SubJeff on 24/11/2010 at 13:17
From your experience? Sounds exciting. Tell us about it.
242 on 24/11/2010 at 13:49
Quote Posted by Kolya
Can they receive South Korean radio and TV in North Korea?
Absolutely no. There aren't villages or cities close enough to SK border, and additionally NK actively jams SK broadcasts. No internet access too, even internal (except for a few slave-holder chosen ones).
This is the "Official Webpage of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea" (available only for foreigners of course ): (
http://www.korea-dpr.com/).
"Business in DPR Korea" section is amusing:
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The DPR of Korea (North Korea) will become in the next years the most important hub for trading in North-East Asia.
:))))
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Lowest labour cost in Asia.
No wonder. And they (I mean the Great) seem to be proud of it.
hopper on 24/11/2010 at 14:08
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
From your experience? Sounds exciting. Tell us about it.
yeah, what the fuck do these "ossis" think they know
Shug on 24/11/2010 at 14:13
Didn't realize we had so many posters working in foreign intelligence
Kolya on 24/11/2010 at 14:23
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
From your experience? Sounds exciting. Tell us about it.
When I was a boy and rock'n'roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive.
Inline Image:
http://analogmedium.com/blog/2008/04/commando2.jpgMaybe they were right.
Koki on 24/11/2010 at 14:36
Quote Posted by 242
Absolutely no. There aren't villages or cities close enough to SK border, and additionally NK actively jams SK broadcasts. No internet access too, even internal (except for a few slave-holder chosen ones).
You can't be serious. Korean Peninsula is so tiny the norks should be getting most, if not all, FM broadcasted in the south. And I'm sure there are special longer-range AM propaganda broadcasts.
Biggest problem of listening to south boradcasts is probably getting a radio.
Briareos H on 24/11/2010 at 14:47
Unless you have powerful towers all over the country broadcasting the same channel over all frequencies, effectively crushing all foreign signals.
edit: oh hehe, (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_Korea) this is fun.
SubJeff on 24/11/2010 at 16:12
Quote Posted by Kolya
When I was a boy and rock'n'roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive.
Maybe they were right.
So how much leakage of the "outside" world did you get and how much difference did it make to the political climate? I'm not down with the history of East Germany.
hopper fuck off btw
Kolya on 24/11/2010 at 18:21
Most of East Germany could receive radio and TV stations from West Germany. There was a part in the South-East, around Dresden that, for geographical reasons, was cut off and hence called "Das Tal der Ahnungslosen" (Clueless Valley). (
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Ard-reichweite-ddr.png) Here's a map of former East Germany, the black parts were cut off.
If you ever saw the film (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177242/) Sonnenallee there's a scene depicting how two guys from the Clueless Valley come to East Berlin and see West-Fernsehen (West-TV) for the first time. They keep watching long past the (
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/3/3d/FuBK-Testbild.png) test-image shows up around around midnight, stunned by a complete culture-shock. Though it's a joke in the film, it's funny because it's true. Watching West-Fernsehen was very common and basically everyone did it, except those who couldn't.
In my opinion and from what I witnessed, the fact we had access to unfiltered information and music played a MAJOR ROLE in supporting resistance and eventually overturning the regime peacefully. You really cannot overestimate its long turn effect.
Most of all, the constant display of colourful yet unattainable consumer products did in grey old East Germany in the end.
Vivian on 24/11/2010 at 18:27
I obviously don't know because I've never been to either, but to a casual observer NK looks to be a lot more fucked up than East Germany ever was. I'd be surprised if it ends as well.
