Topic: Daily life in Pyongyang (Read 2410 times)

The East Asian birth rates are among the lowest in the world. Countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan.etc are having fertility rares between 1.0 and 1.4, which is less than the average European fertility rates.

I see no dogs on the video.

It feels like modern-day Nazi Germany. I heard prisoners there where fed to dogs.

its like time travel, look like cuba with they old car. I cant imagine how face expression of karl marx when see north korea 😂

No they abolished the 1 child policy because it strongly damaged their demographics.
Right now they are trying hard to increase the chinese child birth rate.

If nothing changes in less then 1 generation they have to import double digit millions of workers.

Btw. The increase in child birth was much less then anticipated - which shows again that industrialisation decreases child birth rates.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/chinas-birth-rate-soars-after-relaxation-of-one-child-policy

His name is Jaka Parker, and although it is extremely difficult to believe, he claims that he lived in the city of Pyongyang with his family (wife and children) from 2012 to 2016. Indonesia is one of the few countries having diplomatic contact with the DPRK. Not much is known about him. We don't even know in which sector he worked in North Korea, or how much was his salary.

I like it! It has a certain je-ne-sais-quois...  Nice buildings too.

Or am I missing something?

And how does an Indonesian end up in North Korea?

China now has a 2-child policy, because their economy is in a good state right now, and they don't need to limit the population growth. Population control is needed only when the government is unable to provide to its citizens.

China now has a 2 child policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-child_policy#China

If you look at China, they have benefited enormously from the one-child policy. The economic growth they achieved as a result was unbelievable. But it had consequences such as ageing and gender imbalance. But overall, I would rate it as beneficial for the Chinese.

All people is keep thinking how to earn extra income daily in this world, their hard work sure can get better life soon, goodluck to everyone!

True, there are things better left to experts. I remember when I was a kid one of the last phrase was "go forth and multiply"!  A few years ago they finally decided to change it to "go forth and share the Word of Lord". 

They only really speak out when it's the government trying to distribute condoms or talk about sex education. They don't bother with NGOs. The Church do encourage family planning but only natural methods (funny, they never mention pulling out  ) which we know is not for everyone.

I don't want the government to go full authoritarian on the issue though. Some are arguing One Child Policy caused the demographic problem China is facing now. We don't want that problem. Our growth rate is just above replacement level. The only problem is it's not distributed evenly across the social levels (the poor usually have more kids, I've seen one family with 22)

Organizing protests against a dictator is not something that I would condemn. But at the same time, the church should stay out of governance and vice versa. For example, the single biggest threat facing the Philippines is over-population. And as a result of the opposition from the church, the government can't popularize birth control measures.

I wouldn't really say it's being run by the Catholic Church. Even when they do endorse politicians (which they rarely do) people usually don't listen. That's we say here that there is no Catholic vote here. (Christian spino-offs like INC, El Shaddai, etch are a different matter though). I may even dare say that the hold of the Church here is weaker than ever. I'm a secularist but I do not agree with gov't meddling with religious affairs unless it's for really important security reasons. For example, even Singapore closed down a mosque once because it was being used as recruitment site for terrorists. (The shut down was after they arrested people who tried to bomb Changgi airport.)


I think with the case of Marcos the people are fed up anyway. The only reason it required Church intervention to start the revolution was that the Church was the only unifying force available back then (we still don't have sms or social media).

As for the current spat between Church and Duterte, I've never really heard priests claiming that those druggies and peddlers were innocent. Rather they were pointing out that people deserve the chance to CHANGE and that innocent people are also dying as collateral damage (mistaken identity, children dying during police operations or vigilante killings, etc).

As for Duterte, I didn't vote for him and ambivalent towards him. I'm OK with his stance on some issues but I do not like the implementation of some. The way he's treating the Church strike me as nothing but rude. You can criticize others without calling them names.

Not run but the sphere of influence of the Catholic Church specially in the Philippines is evident. Remember the People Power that topple the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos? It was the Head of the Catholic Church that call for the people to march in the street in protest. Currently, the Church was against the killings of "innocent" addicts by the government of the Philippines. But Duterte is not giving in to them, on the contrary, he is anti-Church because he believes that the Catholic Church has abuses or abuse its authority and he is also a victim on this.

I don't condemn what the Chinese authorities do. Christianity and Islam are two religions, which actively attempt to influence the government and the politics. Look at Philippines and South Korea. Both these nations are essentially run by the evangelical / catholic church.

Facade, mostly facade. I remember a NatGeo documentary before. There was this guy who travel different countries and explore parts tourist don't go to (for example, cemetery villages in Manila). He was allowed to go to North Korea but he was heavily monitored by police where ever he went. One time he was in a hotel room and he saw a group of buildings nearby. They all look dilapidated (concrete look too moldy) but the parts facing the street look newly-painted. As he takes pictures one of his "escorts" showed up and told him to stop.


And despite that it still look quite sterile to me. I live in shitty Philippines but we have districts that look better than these.


China has also been following this trend. They've been cracking down on Christians in recent years. This cause some split there, making it necessary for Christians loyal to the See to worship in underground churches rather than the "official" registered churches.

The cities are OK. But you need to go to the labor camps and penal colonies where the dissidents are being tortured to death. According to some estimates, there are some 300,000+ people incarcerated in these facilities, in appalling conditions.

In all countries, cities are better than villages. This is probably because in the cities of developed industry with a higher added value than in agriculture. In addition, the infrastructure of cities is always more developed.