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Kim Jong-un North Korea Ski Resort Damaged by Mudslides

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Kimmy baby shreddin' the knar. Well, sort of...

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited a newly completed ski resort yesterday and ordered officials to open his pet project to the public as soon as possible, state media reported.

He noted "with great satisfaction" that everything was "impeccable" and gave instructions to serve the people well so that visitors may "keenly feel the loving care of the party". :puke:
 
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When North Korea's state media last week issued pictures of leader Kim Jong-un visiting a new ski field he ordered built, one firm in Sweden couldn't believe what it was seeing.
Its snow cannons were being used to coat the slopes of the Masik Pass Ski Resort in white - despite European Union sanctions meant to prevent impoverished North Korea getting its hands on luxury goods and equipment.
"I have no idea how they turned up in North Korea. We did not sell them directly to North Korea," the chief of the Areco company, Johan Erling, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper."
 
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Pyongyang was so angry it issued a furious response via official state outlet KCNA, declaring, "This is an intolerable mockery of the social system and the people of the DPRK and a serious human rights abuse that politicizes sports and discriminates against the Koreans." Yes, you read that correctly: North Korea called Switzerland's refusal to sell it ski lifts a "serious human rights abuse."


some pretty funny/sad reader comments:

The ski lift isn't the only new development in the DPRK. In yet another technological coup, North Korean scientists claim they've developed a way to turn snow into water. The secretive nation released few details of the process, but it's believed scientists discovered that snow, when introduced to a heat source, becomes water. One press release described water as, "palatable, delicious and nutritious." Sources say North Korea currently lacks the technology to package water, but it is expected that executing a few hundred thousand dissidents will free up sufficient resources to bring water to urban areas within a few years.

Yes indeed! A nation that makes nuclear bombs and ICBMs should surely be able to rig up a simple ski lift. The author of this fallacious report should be summarily fired (like Kim's uncle!).

Also, has anyone considered that maybe NK has finally gotten better at their photoshopping skills and they really don't have a ski lift yet?
Yes, they have. Only it's a pirated copy of Photoshop and not the latest version.

Love to see the après ski activity center.

I have a hard time imagining what he is going to use for ski gear? After all, it is useless to have a lift if you don't have the accouterments to ski with. How is going to import that?

He can always sell snow cones at the ski lodge . . .

There must be some mightly strong cable on that lift system.

In the general spirit of the DPRK, the resort's new restaurant will challenge it's hungry patrons to attempt to scavenge as much spilled millet from passing train cars while also trying to avoid being shot by Government goons. These lucky survivors are free to enjoy their hard won meal swaddled in the luxury of this Apres ski paradise.
 
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Do not question or mock dear leader or you will be fed to his wild dogs. Just read about what happened to his (now late) Uncle....
 
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Is that the only trail open? The WROD in January?

The leader really proved how "fearless" he was by getting on that chairlift. That's a pretty vulnerable position where a good shot by a sniper could take him out easily.
 
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they need poles. I will give Rodman some old bent ones I have laying around to bring on his next trip
 
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Billski, you seem pretty interested in Masik pass.

When are you gonna post a TR? :D
 
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We're all just jealous. We wish we could build a 2200-vertical-foot ski area from scratch in a year!
 
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