North Korea is like The Truman Show
North Korea is like The Truman Show
Eric Schmidt's daughter Sophie was with the delegation to North Korea. And in a lengthy Google Sites post titled "it might not get weirder than this," she described a trip full of highly staged encounters, tightly-orchestrated viewing and what seemed like genuine human moments. Sophie says the best description the delegation could come up with is that North Korea is like The Truman Show, at country scale.
She also found freezing indoor temperatures, as all buildings they visited were unheated, but in state owned libraries, the temperature was over 30 degrees. She also depicted a crepy atmosphere at the Kim Il Sung University e-Library with multiple floors of identically manned desks of people doing nothing.
A few scrolled or clicked, but the rest just stared. More disturbing was that when the group walked in not one of them looked up from their desks. Not a head turned, no eye contact, no reaction to stimuli. She claims that they might as well have been figurines. The North Koreans are hostages in their own country, without any real consciousness of it.
(https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/home)
North Korea is like The Truman Show
North Korea, walking down the path of destruction...
The US envy on North Korea dismissed hopes for an immediate diplomatic solution over Pyongyang's expected nuclear test, saying that the isolated state was bent on playing a game of risk. The comments come as North Korea threatens daily that it is preparing its third nuclear test in response to UN sanctions imposed on North Korea for a long-range rocket launch in December. If North Korea provokes again, they will be walking a very slippery road which will only lead to their destruction. US warnings about the consequences of a third test have been backed by unusually strident criticism of North Korea by its sole major ally China.
North Korea must not go ahead with a nuclear test. This would only deepen the country's international isolation. The test would also set back efforts to restart regional talks on the North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
(N. Korea playing 'dangerous game of risk': US envoy - Yahoo! News Malaysia)
The US envy on North Korea dismissed hopes for an immediate diplomatic solution over Pyongyang's expected nuclear test, saying that the isolated state was bent on playing a game of risk. The comments come as North Korea threatens daily that it is preparing its third nuclear test in response to UN sanctions imposed on North Korea for a long-range rocket launch in December. If North Korea provokes again, they will be walking a very slippery road which will only lead to their destruction. US warnings about the consequences of a third test have been backed by unusually strident criticism of North Korea by its sole major ally China.
North Korea must not go ahead with a nuclear test. This would only deepen the country's international isolation. The test would also set back efforts to restart regional talks on the North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
(N. Korea playing 'dangerous game of risk': US envoy - Yahoo! News Malaysia)