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David Guttenfelder / AP
People watch a dolphin show at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A dolphin leaps from a tank during a show at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A woman rides a roller coaster at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Aug. 8.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A guest room is bathed in red light shining through a curtain at a hotel for foreign tourists in Kaesong, North Korea on Sept. 11.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A traffic police officer stands in a marked area in the middle of the principle intersection in Kaesong, North Korea on Sept. 11.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A truck, retrofitted to run on a barrel of burning wood, stops on a road in Hamhung, North Korea on Aug. 11.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A man holds a woman's bag and parasol as they play miniature golf at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.
David Guttenfelder / AP
Two people dance at Majon beach near Hamhung, North Korea on Aug. 11.
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Pyongyang refuses to let failed rocket launch dampen tone of festivities.
Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder captures the secretive life of North Korea again with a series of images shot this August and September.
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What you Never See is any obese people with the exception of the military ranking officials
The guy in the front row is David Axlerod when they let him start wearing his new world order uniform.
Their body language speaks volumes that is the only way they can speak because their government doesn't allow them to speak the truth sad but true.
Maybe I am the only one who noticed that in all these "obviously staged" pictures, the absence of jewelry. Only one person is wearing a watch. The officer in the last picture. The women are not wearing earrings, or any type of jewelry. Not even rings. Watches made in Asia can be incredibly cheap. The town square picture with the cop, looks completely deserted. You know any area in the world with buildings that size, the streets are usually bustling with people. Something is very wrong there.
That is Times Square when Obama is done with his dirty work.
What is that little red pin people are wearing? Seems like most of them have it on for the government staged shots.
They are the same thing as vote for Obama pins.
I just read 'Escape from Camp 14'. Everything in these photographs are pure propaganda.
You are right on auntnan kind of reminds you of the staged crap we see in our present administration.
two things I admire from those pictures: the dolphin high jump and the nice looking lady playing miniature golf
Just remember, this is MSNBC., trying to get Obama's poll numbers up. North Korea is a horrid place to live. People try and escape to the South all the time, some make it and some get shot.
The picture of the truck says it all. Retrofitted to run on wood means a steam engine that would also run on coal or whatever. Do you think they were all headed to the beach for a family outing?
It's no wonder MSNBC is losing viewers.
Take a good look sports fans this is America when the Liberals and the likes of Obama are done with their slizzy work.
Think it can't happen? How many jewish people in Germany in the 1930's would have believed their future in an oven if you had told them Hitler was a tyrant and would end their life as they know it. Not one of them. They were doing well in their business had a fair share of the wealth and life was good.
This is how countries change people get comfortable and become ripe for the Hitlers and Obama's of the world. Silver tongued devils who just wow you right into their plan. Think about it how does one man like Hitler or the man in charge in North Korea control an entire country with words? How did Jim Jones talk his flock into taking their own lives in incredible numbers. Does anyone get it?
I watched Obama on the debate last Wednesday. He felt he was way too good and important to have to stand up there and defend his position or polices. That is what these dictators do. They do not answer to anyone.
So take a real good look at N Korea think your children will be happy living like that? Is that the future you want for our country?
It should not be forgotten as you look at the pictures of people enjoying life in Pyongyang, that these are the elite of North Korean society. No one is allowed to live in the capitol without permission from the government. Only those with deemed loyal to the Party leadership are given that privilege. The bleak countryside and mining towns, where Western cameras are not allowed, is home to the majority of North Koreans.
Kind of reminds you of WashingtoN D.C. jayare2020 good observation and very correct information you my friend get it!!
Take a good look because Obama and company are working hard to get us there!
North Korea, is and has been in a deepening crisis. Many are starving and many are in, what amounts to, death camps for the most minor of offenses - especially, those who are religious and choose to worship the one, true God. The leader of North Korea, believes he is god and crushes all those who do not go along with his delusional madness. Please, please pray for the people of North Korea - may God set them free from all of their torments!
The leader of N Korea cannot be god Obama is! Or so the Liberals think. Amazing how the Liberal point of view and communist points of view are one in the same. Please pray for America the hell with N. Korea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey gunner, look on the bright side. Be thankful Mr. Obama is from Kenya and not North Korea.
/sarcasm
Remember, the Romney plan to reduce the cost of American products is to lower our wages to those earned in his Romney Enterprise Zones. 24 Cents an hour is a lot, if you ask Romney. And he likes firing people who complain. Hence, his utter distaste for union guaranteed wages and benefits. Romney has never supported any increase in minimum wages.
Don't let the Republican leadership fool us again in this upcoming election. They do not serve the 98 per cent! They serve the folks that give them millions for their campaigns, and Republicans haven't done anything for our wages since Reagan and never do anything for the Middle Class, without giving the break to the freeloaders at the top, too! I am surprised Romney even said he wants to help the Middle Class. It makes me wonder what he means when he says, "help". Help us to an early grave, lowering the cost of Medicare and Social Security Benefits? Help us into poverty, so he can buy up our foreclosed homes and rent them back to us? Romney has 60 Million invested in Charter Schools he plans to voucherize for his profit and pleasure, while not having a problem with class sizes above 45 students! He is the perfect republican candidate, whose only core value is greed!
Don't elect Bush on Steroids! Please!
Jack! You have one month left with your job at the big labor comment center.What will you do when you no longer have your $10 per hour job? Reflecting back,I guess your decision to get a master degree in French Literature was a big mistake.Should have gone to plumbers' camp or painters school.You wouldn't be living at home with your mom and owing over a $100,000 in school debt!And you thought you were so smart.Your Mommy told me to tell you,your breakfast in in the frig and to clean up your mess!
This is to Hands off my Medicare.
Have you received your noitce of premium increases (including co-pays and co-insurance) for next year? Have you seen what services have been dropped?
Or are you one of the seniors who don't own anything so you don't pay any premiums? You think Obama is the answer. You'll be crying foul if he gets re-elected. Get the facts. Romney - Ryan 2012
The whole f*cking country is like a gigantic CULT! Just imagine the USA under Mitt.....we will all be Mormons soon enough....set aside 10% of your pay for tithing....stock up on your magic underwear! Start looking for your second, third or fourth wife....oh sorry they don't condone that anymore....at least not out loud!
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Now you have done it, NBC ... you have proven that North Koreans are - Human Beings. I didn't see ONE picture of goose stepping and scowling soldiers - not ONE combat tank or missiles - NOTHING ! You just wait till I tell the NSA, CIA and the State Department that you have started a "Commie Campaign" to treat our child eating fire breathing monster mortal enemies in North Korea like they really are ...... like decent and ordinary --- people.
You know what's funny is that they tell them that we live in a horrible empire. Our governments pit us against each other. Duh everyone knows that, we still fall for it everyday in every nation.
As for the person whom stated he lived in North Africa for 6.5 years. I can only believe he had more than enough money to live in the uper class area. I have travled the world working. When I completed my job I mixed with the every day people in the Country.
Always in returning, Immigration was the best people I met after having left to go to another country. What Dont take my Medicare does not understand is there is nothing like that in other countries. Even Canada has Social Med. and everyone that can. go to the U S and pay top price to see a doctor. One of their Law Makers flew to Florida for an Operation. Mexico has Social Med. and you shoould see how the people who are operated on and sewed up. We do a better job on sacks from rice mills. All of these people with Nobama Knee pads need to travel to another country and mix with Local People to really understand. Then they would be buying steel toed shoes for Nobama.
Remember, North Korea has a hereditary caste system that divides the population into 3 segments: "loyal" (the elite) - (the descendants of veterans in the war against Japan, farmers and laborers), "wavering," and "enemy" (descendants of former land-owners and those who collaborated with Japan)... these pictures portray the lives of the elite. The wavering live in basic poverty, and the enemy is treated like starved slave laborers.
Don't the generals look happy about their missle program?
people need to lay off Obama he walked into a terrible mess, that your boy GWB left we have got to give him a chance to do what needs to be done for THE AMERICAN PEOPLE as a whole, not just one group .
@ HandsOffMyMedicare!!
Why would anyone want to Defect or leave there?? We could be more like them if we would simply Tax the Rich at a rate of 100% which is effectively what they do (100% in N. Korea, 75% in France). There would be no "off-shore" places for them to hide anything if we can get them in camps!!
Your kidding right, putting people in camps? What are you pushing for a dictatorship? if you turn over 75% or 100% of what you earn. Then why bother working or making stuff... why bother working. When that happens see how the system collapses.
France has a top marginal tax rate of 40%.. there's a proposal to increase it to 75% but I doubt it's going to pass.
The highest major country marginal rates are Denmark, 62%, Sweden 57%, Netherlands, 52% and a bunch of countries at around 50% (Japan, Belgium, Australia, China and Germany).
And nobody's sendin' anyone to camps for bein' rich, except maybe the North Koreans.
I should add that there doesn't seem to be much of a correlation with poor economic growth and high top marginal personal income tax rates: the Swedish economy has been booming, Australia, China and Germany do OK, obviously, Japan and Belgium are in the economic growth toilet. I'm sure there's a maximum threshhold of pain, but it doesn't look like anybody has personal tax rates so high that they've hit it yet.
Wonder how long it took to teach the dolphins Korean?
Nuke em
Handsoffmymedicare is trolling and you guys are dumb as hell for falling for it.