North Korea and incredible but incredible things!

You know Korea is a strange country with the emergence of troops everywhere and does not allow any visitors to come here to take pictures. However, there are still many interesting things about this country that you never knew.

How do Koreans go abroad?

An article published in News York Times recounted the story of a Korean woman who tried to contact her father, who ran to Korea, named Ju Chan-yang. Through an intermediary from China for her father's thanks and the symbols that had been set up by the two before, she was informed and went to the border with China to call her father.

In the summer of 2010, her father asked her to go to the border area and there, she was picked up by a Korean soldier (a soldier in a smuggling line). This soldier silently helped her swim across the adjacent river between China and Korea. After she reached the other shore, another Chinese person came to pick her up and helped Mr. Ju Chan-yang pay the soldier's wages. In 2011, she reached Korea.

She also shared with News York Times that the Korean soldier who took her across the river used a sealed plastic bag with a cell phone and held it in her mouth.

This is how a Korean has ever done to be able to "travel" abroad.

Korea - China border in Dandong City (Liaoning - China)

However, the bridge connecting this secret is increasingly being controlled tightly by Kim Jong-un . In 2014, Kim Jong-un ordered tightening control, minimizing the flow of information from abroad, prohibiting Korean people from contacting the outside to flee, especially strengthening border control. with China, making phone interference or signaling to search for phone users. The number of people who escaped success in Korea in 2009 was 2,914 people, in 2015 there were 1,276 people.

The actual Koreans are very hungry for information outside. They want to know how those who escaped to Korea live, how much Korean people earn each month, is it true that there are so many Korean women in excess that they cannot wear them all?

Korea has its own mobile phone network, but does not allow international calls. The majority of ordinary people can only contact domestic phones.

Internet connection is limited only to foreign leaders and foreign guests. Koreans are also prohibited from contacting Koreans in any form.

The only country that captured the US Navy ship

In early January 1968, USS Pueblo 's intelligence collection ship carrying media devices and 80 crew leaving the base in Japan reached the waters of the Korean peninsula carrying out interception missions and Decode contact information of the Korean army. At that time, the ship operated in international waters so the soldiers on the ship did not anticipate they would be attacked to prevent it.

USS Pueblo American ship

On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo was operating in international waters and away from Wonsan Harbor - the largest and busiest port of Korea, suddenly a local patrol ship approached and soldiers Korea asked the US ship to let them board on the deck for inspection. When American sailors refused, the Korean ship immediately opened fire. According to Captain Skip Schumacher - a 24-year-old sailor aboard the USS Pueblo, although the captain directed the ship to face the sea, the maximum speed of USS Pueblo was only 24 km / h, not possible. match the speed of the Korean fleet. Moreover, the US Navy did not have any weapons against it, so it decided to destroy all confidential and sensitive documents on the ship by using fire to fire (at that time, there were no modern paper cutting machines like the day). now on). As if predicting the intention, Korean soldiers from the outer ring kept shooting when they saw smoke rising.

Lyndon B. Johnson's Washington officials were shocked when they learned that the USS Pueblo was captured by the North. An international law expert then commented on the fact that the USS Pueblo was "the most embarrassing thing for a naval force that has a tradition of more than 150 years to not lose any ships," according to the Los Angeles Times.

The US Navy was captured by the Korean army

The negotiation process between the two sides lasted 11 months. Finally, after the official apology from the USS Pueblo sailors, the testimony confirmed that they had been spying with the concession that the US would not recreate reconnaissance activities for Pyongyang to accept the release. for 82 sailors alive.

Currently, Korea still occupies the USS Pueblo and has renovated it to become a tourist attraction. The ship anchored in the Botong River in Pyongyang is seen as a pride of Korea's victory over the United States. For years, the United States has been trying to discuss with North Korean officials to regain the ship.

And what more "strange" things about Korea?

Korean leader Kim Il Sung (Kim il sung)

1. Using marijuana in Korea is completely legal. However, spreading pornographic pictures, possessing the Bible or watching Korean movies can be executed.

2. In 1962, an American soldier fled to the Korean border but was captured by the military and eventually lived in Korea for the rest of his life and could not return to the country.

3. Juche is the orthodox thought of the Democratic Republic of Korea and the intellectual product of the late President Kim Nhat Thanh . This doctrine holds that man is the central subject and decides everything in this world. Using this idea in the context of the Korean revolution, the Koreans were the subject of that revolution.

Korean people dance

4. May Day Stadium ( May 1 stadium) with a capacity of 150,000 seats is located in the capital of Pyongyang and is also the largest stadium in the world. May Day was built in 1989 and completed in 2014. May Day is considered the pride of the Korean people because it is often chosen to organize important events of the country.

5. Ryugyong Hotel is a 105-storey high-rise building in Pyongyang's capital, which once stood as the world's tallest hotel for about 20 years. The name Ryugyong means "Capital of Lieu" because it is a plant associated with the culture and history of the Korean people. Ryugyong Hotel is built with many purposes of use including restaurants, conference rooms, hotels with a total number of rooms up to 7,665 rooms. The building has 3 wings out, each wing is 100m long, 18m wide with an angle of 75 degrees, concurrently at the tip of the tower. This tip is amputated, replaced by a rotating 8-storey block.

Ryugyong Hotel in Korea

6. Korea divided its citizens into 51 different classes and used that classification system as a tool to discriminate socially and politically for these citizens since their birth. According to a 131-page report by the Korean Human Rights Commission, all Koreans will be classified according to criteria such as "loyalty", "wavering" or "hostile" right from the moment they were born. according to the perception of their loyalty to the government. Among the 51 classes with poor peasantry and "patriotic families" are considered loyal. Those who are identified as hostile components include American supporters, civil servants and Muslims. This policy helps the Kim government to prioritize or not prioritize all social, professional, housing and food benefits according to their predetermined location.

7. In the 1950s after the two war, North Korea built Kijong-Dong (Hoa Binh village), a city visible from the border to attract Koreans to come. The city is still regularly cleaned and renovated to keep it clean and fresh, but no one is here. People also call this "ghost city".

Kijong-Dong village

8. Korea is the only country that standardizes hair styles for people with 28 types . Among them, there are 18 hairstyles for women and 10 hairstyles for men. Particularly Korean men are forced to follow a long list of related regulations. Specifically, male hair should not be longer than 5 cm. Every 15 days, they had to get their hair cut once. Older men in Korea may have a slightly longer hair but should not exceed 7 cm.

9. Trying to lead the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Nhat Thanh to be born on the day the Titanic sank (April 15, 1912).

10. In 1970, North Korea agreed to buy 1,000 Volvo 144s from Sweden, a neutral country. Many rumors suggest that Pyongyang does not pay for this shipment. These Volvo cars are now used as taxis for a few people who have money to travel around the city.

11. In many parts of Korea, the 2014 World Cup football matches were shown to the people even though it was about 24 - 36 hours later than the ball rolling time.

Korean people watch the 2014 World Cup 1 hour later than the ball rolling

12. The computer in Korea uses its own operating system called Red Star OS ( Red Star Operating System), developed by the Korea Computer Center located in the capital of Pyongyang and based on the open source of the Linux operating system. . Red Star uses a browser called Naenara , a modified version of Firefox, and a number of other options like Wine that allow users to run Windows 3.1 applications .

Interface Red operating system in Korea

13. In Korea, only the army and government employees can own their own cars.

14. Korea's National Space Development Agency is called NADA . This word, in Spanish, means "nothing."

15. The late President Kim Nhat Thanh once said: "Pants are costumes belonging to men" . To pay homage to their leader, Korean women are loyal to the dresses, from modern dresses to traditional costumes with the body in the form of a long skirt. The law prohibits women wearing long pants that have existed since the 1970s and the North Korean leader also approved the law: "Women are strictly forbidden to wear pants in public or at work", especially jeans because It characterizes American culture.

Koreans cannot wear jeans

16. Korean parliamentary elections are held every 5 years. The National Assembly meets 1-2 times a year to pass the budgets proposed by the government or review important policies. Each North Korean electoral district has only one candidate selected by the state and voters are only allowed to mark "yes" on the ballot.

17. North Korea employs a work force in Siberia with the effort to earn foreign currency, the military also uses a lot of Soviet goods and equipment.

18. Koreans do not celebrate birthdays on July 8 and December 17 because these are the two days that President Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il died.