JeenaNorth Korean Envoy 'Drowned' in Moscow Pond: Reports
FuglyDuckThat sounds awkward.
Did they run out of windows? Or did the window overlook the pond?
ArbitraryValueThe funny thing is that this probably was actually an accident, but is Kim going to believe that?
I don’t know that I buy ‘just an accident’.
I’m not stupid enough to think that it was necessarily Russia, though. But seriously, how many people die randomly swimming. Particularly when they probably have some security standing on their every move?
Ask yourself how many North Koreans learn to swim well. This might be something he didn’t get a lot of experience with before leaving his homeland.
Are you saying Asians can’t swim or something? I don’t know what is you mean.
lumpenproletariatSwimming is often a recreational activity, North Koreans aren’t well known for their luxuries such as recreation.
I suspect in school they learnt how to worship eternal ruler and his family instead of swimming lessons as well.
So not too many opportunities for a nork to swim.
I don’t know much about North Korea geography (rivers, lakes) but where I am originally from, swimming was something boys learned when playing as children. It didn’t cost anything, you were just using local lake. So this assertion is bullshit, unless this is a cultural thing about North Korea.
This is North Korea you’re talking about.
You’re anecdotal evidence is irrelevant when talking about NK.
I presume you are well versed in North Korea customs, yes?
Probably about as much as you.
Probably. The difference here is that I freely admitted I have no knowledge of Korean culture. You on the other hand are an arrogant arsehole, dismissing someone else’s experience with no knowledge whatsoever.
jordanlundRemoved, civility.
The tech tree hasn’t been unlocked yet!
Do you know anything about North Korea? Stop trying to find racism in every comment.
I’m getting married to a person born in China and have been enveloped in Asian culture a lot more than most people in Western culture ever will. Trying to paint things with such a broad stroke shows your ignorance about regional issues and the utter smothering existence living under the North Korean regime is.
A group of people oppressed to such a degree does not leave much time for simple pleasures like learning to fucking swim and enjoying life.
But yeah sure, let’s be ignorant as fuck… all Asians… yeah that’s clearly what I meant.
No, I was not implying racism. Yes, you overreacted big time. Ability to swim is not necessarily related to the wealth of the population. In multiple countries it is lakes and rivers used for swimming so no, I genuinely had no idea what you meant 🙄
Lol okay, sorry about that. It feels like people are always to trap everyone else into a racism corner on the internet these days.
Historically, yes. Very few cultures are known for having a large populations of swimmers in the past, even the average Japanese civillian before the 20th century probably never learned to swim despite living on a chain of islands.
Ask yourself how many North Koreans learn to swim well.
The ones who don’t live there anymore?
It’s quite possible that he had taken the opportunity of being in a country with easier access to alcohol and drugs to go on a bender and ended up drowned. Remember Yeltsin standing outside the white house in his underwear pissed out of his gourd trying to hail a taxi to get pizza?
Pretty sure that was before my time.
I don’t suppose you have a video? Asking for a friend…
Though, again, their security detail is total shit if they let a drunken slob get that pissed and drown.
Delegations going abroad don’t get to go without an escort. especially from countries where the risk of defection is insanely high.
It happened in the late 90’s, but wasn’t revealed until about 2008 or 2009 (a year or two after Boris Yeltsin died). No, there is no video, at least none any of us would have access to.
He was the President at the time.
I never heard this. But I’m surprised his security didn’t stop this. And just send someone out to get a pizza for him.
Agents stopped him, but I’d remind that this was not that long after the USSR was dissolved, and he was apparently fairly skilled (even drunk) at evading his own security detail.
It happened multiple times during the same trip iirc, and agents did get him pizza.
I’m just imagining him climbing out of a bathroom window and sliding down a drain pipe, while screaming, “none of you understand me I hate all of you!”
samus12345Standing outside in your underwear drunk while hailing a taxi to get pizza sounds like a super American thing to do. He was really going for the true American experience!
He was just trying to show that the Americans and Soviets had a lot in common
Shit like this makes me even sadder that Glasnost failed. A modern, accountable, and democratic communist state worming its way into being buddies with the USA would’ve been hilarious
I remember a few years ago, Russia had an unseasonably warm summer and a rash of drownings because they got drunk and couldn’t swim.
A lot of people die randomly swimming. Just last week someone drowned in the river near me, and a few months back, there was a drowning in a lake. Both involved alcohol.
I just don’t see why drown the NK envoy.
My present speculation, if it wasn’t an accident, was that he was trying to defect/escape NK.
Russia isn’t the only place to use political executions.
Alternatively, it could have been a western state- Ukraine features high (if they have the capability?) specifically to impose some strain on relations.
We’ll prolly never know what really happened.
I mean yes random people drown a lot, but it’s also how the CIA (allegedly) assassinated the PM of Australia during the 60s, after he was insufficiently supportive of the Vietnam War.
Probably wanted that guy gone anyway. Why waste space on a plane for someone who can eat all your delicious dirt definitely edible food.
Why waste space on an armoured train moar liek.
When you think about it, isn’t a pool just a very large window?
Sounds like the sanctions are working.
Guess he didn’t swallow!
Not the first time a politician was found in a pond in Moscow. ofc yeltsin was just drunk and fell into a lake, again. Not that he didn’t hold it against the soviet for pointing this out.
So is the honeymoon over?
And these are the people republicans think are “not so bad”
Remember that when it’s your family randomly dying by “some freak accident “
LinkerbaanBombs another UN school
Remind me which country was it that was running election interference for trump?
Not the country that has a lobby which spent far more on lobbying for Biden than for Trump.
K lol, you act like you’ve made a point here
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.
Every statement made by a conservative should be disregarded as a statement made in bad faith.
Why would you even say that? You honestly believe that or are you a dnc bot? People like you are why politics is so toxic.
If we just believe the opposite of the delusions you post constantly we’d all be pretty close to the truth.
Removed, civility.
Ok, but can something be done about the rule 6 (misinformation) violations that user commits on the regular? Was that comment not misinformation?
Probably, but the civility violation was definite. ;)
Could I say something is a conspiracy theory and tell a person I don’t think they are not behaving honestly or in good faith? I can chill on the phrasing but the idea of someone reading stuff like that and taking it seriously is frustrating.
I probably don’t have to worry about people on Lemmy, I guess. Reddit and 4chan are more the engines of radicalization. IDK I am frustrated with the massive misinformation pushed on society in general. I wish I could do something about it but I probably cannot. So it feels a bit hopeless.
It gets tricky because someone can just be misinformed and not realize what they’re spreading is misinformation vs actively and maliciously spreading propaganda.
I tend to lean on assuming someone is just wrong and correctable vs. malicious unless proven otherwise, but maybe that’s my flaw as a mod. :) I WANT to believe people are engaging honestly.
See my replies here:
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Flip it around and find deepisthisand14Im
Putin stated he preferred Biden.
aljazeera.com/…/russia-maintains-support-for-trum…
US intelligence assessments found Russia tried to influence campaigns to help Trump win in 2016, and again in failed 2020 race against Joe Biden.
oh but that doesn’t matter cuz pOoTiN sAiD bIdEn!!! Yes he prefers the man that wants nothing to do with him instead of the man that wants everything to do with him to the point of destroying NATO and handing over ukraine.
You fucking braindead moron.
You clearly did not even try to understand my comment.
It is a reference to which foreign Fascist supports which party and how their statements are the opposite of what they mean.
US election 2024: Putin says he prefers Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the White House
Reminds me of that scene in Barry where the Chechens bring in this super assasin. They pine over him and his prowess then he just shoots himself. They bring in a Norrh Korean Military expert to deepen ties and he accidently drowns…
He didn’t fall out of a window? That’s a change.
BeigeAgendaMust have been the new hire who did it, they forgot to read the instructions.
Maybe the pond was below his window.
SabataThe window guy had a packed schedule.
Didn’t like the taste of the polonium tea so they had to improvise.