Tidgy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36200530

Some interesting reading, its like they don't have any concept of the rest of the world and how they write/read etc

what a very backwards country they are

LSherratt

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I can't even imagine how the journalist must have been feeling. I wonder what NK will look like in say, 50 years time?

Paben

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Probably a no-go zone, a nuked wilderness

ALi-B

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I saw some of his reports on TV before he was arrested. And what was immediately noticable was the cynicism in his tone and use of words.

To be honest as a guest in a country that is very intolerant to any slight at the country, its people and rulers, he had it comming and should have known better.

Just my opinion.....When in Rome...

What he should have done is kept his musings in his head and then publish it once he was back in Bejing.

hodgy0_2

chilling read

markjmd

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It's obvious what happened here. They demanded an explanation for the tone of some of his reports, and they got all upset because they thought he was taking the proverbial when he tried to tell them it was just meant to be ironic

hodgy0_2

I think he was really worried about admitting to anything - no matter how trivial it was portrayed by the interrogators

"just sign this confession Mr Rupert"

in case it was then twisted

but I suspect future foreign journos will be a lot more careful in future when filing reports whilst still in NK

Uncle Creepy

I recently read The Aquarium of Pyongyang. Horrific but interesting. I'd recommend.

gazney101

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Why would anyone want to go there in the first place?
A country full of ******* idiots, who cares, leave them to there business.

Some people are just asking for it

hodgy0_2

Because it is part of the human condition, to want to understand, to enquire, to seek answers, to understand what seems alien, to push the boundaries of our knowledge

We have sent a probe to take photographs of the mountains and valleys of Pluto, a celestial body that 85 years ago did not exist in human consciousness


It is what separates us from animals

gazney101

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I'm all for that, but we already know what goes on in nk, one look at that pudding of a leader let's us know.
I would rather go to pluto by myself with a one way ticket than step foot in any of these lunatic filled countries around this world.
Each to there own and all that but if people are gonna go there they shouldn't be shocked if they are treated this way or worse

hodgy0_2

But we don't "already know"

Knowledge never stops, it seek answers, it moves ever forward

The "we already know" is like saying " the world is obviously flat, because I see no curve and people fall off things when upside down - I mean that's just obvious"

Aka the world can't be round, people would fall off

Humanity does not just "know" it asks questions and it finds answers

gazney101

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You know what love, I've always wanted to go and see the city of Palmyra in Syria, well let's get booked up next week dear.

Arrival.

Oh dear, we seem to have been taken by Isis.... that's unfortunate, and might I say quite rude, beheading my wife was the last straw...... who would believe such a thing could happen in this day and age.

I shall be giving an average review on trip advisor aswell because our hotel only had wooden chairs and my wife's blood all over the floor

Martin2005

What a fukin stupid response...

So the press should only go where they are told to go, and report what they're allowed to?

That's going be a real winner for everyone!

Why not just publish goverment propaganda, and dispense with scrutiny?

gazney101

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No the press can do whatever the **** they like but why are they so surprised at what happened here as a consequence of there own actions.
What did they expect to happen?

The press have there own agenda's anyway, the changes of getting solid facts from anything they come out with are slim.
I feel like I'm getting an opinion now when I watch the news rather than actual facts....

It's ****ing bull**** the whole lot of it

Martin2005

I don't know, do you?

Quite proud that he did his job properly

gazney101

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I think he's a complete **** like the rest of the lying scum

Martin2005

I seem to of entered the twilight zone

dpb

Donald trump wouldn't have this sort of trouble

ditchmyster

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TBH, Find yourself on the wrong side of the law in the UK and the reality is, it's not much different, especially in these modern times where everyone seems to take offence at just about every word in the English language, take things out of context and barely read what is actually written, let alone try to understand it.

But hey at least the UK is a free country.

hodgy0_2

Or Scoobynet as it is more commonly known

The Trooper 1815

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Democracy only works with control. We live in a tolerant society but only if we abide by the laws which in themselves are oppressive.

dpb

What laws ?

At least there aren't people starving here

The Trooper 1815

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Really?

500,000 people in the UK live below the poverty line, not bad for the 5th biggest economy in the world.

dpb

Bit of a difference

jonc

Any one watch the Panorama programme where John Sweeney went to NK, it's compulsive viewing.

boomer

...it depends on where you draw "the poverty line"!

mb

madscoob

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strange i thought thats what the bbc did

markjmd

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For all their faults, the BBC are rank amateurs at the propaganda game, next to the North-Koreans. Don't just take my word for it though, hear it straight from one of their former experts.