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Offtopic, but every time I watch a documentary on North Korea I am happy to see that so much of the old Berlin subway rolling stock seems to lead a nice retirem
by lqet 2y ago
Offtopic, but every time I watch a documentary on North Korea I am happy to see that so much of the old Berlin subway rolling stock seems to lead a nice retirement live there - according to Wikipedia, they use 220 Class D cars from the 50ies and 60ies (132 in active service) in the Pyongyang Metro, and another 120 Class G cars from the 70ies were converted into trains for the Korean State Railway. [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro
- lisper 2y ago[flagged]
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoWhat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryongchon_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryongchon_disaster Such blast. Much wow!
- pastureofplenty 2y agoDid North Korea piss in your cornflakes?
- latentcall 2y agoAre you really comparing North Korea to the HOLOCAUST? I can’t even fathom it.
- lisper 2y agoI cannot fathom that you think this is an inapt comparison. North Korea's raw body count might be slightly lower (though even that is questionable [1]), but in many ways, North Korea is worse than Nazi Germany was. In fact, this is so obvious to me that I am seriously entertaining the possibility that all the hate my comment is getting is coming from DPRK government shills. [1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/35-million-dead-how-north-korea-literally-starved-death-1990s-190454 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/35-million-dea...
- Arkhadia 2y agoHive mind is real. I’ve find the extent of “acceptance” on online platforms like HN or Reddit to be incredibly disturbing. But try saying one thing that the hive mind deems not in accordance with their views and boom, you’re swarmed and canceled.
- butter999 2y agoSay something provocative, and you'll provoke a response. It's not that deep.
- tdeck 2y agoUS carpet bombing killed 20% of the North Korean population during the Korean war, although I assume that's not what they're referring to. > “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crime https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crim...