RobertKK wrote: » People in North Korea do what they have to do to try and avoid the concentration camps and stay alive.
fryup wrote: » needs a few sessions on the sunbed imo and a visit to the hairdresser
Deleted User wrote: » The sister always looks like she'd be even more sinister.
Atlantic Dawn wrote: » He's the last of the old schoolers, world would be a much dimmer place without him, ever the entertainer he even fired off a few missiles during the lockdown to keep folk entertained.
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Hoop66 wrote: » Is Neil Young ill?
shaveAbullock wrote: » Exactly, the idea that the people of North Korea are evil or insane is repugnant. They are poor and repressed.
HBC08 wrote: » As someone mentioned above,paler skin is seen as more attractive in Korea.They even sell whitening skin cream,it's the opposite of fake tan.
mikhail wrote: » Across a lot of Asia, actually. I've often been amused to see the young fellas in China walking with their girls, holding an umbrella to keep her from tanning. India and Japan have similar beauty standards, and I expect a lot of the rest of the region too.
Satellite images showing the recent movements of luxury boats suggest Kim Jong Un is in the coastal resort of Wonsan, according to experts who monitor his secretive regime. Photographs of vessels used by the North Korean leader and his entourage have emerged amid speculation about his health and whereabouts.
shaveAbullock wrote: » Yes in many parts of China they are horrified if the see an Irish person(especially a woman) sunbathing because we ruining such attractive pale skin!
da_miser wrote: » Know a super pale Irish girl, 15 year ago got the trans siberian express across russia to the ass end of China, when she got to China she was followed by people ,women cam up to her to stare , many wanted to touch her pale face , she was freaked out until she got to hotel and receptionist spoke english, told her that her pale white skin was the peak of female beauty, the locals where in awe. In Ireland the girls are covered in fake tan, the grass is always greener!
Deleted User wrote: » "Peasants" work the fields, and so they have brown/tanned skin from being out in the sun. Having white skin carries the association of having better genes, and a greater potential for a better marriage. It's a common theme across China, Korea, and Japan. Less so, in other Asian countries like Vietnam or Cambodia (although a very minor element of it is there too).
da_miser wrote: » In Ireland the girls are covered in fake tan, the grass is always greener!
shaveAbullock wrote: » Do Irish guys actually prefer umpa lumpas to pale skin?
CrankyHaus wrote: » I'd argue that with each succession the rule of the Kims has become weaker. Kim Il Sung enjoyed a stature that his successors did not, as evidenced by their desperate association of their cult of personality with his. Kim Jong Il's Songun "military-first" policies indicated that he had to make significant concessions to the Generals to stay in power in a way that his father did not. Since 1994 the country has severely declined, both in absolute terms and relative to its neighbours in SK and China, and the North Korean elite must be well aware of this regardless of what slogans they have to parrot. A collapse of North Korea would have serious potential for disaster - loose nukes, rogue factions, millions of refugees, China and SK/US banging heads over the power vacuum. A more gradual liberalisation through some form of slightly less insane authoritarian regime seems possible. There are plenty of examples of this in Asia (China since Mao, SK since Rhee and the generals, Burma more recently). The Chinese aren't mad about the Kims either, for good reasons historic and current. Maintaining a buffer on their Yalu border is a red line issue for them, but if a more stable guarantor of that buffer than the Kims were to emerge they'd be happy out.
threeball wrote: » If NK collapses i reckon the chinese will be looking for some lebensraum.
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