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20 Facts About North Korea by Sirjohn84(m): 8:50pm On Dec 07, 2016
20 Facts About North Korea

1.According to a textbook in North Korea, Kim Jong Un learned to drive at age 3.

2.In 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded with US$100,000 by the U.S.

3.12,710 people have immigrated to North Korea since 1990.


4.North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate.

5.Wearing jeans is illegal in North Korea.

6.In North Korea, only military and government officials can own motor vehicles.

7.In 2013, North Korea's president killed his own uncle by throwing him naked into a cage with 120 starving dogs.

8.North Korea has its own operating system called Red Star OS.

9.North Koreans watched the 2014 World Cup on a 24-hour delay.

10.In the last 60 years, over 23,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea. Only two South Koreans have gone to the North.

11.North Koreans may only choose from 28 approved haircuts.

12.In the 50s, North Korea built Kijong-dong, a “nice” city visible from the border, to encourage South Koreans in. It's actually a ghost city.

13.North Korea has 51 "Social Categories" ranked by their loyalty to the regime.

14.North Korean archaeologists announced the world in 2012 they "discovered" lair of the UNICORN ridden by legendary King Tongmyong 2000 years ago.

15.For 20 years, the World's Tallest Hotel was a 105-story empty pyramid in Pyongyang.

16.North Korea hosts the World's Largest Stadium seating 150,000 people.

17.North Korea is officially not Communist anymore. Since 2009 its ideology is called "Juche".

18.North Korea is the world's only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured.

19.Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.

20.North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Sirjohn84(m): 8:51pm On Dec 07, 2016
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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by seunlayi(m): 8:57pm On Dec 07, 2016
Beautiful

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by vitalisdiho(m): 8:59pm On Dec 07, 2016
I odious the country

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Neozy(m): 9:28pm On Dec 07, 2016
Op I Disagree With Number 16, Maracana Stadium In Brazil Is The Largest. I No Fit Live There Since Jeans And Bible Is Not Allowed.

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Sandydayziz(f): 9:34pm On Dec 07, 2016
I stick with naija

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Nobody: 9:39pm On Dec 07, 2016
And people are stil dwelin there? ... how can live in a place wit such laws & restrictions...... this is slavery o

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Spacless(m): 9:39pm On Dec 07, 2016
NUMBER 6. SHA...
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Gratefulsoul(m): 9:40pm On Dec 07, 2016
So much in love with North Korea as a country... Kim is my role model..
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by thesicilian: 9:43pm On Dec 07, 2016
Sad to know that these are true
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by yarimo(m): 10:03pm On Dec 07, 2016
Here in my state eating and laughing after 7pm is a crime that attract life in prison with out option grin
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Ichel: 10:50pm On Dec 07, 2016
most of the things listed here are lies and heresy

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by fratermathy(m): 12:30am On Dec 08, 2016
Gratefulsoul:
So much in love with North Korea as a country... Kim is my role model..

Ichel:
most of the things listed here are lies and heresy

Everything here is true! Infact, a whole lot of things has not been said. North Korea is operating in a different century from the rest of the world.

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Nobody: 4:15am On Dec 08, 2016
I won't be surprised to see an igbo man living in North Korea.

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Nobody: 5:57am On Dec 08, 2016
20 facts about North Korea? More like 20 myths about North Korea. undecided

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by kinngie(m): 6:27am On Dec 08, 2016
North Korea has a "three generations" punishment rule. If one person violates a law or is sent to prison camp, it affects their whole family. Grandparents, parents, and children of the violator are sent to work with them.

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by bankyblue(m): 7:16am On Dec 08, 2016
When they talk of north korea I start getting sick.

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by SolexxBarry(m): 7:19am On Dec 08, 2016
This is serious,how do people live their biko
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Empressgifted(f): 7:27am On Dec 08, 2016
Watching South Korean movies is punishable by death in North Korea!! This is very serious!

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Dexema(m): 7:45am On Dec 08, 2016
Only one candidate and you call that an election?

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Nobody: 8:19am On Dec 08, 2016
Sometimes, I think these things are myths.
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by majour(m): 8:38am On Dec 08, 2016
Western media keep making shit up, how were this finding collected, which western media went to north Korea for this, lies upon lies upon lies, same CNN that was carrying false news to discredit trump, y'all will believe anything if u believe this

Go watch the movie the interview and you wud see its all lies and propaganda from the west

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by wordcat(m): 8:46am On Dec 08, 2016
majour:
Western media keep making shit up, how were this finding collected, which western media went to north Korea for this, lies upon lies upon lies, same CNN that was carrying false news to discredit trump, y'all will believe anything if u believe this

Go watch the movie the interview and you wud see its all lies and propaganda from the west

Exactly the way they made us all to believe that Gadhafi was the devil incarnate

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by teekay213(m): 8:57am On Dec 08, 2016
why is the US always painting other countries bad

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Nobody: 9:59am On Dec 08, 2016
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. If it is true. OK o

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by fboonmy: 11:23am On Dec 08, 2016
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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by nNEOo(m): 11:55am On Dec 08, 2016
No fo though
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Rockyrascal(m): 12:05pm On Dec 08, 2016
wordcat:


Exactly the way they made us all to believe that Gadhafi was the devil incarnate
fast forward to 2016 and libya are still in a state of political instability

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by bularuz(m): 12:31pm On Dec 08, 2016
Neozy:
Op I Disagree With Number 16, Maracana Stadium In Brazil Is The Largest. I No Fit Live There Since Jeans And Bible Is Not Allowed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity

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Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by freshcvvs: 12:39pm On Dec 08, 2016
fboonmy:

They Are Actually Very True!

According to?
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by bumbex(f): 3:27pm On Dec 08, 2016
A terrible nation
Re: 20 Facts About North Korea by Nobody: 3:40pm On Dec 08, 2016
Interesting.

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