Top 10 Amazing And Ridiculous Facts About North korea
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1 They built a fake town behind me over there is North Korea's propaganda village surely named with just a dash of irony North Korea's peace village can be found right along the border at shares with South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone in addition to being significantly more aesthetically pleasing than your average village in North Korea it's also anomalous in the sense that according to South Korea no one actually lives there built in the 1950s it's been advertised as a collective farm village boasting a population of 200 families and many desirable facilities and services however it's widely believed to be nothing more than a propaganda tool to entice South Koreans into defecting and that theory isn't disproven by videos posted by YouTube channels like Noah Lambert and Chris 5-1 for around the world but if it is a propaganda tool it hasn't been especially effective but when South Korean villagers here recently renovated their houses in 2015 North Korea responded by repainting the buildings of their propaganda village to make them a bit more colorful.
2 The discovery of a unicorn layer the state news agency there claims that archeologists have just located an ancient unicorn layer when your nation is insular it's very easy to disseminate false facts to your people still when you want to keep yourself aggrandizing claims within the realm of possibility unicorn related announcements are sure to elicit a great response from young children but the general population not so much regardless in 2012 the Korean Central News Agency informed the public of a truly groundbreaking discovery their unparalleled scientists had discovered a unicorn layer specifically that of unicorn written by King tongyoung how are they able to tell well because the words unicorn lair had been carved into a standing stone of course.
3 Kim Jong Il's cognac budget we're going to need lots of cognac the best Hennessy most people world leaders included liked to imbibe from time to time but few would have a bar tab like Kim Jong Il's he reportedly spent about 1 million dollars u.s. a year on con yak his drink of choice not just any con yak though Hennessy Cognac he loved Hennessy Cognac apparently spending eight hundred thousand dollars a year on the drink according to the Daily Mail he was the company's single biggest patron although a Hennessy spokesperson has stated that they wouldn't miss his business in the grand scheme of things considering the average North Korean yearly income is estimated at one thousand to two thousand dollars this sort of spending feels particularly outlandish according to noted visitor Dennis Rodman Kim jong-un has similarly expensive tastes he loves basketball and I think that's the key for anything in the world basketball.
4 Your birthday isn't always the day you were born if the deer leader dies on your birthday best to skip the party for ever in North Korea the death of a leader means a day of uninterrupted mourning each and every year for the foreseeable future because of this birthdays are no longer celebrated on July 8th or December 17th in the country due to the respective death dates of past rulers Kim il-sung and Kim jong-il since the passing of each of these illustrious leaders residents born on those days now celebrate their own birth the day after it's been estimated that this shuffles B Day celebrations for some 100,000 North Koreans you can see thousands of students are here putting on a huge group dance in honor of the birthday of the late leader
5 They have their own Godzilla Kim jong-il was a serious movie buff by some estimates he personally owned over 20,000 DVDs committed to making his nation great however he wasn't satisfied with simply consuming foreign films in fact as far as the public was concerned they were considered illegal so he set about trying to encourage a North Korean film industry but when we did more research we found out that oh Kim jong-il was a huge film up in the late 1970s he actually kidnapped South Korean filmmakers shin sang-ok and forced him to produce films for him rife with propaganda of course of the various films produced perhaps the most notorious was pooja sati which was a blatant ripoff of the Godzilla films.
6 Fake football fans the enthusiasm of North Korean crowds often raises accusations of acting but outsourcing actors to feign interest in your sports teams on the international scale that shows serious commitment to keeping up appearances when North Korea sent a football or soccer team to compete in the World Cup there was a suspiciously large crowd of dedicated fans suspicious because as a North Korean it's nearly impossible to get a visa to leave the country it turned out that these were Chinese volunteers later revealed to be paid actors well as long as it helps team morale they just look like they just just been giving it just before they walked into the ground there you go you're watching the football today North Korea supporting them here's your kit here's your hats.
7 They seem to really like accordions sure there are plenty of Polka fans and who hasn't rocked out too weird al' yankovic at some point in their lives but North Korea seems to take accordions really really seriously we're not sure if they got a bulk deal on some accordions or what but at some point it became mandatory for all teachers to learn how to play accordion so they could teach their students dubbed the people's instrument it was considered a morale-boosting portable instruments that the entire country could enjoy though guitar and harmonica are also popular instruments of choice the accordion holds a special place above the rest in North Korean culture.
8 Blue jeans are illegal be it ripped baggy or skinny jeans in North Korea all blue jeans are off-limits period according to the Daily Mail this was a move by North Korean ruler Kim jong-un in an effort to weed out American influence because what's more American than a pair of denim jeans The Children's Day we play a game in school all nationwide we do that but we have a several game that we have two-step American of course in addition to cracking down on dungarees the government is apparently taking a stricter hand elsewhere including regulating the shoes and t-shirts people wear ironically however from 2007 to 2011 North Korea was actually a minor player in the jean trade manufacturing and exporting Naoko jeans for a Sweden based company.
9 There are a limited number of approved haircuts when it comes to style North Korea isn't limiting its government-mandated looks to just wearable fashions they're pretty strict about hair styles two men have ten choices at their disposal while women have between 14 and 18 styles to choose from depending on the source you're using unsurprisingly options do not include the Mohawk mullet the Skrillex either Bieber or the Miley Cyrus double knot and are instead of a fairly modest conservative collection oddly Kim jong-un's own cut is not on the official list and has been reportedly made illegal for anyone else to wear while conversely made mandatory for all male university students despite the style being considered a Chinese import.
10 Kim Jong Il was considered magical or at least superhuman it's been very difficult to sift through what is fact and what is fiction when it comes to the claims made by and about Kim Jong Il according to official records and books written about the dear leader Kim Jong Il his birth was accompanied by both a double rainbow and the appearance of a new star also he was walking in a matter of weeks and talking in a matter of months but that was just the start of his alleged feats he reportedly played a round of golf that included 11 and one invented the hamburger wrote six operas and thousands of books in just a few years and depending on who you ask had the ability to mentally influence the weather his son Kim jong-un naturally learned to drive at age three and was a yacht racing champion by nine he does not have a butt hole he has no need for one do you agree with our picks.
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