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How could living in North Korea be worse? Hmm. Maybe if your dinner caught on fire every night, or clothes were made out of a cactus, or if using a phone potentially earned you the death penalty. Sounds about right!
North Korea is holding a 100-day-long “mourning period” for the late madman Kim Jong-il. Part of the festivities include a cell phone moratorium, transgressors against which “will be branded as ‘war criminals’ and punished accordingly,” The Telegraph reports. North Korea doesn’t mess around with punishment—execution and labour camps (which is worse?) are commonplace.
Luckily, as TheNextWeb points out, less than 5 percent of North Korea’s horribly impoverished population own cell phones to begin with, so the odds of being screwed by the state are low for the average citizen. So, there’s the good news, I suppose. [Telegraph via TNW]
We really need to deal with the backwards fucks running that place.
Even with all the beyond crazy laws there, I actually want to go to North Korea. I admit, I would be shown the “tourist” North K and not the real life one, but regardless would be unique enough to get to say you have been there.
I went to South Korea last year and even just staring into North Korea is fascinating. I’m desperate to go – my problem is finding someone to go with!
Dear lord, the insanity continues, with or without its pint-sized despot.
I propose dropping millions of bananaphones on the capital. Might liven things up a little for all concerned.
More US Gizmodo news that makes me sigh with dispair. Never heard of live and let live?
Ever heard of STFU?
News and information like this helps us understand the level of freedom we have here. The fact that NKoreans are forced to mourn the death of the man that kept them chained to poverty or be put to death, puts our lives into perspective.
As you have shown, you have the freedom to spout whatever crap you like, without consequence.
If you were over there spewing forth the shit you give this site all the time, we’d never hear from you again. You’d be off to a holiday home in the nearest labourcamp…
Maybe websites in North Korea should lead a North Korean internet black-out in protest.