45 - North Korea: Prison Posing as a Nation

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

What is happening over in North Korea and why do we not try and stop the atrocities being committed? Just how insane is Kim Jong-un? (VERY) How bad is life for the average North Korean citizen? (HELL ON EARTH) Does the North Korean regime have any redeeming qualities? (UM... NOPE) Find out how North Korea came to be and what life is like in the "Hermit Kingdom" in this totalitarian edition of Timesuck. Today's episode is sponsored by Mack Weldon! Go to www.mackweldon.com and use the promo code TIMESUCK at checkout to get 20% off your purchase!

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0:00.0	North Korea, the hermit kingdom, the most reclusive nation in the world.
0:04.1	A strange land where brainwashed citizens are taught that their leader is a living god
0:07.9	and severely punished if they think otherwise.
0:10.2	A leader Kim Jong-un, a man named a four-star general without ever having served a single
0:14.8	day in the military and then put in charge of nuclear weapons, the third successive leader
0:19.4	of the Kim dynasty, the only family to ever lead North Korea, a nation born from the cold
0:24.4	war.
0:25.4	A dystopian nation, where your every move is monitored by an oppressive regime that will
0:29.3	literally work you to death in a state labor camp for the smallest of infractions, like
0:33.6	watching a South Korean movie or taking a propaganda poster off a hotel wall.
0:38.2	A nation of hungry, scared people who fear, hate, and also adore their leader.
0:42.7	A cult of 25 million posing as a country, find out how North Korea came to be, who has
0:48.2	led this secretive nation, what life is like for the average North Korean, why we don't
0:52.2	just wipe them from the map and so much more in this episode.
0:55.9	Buddhism, corruption, a cult of personality, and more on today's totalitarian time suck.
1:12.2	Welcome back to Monday, everybody.
1:13.2	I'm Dan Cummins and this is Time Suck.
1:15.2	Today's time suck is sponsored by none other than Mack Weldon, the fucking champion of the
1:19.6	men's clothing game.
1:20.9	You know who doesn't wear Mack Weldon boxers?
1:23.4	Kim Jong-un.
1:24.7	Kim Jong-un wears tyranny and torture for his underwear because he's a ridiculous asshole.
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