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Fortress Decadence

“Welcome to Inqaba Ukuwohloka.” said a man and woman in Elizabethan era butler outfits as you entered the lavish mansion designed by Kazuyo Sejima as a love song to Giyōfū architecture, the mansion was completed on August 10, 2019. The main entrance hall is a beehive of social activity with people in and out of dress, in and out of costume mingling, flirting and otherwise interacting. Several celebrities are within your sight, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy introduces herself to you, as do Jamie Marchi, Vince McMahon, Jacinda Ardern, Jeffrey A. Rosen, Rose Montoya and Jay-Z. Ellen DeGeneres, Jake Busey, Meghan Markle, Anita Sarkeesian, Keanu Reeves, Megan Thee Stallion, Prince William, Greta Gerwig and Tucker Carlson do not. The further in you go the more casual the attire becomes as does the atmosphere. You bump fists with Joe Rogan, Tom Kenny, Joseph Buttafuoco and Cynthia Erivo. A very drunk Kim Tok Hun bumps into while putting his tie on his head, prompting you to bump into Samia Suluhu Hassan who introduces herself but doesn't recognize you and quickly walks away. A crying Dak Prescott dashes past you, a midget dressed as He-man offers you a cup of applesauce and Ke$ha, looking like Amélie, sprays you with Obsession for men. A tray of Angels on horseback is presented to you just before a man who looks a lot like Claudio Castagnoli wearing a lot of makeup kisses you on both cheeks and is off into the crowd before you can react. A person that can only be described as Tipper Gore cosplaying as Pizzazz, the main vocalist, rhythm guitarist and leader of the fictional rock band The Misfits, apologizes and hands you a pink bellini, which is taken away by someone in a black and white Korean girl’s high school uniform with a gray horse head mask on who directs you to the bar upstairs while dodging a plate of Tokwa’t baboy being offered to you. A dashing Frenchman in an all shark skin gray three piece suit helps you avoid a glass of champagne spilt by Mahdi al-Mashat, only to be separated from him by Elon Musk laughing hysterically. A man clearly older than your father, wearing nothing but a reddish pink feather boa and a matching bandana in his gorgeous hair, gently pinches your bottom and scampers off before you can protest, he is caught and beaten by the crowd, which he rather enjoyed. A tray of Bakwan is offered to you but knocked over as a brawl erupts between rather large men dressed in ill fitting tuxedos yelling at each other in Greek. Katerina Sakellaropoulou said they were fighting over her, while wearing an all too revealing desert brown dress. She takes two of the Rumaki on a tray being offered to you when you are intimately greeted by Mosch. No age, no race, no gender, no labels, no touching; just Mosch. The Dalton Castle entrance attire, bronze tan, make up, flamboyant gesticulations and platinum blonde 1980’s rock god hair gave away nothing.

Mosch takes you to an elevator with six other people in it. One was a priest who looked exactly like the American Gothic painting. One was actor Billy Campbell, trying not to get noticed. Three are dressed as businessmen who are snickering whilst playing a game of who can release the worst fart. The last is a Palestinian man enjoying the farts. Only you and Mosch exit to the second floor, which is more of a nightclub setting which Mosch laments, then has a mood swing after spotting a young lad in tight Lederhosen and drags you to the bar. He orders, “A Zima for my friend and a martini for me. Three measures of Tanqueray Rangpur, one of Ciroc, half a measure of La Quintinye Extra Dry Vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add three speared pimento stuffed olives. Got it?”

After correcting your drink order, Dillon Francis’ “I.D.G.A.F.O.S.” came on much to Mosche’s excitement and you two dance, never once touching. By the song’s end your drinks are served by a woman in a violet niqāb. Mosche hands you yours after looking at it with dismay, Mosche tips her a fifty dollar bill and you can't help but notice Mosche has no pockets and carries no purse as you're led to an elevator where a man, woman and a nonbinary person were all over each other. Kissing, licking, groping, feeling, biting, wanting. Two of the three invite you to join them but Mosche declines on your behalf while taking in their sight, sounds, aroma and aura.

The third floor is a hookah bar and smoke lounge with terrible tiki lounge decor and a terrific live band. Mosche walks the room, takes a random hit from a hookah, introduces you to Kevin Spacey, takes another random hit, is waved off by Seth Rogan, briefly makes out with a waitress and you're back in the elevator before finishing your drink. You ride with a woman who looks like Megan Merkel trying hard not to get noticed. The Gull Terrier sniffing up her skirt made it impossible. Mosche informs you out of respect the two of you are going to exit at the next floor.

The music of Phinehas 12 decibels too loud, as the doors open to reveal a bondage dungeon. Nothing but leather and steel visible between the bodies. While dragging you to the bar, Mosche stops to introduce you to Joe Biden, who is wearing only a diaper and being walked on a leash by Mistress Rouz. Rouz is 30 years old, 1.77 meters tall and weighs 73 kg. She was born, raised and usually resides in Port Louis, Mauritius. She speaks with a heavy Mauritian Creole accent as she exchanges pleasantries with you and Mosch. She wears a black leotard with far too many accessories to be considered tasteful. She is accompanied by Zelmire, a 14 year old Austrian girl with charming features and curly hair. She is dressed as a bunny girl. Mosche asks Joe where their Lord is but Biden responds but he only barks, as Rouz had commanded. Rouz then says, “But if I were looking for anyone, I’d check the observation lounge.” Mosche thanks her and drags you to the bar where you’re served by a Papuan lad clearly too young to be serving drinks. Mosche orders a dirty version of the drink from before and a light beer for you. Mosche vows not to linger but is distracted by Taylor Swift riding Robert Kraft side saddle, allowing you to correct your drink order and catch a breath. What can only be described as a young Arsenio Hall with stunning golden brown Farrah Fawcett hair, wearing a red leather dominatrix outfit and far too much makeup, stands next to you and says, “I hope you don't mind me coming over, but I've been watching you all evening.” They pause to suggestively eat a speared cherry from their Mojito, “And I want to tear you apart. Your friend as well.”

Before they could move in for the kiss, Mosche pulls you hastily to the elevator where two midgets dressed as cupids are smoking massive cigars, and verbally degrading a red headed obese woman who is loudly masturbating with a Bratz doll.

“The next floor is the S & M suite.” Mosche laments, “I’ve no need to go in, do you? Well we can always come back. I can say the same thing about the Sanguine Suite above us. Let us move on to the school. That’s where our Lord and Master awaits.”

The elevator ride was a bit cramped with Polish strong man Andrzej Zieleniecki and a constantly performing mime joined the five of you in the elevator. The doors open to reveal a hallway filled with lockers and classrooms. All the other occupants exit and a rubenesque Samoan woman in a black and yellow Korean high school uniform beckons the two of you to the first classroom on the right. Her black hair is worn in curled pigtails and side-swept bangs. She smells like ripe cloudberries. Through the window you see what appears to be Bill Cosby giving a lecture about jazz to a class of teenagers. She takes you to the classroom diagonal to the first where R. Kelly is teaching an all girls choir to sing. Moving diagonally again, the next room reveals Kevin Spacey reading to an all boys class. He was wearing nothing but a velour silk robe that clearly wasn't tied. Mosche introduces her, “This is Sophia Wind. She's mute but not deaf. She gets off on showing people things.” Sophia bows and Mosche asks her, “We're looking for our Lord and master, have you seen him?” Mosche doesn't understand her sign language but you correctly guess the library based on her gestures. Mosche is impressed by your cleverness and escorts you back to the elevator where a guy who looks like Skipp Sudduth cosplaying as Jalen Hurts was trying to persuade a cheerleader who favored Madison Curry to give him a blow job. You ride the elevator down back to the smoke lounge so you can use the bathroom purposely designed and decorated with a cold, mechanical feel. Like the kind one would expect to find on a WWI battleship. When you’re finished, Mosche is waiting with drinks. Your’s appears to be what your previous drink was, garnished with an added speared cherry, olive and lime wedge.

Mosche escorts you to the elevator where four guys who resemble Beavis, Butthead and their fathers are standing in the now smoke-filled elevator giggling at each other

You feel a touch light headed as the doors open and the four morons rush out saying, “We’re gonna tip over a cow,”

You’ve entered a stable with the obvious hay, smells and noises, some of which were clearly human. Mosche simply mutters, “Oh no, the dierentuin. We don’t want to be here.” and takes one step before a high pitched voice squeals, “Mosche! Thank God you’re here! I need your help to settle something.”

The voice belongs to a blonde woman with big blue eyes and a model’s figure dressed in an all too sexy cowgirl outfit. The kind only a stripper would wear.

“Please Judy, I'm working.” Mosche laments, gesturing at you.

“What? Oh Hi! I’m Judy Punch, nice to meet you.” She squeaks at you and shakes your hand. Before you can respond she’s back to Mosche, “So I have a problem and you’re the first person I thought of.”

“But Judy, I’m busy.”

“But, you’re already here.”

Mosche dramatically laments before pulling you along while being dragged by Judy. She leads you past three sheep, two horses, two cows and a man fucking a goat while she explains the problem.

“So Viktor and Arse Splitter were arguing about who had the largest dick. I offered to measure for them but I couldn't make Arse Splitter hard.”

“Of course my dear, you're much too old and the wrong gender for that.”

“And now they're trying to fight.” Judy lamented with her squeaky voice.

Viktor, no surname, hails from South Sudan and is very tall at 224 cm. He possesses a hulking, muscular build at 130 kg. His hands are massive enough to close around the entire head of many of his opponents. He is bald and wearing nothing but tape around his hands and feet to protect his knuckles and shins. The man known only as Arse Splitter is 28 years old and hails from Sheffield, England. He has the look of a satyr. He wore a short sleeveless tunic that revealed his genitals.

“I think I understand Judy.” Mosche giggled and took the tape measure before handing you an empty glass. Mosche then whispered sweet nothings into Arse Splitter’s ear all the while making sure not to touch him. And it worked, after 222 seconds he was fully aroused, displaying a penis that is bent saber fashion, it’s head, or glans, is enormous, it is 21 cm in circumference and the shaft 20 cm length. A fine curve to this majestic prick. Viktor’s measured three cm longer but four less in circumference. Judy tips you both twenty dollars after thanking you at a pitch no one would find pleasant. Mosche mutters, “Stupid bitch tipping me like I'm part of the help, what's wrong with her. I hope she gets pregnant and fat.” Mosche concealed the twenty despite having no pockets and escorts you back to the elevator where the red headed obese woman is loudly masturbating while an effeminate anorexic man verbally degrades her. He looks at the two of you and says, “She's not the one who should skip dessert.” And the look Mosche shoots him would've backed down Mike Tyson. He exits as soon as the doors are open wide enough and enters Barack Obama, a young Caucasian man and an older black woman. Mosche introduced you to Lady Eloise Gripenasty, 68 years old and wearing a gold and black Chong sim that revealed her lack of underwear. Christof Select, the youngest capo in the syndicate, wearing a white Armani tuxedo. And the former president is wearing a tuxedo by Versace. Christof is going on about how he can't get a giraffe here on the ride down to the dierentuin, so you don't have an opportunity to chat with Obama before they exit. The elevator stops at the lobby and four elderly white business men enter having a loud discussion about the stocks of aerospace companies and defense contractors. They exit at the club, Mosche calls them perverts and enters a 183 cm tall female bodybuilder from Romania making out with a Mexican boy who was 152 cm tall on his toes and weighed 50 kg at max. Mosche is intrigued and participates as only Mosche can, taking in the sights, smells, sounds and aura, but never touching. The couple exits and Mosche exclaims, “Oh, I’d forgotten about the preschool prostitute ring, shall we indulge? Oh, but I need to introduce you to our Lord and Savior, one more floor up.”

The next floor is the observation lounge which has monitors everywhere displaying the other floors from multiple angles. Everyone who exits is wearing a gray trench coat and matching fedora. Mosche introduces you to TJ Whittenhouse, a man who looks and dresses like a cliched ISTJ. Mosche has him confirm Lionel Virtanen is indeed in the library before heading there. When the elevator arrives a skinny white twink is getting quadruple penetrated by four big buff sweaty black guys vigorously, while they shout every epithet and slur possible. You silently agree when Mosche suggests waiting for the next one, which arrives 100 seconds later with a fresh batch of voyeurs looking to not be noticed. The two of you enter along with a dead ringer for Timothée Chalamet dressed as Raggedy Andy, a 222 kg French chef, the constantly performing mime and Honey Boo-boo. The elevator stops at the S&M suite where the chef exits and three softball players in full West Texas A&M uniforms enter, gossiping about who could fit a bat up their cunt like the whore they did it to. They and Timothée Chalamet exit at what looks and sounds like a gymnasium and a Pakistani couple enters, arguing loudly. This doesn't deter the mime one bit and in fact he incorporates them into the act, which causes them to yell at him and each other. The couple exits at the dierentuin and enters Crown, you know because Mosche gasped his name. Crown is 200 cm tall and a muscular 147 kg. He has long black hair spilling out of his purple and black lion mask and light brown skin. He’s wearing a light blue cowboy jacket with a dark blue poncho, white pants, a black belt, brownish gray shoes and white fingerless gloves. His presence is so commanding it was easy to miss the three other people who entered with him. An Armenian woman in a cute pink Loza Maléombho dress, a Libyan man in a Thebe Magugu tuxedo and a small man in a green screen suit who were clearly intimidated. The mime on the other hand tries to get Crown into his act, to which he respnds, “Déjame en paz antes de que te rompa.” The mime expresses a lack of understanding but continues the act, seeking an explanation from the other passengers. Crown then says, “¡Fuiste advertido pendejo!” and hits the mime with an uppercut that bounces his head off the doors just before they open revealing the Sanguine Suite and its cliche vampire decor. Crown then body slams the mime, mounts him and punches him in the face four times before transitioning to an armbar. The mime’s scream is drowned out by the sound of his ulna breaking then the doors closed. Clearly frazzled, Mosche drags you out of the elevator and into the triage ward, one of the few areas without a full service bar. Mosche is on the verge of a panic attack when a voluptuous woman in a black dress that showed a lot of leg approached. Her steel blue eyes meet yours, she gives you a wink and a smile, then a whorl of curly black hair as she approaches Mosche. And like that, you know everything is going to be alright.

“You’re looking a little ragged right now.” She says in a deep, breathy voice, “Anything I can do to help?”

“Oh Raven!” Mosche laments and hugs her, which shows clear indifference to. “Oh Raven,” Mosche pauses to sob, “I’m just trying to take this one to meet Lionel Virtanen for the first time.”

She pulls a cigarette and a lighter from god knows where and lights it, prompting one of the orderlies to shout, “No smoking in here!”

“Relax sugar, we were just leaving.”

She leads you to the elevator, followed by a man 1.2 meters tall and dressed like an accountant from the 1920s. He was trying desperately to get her attention.

“You know what they say Mosche: The harder the journey, the better the destination.”

The elevator doors opened and four orderlies moved a gurney out. On it, you couldn’t help what appeared to be a mime with a face of pureed beef on it, followed by a skipping Anita Sarkeesian. The green screen suit guy was break dancing to DeBarge was inside as was

Jacinda Ardern, who no one recognized. The three of you, Sendhil Ramamurthy in blood stained scrubs and WNBA star Brittney Griner with a heavily taped left knee enter the elevator. The accountant tries to dash in as the doors close but Raven kicks him in the chin to stop him.

The elevator doors open to a lobby decorated to look like the street front of a discreet Jakarta bar with a half moon rising. There were three people standing outside chatting; Vince McMahon, former president Donald Trump and Kim Belair. Inside is a very classy and impressie decor guarded by two men so large Mosche verbally assumes they were bred for security. But they look at Raven and say, “Welcome back boss.” then eye the rest of you menacingly. Raven turns around with her hands on her ample hips and says, “Mosche and guest. And…” You turn around to see the options only to see everyone followed you out of the elevator and joined the trio standing outside, but they were joined by a cowboy, a female construction worker, a biker, a female GI, a Tsuutʼina Nation chief, a Chinese admiral, a female British cop, three non-discript straight white men and what appeared to be a Syrian gigolo; all wanting the same thing, admittance. “...Jacinda Ardern.” Raven pauses to laugh in a manner uncharacteristic of her look and voice and adds, “And the green man.” There is audible disappointment from those not admitted as they return to whence they came.

“Welcome to the VIP lounge.” Raven breathes as the green man clears the metal detector. In the first booth was a man in a gold lion mask surrounded by a harem of girls far too young to be in such an establishment. They were eating from a cuminall five gallon bucket of neapolitan ice cream. The second was a man in a black bull mask surrounded by a harem of boys far too young to be in such an establishment. They were wrestling for his amusement. A woman in a taxidermy deer mask was choking and cursing at a server in Chinese accented English. The next booth had a man in a yellow panther mask and a man in a polar bear mask smoking massive cigars and casually chatting until they saw you looking at them. You look away but they continue to stare until you’re out of sight. A woman in a gold eagle mask is in the next booth beating a dark skinned man wearing only a loincloth with her fan. Her profanities flow from English to French and back again. The next booth is empty and Raven invites you all to sit as a classical jazz version of What’s Goin’ On plays. Raven takes everyone’s order and is the only one not shocked when the green man speaks in a deep voice with a heavy Welsh accent when ordering a pint of Newcastle. Raven is only gone for 90 seconds before the man in the polar bear mask approaches the table. He is wearing a shiny purple sequined sports coat with a black button up shirt, black slacks with violet pinstripes and the 1994 Nobel Economics prize on a gold chain around his neck. He says, “What kind of rabble are they letting into the VIP lounge these days?” like he’s impersonating Jack Nicholson.

“I know, right?” Mosche laments with a limp wristed dismissal. The man folds his arms, poorly pretending not to be agitated and says, “Seriously, I want to know who you people are and what gives you the right to be in my presence?”

“Who the fuck is this cunt?” Jacinda Ardern asked. The man attempted to strike her but the blow was intercepted by the shin of Baek Hae-Ryeong the rising star in the Taekwondo world. Mosche recognized him and remarked how handsome he was. You notice he’s wearing a loincloth and remember seeing him on the way in. The man in the yellow panther mask was trying to console the man in the polar bear mask who clutches his arm like it’s broken.

“Gāolí bàngzi!” he hisses, “Do you know who I am, how much money and power I have?” he doesn't pause as Raven returns with the drinks and a wink that tells you to let the man finish.

“Of course you don’t and I like it like that! I have enough money and influence over this world to keep my name out the mouths of you people who jumped a border to sell drugs, hijack planes and not speak English as they’re getting railed up the ass by some twink in a turban that jumped another border to escape the Jihad or their corrupt government or some sort of ethnic cleansing or cartels or whatever abomination the Cafri want to infect the rest of the civilized world with!”

A blonde middle aged woman in a gray pants suit that showcased her flat ass, with a white blouse that showcased her flat chest silently stepped from behind the ranting man and asked Mosche, “Mr. Virtanen was expecting 20 minutes ago, what is the delay?”

“This man here said he was more important than anybody else and insisted he had to listen to him.” Mosche blurted out.

“Is this true?” she asks, ignoring her tablet for the first time.

“Yes Ms. Prentiss.” Raven replied. Prentlss looks at the rest of the table and all you can do is nod along with them. Prentiss then turns to the masked man, who only now noticed his friend was nowhere to be seen. “You’re the reason for their delay?” she asked while backing him up by advancing.

“Delay?” At this point he’s backed up to the bar, “Okay look I may have had some choice words for…”

“Save it.” she cut him off, her attention back on her tablet, “You and Hae-Ryeong will accompany us. Mr. Virtanen awaits.”

Mosche urges you to finish your drink while not doing the same and rises, silently urging you to follow.

“And we’ll take the stairs so no one gets lost.” Prentiss says leading the group. The man in the mask tried to protest, but after two words Prentiss stopped walking and sternly asked, “Do I need someone to carry you there?” and continued walking before he actually said, “No.”

The stairs were old stone work. It was up to flights before a heavy wooden door opens to the library. The stone walls were seven meters tall with bookshelves three meters high on every wall. Above those were two meter tall windows that revealed a windy moonlit night. But you recall it being daylight when you arrive. It smells exactly as it looks.

Lionel Virtanen is standing in the middle of the library wearing blue gray slacks and a matching button up shirt and a navy blue vest and tie. His height, hair, weight and face are unremarkable, plain and average. He’s reading an old copy of The Odyssey.

“Mosche and your guest sir.” Prentiss announces. “They were delayed by this man Simon Javier Malhotra born the 20th of January 1963. He is the global chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Metal Mammoth Mining and the founder, chairman and largest shareholder of FirstOrder Corporation. In 2022, Malhotra was named to Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires. Wife, Barbara. Children…”

“We get the point you fucking bitch, you know who I am. You can shut the fuck up now. Goddamn stupid cow wasting everybody’s goddamn time running off at the mouth with all the yakety yak yak.”

Lionel threw the copy of The Odyssey so the corner hit Malhotra on his penis. He then choked him into a standing position and said, “That’s enough out of you! I know everything! You disrespect my guests, my staff, in front of me, but the most grievous thing you did? Telling that private eye about this place. And why? Because you raped your son's wives on their wedding night and blackmailed you!”

He released Malhotra and a pair of obvious sicario pick him up after playfully kicking him. Lionel slaps the mask off Malhotra, thrusts his middle and ring fingers up Malhotra’s nostrils and said,

“Low order scum. Prince, pauper, president, pawn, no one is beyond my reach.” He removed his fingers and gut punched Malthora who fell to his knees. The sicario held him up, pressing their crotches into his face. Lionel then looks into your eyes and says, “He’s all yours, what will you do with him?”

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laedicion · 1 year ago

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Se avecina una sangrienta purga en Corea del Norte en medio del agravamiento de la crisis económica y alimentaria

Kim Jong-un busca chivos expiatorios y ya apuntó contra su primer ministro, Kim Tok-hun, por los daños causados por las inundaciones en medio de una fuerte escasez de alimentos Tomado cortesía de Infobae Kim Jong-un visitó una zona afectada por las inundaciones (via KCNA) Corea del Norte está a punto de llevar a cabo una purga de altos cargos que podría incluir penas de muerte, ya que el…

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chicagochinesenews · 1 year ago

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北韓洪災釀重大損失金正恩怪罪總理不負責任

（中央社平壤22日綜合外電報導）北韓官媒今天報導，領導人金正恩猛烈抨擊總理金德訓（Kim Tok Hun）等內閣官員在處理洪災方面「不負責任」，並且因為最近的風災損害指責他們。 Continue reading Untitled

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pinksoultyphoon · 2 years ago

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SEOUL, South Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened a major political conference dedicated to agricultural improvement, state media reported Monday, amid outside assessments that the country’s chronic food insecurity is getting worse.Recent unconfirmed reports have said an unknown number of North Koreans have died of hunger. But observers have seen no indication of mass deaths or famine in North Korea, though its food shortage has likely deepened due to pandemic-related curbs, persistent international sanctions and its own mismanagements.During a high-level meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party that began Sunday, senior party officials reviewed last year’s work under state goals to accomplish “rural revolution in the new era,” the official Korean Central News Agency reported.The report said that the meeting of the party’s Central Committee will determine “immediate, important” tasks on agricultural issues and “urgent tasks arising at the present stage of the national economic development.”KNCA didn’t say whether Kim spoke during the meeting or how long it would last. Senior officials such as Cabinet Premier Kim Tok Hun and Jo Yong Won, one of Kim’s closest aides who handles the Central Committee’s organizational affairs, were also attending.The meeting is the party’s first plenary session convened only to discuss agriculture. Monday’s report didn’t elaborate on its agenda, but the party’s powerful Politburo said earlier this month that a “a turning point is needed to dynamically promote radical change in agricultural development.”Most analysts North Korea's food situation today is nowhere near the extremes of the 1990s, when hundreds of thousands of people died in a famine. However, some experts say its food insecurity is likely at its worst since Kim took power in 2011, after COVID-19 restrictions further shocked an economy battered by decades of mismanagement and crippling U.S.-led sanctions imposed over Kim’s nuclear program.In early 2020, North Korea tried to shield its population from the coronavirus by imposing stringent border controls that choked off trade with China, its main ally and economic lifeline. Russia’s war on Ukraine possibly worsened the situation by driving up global prices of food, energy and fertilizer, on which North Korea’s agricultural production is heavily dependent.After spending more than two years in a strict pandemic lockdown, North Korea last year reopened freight train traffic with China and Russia. More than 90% of North Korea’s official external trade goes through its border with China.Last year, North Korea’s grain production was estimated at 4.5 million tons, a 3.8% drop from 2020, according to South Korean government assessments. The North was estimated to have produced between 4.4 million tons to 4.8 million tons of grain annually from 2012-2021, according to previous South Korean data.North Korea needs about 5.5 million tons of grain to feed its 25 million people annually, so it’s short about 1 million tons this year. In past years, half of such a gap was usually met by unofficial grain purchases from China, with the rest remaining as unresolved shortfall, according to Kwon Tae-jin, a senior economist at the private GS&J Institute in South Korea.Kwon says trade curbs due to the pandemic have likely hindered unofficial rice purchases from China. Efforts by North Korean authorities to tighten controls and restrict market activities have also worsened the situation, he said.It’s unclear whether North Korea will take any action to quickly address its food problems. Some experts say North Korea will use this week’s plenary meeting to boost public support of Kim during his confrontations with the United States and its allies over his nuclear ambitions.Despite limited resources, Kim has been aggressively pushing to expand his nuclear weapons and missile programs to pressure Washington into accepting the idea of the North as a nuclear power and lift international sanctions on it. After

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arun-pratap-singh · 2 years ago

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North Korea touts 2022 economic achievement despite challenges

North Korea touted unspecified economic achievement in 2022 despite unprecedented challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic during a recent session of its top legislature, which leader Kim Jong Un did not attend, according to state-run media reports Thursday. In a report to the two-day Supreme People’s Assembly session through Wednesday, Premier Kim Tok Hun said North Korean people “achieved…

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antiimp · 4 years ago

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KIM JONG UN wohnte Großkonzert zu Ehren des 8. Parteitages der PdAK bei

Fernsehbeitrag Am 13. Januar gab es in der Pyongyanger Sporthalle das Großkonzert zu Ehren des 8. Parteitages der Partei der Arbeit Koreas unter dem Motto „Wir besingen die Partei“. Der hochverehrte Oberste Führer Genosse KIM JONG UN, Generalsekretär der Partei der Arbeit Koreas, Vorsitzender des Komitees für Staatsangelegenheiten der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea und Oberster Befehlshaber…

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leftreviewonline · 4 years ago

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(via Kim Jong Un appoints Kim Tok Hun as new Prime Minister of the DPRK)

#Kim Jong Un #kim tok hun

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism · 3 years ago

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Pyongyang, Socialist Korea: Ground-breaking Ceremony for Construction of 10,000 Apartments in Hwasong Area Held

A new project for building 10 000 flats started in the capital city of Pyongyang amid the growing revolutionary enthusiasm and devoted efforts of the people across the country to celebrate the 80th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il as a great revolutionary auspicious event.

The construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area will begin under the plan for building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang City set forth at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and the decision made at the 4th Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee.

The housing construction projects undertaken by our Party one after another serve as a striking demonstration of the people-first principle and the power of strenuous execution of its Central Committee that subordinates and orients everything to bringing earlier a new world of a prosperous power where the people enjoy the highest dignity and the best happiness.

A ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area was held with splendor on February 12.

The venue for the ceremony was overflowing with the enthusiasm of the soldier-builders and civilian-builders determined to translate the long-cherished desire of our Party into a brilliant reality and take the lead in accelerating the development of our-style socialist civilization by ceaselessly performing exploits in the most worthwhile and glorious work determined by the Party Congress, true to the new construction revolution programme of the Party Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the ground-breaking ceremony.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue for the ceremony, all the participants greeted him with enthusiastic cheers of "Hurrah!" as a token of their reverence for him who brings about the bright morrow of a highly civilized and prosperous power and ushers in a new era of startling changes with his steel-strong faith, far-sighted wisdom and invincible leadership, remaining faithful to his great duty for the country, the people and the revolution.

Present there were Jo Yong Won and Kim Tok Hun, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ri Il Hwan and O Su Yong, secretaries of the Party Central Committee, Pak Hun, vice-premier of the Cabinet, and other Party and government cadres, and officials in the city including those of the Cabinet, ministries and national institutions.

Also present were Ri Yong Gil, Kim Jong Gwan and other officials of the armed forces organs.

When the start of the ceremony was declared, the national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a meaningful speech "Let Us Further Glorify the Golden Age of Capital City Construction by Bringing about a Sea change in the Hwasong Area."

Expressing his pleasure over the ground-breaking ceremony for building another new street for people symbolic of the era of great changes in the capital city full of fresh courage and confidence, Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated, on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the DPRK government, the capital city builders and service personnel of the People's Army on opening up a prelude to the struggle in 2022 by starting with a splendid ceremony the construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area, true to the decisions made at the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee.

He said that the construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area, one of the top priority tasks facing the construction sector this year, is not only the second project for carrying out the long-term goal for housing construction in Pyongyang City, a long-cherished plan of the Party whose implementation started last year, but also the first-stage construction for turning the area into a new modern town.

He highly praised the service personnel and civilians involved in the construction of 10 000 flats in the Songsin, Songhwa areas, the eastern gateway to Pyongyang, for turning the areas into an excellent street with their indomitable spirit and strenuous efforts, thus achieving great successes and providing a sure guarantee for pushing ahead with the housing construction in the Hwasong area, as planned, this year, the second year for implementing the decisions made at the 8th Party Congress.

Expressing the belief that their sky-high enthusiasm and the spirit of the offensive will be fully displayed in the construction of 10 000 flats to be launched in the Hwasong area and more encouraging and significant greater successes achieved in the construction project, he advanced the tasks and ways to dynamically and scrupulously conduct the grand construction campaign this year.

Terming the construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area the major thrust, in which the biggest progress should be made, on the front of the great construction involving the whole country, he expressed expectation that the construction units deployed in the Hwasong area would dedicate all their wisdom, enthusiasm and high spirit to the sacred construction campaign by taking the lead in the campaign and becoming examples to the builders of other construction sites.

When Kim Jong Un finished his impassioned speech, all the builders raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!", filled with a firm will to build a thriving street symbolic of socialism in the Hwasong area and ensure the continuity of the heyday in the capital city construction by dint of indomitable tenacity and inexhaustible spirit of creation, true to the noble intention of Kim Jong Un who goes to great pains for a new great era of the development of Korean-style socialism, for the capital city of Pyongyang and for the people's happiness to be brought into full bloom along with new magnificent streets.

A letter of pledge to the Party was read out by Kim Jong Gwan at the ceremony.

He mentioned the builders' high enthusiasm to live up to the deep trust of the Party Central Committee which unfolded a grandiose blueprint for turning the area near the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, into an icon of the Korean-style socialist civilization and called them to the sacred construction site.

Noting that all the builders regard it as a due obligation and bounden duty of them who are the descendants of President Kim Il Sung and soldiers and disciples of Chairman Kim Jong Il to spruce up the area near the palace, he said they will surely build a model street, fresh wealth of the people vividly representing the great era of Kim Jong Un and the ideal of the Party, as scheduled by its Central Committee, in the Hwasong area, on which the global attention is focused, as expected by the people.

The letter expressed the steadfast will of the builders to create a new construction speed of Hwasong, the myth of Hwasong, in the decisive campaign of loyalty, holding aloft the flag of the headquarters of the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, which Kim Jong Un personally handed over to them, as a banner of struggle and advance.

All the soldier-builders solemnly made a pledge of loyalty toward the Party that they would strikingly demonstrate to the world what kind of miracle will be made under the grandiose plan of the Party Central Committee remaining faithful to the people by bringing about a tremendous change in the Hwasong area through an all-out drive with full confidence in victory.

Then there was a blasting, signaling the beginning of the construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area.

Following the blast, fireworks were displayed in the sky along with thunderous cheers.

The soldier-builders and civilian-builders chanted slogans representing their pledge to devotedly carry out the plan of the Party out of their will to fully demonstrate their honor and spirit as proud creators and dignified pioneers who write a new history of prosperity and development in the era of the WPK in the construction of the Hwasong area.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the trustworthy soldier-builders and civilian-builders as a token of his encouragement to them who have gone all out for the grand construction campaign for demonstrating the militant might of the great WPK and the revolutionary spirit of socialist Korea, true to the intention and will of the Party Central Committee.

The construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area will clearly prove the fervent patriotic zeal and extraordinary creativity of the Korean people vigorously advancing toward the bright future of socialism and the development level and potentialities of the country dynamically advancing toward the attainment of grand goals, guided by the great Party Central Committee.

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read-marx-and-lenin · 2 days ago

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How is North Korea a democracy? (Genuine question, not a gotcha)

Isn't Kim Jong-un a dictator? Do they have elections? Are other positions elected and he has a more symbolic position?

The DPRK does have elections, and Kim Jong-un is not a dictator. Kim Jong-un is an elected official, holding the offices of General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs Commission. He is the head of state as a result, but he is not the head of government, which is currently Kim Tok-hun (no relation).

Government affairs in the DPRK are distributed across multiple offices, and the DPRK has checks and balances like any other democratic nation. I have another post where I go into detail about the DPRK government here:

https://www.tumblr.com/read-marx-and-lenin/761068580922130432/hi-im-sorry-to-bother-you-ive-been-attempting?

I would also recommend reading "In North Korea" by Anna Louise Strong. While it was written when the DPRK was still a very new country, it offers a unique view into democratic centralism and socialist politics from the perspectives of average people living in North Korea at the time.

#communism #socialism #leftism #anti capitalism #marxism #marxism leninism #dprk #north korea #anon ask

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juchechat · 4 years ago

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Meeting of Executive Policy Council of WPK Central Committee Held [August 6 Juche 109 (2020) KCNA]

The Fourth Meeting of the Executive Policy Council of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK on August 5.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the WPK, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, was present at the meeting.

Attending the meeting were Pak Pong Ju, Ri Pyong Chol, Ri Il Hwan, Choe Hwi, Kim Tok Hun, Pak Thae Song, Kim Yong Chol, Kim Hyong Jun, vice-chairmen of the WPK Central Committee who are members of the Executive Policy Council of the WPK Central Committee, and other officials of major departments of the Party Central Committee.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting.

The meeting of the Executive Policy Council examined and discussed the issue of organizing a new department within the Central Committee of the Party and studied and discussed the ways to radically improve the personnel affairs system of the Party.

The meeting also appraised the work of cadres in major offices of the government and discussed relevant measures.

Then the meeting heard a report on the anti-epidemic work and the situation in Kaesong City that is completely locked down under the state's maximum emergency system, discussed and decided on the Party Central Committee's special supply of food and funds to the city to stabilize the living of its citizens, and instructed relevant field to take immediate measures in this regard.

In addition, the Executive Policy Council of the Central Committee of the Party discussed the practical affairs arising in the internal work of the Party and approved their execution.

Making conclusions on the matters discussed at the meeting, Kim Jong Un called upon the members of the Executive Policy Council to decisively improve the works of the fields in their charge by displaying high sense of responsibility and devotion, and organize and do every work in a revolutionary way as required by the idea and policy of the Central Committee of the Party by maintaining the correct orientation and the pivot in their works for faithfully implementing the decision of the Central Committee of the Party and by scrupulously organizing the work to do so.

#dprk #kim jong un #juche #communism #socialism #dprk: wpk cc

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thepowerofthetable · 3 years ago

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Gjennom innsiktsfasen gikk jeg meg gjerne turer i byen mens jeg hørte på lydboken Bread & Wine av Shauna Niequist. Jeg gikk å tenkte på hvordan livet i byen er, hvordan folk bor og hvor mennesker møtes. Utfra dette kom jeg til å tenke på såkalt; «social housing» og en TedTalk jeg hadde sett tidligere for flere år siden av Grace Kim. Denne TedTalken har tittelen; How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguvTfAw4wk). I dette foredraget forteller Kim, som er arkitekt, om boligkomplekset hun bor i hvor beboerne deler fellesarealer og spise middager sammen som kollektiv hvor alle bidrar. Under ses et sitat fra forelesningen som er interessant:

Kim nevner begrepet «communitas» som er et begrep som jeg kjente igjen fra tidligere utdannelse i teologi. Jeg hentet derfor fram en favoritt kalt; The forgotten ways av Alan Hirsch fra 2006. Hirsch bruker «communitas»- -begrepet når han snakker om hvilke typer fellesskap som tiltrekker seg mennesker i vårt moderne samfunn. «Communitas»-begrepet er utformet av antropologene Edith og Victor Turner og beskriver hvordan «liminalitet» fører til en følelse av samhørighet ettersom at communitas formes gjennom utfordringer; gjennom å ha en felles misjon. I beskrivelsen av communitas på nettsiden til store norske leksikon sies det at; «Edith Turner argumenterer for at communitas kun kan gjengis ved historiefortelling som metode: Ved å fortelle historier som viser fenomenet i aksjon, individuelle historier som også inkluderer andre mennesker, kan vi avdekke historiske og etnografiske ankerpunkt som lar oss belyse oppstandelsen av communitas i sin helhet, også på et globalt nivå.» (https://snl.no/Communitas). Spørsmål begynte nå å surre i tankene mine; hvordan formes slike fellesskap i vårt urbane miljø i Oslo?

I Stavanger finner vi noen spennende prosjekter innenfor den såkalte nordiske cohousing modellen som ses under:

Jeg har en bekjent som bor i Lervig Bolig Pluss og jeg tok kontakt med henne for å høre litt mer om hennes opplevelse av å bo der. Bolig Pluss er et konsept av Selvaag Bolig hvor beboerne gjennom fellesleien har tilgang på fellesarealer med kjøkken, festsal, foaje med koselig stue og «hotellrom» som kan leies til venner og familie. Min bekjent kunne fortelle om svømmeklubb, take away til filmkveld i fellesarealet og trivselskomité. Under pandemien har naboer samlet seg til et sosialt fellesskap. Jeg syntes både historiene hennes, og instagram-innleggene hennes vitner om et konsept som fører mennesker sammen og bidrar til glede i menneskers liv.

Samtidig er boligkonseptene over relativt dyre, og gjerne ikke tilgjengelig for mange mennesker. «Social cohousing»-modeller kan ses i sammenheng med «Third Place»-begrepet som er et begrep som ble etablert av sosiologen Ray Oldenburg i hans bok fra 1989 kalt; The Good Great Place. Begrepet beskriver et sted utenfor hjemmet og jobben hvor det er godt å være; hvor mennesker kan bruke tid, hvile og «henge». Jeg begynte videre å mappe ut hvor vi kan finne slike tredje steder i Oslo:

Jeg tok så kontakt med en bekjent som jobber i byggeavdelingen i Stavanger kommune da jeg visste at de drev å utviklet prosjekter i en bydel basert på tredje sted-tankegang. Jeg fikk så kontakt videre gjennom kontakten min til en person i kommunen som jobbet med dette prosjektet hvor jeg fikk tips om tjenester som de har blitt inspirert av. Med dette startet arbeidet med å skjekke ut flere spennende tjenester. Under er noen av tjenestene jeg sjekket ut:

Jeg kartla også hvilke såkalte «møtesteder» Oslo kommune tilbyr:

Samtidig med at tankene svirret rundt tredje steder i Oslo tenkte jeg over hvordan Oslo er en by med mange steder å spise ute, men at det er ikke alle steder jeg føler meg like komfortabel å gå og spise alene. Jeg gikk derfor ut for å spise på en restaurant alene, og under ses refleksjonene jeg hadde gjennom besøket.

#resarch

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism · 3 years ago

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National Meeting to Celebrate 80th Birth Anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il Held

Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- The people of the DPRK, who are dynamically advancing toward a fresh victory along the bright path of our style socialism under the guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea, are splendidly celebrating the Day of the Shining Star, the greatest auspicious national holiday, with high political enthusiasm and proud labor achievements.

On the occasion of the significant February holiday, all the civilians and servicepersons of the whole country are paying their highest tribute and eternal glory to Chairman Kim Jong Il. They are recollecting in humble reverence the noble life of the Chairman shining in the sacred path of the Juche revolution and the immortal revolutionary exploits he performed before the country and the people, the times and the history.

A national meeting to commemorate the 80th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il took place in front of his statue in Samjiyon City, the holy land of revolution, on Feb. 15.

Samjiyon City where majestic figure of Mt Paektu, the sacred mountain of revolution, is in sight was filled with boundless reverence for the Chairman who was born as the Shining Star of Mt Paektu and continued his forced march of warm love and devotion for the country and the people in his lifetime to provide a solid foundation of our state powerful and prosperous and with delight and pleasure of the participants to splendidly celebrate the great auspicious holiday of the nation on the glorious land turned into an ideal land of people.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the meeting.

When the respected General Secretary appeared, all the participants burst into stormy cheers "hurrah!" upon him who has put the might of socialist Korea, the highest patriotic heritage of the Chairman, and its position on the highest level with his ceaseless revolutionary leadership and carried into brilliant reality the Chairman's cause of building a powerful country.

A floral basket in the name of Kim Jong Un was laid in front of the statue of the Chairman.

Also laid before the statue were floral baskets in the names of the WPK Central Committee, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un together with leading officials of the Party and the government paid high tribute to the statue of the Chairman, the eternal sun of Juche, venerable image of socialist Korea and great sage of the revolution.

Present at the meeting were Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary for Organizational Affairs of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet.

Also present were Ri Il Hwan, Kim Jae Ryong, Kim Yong Chol, Jong Kyong Thaek, Kim Yo Jong, O Il Jong, Ho Chol Man, Pak Thae Dok, Kim Hyong Sik, Pak Myong Sun, Ri Chol Man, Kim Song Nam, Jon Hyon Chol, Yang Sung Ho, Ri Son Gwon, Ri Thae Sop, U Sang Chol and other Party and government leading officials, senior officials of ministries and national institutions, officials and working people in Ryanggang Province and Samjiyon City, and commanding officers and shock brigade members of 216 Division.

Ri Yong Gil and other senior officials of the armed forces organs and officers and men of the Korean People's Army and the Public Security Forces were present at the meeting.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made a report "Let us accomplish to the end the cause of the great Comrade Kim Jong Il with the revolutionary spirit of Paektu".

He said that all the people across the country greeting the greatest auspicious holiday of the nation in the middle of the historic advance toward the overall development of our style socialist construction recall with deep emotion the profundity and significance of the February of Korea while looking back on the most proud era in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years marked by leaping progress based on the revolutionary heritage left by the Chairman under the uplifted red flag of the revolution shining with his immortal august name.

Recalling the noble revolutionary career of the peerlessly great man characterized by his unusual birth and growth, the reporter praised the undying feats of the Chairman who instilled the spirit of self-respect into the people and provided the best asset for building a powerful country.

Stressing that the cause with great idea and heritage will be invincible, he called on all the Party members, other people and servicepersons of the People's Army to uphold the leadership of the Party Central Committee led by Kim Jong Un with ardent loyalty and truthful revolutionary practice and turn socialist Korea, fruition of the life-long dedication of the Chairman into a developed and highly civilized prosperous country looked up to by the world.

The participants, looking back with great pride on the emotion-charged days when they worked and struggled upholding the Chairman's idea and cause, hardened the conviction that his patriotic desire for building a powerful country will surely come true as there is the outstanding leadership of the Party Central Committee.

The meeting showed well the firm will and enthusiasm of the participants to carry to completion the revolutionary cause of Juche that started on Mt Paektu, rallied close around Kim Jong Un, build a people's paradise prospering with self-reliance on this land and adorn the new 100 years of the Korean revolution as annals of victory and glory.

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