North Korea begging at Google

[Jessica12]

North Korean authorities are using the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt's visit to the rogue state as a propaganda, but the North Korea people are cynical of the efforts. The action of inviting Eric Schmidt, even when the country has no thought of opening up the internet, is to beg. In Korean, the word begging is pronounced 'Googul' which sounds similar to Google. The Kim Jong-un's regime is walking a road of international isolation. Yet, they don't try to solve the fundamental problem. They will merely use all their resources into begging for aid not only from nations, but also from companies now. This will definitely look ugly in the eyes of its people.

[Saint_]

I don't really think the poor, destitute people of North Korea care anymore how ugly their country looks. As a mater of fact, since all contact with the outside world is controlled before they see it, they probably have no idea what they look like to the rest of the world, or even what the rest of the world looks like now. (See: George Orwell's "1984")

The good news is that any contact will erode that wall....and eventually it will crumble.