The metal saw stopped. Decades on the topic of north Korea Remains a touchy subject. The world has passed judgment the country is beyond repair. Our preconceived ideas about the democratic peoples republic of north korea remain firmly in place the in a radical orwellian regime paranoid schizophrenic a place of modern day gulags. A red dynasty long headed by a despotic film buff and now by his son whose courtly appearances topped with a singular haircut. And then theres the countrys Nuclear Arsenal d a threat that makes the selfproclaimed innocent nations of the world tremble with fear. When it comes to north korea why do we so often resort to cliches in light of the difficult and often tragic situation the countrys people find themselves in the hyperbole seems rather inappropriate. Were often told that foreigners are not permitted into the country that those who do manage to visit are not permitted to see much of anything and that those who do manage to see something should remember it
Decades on the topic of north Korea Remains a touchy subject. The world has passed judgement the country is beyond repair our preconceived ideas about the democratic peoples republic of north korea remain firmly in place. In the radek or willian regime paranoid schizophrenic a place of modern day gulags. A red dynasty long headed by a despotic film buff and now by his son portly appearances topped with a singular haircut. And then theres the countrys Nuclear Arsenal a threat that makes the selfproclaimed innocent nations of the world tremble with fear. When it comes to north korea why do we so often resort to cliches in light of the difficult and often tragic situation the countrys people find themselves in. Hyperbole seems rather inappropriate. For the were often told that foreigners are not permitted into the country that those who do manage to visit are not permitted to see much of anything and that those who do manage to see something should remember its probably fake. Someone once
Weve never witnessed a birth in north korea but weve seen plenty of weddings or wedding preparations to be more precise like this professional photo shoot for the happy couple is posing in front of pyongyang as most iconic locations. Its monsoon season which means 38 degrees celsius and a very humid. Day susan has elicited the bride and groom 1st went to the statues of the great leaders. Then we came to the flower park you see here near the water fountain so one. Minute soldiers usually like to pose in front of military monuments if you like the monument to the victorious fatherland liberation war. What the wedding. The oed doesnt show are the many people who helped make this happy event possible. Before it was existed. In north korea most marriages are arranged through matchmakers its their job to find the ideal marriage partner who will also be suitable to the families. Although marrying for love is just starting to trend arranged marriages are still the norm one result is that peopl
A. Tracking garbage in space before it causes any doubt next we take a look at new write ups who are designed to germany thats helping spacecrafts navigate their way around. I mean for the most unwelcome we begin with a pandemic in Europe European Union countries have agreed to a common strategy for restricting travel from coronavirus hotspots e. U. Ministers meeting in luxembourg want to traffic light system showing regions as green orange or red depending on the number of wrong a virus case mrs hope to avoid the kind of confusion that disrupted travel across the e. U. At the height of the outbreak earlier this year. Brussels correspondent by. Of these are explained in more detail how those traffic lights estimate is expected to work countries are not trying is to do is use the same data use the same criteria to determine whether you can travel from point a to point b. For instance germany has a travel warning against belgium where i am at the moment but france does not have a travel
Worrying scenes in the last hour or so this was a lot fuller than than it is now a lot of the protesters a lot of who were supporting various different opposition groups that its a very peacefully gathering here showing some sort of unity. Basically left because a group of rival opposition supporters from maine who support the new Prime Minister a man that was voted in by an emergency parliamentary session. Last week who was freed from jail by those protesters a group of them came into the square they were both tools projectiles thrown. Scuffles the statue behind me that you can see there were indeed gunshots. And as i say a lot of people here are very nervous and have left the square now the supporters of the Prime Minister most of them have gone back to where they are protesting around the Prime Ministers office but there is a great sense of factionalism here in tension this evening and as you say the president has called this state of emergency concern what he says about possible co