North Korea cancels Pyongyang Marathon for 'some reasons' (www.bbc.com)
from Valnao@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 15:05
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zaphod@sopuli.xyz on 09 Mar 15:36 next collapse

Dear leader’s ways are mysterious.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 09 Mar 15:51 next collapse

The Arc de Triomphe is in North Korea?

SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml on 09 Mar 16:08 collapse

The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang is one of the largest Triumphal arches in the world, and commemorates Korean resistance against the Japanese, from 1925-1945

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Mar 16:13 collapse

Noooooooww I fucking know why Trump wants a goddamn Arch

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 09 Mar 16:33 collapse

“He’s got one! I want one too! And I want mine to be BIGGER!”

Slashme@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 16:46 collapse

Is an arch the opposite of a phallic symbol?

SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml on 09 Mar 17:09 collapse

All I know is that finding that Wikipedia article led me down a rabbit hole of various monuments that are all a measly bit higher than whatever came before, so whoever made it can say it’s the tallest.

Freud could solve the energy crisis with how much he’s rolling in his grave

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 16:29 next collapse

Koryo Tours, based in Beijing, China, offers several marathon packages to foreigners, departing from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang.

Packages start from €2,190 ($2,529; £1,894) for 2.5 nights in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, including a marathon place and “highlights” of the capital and tickets were sold out this year, according to the agency’s website.

Is this just an ad for a tourist company that got smuggled into a BBC article?

trigonated@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 11:48 collapse

Probably. The news are full of these, some of them better disguised than others.

They’re called advertorials, I think. It’s infuriating once you start getting better at noticing them and notice them more and more.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Mar 15:07 collapse

BBC is supposed to be pretty strict about advertising though, historically

earlstilt@feddit.uk on 19 Mar 13:50 collapse

Nah they ran an amazon advert loosely disguised as an article earlier

blackn1ght@feddit.uk on 09 Mar 18:49 next collapse

There’s no point in taking part anyway, Dear Leader can run the marathon in 12 minutes.

ZephyrXero@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 18:56 next collapse

My spider sense started tingling yesterday when I saw that the US military is doing “exercises” with South Korea this week. Maybe they suspect what I suspect…

Mirshe@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 20:40 collapse

Well our next target according to Dear Leader Trump is Cuba, so maybe. Why not run a war on 3 separate continents at once, multifront wars are always totally winnable.

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 16:52 collapse

If you have enough weapons and murderers on payroll, it might just be “winnable”. Hopefully, all these conflicts stretch the American empire too thin and accelerate its collapse. 🙏

CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 19:18 collapse

I have a friend who ran this like a decade ago.