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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by AstroStelar@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

For context, the only recent rail disasters with death tolls in that range involved gas explosions or a tsunami. The alleged accident seems to have taken place at ground level too. The source is naturally an American book that claims to show "the real North Korea" and mostly cites random defectors in South Korea.

"rumored to be about 700" it-is-known

extract from the book in question, "Nothing to Envy"

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[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 25 points 22 hours ago

How did the train derail when North Koreans push it themselves?

[-] DasRav@hexbear.net 20 points 22 hours ago

They pushed it over too many dissenters that were tied to the tracks.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 22 hours ago

brooo it fucking reads like propaganda, like even if you're completely uncritical of the western narrative regarding the DPRK how can you read that and not have a tonne of questions. like uh yeah sure even train derailments in the DPRK oppress the people, they put all the poors in the stinky bad cart (kim jong un designs them personally to come apart) and also that exact same train also has the super good carts with all the rich people in it, and they're crash proof.

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 4 points 17 hours ago

The middle or middle-back is the safest part of a train. If the train crashes the front is TOAST.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 20 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I would like the person that wrote "the lower classes" to name each of them.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 13 points 21 hours ago

Yes this woman went and bought 200kg of rice by herself and put it UNDER HER SEAT

Why even need a seat when you have almost 9 50Ib bags of it

[-] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 14 points 21 hours ago

If only they had Chris Evans there to liberate the lower classes stuck at the back of the train

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago

took the train to Pyongyang and bought 200kg of rice

What's with Yanks claiming that DPRK citizens have superhuman strength and can carry hundreds of kilos of rice and also push the trains by hand??

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

the sacks of rice stuffed under her seat

also the koreans have such huge asses that the seats need to be several square meters in size, enough to inconspicuously stash ten to twelve comically large santa-claus sacks of rice under

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 8 points 20 hours ago

also the koreans have such huge asses

Volcel police, right here!!

[-] VOLCEL_POLICE@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

volcel-police

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 14 points 21 hours ago

Average Korean in a permanent deficit lifting 200kg while doing tractor-pull to and from work.

This is why America fears them.

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Our enemy is both weak and strong, you see. It's a very novel problem, don't look for anyone who has said that in the past

[-] AF_R@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

In bad country, a train derails due to negligent and evil owners and permanently kills all wildlife in a 100 mile radius, gives tens of thousands of people cancer, makes the local area unlivable for the next 200 years, contaminates the entire state’s water supply forever, and the government says nobody died

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

If the rich were up front and the poor in standing room cars then who was outside to push?

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 14 points 23 hours ago

Also anti train propaganda, so even worse

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 11 points 23 hours ago

Why don't they make the whole train out of the apparatchik car?

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago

Crazy that you can just say shit. Only one person ever told the western press about this derailment? Sure, lady.

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