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I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.

 
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I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
One of my fondest memories about being in school in North Korea was during the "Dear leader's" birthday. It was brilliant, the whole school would be turned into a day of games, fun and competitions.

The day usually started off with every single class lining up in an assembly hall where the whole school sang Happy birthday to the "Dear leader".

Then each class beginning from the smallest would go up in a single file and each student was given a shoe-box sized box filled candy, stationary, toys and other little goodies.

Once this was over we all went outside and the games would begin. Really fun obstacle races, tug of war and these sort of competitions. If you or your team won you would win prizes like more candy and other goodies.

I only have good memories of the place. It was so safe I used to walk back home with my brother who was one year older and I was only 5 at the time. I don't remember seeing many cars on the roads, in fact they were extremely rare.

For this reason we used to go skateboard down a steep downhill slope which was a well maintained main road, and to this day I have scars on my knees from the falls.

If you are wondering how I went to school there, my father served on a diplomatic mission, Im not gonna get into more details. If you want to know more about North Korea then I will answer your questions.
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
People in North Korea have TVs ?

Did they watch movies in DVDs?
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
Awesome :D

Was the dictatorship stuff visible? Did it affect you in any way?
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
People in North Korea have TVs ?

Did they watch movies in DVDs?
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We had a TV with Satellite funny enough! Just asked my father and apparently we had CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera.

All foreigners were given apartments in one of two buildings that were next to each other. The buildings were inside a massive plot of land that had a park with a decent play area for us kids. Swings, slides, monkey bars and all.

We never mingled with locals outside school and the state assigned a domestic worker for each apartment.

BTW I never mentioned this was during the reign of Kim Il Sung. The people there genuinely loved their leader.
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Did you get in any tussles in school with other students?

Were the other students children of important people and if so did they have food?

Did you ever see someone snatched off the street or a train and disappeared?

What did you and your family do for fun? No TV No radio etc.
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Awesome :D

Was the dictatorship stuff visible? Did it affect you in any way?
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Like I said in my previous post, all foreigners were given residence in one area as far as I can remember and we never mingled or saw any locals other than the kids and our teachers in school.

At the Embassies and residences there were domestic workers that were assigned by the state for each mission and their residence. Very friendly people we never had problems with them.
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Did you get in any tussles in school with other students?
 Quoting: SSERAL


Yes the Nigerian kids, they were trouble makers.

Were the other students children of important people and if so did they have food?
 Quoting: SSERAL


Yes they were! Most if not all foreigners in that country are representatives of their countries in North Korea.

We all had food but I remember my dad used to make a trips to china almost every 2 months by train to get supplies of other stuff that were not available. The train was awesome, my brother and me would go knocking on the different cabins sing in Korean to the locals on the train and they would fall in love with us and give us treats.

Did you ever see someone snatched off the street or a train and disappeared?
 Quoting: SSERAL


No.

What did you and your family do for fun? No TV No radio etc.
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There was TV we had a satellite that picked up foreign channels.
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One of my fondest memories about being in school in North Korea was during the "Dear leader's" birthday. It was brilliant, the whole school would be turned into a day of games, fun and competitions.

The day usually started off with every single class lining up in an assembly hall where the whole school sang Happy birthday to the "Dear leader".

Then each class beginning from the smallest would go up in a single file and each student was given a shoe-box sized box filled candy, stationary, toys and other little goodies.

Once this was over we all went outside and the games would begin. Really fun obstacle races, tug of war and these sort of competitions. If you or your team won you would win prizes like more candy and other goodies.

I only have good memories of the place. It was so safe I used to walk back home with my brother who was one year older and I was only 5 at the time. I don't remember seeing many cars on the roads, in fact they were extremely rare.

For this reason we used to go skateboard down a steep downhill slope which was a well maintained main road, and to this day I have scars on my knees from the falls.

If you are wondering how I went to school there, my father served on a diplomatic mission, Im not gonna get into more details. If you want to know more about North Korea then I will answer your questions.
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Dont eat as well there

Did the kids have enough energy to play?
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What day do they serve dog on a shingle?
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What day do they serve dog on a shingle?
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Any Day, some of the Dog farms are just outside:

Pyeongtaek Gun, South Korea

It's not bad...lol


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Dont eat as well there

Did the kids have enough energy to play?
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I would say they did....Karate was compulsory from the age of 3. Taekwondo as you aged. I never got to the taekwondo level though....

I posted this in hopes of helping shed some light and understanding from a different perspective on North Korea, first hand experience from someone who lived there, seems like most of you are happy with accepting the media fabricated version of life in the North.

I am only grateful for the experience because whenever North Korea is mentioned in the news I know most of it is not true having lived there.

For example the videos with North Koreans crying over their leader I know for a fact they genuinely love him, when almost everyone claims its fake and they are being forced. You cant force tears.
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What day do they serve dog on a shingle?
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Funny enough we had an incident where the workers once hinted that the German Shepherd we had would make an excellent soup.

A few days later the poor dog was gone!
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12/27/2011 07:50 PM
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Bumping for anyone interested in the truth on north korea
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12/27/2011 07:53 PM
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
why do you or a few other people make such bs posts
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12/27/2011 08:09 PM
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
Did you ever get to meet kim jong il's brother: Men Tally il


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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
Korea propaganda shilling?

They are killing children in prison camps by torture.

You make lite of this?

Dirtbag.
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12/27/2011 08:11 PM
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
a diplomatic kid tells of real life in north korea...and says it wasn't as bad as it seems

lol ... to conclude from the diplomat's school to the general life in NK is pure BS....you think they get any candy? no way!

you've been brainwashed
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12/27/2011 08:13 PM
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Korea propaganda shilling?

They are killing children in prison camps by torture.

You make lite of this?

Dirtbag.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7609949


Why would I lie? You people are way beyond controlled the nwo has you in their pockets.
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12/27/2011 08:17 PM
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You were there a long time ago, OP.
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
a diplomatic kid tells of real life in north korea...and says it wasn't as bad as it seems

lol ... to conclude from the diplomat's school to the general life in NK is pure BS....you think they get any candy? no way!

you've been brainwashed
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7798805


And on what facts can you base your assumptions that life there is horrible, the crap you are spoon fed on cnn? I experienced living there. I went to a local school and had to learn korean just like the other korean kids there are no privileged international schools there.
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
Well you know in my old days as a subject of the great grorious reader, we only ever used to play practice bayoneting the imperialist pigs and death to Amerika!
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
You were there a long time ago, OP.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6789284


true that but even then they were under sanctions and life is just not what you see on tv. The world you see on tv is a big fabrication as to what life is luke on the ground. think about it there are no reporters there how can they know what is happening, they just make stuff up to fill in the gaps and its all bs.

I couldn't care less about the place I'm just portraying what I saw there and its nothing like what you hear on tv.
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
Korea propaganda shilling?

They are killing children in prison camps by torture.

You make lite of this?

Dirtbag.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7609949


Why would I lie? You people are way beyond controlled the nwo has you in their pockets.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7821053


I wouldn't exactly say that you experienced anything real for the North Korean people. You say you go to (basically) elite school and then back to your restricted quarters. You know nothing of what is really happening and are brainwashed that the country is good.
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You were there a long time ago, OP.
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true that but even then they were under sanctions and life is just not what you see on tv. The world you see on tv is a big fabrication as to what life is luke on the ground. think about it there are no reporters there how can they know what is happening, they just make stuff up to fill in the gaps and its all bs.

I couldn't care less about the place I'm just portraying what I saw there and its nothing like what you hear on tv.
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Well, we know enough that there are plenty starving to death and that we must fund them.
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Re: I spent 3 years in school in pyong yang (N.Korea)....Ask me a question.
Korea propaganda shilling?

They are killing children in prison camps by torture.

You make lite of this?

Dirtbag.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7609949


Why would I lie? You people are way beyond controlled the nwo has you in their pockets.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7821053


ignore their ignorance op, although I do agree with the fact that you were in the diplomatic community and thus would have had more "privilages" than the general population.
Was the school you attended a regular school or one set aside for high ranking officials and diplomats children etc and were you and your family able to freely travel about the city/country?.
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btw....there have been others to share their views of what living in North Korea was like and they don't share your views. Also, I am sure that some of the news we hear is untrue but none-the-less, he starves his people and the whole world knows that.
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did the "supreme leader" ever adress the vulgar, speeches and stuff?

we have north korea's star player from the world cup playing in our second league
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I Believe Korea is slandered, but I believe reports from the Economist that Kim JOng il blocked shipments of food from entering the country because they didn't belong to him. Everywhere is fucked up now. How fucked up, all you know is you can't trust the media on either side.
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Considering Pyongyang is one word... not two... I call bullshit.

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Korea propaganda shilling?

They are killing children in prison camps by torture.

You make lite of this?

Dirtbag.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7609949


Why would I lie? You people are way beyond controlled the nwo has you in their pockets.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7821053


I wouldn't exactly say that you experienced anything real for the North Korean people. You say you go to (basically) elite school and then back to your restricted quarters. You know nothing of what is really happening and are brainwashed that the country is good.
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as I said there are no "elite schools" it was a local school everything was thought in korean no english at all. Life was restricted for the locals they were not allowed where we were.

we had unrestricted access to go anywhere since our country is considered to be friendly. We used to go on a lot of road trips to other towns. I will never forget the beautiful towns on the mountains.

I live in south africa now and guess what the people here have so called freedom but everyone loss depressed and unhappy you can see it in peoples faces. I cannot say the same about the koreans they looked genuinely happy like they lived a fulfilling and meaningful life.
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Korea propaganda shilling?

They are killing children in prison camps by torture.

You make lite of this?

Dirtbag.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7609949


Why would I lie? You people are way beyond controlled the nwo has you in their pockets.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7821053


ignore their ignorance op, although I do agree with the fact that you were in the diplomatic community and thus would have had more "privilages" than the general population.
Was the school you attended a regular school or one set aside for high ranking officials and diplomats children etc and were you and your family able to freely travel about the city/country?.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1651587


Finally some one who thinks for themselves!

Yes we were free to move about, sometimes we would stop to ask a local for help and some would run away, they were not allowed to interact with foreigners our were too afraid. others did not seem to have that issue.

The school I went to was a local school everything was in korean there are no privileged schools for the elite. I had to sing the same songs about how great their leader is just like the other korean kids. Yes we had to stuff like this almost regularly.





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