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this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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you could make any shit up about north korea and some people would believe it
"North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has declared himself the only person allowed to do the Macarena. A person had been found performing the dance, and has been personally thrown by the leader into a big pool filled with genetically-engineered superpiranhas."
I'll always comment remembering the one time when a Brazilian guy made a youtube channel prior to the Worldcup 2014, feed it for months with videos from North Korea news and during the Worldcup made some fake videos of North Korea winning their games and winning the worldcup. Every news outlet publish that shit like "Kim Jong-Un is lying to north korean population about the worldcup". Days later he reveal the prank and some altered their news, but some remains.
Liberals really do think the DPRK is literally Mordor in real life.
I recently learned you cannot express support for NK in SK without a penalty/legal issues. And despite all their Western money (but because of Western influence) they're a country of plastic, superficial, hedonistic, depressed, aimless, collectively suicidal (birth rate wise). Jeez. It's gonna be interesting to see the eventual reunification.
Yep! The woman who made the documentary My Brothers and Sisters in the North, humanizing people in the DPRK, was stripped of her ROK citizenship despite popular critical approval of the documentary (from those who saw it).
You know, that's probably how I'm going to end up going out...banished by hot air balloon.
And you know what? I'm think I'm OK with this. What a whimsical way to be executed.
If a hot air balloon can reach low Earth orbit then why are we wasting money on rockets? Just tie those satellites and space station components to a balloon!
I know you're shitposting but I have been nerd-sniped
A) that's basically what weather balloons are
B) orbit isn't a place, it's a speed.
"Made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs" ass writing lol
I know. I've put 2000 hours in Kerbal Space Program. 🙂
I don't consider the stratosphere, where weather balloons travel, to be space.
This actually exists, although the most you can do with it is fly around and take measurements, no near-space stations.
Buoyancy can't take you out of the atmosphere by principle. The stratosphere is fake space! It's under the Karman line.
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While sadly the article is fake, the DPRK's unyielding support for Palestinian liberation is very real, in case anyone didn't know that already.
I like that it implies he tied them himself.
Based and The-Unparalleled-Adventure-of-One-Hans-Pfaall pilled.