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I know it's not the same as reality, but there is a free open source program called Stellarium that allows you to input your location and view the night sky from your location as if there were not light pollution, smog, fog and clouds. It's a virtual planetarium with an impressive list of features and many ways to customize it. You can even import a panorama photo of your backyard.

Yeah, it does. Here's a set of images for MEADS -Missle Extended Air Defense Systems.

They look exactly the same.

Welcome. Here's an article which gives a good rundown: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-north-korea-pursuit-foreign-014031477.html

and this one too

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-paper-reports-north-korea-preparing-economic-opening-a-875844.html

facepalm

That wristwatch is literally right off Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Gadgets-Stylish-Wrist-Camera/dp/B079P735KQ/ref=sr_1_12?crid=3HH20P8EGCFYU&keywords=wrist+watch+camera&qid=1651543087&sprefix=wristwatch+camera%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-12

It's a party gimmick at best. Upscaled low-res video to 1080p and audio you can't hear at all because the ticking overpowers everything.

When you say "Korean" - thats a difficult one to do now because of the division of the country. In essence its a database problem, we have a real world situation, "information" that does not fit into the current "schema".

I think that the world needs to revisit the concepts used to assign citizenship, the model is showing its age.

IMO, people should always have citizenship where they were born, and wherever their parents were citizens of. But that alone is not enough because "nations" of people are cultural, genetic (but the planet is increasingly multicultural) as well as political entities. these entities all move.

(Tying people's rights to a spot of land is also very, very short sighted given that much of the planet's lower lying coastal lands may be under water someday.)

Multiple citizenship should be what happens when people's parents are citizens of a different country than somebody was born in. As it gives people more options, it should be encouraged.

Its truly evil when a country denies citizenship to any people who were born and grew up there. Regardless of the status of their parents.

Marriage should give people a multiple citizenship option, but that should not be mandatory.

the world should try to figure out a new better way to do this because World War II showed us that the way we do it now is functionally deficient. See the discussion in Hannah Arendt's "the Origins of Totalitarianism" starting at p 291

A brief look around lead me to Alibaba where apparently dried leeches are sold in bulk for "medicinal purposes." It's the usual rubric of herbal remedy nonsense.. anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, cure-everything stuff. It apparently also goes by Hirudin which is an anti-coagulant that's no longer sold because it had severe side effects.

Just like the stuff we were hearing last year about herbs grown in soil rich with rare earth and heavy metals the down sides are way more scientifically proven than the upsides.

North and South Korea will sign a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War later this year, 65 years after hostilities ceased, the two countries announced in a joint declaration Friday.

The document, formally called the “Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula,” was revealed after a full day of meetings and a 30-minute private conversation in the past hour between Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in.

“The two leaders solemnly declare ... that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and a new era of peace has begun,” the declaration said.

Fighting in the Korean War ended in 1953 in stalemate, after which an armistice agreement was signed. But a peace treaty never followed, and the two sides are still technically at war.

“There will not be any more war on the Korean Peninsula, a new era of peace has begun," Moon said after signing the declaration.

“Chairman Kim Jong Un and I have agreed that complete denuclearization will be achieved, and that is our common goal.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/27/asia/korean-summit-intl/index.html]

I think

> Organization and Guidance Department

IMO, I bet the reason you keep hearing it is because its true.

Its exactly how a narcissistic evil parent would act. Because knowing that his son would be likely to get killed in any change of regime, KJI wouldn't care, if his son "failed", cut him out like a cancer.. , he would not care that he got killed, narcissists are mean spirited in a way that nobody who hasn't dealt with them could ever imagine, they like things like that, KJI - known for his cruelty, would literally have gotten pleasure out of that thought.

Are you familiar with Arendt's book, its on archive.org. if you start reading around page ~~411~~ 413 or so, there is a very interesting segment that explains how totalitarian regimes hide their real structures under layers of bureaucracy, old layers being supplanted by the new but continuing as if nothing had changed, but with no real power.. I that system a visible promotion is often actually a demotion out of the real power structure.

So, you might commonly have a "leader" who in fact had no real power, who basically just was there for TV.

She describes a layered structure like those Soviet era dolls.

Let me cross check my library when I get a little more awake but off the top of my head you HAVE to read Dear leader by Jang Jin-sung who now runs New Focus international. He was a poet laureate with access to outside media and let one of those pieces get caught on a citizen who shouldnt have had access to it. It led to both them fleeing and ill leave the rest for you to read. I STRONGLY suggest you get it. Most NK books are hard for me to put down, but this was one so hard to put down I believe it was read over 2-3 days.

The rest of your list seems close to mine, I know I have read 15 books on NK, so let me cross check and see what we have read jointly vs. the differences and we can compare. I also have (like the Hidden Gulag) various reports written that may or may not interest you.