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N Korean Kim pulled out the nuke missles and tanks (pics)
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Pyongyang, North Korea: Dancers use hoops during an "Arirang" performance at the 150,000-seat Rungnado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, on July 26, 2013. Arirang performances feature some 100,000 participants to create a "synchronized socialist-realist spectacular in a 90 minute display of gymnastics, dance, acrobatics, and dramatic performance, in a highly politicized package" according to the China-based North Korean travel company Koryo Tours.
North Koreans perform during a mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang", in Pyongyang, on July 26, 2013. The wall in the background is made up of cards held by individuals sitting in the stadium seats.
North Korean school children tour the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang on Thursday, July 25, 2013.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, walks through a cemetery for Korean War veterans on Thursday, July 25, 2013 in Pyongyang, North Korea marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended hostilities on the Korean peninsula.
Elderly North Korean women tour a cemetery for Korean War veterans on Thursday, July 25, 2013 in Pyongyang, North Korea during an opening ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended hostilities on the Korean peninsula.
Retired U.S. Navy captain and Korean War veteran Thomas Hudner, left, is escorted by a North Korean official as he leaves a cemetery for Korean War veterans after an opening ceremony which marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended hostilities on the Korean peninsula, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, July 25, 2013.
Kim Jong Un inspects North Korea’s first smartphone, an Android clone
So why would Kim be so excited about showing off the North Korean smartphones if they’re neither really North Korean-made nor yet usable as smartphones? Why would he take the remarkable step of endorsing precisely the sort of technology that his government has worked so hard to keep out? It may partly be his background; as a young student in Switzerland he was exposed to and apparently enjoyed spending time in the outside world. He’s previously been spotted with a smartphone at his side, a first for a North Korean leader.
The more likely explanation, though, is that North Korean officials may want to tamp down any internal North Korean demand for outside smartphones and get people to use these cheaper, officially approved phones instead. Outside technology has been creeping across the China-North Korea border since the 1990s famine forced officials to allow more black-market trade, but the Kim regime rightly fears technological encroachment, which risks allowing outside information to seep into this carefully engineered society. And North Korean demand for smartphones has reportedly been rising. Kim may hope that he can curb this demand by offering his own, easier-to-access smartphones, which are presumably designed to allow the government to monitor or at least prevent any infiltration of the national information cordon.
Here are some more photos, via North Korean state media, for your enjoyment, of Kim’s visit to the smartphone “factory.” It’s a sign of how much the world is changing outside North Korea, and of the country’s inability to resist all change but its penchant for adapting.
So why would Kim be so excited about showing off the North Korean smartphones if they’re neither really North Korean-made nor yet usable as smartphones? Why would he take the remarkable step of endorsing precisely the sort of technology that his government has worked so hard to keep out? It may partly be his background; as a young student in Switzerland he was exposed to and apparently enjoyed spending time in the outside world. He’s previously been spotted with a smartphone at his side, a first for a North Korean leader.
The more likely explanation, though, is that North Korean officials may want to tamp down any internal North Korean demand for outside smartphones and get people to use these cheaper, officially approved phones instead. Outside technology has been creeping across the China-North Korea border since the 1990s famine forced officials to allow more black-market trade, but the Kim regime rightly fears technological encroachment, which risks allowing outside information to seep into this carefully engineered society. And North Korean demand for smartphones has reportedly been rising. Kim may hope that he can curb this demand by offering his own, easier-to-access smartphones, which are presumably designed to allow the government to monitor or at least prevent any infiltration of the national information cordon.
Here are some more photos, via North Korean state media, for your enjoyment, of Kim’s visit to the smartphone “factory.” It’s a sign of how much the world is changing outside North Korea, and of the country’s inability to resist all change but its penchant for adapting.
it's like ancient china. he executed the leaders orchestra and send their relative to concentration camp so they cannot threaten the state.
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Kim Jong Un is rumoured to have executed his former mistress after she made a sex tape with a number of her fellow entertainers.
A South Korean newspaper published claims that the secretive leader had handed out the death penalty to a dozen musicians from a leading orchestra.
One of the victims was allegedly Hyon Song-wol, a popular singer who is believed to have known Kim as a teenager and to have embarked on an affair with him after his rise to power.
Those executed were apparently accused of filming themselves having sex and selling the videos in China and North Korea.
In addition, they were said to have been convicted of possessing copies of the Bible - a grave crime in the strictly atheist state.
The claims were published by Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea's most popular newspapers.
The paper claimed that Ms Hyon was killed alongside Mun Kyong-jin, leader of the Unhasu Orchestra, and a number of other musicians.
They were apparently arrested on August 17, and executed by firing squad in public three days later.
A source in China told Chosun Ilbo: 'They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on.'
Relatives of those killed have been sent to prison camps due to their 'guilt by association', the paper added.
Hyon and Kim were apparently close during adolescence, but were ordered to break off their relationship by the boy's father, Kim Jong Il.
The singer rose to fame in North Korea with the pro-regime song A Girl in the Saddle of a Steed, often known in the West as 'Excellent Horse-Faced Lady'.
When the elder Kim died in 2011, his son took over as leader of the country - and is believed to have rekindled his association with the now-married entertainer.
However, it also emerged that Kim Jong Un had married Ri Sol-ju, another musician who once played in the Unhasu Orchestra, which has been disbanded in the wake of this month's scandal.
It is unclear whether the two women knew each other, or how Ri felt about her husband's liaison with Hyon.
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Kim Jong Un is rumoured to have executed his former mistress after she made a sex tape with a number of her fellow entertainers.
A South Korean newspaper published claims that the secretive leader had handed out the death penalty to a dozen musicians from a leading orchestra.
One of the victims was allegedly Hyon Song-wol, a popular singer who is believed to have known Kim as a teenager and to have embarked on an affair with him after his rise to power.
Those executed were apparently accused of filming themselves having sex and selling the videos in China and North Korea.
In addition, they were said to have been convicted of possessing copies of the Bible - a grave crime in the strictly atheist state.
The claims were published by Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea's most popular newspapers.
The paper claimed that Ms Hyon was killed alongside Mun Kyong-jin, leader of the Unhasu Orchestra, and a number of other musicians.
They were apparently arrested on August 17, and executed by firing squad in public three days later.
A source in China told Chosun Ilbo: 'They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on.'
Relatives of those killed have been sent to prison camps due to their 'guilt by association', the paper added.
Hyon and Kim were apparently close during adolescence, but were ordered to break off their relationship by the boy's father, Kim Jong Il.
The singer rose to fame in North Korea with the pro-regime song A Girl in the Saddle of a Steed, often known in the West as 'Excellent Horse-Faced Lady'.
When the elder Kim died in 2011, his son took over as leader of the country - and is believed to have rekindled his association with the now-married entertainer.
However, it also emerged that Kim Jong Un had married Ri Sol-ju, another musician who once played in the Unhasu Orchestra, which has been disbanded in the wake of this month's scandal.
It is unclear whether the two women knew each other, or how Ri felt about her husband's liaison with Hyon.
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