leader will do away with me." Someday these people are going to be free of oppression.

>Someday these people are going to be free of oppression. If only they had some natural resources, then the state of their government would be a massive moral issue for the world. Unfortunately until they strike oil they're just gonna have to rot.

What do you expect the world to do exactly?

Military intervention? They'll lay waste to Seoul. Sanctions? Already there, and, generally they hurt the people rather than the leader.

What's your solution?

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