Inside North Korea: historic images reveal full horror of a city 'obliterated'

[insein]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=515021

By Jasper Becker in Beijing
25 April 2004


The last iron curtain on earth was tentatively lifted yesterday to give an unprecedented glimpse of life, and death, in North Korea in the wake of Thursday's rail disaster, which claimed up to 2,000 casualties.

A nation that has never knowingly before permitted news cameras to record its darker side allowed the world to see the devastation in the city of Ryongchon.

The access, part of a visit by some 40 diplomats and aid officials, came as the full horror of the accident started to become apparent. Eyewitnesses describes the explosion as a fireball like a nuclear bomb, which sent up a black mushroom-shaped cloud, flattened dozens of buildings, scattered debris for miles around, and left a crater 50ft deep. A Red Cross worker said the railway station and immediate surroundings were "obliterated" and hundreds of buildings up to three miles away were destroyed.

What a backwards country. This is what communism and socialism does. It allows assholes to take power and claim everything in the name of the people. Now they have no food, no homes, no life. This man, KJI needs to be removed just like Sadaam. His time will come.

 

[insein]

here's some pictures.

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=north korea&ei=UTF-8&=&c=news_photos

 

[CrazyLiberal]

For once.. you are right. He does need to be removed. He is a worse person than Saddam was, and he is 100 times more dangerous to America than Saddam ever was. The problem is that if we invade NK it will be an extremely bloody and high casualty war, the American people are not used to bloody wars anymore. 1 US soldier's death is huge news in the Iraqi war to the American people.. If we invaded NK tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of American soldiers would die. North Korea has the 4th largest military in the world.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Originally posted by CrazyLiberal
the American people are not used to bloody wars anymore.

This is something that needs to change. It's liberals villifying their own nation, in a context of historical ignorance, mind you, that's half the problem.

 

[CrazyLiberal]

Wow we agree on something avngr (although not the liberal villifying part..) Americans care more about 1 US Soldier than they do about 100 Iraqis. It is big news when one US soldier dies and it airs for at least a day. But 100 Iraqis killed because we threw a cluster bomb at a restraunt we BELIEVED Saddam Hussein to be in? Meh.

 

[Avatar4321]

Lets think about this logically.

On the one hand you have people supporting a dictator.

On the other hand you have a nation graciously sacrificing their time, talents, and possibly their lives to liberation the said people supporting the dictator.

Who are we going to have more compassion for? The people giving themselves to free people or the people murdering, pilaging, raping, and torturing for their own personal power.