The North Korea Olympics express

[Russian Crushin]

Let's just focus on the athletes. North Korea does produce some good ones, and the major competitions present a somewhat rare opportunity to see them, as they don't frequent a lot of the international tournaments.

We all have access to the NBC broadcasts for when we want to hear the anti-NK propaganda, so no need to repeat the lies in this thread.

Not that it's a good place, but there is reality and then there is absurdity, and you guys are just repeating the absurdities you heard on television or read in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

We get it, the weight lifter will be allowed to keep his life = NK not a bad nation

[Drunken Cat]

We get it, the weight lifter will be allowed to keep his life = NK not a bad nation

We get it, you've been watching too much American cable news.

[Russian Crushin]

Extra ration of rice and allowance to keep his eyesight for the gold

[Drunken Cat]

Extra ration of rice and allowance to keep his eyesight for the gold

You are right about the extra ration of rice.

The eyesight thing? Now you get into the absurd.

[Cutthroat]

We get it, you've been watching too much American cable news.

Not sure if trolling, but NK is a shytty place, haven't you seen the documentaries and heard the 1st hand accounts of people?

[Russian Crushin]

You are right about the extra ration of rice.

The eyesight thing? Now you get into the absurd.

No the absurd part is that im actually right about the extra rice part

[Russian Crushin]

Not sure if trolling, but NK is a shytty place, haven't you seen the documentaries and heard the 1st hand accounts of people?

All propaganda, they were all US actors

[squealpiggy]

While it isn't a stretch to think that severe punishments await failed athletes who represent autocratic nations (after all Uday Hussein was notorious for inflicting grievous punishments on Iraqi Olympians and footballers for failures including having three footballers flogged for losing to Japan) that doesn't necessarily mean that this will make the athletes more successful.

More likely is that the successful athletes will be hailed as heroes in a nation in which most people are nothing more than paeons.

[Drunken Cat]

I know it's the internet and all, but it would help if you guys actually read my posts.

The point is that I'm not trying to get into a political discussion in this thread about Olympic athletes.

And as shitty of a place as NK is, Western propaganda very much exaggerates the situation further. They could probably just report accurately and adequately show how shitty it is, without embellishing. But that's not they're style. This is what leads to Americans believing that Olympic athletes are put to death for not winning gold medals.

[Drunken Cat]

While it isn't a stretch to think that severe punishments await failed athletes who represent autocratic nations (after all Uday Hussein was notorious for inflicting grievous punishments on Iraqi Olympians and footballers for failures including having three footballers flogged for losing to Japan) that doesn't necessarily mean that this will make the athletes more successful.

More likely is that the successful athletes will be hailed as heroes in a nation in which most people are nothing more than paeons.

Yep, this is pretty much my position too.