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[michael44]

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[MicaelS]

1. I vote for the journalists.

And those that have escaped from the North. I am willing to bet those Instagram users were only allowed to photograph certain approved scenes.

[jberryhill]

2. Really?

How about they let some tourists visit and travel about for a look-see?

How about they let their own people out and about for a look-see?

How about they let their people watch what they want on TV or listen to foreign radio?

I visited Beijing a while back, which was a closed country for much of my youth. I'm sure there was all kinds of surveillance, just as in, say, London. But nobody was telling me where I could go or what I could photograph.

There is no instagram account originating in the DPRK that isn't showing anything other than what they want to show you.

There are many independent visitors and journalists to the DPRK with consistent reports of how tightly that place is controlled, that nobody is controlling what we know about the DPRK.

[maxsolomon]

3. Welcome to DU

Comrade!

[SunSeeker]

4. Seriously? You're offering up North Korean propaganda as your first DU OP?

[jberryhill]

20. Beats another bernie/hillary flamebait thread

This thread is going places!

[SunSeeker]

29. Yes, I see the silver lining now!

[jberryhill]

31. WE ALL SEE SILVER LINING IN SKY REJOICING IN VICTORY OF JUCHE IDEA OVER ENEMY LIES!

[SunSeeker]

32. You're killing me.

[jberryhill]

36. THAT'S HOW WE SWING IN GLORIOUS DPRK

[redwitch]

5. Gosh! That looks fun!

I think I want to move there!

[jberryhill]

8. FUN IS INTEGRAL PART OF DEAR LEADER KIM IL SUNG'S PLAN FOR ADVANCEMENT OF JUCHE IDEA

EYES OF FOREIGN PUPPET-LED ENEMIES ARE OPENING TO WICKED DECEIVINGS OF USA AND ITS PUPPET STATES AND MORE OF THEIR OPPRESSED CITIZENS IN WANTING TO MOVE DPRK FOR COLLECTIVE MASS FUN TO HONOR DEAR LEADER KIM IL SUNG, GREAT GENERAL KIM JONG IL, AND RESPECTED DIMWIT KIM JONG UN.

LONG LIVE JUCHE IDEA! THEY GLEEFULLY REJOICE FOR DEMOCRATIC PEOPEL'S UNDERGROUND INTERNET SITE.

AND NOW WE FUN IN ANTHEM PERSONALLY DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE BY DEAR LEADER:

[redwitch]

11. lol!

love this!

[jberryhill]

16. ITS DPRK-POP PARTY TIME GIFT FROM DEAR LEADER JUCHE KPOP HITS!

[demmiblue]

6. The Instagram user (and, no, I didn't even bother clicking). n/t

[jberryhill]

12. YOU ARE BLIND BY GENOCIDAL REGIME PUPPET MASTER LIES AGAINST DEAR LEADER!

RANDOM STRANGER ON INSTAGRAM ALWAYS MORE TO TRUST GOOD THAN KNOWN PEOPLE IN COMPETITIVE PROFESSION SIGNING THEIRS!

JUCHE IDEA GIVE YOU BEAT THAT MAKE FEET MOVE:

[bathroommonkey76]

7. The face of an oppressed country.

[jberryhill]

9. COMPARE TO HAPPY FACE OF CHILDREN LEADING NEXT GENERATION OF ADVANCEMENT OF JUCHE IDEA!

[NCTraveler]

10. It's a beautiful country. Might be good if you visit and report back.

Welcome to DU.

[jberryhill]

13. WE START GO FUNDME FOR BOLD NEW POSTER TO VISIT AND REPORT BACK!!!!

[NCTraveler]

14. Love the idea.

A free vacation for them.

[jberryhill]

15. PUNCH IT!

[Marengo]

17. I would not describe the life portrayed in the Instagram images as "normal", especially when...

Compared to most of the rest of Asia. There is an overwhelmingly oppressive and even sinister dimension palpable in those images.

[RedWedge]

18. lolllllllllllllllllllll

[tammywammy]

19. Welcome back Hannah Bell!

[jberryhill]

23. YOU! DISRUPTOR! YOU GO SIT OVER THERE!

[SunSeeker]

26. LOL

[KittyWampus]

24. you beat me to it.

[tammywammy]

25. I couldn't believe I was the first

The stars aligned for me today.

[jberryhill]

33. YOU TWO DECIEVING LIARS ARE GIVING ME THE SAD!

THE WORLD RUNS CRYING FROM YOU!

[jberryhill]

21. DPRK AND JUCHE IDEA ARE ONE THAT MAKE BETTER WORLD FOR YOU AND ME

[Calculating]

22. Just gonna leave this here

[redstateblues]

27. jberryhill-That is some funny shit!!

[jberryhill]

39. DPRK INTERNET CAMPAIGN FOR TRUTH OF JUCHE IDEA IS BEST SHIT EVER!

[dsc]

46. actually we brought Japan to its knees

with worse tech than that.

[secondwind]

28. I don't buy what you are selling

[jberryhill]

34. WE ARE NOT CONTROLLED BY YOUR PUPPET IMPERIAL CAPITALISM BUYING AND SELLING

[JI7]

30. what's with these life is great in north korea crap ?

There was another thread last week and the poster kept ignoring when people pointed out how many things are staged and controlled.

It was the people who are critIcal of north korea that were the unreasonable ones.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. You win, you've convinced me.

[fishwax]

37. I doubt either the journalists or the Instagram posts are "lying"

There's nothing in those photos that really disputes the notion that prnk is a tightly controlled dictatorship in which life is difficult in all sorts of ways for all sorts of its citizens. Similarly, the reality that the place is a dictatorship run by a megalomaniacal nut job doesn't mean the people living there aren't human, or don't experience all sorts of moments of joy or pain or even what appears to be normalcy.

[Codeine]

38. Aren't you just the most adorable thing ever?

On the plus side we did get some valuable lessons in Juche philosophy from the thread, so it wasn't a complete waste of your time.

[jberryhill]

43. NO THIS IS MOST ADORABLE THING

AND ALSO THERE ARE SOME PUPPIES.

[GulfCoast66]

48. Picking out dinner?

[hunter]

50. We have catfish. They have tilapia puppies.

That picture makes me laugh. I don't know why.

[Oneironaut]

61. I wish DU had an upvote system just for this comment XD

[mountain grammy]

40. Well let me know about an airline ticket

and booking a hotel in the "normal" world of NK. And if you do get there, remember not to remove any posters for souvenirs.

[HoneyBadger]

41. I would check out all the other North Korean Instagram photos

Oh wait......

[enid602]

42. Cannibalism

Google 'cannibalsm in North Korea. That should answer your question.

[jberryhill]

47. YOU SPREAD LIE!

[MineralMan]

44. DU is a propaganda-free zone.

[jberryhill]

45. JUST LIKE DPRK WHICH HAS BANISHED ALL PROPAGANDA

AND IS ONLY PURE JUCHE IDEA ADVANCED BY SONGUN DOCTRINE OF GREAT GENERAL KIM JONG IL WHO STOOD WITH VALOR AGAINST ENEMY COLONEL SANDERS FROM WEST AND IMPERIALIST DESPOT GENERAL TSO FROM EAST SO THAT WE MAY REMAIN PURE PROPAGANDA FREE UNDER RESPECTED LEADER AND LADIES MAN KIM JONG UN.

[LeftInTX]

49. It's gotta be the hair!!!

[Oneironaut]

62. This is just classic. Lmao

[Archae]

51. This is pure propaganda.

I used to see the "Maduro can do no wrong" people jumping up and putting out lots of pro-Maduro and Chavez propaganda whenever we questioned Maduro and his goons.

Likewise with Castro.

Apparently now we have a "Kim can do no wrong" propaganda division here.

[LovingA2andMI]

52. You won't last long here.....

[PoliticAverse]

53. Based on what I know I wouldn't go there. Any country that doesn't allow free emigration...

in a prison camp.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

54. This reminds me of a famous thread from days gone by...

oh i see it has already been noted above

[rollin74]

55. shopping in North Korea

filmed by a foreign diplomat who lived there (until recently).. so obviously not the experience of a typical North Korean

general store

computer store!

&t=476s

[JI7]

63. very empty

[WillowTree]

56. Give the N Korean government credit for convincingly staging photos to make life there seem "normal"

[JI7]

58. can you give us details ?

why and when you went ? what you saw ?

[moonscape]

59. I looked at the photos, and after careful

consideration, I'll go with living accounts from journalists (and escaped citizens) over those images.

But thanks for asking.

[oberliner]

60. Do you have any photos from the concentration camps?

If so, please share.

[yuiyoshida]

64. Inside North Korea (in 3 parts)

[snooper2]

65. Where did you go Mr. 44? Is it sleepy time right now in your time zone?