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Shame[edit]
That's what I feel whenever I read that a Spaniard licks Kim Jong-Il's ass. — Unsigned, by: RationalSpanish / talk / contribs
Links dead[edit]
The links to the association web site are dead. I found
and others for other countries from
A lot of the info in the article is from a dead web site.... --Abd (talk) 05:54, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
- They work for me --Revolverman (talk) 06:08, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Spanish TV appearances[edit]
Recently Alejandro Cao has been seen in the Spanish television. Here's a program (in Spanish) where he scorts a Spanish journalist on a tour around North Korea, mainly pretty places in Pyongyang.
The day after the broadcast he was in a talk show denouncing manipulation in the above program, breaking every irony meter in Spain. 188.86.141.131 (talk) 17:58, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Tourist companies[edit]
There seems to be a few companies these days offering tours to North Korea, most of whom will happily tell you what a misunderstood country it is - I've been to a presentation by one. Even if they're less blind to the country's more egregious flaws (like the colossal 1990s famine) than this organisation apparently is, they still try to put a brave face on and explain how modern Pyongyang is, with everyone having mobile phones and living happy well-fed lives. Annquin (talk) 14:45, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
- A complete sham, of course. The tourists are being led around the same way the Red Cross was when they visited Theresienstadt. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 17:06, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
Sanctions[edit]
I think a point can be made about the unfair treatment of North Korea given that we fully support the Saudis while continuing to punish the people of North Korea with crippling sanctions. Yeah their rulers hoard all the resources but due to the sanctions the people of North Korea get even less than they would otherwise have. All the while sanctions continue to do jackshit about North Korean policies, seeing as they don't care about them but they do care about what happens to rivals of the United States who denuclearize. The Kims saw what happened to Libya and Iraq. The only real way to deal with the situation is to deal with them. Trump actually saw to initiate actual dialogue with them. Kudos to the literal fascist for doing the one thing that the past decades of liberal rule were unable to do. North Korea's not gonna denuclearize, and the sanctions are useless except as a way to punish the "starving people of North Korea" even further. None of this absolves the Kim regime by any means (going to stop any poisoning of the well attacks from the get-go), but it certainly is bad form to absolve the US of its part to play in the Korea situation. Carthage (talk) 02:54, 29 July 2023 (UTC)