Our New Best Friends, The North Koreans, Marching to Great American Music

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1. Bob Shepherd says:

   October 31, 2018 at 4:43 pm

   HAAAAAA HHEEEEE HAA HEE HO HEEEE Oh my Lord that is funny!

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2. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   October 31, 2018 at 4:45 pm

   My reward for voting today. What a GAS.

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3. LeftCoastTeacher says:

   October 31, 2018 at 5:02 pm

   Belly laugh! Yep, that was good.

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4. Joe says:

   October 31, 2018 at 8:05 pm

   It’s funny even without the music. The North Koreans have really mastered and surpassed the Nazi goose step with that bouncey-bounce thing going on. It’s no joke for the marchers and the cheering throngs with their pom-poms.

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5. carolmalaysia says:

   October 31, 2018 at 10:56 pm

   it is amazing that these soldiers can march with such precision when most of them are starving. [I did enjoy the video, especially the speed up.] I slept in a hotel in S. Korea that was 35 miles from the demilitarized zone and was freaking out. There are two places in the world where I would not want to be: North Korea and Saudi Arabia.
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   Kim Jong-un’s hungry soldiers ‘pick corn’ after being given leave to STEAL food from starving North Koreans

   By CHARLIE BAYLISS FOR MAILONLINE
   PUBLISHED: 15:27 EDT, 2 January 2018 | UPDATED: 18:17 EDT, 2 January 2018

   North Korean soldiers are being given months off to scrounge around fields in a desperate bid to find food, new reports from inside the reclusive state has revealed.

   Pictures have emerged which appear to show soldiers looking through a corn field was published on Daily NK, a Seoul-based website which reveals what life is truly like in North Korea.

   A source from the northern Ryanggang Province told the website: ‘The officers know better than anyone that they must feed their soldiers in order to maintain morale, and that rations of cornmeal with very few calories only serve to instill disillusionment among them.’

   Other sources said many residents have expressed ‘pity about the situation’ after soldiers are spending up to three months pillaging their crops.

   It is claimed that a poor harvest, a drought and international sanctions have left the government with reduced food rations…

   In the last two months, two soldiers from the North have defected to the South. One of those who crossed the border was found to have parasitic worms in his stomach, one as long as 11 inches.

   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5229685/North-Korean-soldiers-steal-food-starving-civilians.html?ito=email_share_article-top

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   • dianeravitch says:

     October 31, 2018 at 11:37 pm

     Any military that does precision goosesteps gives me the chills.

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6. carolmalaysia says:

   November 1, 2018 at 6:53 am

   Here’s information on Trump’s other new friends. [Not mine.]

   …..
   The six men were all under 18 when they were charged with activities related to the Arab Spring. International law forbids the death penalty for minors.

   Human rights experts with the United Nation urge Saudi Arabia to stop the imminent executions of six men sentenced to death in relation to activities during the 2011 Arab Spring.

   The men, all Saudis, were under the age of 18 at the time. The U.N. experts say imposing the death penalty would be a violation of international law.

   The charges against the men are based on “criminalization of the exercise of fundamental rights, including freedom of assembly and expression,” the experts said in a joint statement.

   “They were allegedly tortured and ill-treated, forced to confess, denied adequate legal assistance during trial and never had access to an effective complaint mechanism,” the experts, including U.N. investigator on arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard said…

   The men, Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon, Abdullah al-Zaher, Mujtaba al-Sweikat, Salman Qureish and Abdulkarim al-Hawaj, were tried in a court that handles terrorism-related issues. There is no known appeals process, a U.N. human rights official told Reuters…

   Death penalty sentences and executions for crimes committed by people under the age of 18 contradict international law and standards, they said.

   Saudi Arabia ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which forbids capital punishment in such cases. “In these circumstances, the execution of these six individuals would constitute arbitrary executions,” the experts said.

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