North Korea Ranked as Second Happiest Place on Earth…By North Korea
- Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:35pm by
Billy Hallowell
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North Korea has taken it upon itself to assemble and release a global survey on happiness. Despite its extreme isolation and extreme government control, the East Asian nation believes itself capable of assessing how content citizens in other nations are. According to TIME’s NewsFeed:
…North Korea’s Chosun Central Television recently came out with a happiness index compiled by local researchers. Their findings? China is the happiest place on the planet, earning 100 points (a perfect score!). At number two is none other than North Korea itself. Cuba, Iran and Venezuela (in that order) round out the top five.
The United States places dead last, coming in 203rd. South Korea is nearly just as depressed a nation; it ranks 152nd on the list. Some spots, North Korea’s research indicates, are just nowhere near as smiley as the Axis of Evil.
It’s no surprise that North Korea has rated itself and its allies among the happiest nations on earth. The Daily Intel calls the survey “made up like all of their news” and the Shanghiist writes that, “Nothing says happy like government-issued proclamations of happiness.”
The results of this less-than-earth-shattering study come following a week of intense criticism from South Korean and American officials:
North Koreans are alienated from the rest of the developed world and, until recently, had barely any access to technology. It’s easy to be content when the government cuts you off from learning what true prosperity looks like, right?
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Comments (103)
llotus
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:11pmThat must be why I have always wanted to live in North Korea? Its the happiest place in the world? Thats what denial sounds like. Lotus.
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:08pmYes indeedy! Scrounging to eat boiled grass..mmmmm makes me just swell up with happiness..how bout you?
Report Post »jim
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:59pmRight, sounds like the Obama propaganda machine in this country… “America’s recession is over!“ ”Unemployment is under 10%!“ ”Prosperity is just around the corner!“ ”Obamacare will improve healthcare!“ ”The U.S. debt is manageable!“ ”The auto bailout didn’t cost us a cent!” Please…
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:57pmThis is the result of state-run media. RIght now, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NPR/PBS are all trying to be the next state-run media.
After the $700 billilon thieving taxpayer-funded bailout by General Motors, they showed a “profit.” ABC came out and said GM’s profits were “soaring.” Trying to blow sunshine up our posteriors.
At one point, unemployment slowed slightly, and they claimed the economy was “prospering again.”
Same lies, different media.
Report Post »POdVet
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:54pmThat’s just about as believable as “Obama is the smartest President ever”
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 9:47pmAs proven by his public college transcripts, no less.
Report Post »Tired of Idiotic Comments
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:36pmIsn’t this where someone is supposed to write that it is “all George W. Bush’s fault?”
Report Post »Tired of Idiotic Comments
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:35pmI’m confused. I thought Disneyland was the happiest place on earth. Now I see that they are so far behind China, North Korea and Cuba that they didn’t even make the top 10. Maybe its because of the high ticket prices.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:08pmSecond to haiti? or venzuella?
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:17pmDo any of you folks read? Or just start posting non-sense?
Report Post »needanotherReagan
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:01pmThis is almost the same as when Obumbler says the stimulus created 3 million jobs. That’s one thing we have in common with North Korea, we can’t believe anything our “leader” says either.
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:00pmI have been to China many times, people live on the streets begging for food, people urinate in public, you need to bring your own toilet paper to public bathrooms and even than you are not using them they are disgusting. The police randomly require bribes for you to stay out of jail, to start a business you have to bribe the local politician. Trust me it is not the happiest place in the world.
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 9:46pmAre you sure you weren’t in New Orleans?
Report Post »STEEZYD
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:00pmThis is laugh out loud funny. Comedy at its finest.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:59pmOne shudders to think which country was #1 in the “Happiest Place on Earth”.
Report Post »trooper
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:59pmYa, right, they better be happy or they wil be shot for not being happy. I have been to South Korea, they pretty much want to kill them selves eventhough they are free. The place is a sewer!
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:59pmPoll was conducted by a team of government pollsters armed with pen, paper, and a kalashnikov.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:58pmWhat is the first happiest place then??? CUBA???
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:59pmI see! It’s China.China must have killed off all the unhappy people?
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:16pmYeah. That’s what happened. Korea has some catching up to do eh?
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:57pmI wouldn’t be surprised if people in H*ll are happier than in North Korea.
Report Post »StevenSeagal016
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:56pmThe funny thing is President Obama Agrees with this study.
Report Post »Starkadder
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:53pmBe happy…..or else.
Report Post »MikeDiesel
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:48pmI can see why! Just look at how handsome that Kim Jong Il is. Nice Ray-Bans, playa!
Report Post »NEVER AGGAIN
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:48pmClassic!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:46pmI did like South Korea.South Koreans seemed to be happy….You can get stuff cheap there.That was back in the 80′s. The North Koreans probably tell their people that the DMZ is to keep the South Koreans out!!!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 11:18pmI’m with you on that, S Koreans once you get to know them(and they you) are some of the nicest people, I love the food.
I was also there in the early 80’s when the country was much more militarized, the DMZ and the NK’s fake village are surreal.
Report Post »justateen
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:46pmOh yea..this study is definitely accurate. I’m sure all the women in the middle east with all their tons of rights are ten times happier then here in the US. Man I wish I lived in one of those countries..the underground churches sound super fun..and lets not forget those good ole mobile execution vans…
Report Post »InversionTheory
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:46pmSo North Korea…a known propagandist, doesn’t like the US. *yawn*
Isn’t this coming from the same country to assured us Kim Jong Il is the best golfer in the world? Maybe the DPRK can tell us how great President Obama is. I‘m sure it’ll be 100% credible.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:58pmlolol…ole Short Dong ill….now theres wise man if I do say so myself…wonder if ole shorty still has his profolactics custom made to fit? rumor has it he gets em shipped from a pigmy colony in Tehran or Venezuela
Report Post »voidzm
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:41pmSure, North Korea is one of the happiest places on earth. Just only for the nut cases making this stuff up!
Report Post »tinydd
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:04pmWho would of guessed that surviving on dog biscuits would equal to happiness? Milk Bone loves NK…
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 9:47pmit’s true look @ how many people lines up everyday in front of the North Korean embassy just to get a visa .
Report Post »The rest of the people are swimming hundreds of miles just to enter North Korea .
by the way who’s the # 1 scientist in the world ?
who’s the # 1 golf player in the world ?
who’s the # 1 chess player in the world ?
it‘s president Kim that’s what they teach to their kids .
Locked
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:39pmThis title made my day!
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:43pmHahahahahahaaaa!!!!!
No, really!!!
Lolololololololol
Silly North Koreans!!!
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:49pmIm sure the Muslims thought they had the most beutiful hairless in world too…and then they unravelled those walking mummies and that put an end to that myth real quick,.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:49pmIt’s a small dictator, after all…
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:51pmHumor abounds! Except in N. Korea, where it is mandatory.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 6:52pmDear Leader is quite the commedian!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:35pmMy dear fellow North Koreans…you will be happy or I will have you shot! That’s an order.
Report Post »Signed,
Your dick-,er, ummm…I mean “fear”-less leader.
Dustyluv
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:43pmFirst is hell I guess….
Report Post »coryf076
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:55pmkim jung ill….the dear leader in more dire need of a blj than any asian man in history….gmv….;-)
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:07pmI have sent this to all my family and the three progressives we have here; pointing out to them that if they love the socialist life so much, then the North Korea reeducation facilities are open and ready for their arrival…with welcome arms apperantly.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:47pmHey Kim Su were taking a survey and if you answer the questions right, we will give you some food for your family, what country do you think has the happiest citizens…….
Report Post »1stAmendment
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:50pmIt might of made your day but it took them more then a day to make that survey!
Report Post »It was an intense negotiation where to place the united states on the list!
randy
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:53pmhaha he looks like a little girly man with those sunglasses…..
Report Post »Reminds me of that old Seinfeld, where george was walking around with ladies sunglasses.
vic138
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 9:00pmI bet Burma was voted third !!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 9:07pmLets send them Omama, this would end “happiest place” BS
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 10:31pmHow many North Koreans do you suppose actually believe this?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 11:31pmNorth Korea truly is the country in Orwell’s book 1984 fully realized. For those of you who haven’t been to college, North Korea isn’t “communist” any more than China or Russia have ever been. Communism is an theoretical economic system where every person is equal equal in every way, and everyone is happy. Communism is the Christian view of Heaven: everyone is equal, happy and worships their Great Leader, God.
Sorry to be the one to tell you, but no one believes that communism is a viable economic system (only the uneducated believe that liberals hold that view). Human nature doesn’t support that kind of economy. I believe that that altruism and empathy motivates a many human beings, but self-interest, little restrained by morality, drives the economy. That’s why we need religion, government, laws and other checks and balances.
Sorry if that’s too philisophical. But for those of you who love to say that Hitler‘s party was the National SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party, do you know the the name of of North Korea’s party? It’s the The DEMOCRATIC People’s Republic of Korea.
So much for names.
Report Post »101
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 12:31amThe United States was first place until BHO was elected
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 1:27am@JZS
Here’s some names for you……
Pompous
Arrogant
Smug
Pretentious
Supercilious
And for making assumptions on who is, or is not edumacated, I think it’s time to re-visit my favorite quote from James Carville.
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/ideologies-aren-t-all-that-important-what-s/821889.html
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:17amwow..what a surprise…obummer is jealous…
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:25amWOW !!! That is the funniest thing I think I’ve ever read, If the U.S is worst country to live in, then why in the heck is everyone trying to come here To live ? Maybe they are actually doing us a favor with their poll. Morons that want to come to the U.S, and read this, may change their mind.. LMAO, have to look on the bright side of things sometimes..
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 9:02amHahahah!!! This made me smile, even though according to them I live in the least “smiley” place in the world. Great stuff NK keep it up, just make sure to buy some more of our smiley food please.
Report Post »NES
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:14amSounded like a headline from The Onion! :D
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:32amBilly, I’m glad you are expanding your repertoire of insults beyond “bucket of doo doo.” Here’s some more you can apply to me: condenscending, comtemptuous, disdainful, patronizing, haughty, egotistic.
But you, my friend, are a doo doo head, and probably a communist.
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:36amI would have thought Number 1 was anywhere else.
Report Post »gianters
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:26pmLOL LOL nice article bill and funny.i will laugh the rest of the day.great photo choice..LOL LOL!!
Report Post »gianters
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:38pmmine too
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