Comments on: North Korea's other imminent launch: a new website http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html#comment-1640666 niktemadur Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209341#comment-1640666 This is the other North Korean website: http://hcakj9.ytmnd.com/ Has about as much content and as many updates as the other NK sites.  Or is it site?  I've kinda lost track. This is the other North Korean website:
http://hcakj9.ytmnd.com/

Has about as much content and as many updates as the other NK sites.  Or is it site?  I’ve kinda lost track.

]]> By: Michael Smith http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html#comment-1640490 Michael Smith Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209341#comment-1640490 We should drop Stallman on them and see what happens. We should drop Stallman on them and see what happens.

]]> By: citizen http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html#comment-1640458 citizen Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209341#comment-1640458 I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Korea, is in fact, GNU/Korea, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus korea. Korea is not a nation state unto itself, but rather a geopolitical component of a fully functioning GNU nation made useful by the GNU culture, ideals and vital social components comprising a full Juche as defined by the Great Leader. I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Korea, is in fact, GNU/Korea, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus korea. Korea is not a nation state unto itself, but rather a geopolitical component of a fully functioning GNU nation made useful by the GNU culture, ideals and vital social components comprising a full Juche as defined by the Great Leader.

]]> By: thezarray http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html#comment-1640397 thezarray Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209341#comment-1640397 I can't get to youtube rightnow but theres a NK channel that I'm rather sure is official but it's always hard to tell. I can’t get to youtube rightnow but theres a NK channel that I’m rather sure is official but it’s always hard to tell.

]]> By: . http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html#comment-1640367 . Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209341#comment-1640367 I wonder how long it will take for that site to get owned. I wonder how long it will take for that site to get owned.

]]> By: naufragio http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html#comment-1640265 naufragio Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209341#comment-1640265 GNU's Not Unity. GNU’s Not Unity.

]]> By: UnderachievingSheep http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/north-koreas-other-imminent.html#comment-1640202 UnderachievingSheep Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=209341#comment-1640202 I remember the day I found <a href="http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm" rel="nofollow">the website of the North Korean News Agency</a> (apparently hosted in Japan). I spent hours reading the press releases because I was baffled by the language they use. It's not just that it is propaganda, it's the way they use the language of bureaucracy to convey what they believe to be a tone of news agencies. The cognitive dissonance was simultaneously amusing and scary, mostly because since then I wondered if we (meaning those who live in democratic nations), are exposed to similar tripe but no longer notice it because the tone of the propaganda is more in line with our culturally expected language. And then, imagine how my head exploded when I found out there is <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Pyongyang/" rel="nofollow">an entire sub Reddit </a>devoted to these "news" items. I still cannot figure out if someone is posting these "ironically" or if the regime really has someone whose job is to post these outlandish articles on Reddit. I remember the day I found the website of the North Korean News Agency (apparently hosted in Japan). I spent hours reading the press releases because I was baffled by the language they use. It’s not just that it is propaganda, it’s the way they use the language of bureaucracy to convey what they believe to be a tone of news agencies. The cognitive dissonance was simultaneously amusing and scary, mostly because since then I wondered if we (meaning those who live in democratic nations), are exposed to similar tripe but no longer notice it because the tone of the propaganda is more in line with our culturally expected language.

And then, imagine how my head exploded when I found out there is an entire sub Reddit devoted to these “news” items. I still cannot figure out if someone is posting these “ironically” or if the regime really has someone whose job is to post these outlandish articles on Reddit.

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