North Korea releases happiness report : 1st China, 2nd North Korea

[xomputer]

Recently North Korea Central TV claimed that North Korea scored the second in the "Wworld nations' happiness score", and China was the top, inviting all the mockery from the world.

What's more surprising, is that they gave China the first place (100 out of 100 points) North Korea the second place(98 points), cuba the 3re place(93), South Korea the 152nd place(18), and USA the very last place, with NO POINT!!

Even citizens from China and Cuba are feeling incredulous about this report and criticizing this article, so some moderators even had to remove the post.

It's a well-known fact that North Korea blocks all information from in and out, but it is saddening to know that the ignorance and cluelessness were this bad.
There's a Korean idiom for this kind of pathetic comedy : "A sleeping cow would laugh at this."

 

[waltky]

Fatboy keeps his people hooked...

Revealed: North Korea is junkie kingdom, North Koreans hooked to state supply of opium, defector claims
Sunday 15th January, 2017 - One of the top North Korean defectors has revealed that the country is depended on the drugs industry - claiming that residents of the elusive nation are hooked on state supply of opium.

According to Kim Hyeong-soo, who escaped Kim Jong Un’s dictatorship in 2009, North Korea is trading opium. Hyeong-soo, who worked for the Longevity Institute, which is the North Korean government’s top secret research body has said that locals are getting hooked to the drug. The defector was quoted in reports as saying, “Kim Il-sung gave an internal decision to party officials that they should support the opium industry. But they couldn't call them opium manufacturers, so they used a code name or terminology; they called it White Flowers. It's very accessible even to the general public. The North Korean government initiated the illegal drugs, but now it's expanded to the general market.”

He further revealed, “A lot of the people within the manufacturing industry would actually steal one or two grammes because it's the equivalent of their month's salary. Because there is no medication available a lot of people would use opiates as a painkiller, so they would take it orally or intravenously." He added that the medicine donated by South Korea and the international community to North Korea was seized by the regime - that then sold it at extortionate prices. This left people with little access to conventional pain relief.

The defector, who was first interviewed by Daily Star said, “Tuberculosis was a disease that was going on in North Korea and the medication that was given by South Korea and the international community was sold on the black market. For one month’s worth, it would cost the equivalent of what a labourer would make in five years. So, of course, I have seen a lot of my relatives having children that would die of tuberculosis."

He also alleged that the government had been using these funds to further its nuclear ambitions and fuel the weapons program. He added, “I can literally say that North Korea is just a big criminal site where Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un have taken 25 million people hostage." Previously, Hyeong-soo had claimed that Kim Jong Un once ate a lion’s penis to make him better in the sack.

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