A Birthday, A Blog Launch & Ironic Communist Propaganda

Hey everybody.  It’s a big day here.  Yes it’s my birthday [let’s get that out of the way right away] but more importantly it’s this blog’s birthday.

Today is my official “launch day” of the blog.  I figured it works out well.  It’s the 23rd birthday on april 23 & [in case you didn’t notice] the directory of this blog is impossiblehq.com.  There’s no real special significance to any of the numbers but I thought it’d be a nice occasion to kick things off with.

As so, being such a big day.  I’d thought I’d do my first video post for you guys. [If you don’t want to watch the video, check out the highlights below]

As promised, here’s North Korea’s Website: http://www.korea-dpr.com/ .  Also, I thought I’d include some of my favorite portions from the FAQ.  I’ve written North Korea’s actual answers in line with the question, however they’re fairly long and sometimes hard to understand so I’ve translated what they really mean in brackets.  Hopefully North Korea has a sense of humo

Is North Korea a dictatorship?

No, the DPRK is a single-united-party constitutional democracy guaranteeing freedom of speech and assembly to all citizens. DPRK citizens play an active role in their nation’s political life at the local, regional and national levels, through their trade unions or as members of one of the nation’s three political parties, which include the Workers’ Party of Korea, the Chondoist Chongu Party and the Korean Social Democratic Party.

[You can vote for whoever you want…as long as it’s Kim Jong Il.]

I hear that North Koreans are very poor. Is this true?

By international standards, DPRK citizens enjoy a very high standard of living. In Socialist Korea, the state guarantees all citizens the right to quality healthcare, education, stipends for the disabled, retirement pensions and access to recreational facilities, as well as a wide array of other state-supported services. Indeed, DPRK citizens are guaranteed many provisions that are uncommon in many developed capitalist societies, which are home to real poverty. Unlike in many countries of the capitalist world, the DPRK is a state free of homelessness, unemployment, prostitution and starvation.

[Every single person is employed & happy while living fulfilling lives in North Korea.  That’s why nobody ever leaves…ever.]

Is North Korea a ‘Stalinist’ state?

The term ‘Stalinism’ is highly loaded and is most frequently employed not as a descriptive term but as an insult. The DPRK political system is based on the Juche Idea, an original theory developed by the late President Kim Il Sung stressing national self-reliance and development according to the unique characteristics of individual nations. ‘Stalinism,’ on the other hand, was articulated as a universalistic political ideology. The DPRK is indeed a socialist state, meaning that all the means of production are socially owned. However, the central implication of the ‘Stalinist’ accusation–simply that the DPRK is a dictatorship–is inaccurate. Korea is a socialist democracy guaranteeing its citizens the full range of individual liberties and rights provided by many liberal regimes,and more.

[Who said being a Stalinist state was bad?]