Mind blowing Poverty in North Korea

[Apocrypha]

Click on the link to see the smuggled videos

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...e-footage.html

[Revelationist]

But... when people come from the North and move to the South, they usually go back to the North because there is no responsiblilty in the North.

[canam]

I have seen vid of the two in the night one lit up like a christmas tree the other dark almost ,no fuel, food scarce, destitution.

[deadeye]

Originally Posted by Revelationist

But... when people come from the North and move to the South, they usually go back to the North because there is no responsiblilty in the North.

And your sources for this...?

[coadie]

If the starvation gets worse, can we send our Christmas fruit cakes up there?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by coadie

If the starvation gets worse, can we send our Christmas fruit cakes up there?

I think they've got too many "fruit cakes" in North Korea already.

It's a sad, sad country. However, if an American were to suggest that changes be made to alleviate the human suffering then that American would be an "Imperialist."

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Revelationist

But... when people come from the North and move to the South, they usually go back to the North because there is no responsiblilty in the North.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/wo...iht-korea.html

They have better luck going into China. Now when they come back to N Korea, they face death.

Years ago, North Korean defectors were so rare that the South Korean authorities welcomed them with outdoor rallies, car parades and a lecture circuit filled with anti-Communist propaganda. Recently, however, their arrivals have become so routine they hardly draw much attention.

Leading this phenomenon is a network of "brokers," or people who specialize in helping North Korean defectors reach South Korea. Their fees range from two million to 20 million Korean won, or about $1,995 to $19,950.

Hundreds of brokers - many of them North Korean defectors with South Korean passports or ethnic Koreans in China - operate in China and Southeast Asia. Armed with global positioning devices, cellphones and local handlers, they organize months-long covert operations. Some work independently; others with missionaries and human rights activists.

These specialists seek out and train groups of North Koreans to climb walls, smash through gates and sneak past guards into diplomatic missions in Beijing, where they are often granted asylum and passage to South Korea. Other asylum seekers are taken across China - through jungles, guard posts and minefields - into Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand, and then to the final destination they are determined to reach at whatever cost: South Korea.

[Revelationist]

Originally Posted by deadeye

And your sources for this...?

Friends that are S. Koreans...

[Praxeas]

They are trained to treat and believe their leader is a god. Every house has a picture of him. They spend all their money on weapons and of course those in power are not in poverty and while the rest of the world sends them relief they are threatening war

[Norman]

If the starvation gets worse, can we send our Christmas fruit cakes up there?

You can send me your fruit cakes.