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Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:06:35 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

Someone needs to send Dennis Rodman over to NK to find out what the hell that AWOL soldier was thinking

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- Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:10:42 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:
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  @Flick Rodman can sort everything out
  
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- Flick 🇬🇧 (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:10:43 JST Flick 🇬🇧
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  @thatguyoverthere I heard an NK expert talking about it this morning, he’s in for a hell of a time, poor idiot.
  
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- Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:10:58 JST Santa Noodle ☦️
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  @thatguyoverthere I have a strong suspicion NK isn't nearly as bad as our media propagandizes it to be. Not to say it's some paradise, and obviously they're weird about photos and suspicious of tourists and such, but I sort of wonder if maybe it's just a regular place with a pretty strict authoritarian government.
  
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- ResistanceFox (resistancefox@leafposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:31:41 JST ResistanceFox
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  @BowsacNoodle @thatguyoverthere https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsu_Water_Park
  
  NK is a lot like China. A lot of poor farmers and maybe 5% live like normal people in eastern Europe.
  
  It's not great but it's not Airstrip 1 in the 1984 movie.
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  1. Munsu Water Park
    
    Munsu Water Park (Korean: 문수물놀이장) is a state run water park located in the east of Pyongyang, North Korea, which opened to the public in November 2013. The park covers an area of 15 hectares (37 acres) with indoor and outdoor activities available all year round. Completion ceremony The park's completion ceremony took place on 15 October 2013 and involved the chiefs of the armed forces along with top government officials. Premier of North Korea Pak Pong-ju delivered a speech saying that "The water park is the edifice built thanks to Korean People's Army service personnel's spirit of devotedly carrying out any project and their fighting traits as they are ready to flatten even a high mountain at a go in hearty response to the order of the supreme commander." Facilities The park has indoor and outdoor swimming pools, 14 water slides, a volleyball court, basketball court, a rock-climbing wall, a hair salon, a buffet restaurant, a cafe, and a bar. A life-size statue of Kim Jong-Il stands in the foyer of the indoor swimming pool....
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- Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:40:37 JST Moon
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  @BowsacNoodle @thatguyoverthere One of the problems we have here is that sometimes people abandon DPRK and they want to be accepted as a refugee and they know our media loves sensational stories about north korea, so they make up ridiculous stories to improve their chances of getting to stay. and those stories are presented uncritically.
  
  I am friends with three people that have independently traveled to North Korea. one of them had the privilege of traveling to places that foreigners usually don't get to see. I am told that the people and their daily lives are pretty normal.
  
  I think the thing about authoritarian countries though is if you follow the rules your life will be pretty normal but the second you argue with an incompetent government official your life is made so miserable that you have to flee. So I think probably people flee DPRK have a reason to even though a lot of people there probably just don't make waves and don't have big problems.
  
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- Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:43:50 JST Santa Noodle ☦️
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  @Moon @thatguyoverthere >if you follow the rules your life will be pretty normal but the second you argue with an incompetent government official your life is made so miserable that you have to flee
  Oh so it's just like America except we let the free market use "employers" for that task instead of appointed officials?
  
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