Would you live in North Korea or Taliban Afghanistan?

[2952-0-0]

So?

[DanielX]

Hmm... the Taliban controlled only 95% of Afghanistan... could I please be in the other 5%?

[they don't love you like i love you]

Afghanistan for that reason, easier to escape, plus easier to start your resistance.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hmm... the Taliban controlled only 95% of Afghanistan... could I please be in the other 5%?

That 5% (Badakhshan) has some very impressive mountains I hear

[© tweed]

Afghanistan, easier to escape I'd imagine.  The DMZ is impossible to get across in Korea and china isn't any better.

[Everett]

Afghanistan.

[phk]

Assuming I could flee to Pakistan, I would go to Afghanistan.

If it was possible to escape to South Korea, than North Korea for sure.

[John Dibble]

Afghanistan - easier to escape or join a rebel group, and I would think that food might be better available(can't say for sure, don't know exactly how their economic situation was but I do know that NK has problems with feeding it's people).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

With Afghanistan it depended where you were. Better hope like hell you weren't a Hazara...

[Colin]

Afghanistan because at least then you could get out of there, as many Afghans did.

[minionofmidas]

Ignoring the "how to get out best" which is really a way of weasling out of the question, Afghanistan for sure. Better food, better scenery, more freedom not that that's saying much.

[Bono]

Of course I'd want to live in the Workers' Paradise.

[MissCatholic]

Taliban Afghanistan without a doubt.

[WiseGuy]

Afghanistan - easier to escape or join a rebel group, and I would think that food might be better available(can't say for sure, don't know exactly how their economic situation was but I do know that NK has problems with feeding it's people).

^^^^^

However, this should not be construed as me saying that Bush should have attacked North Korea instead of Afghanistan, just in case someone does

[Blue Rectangle]

Ignoring the "how to get out best" which is really a way of weasling out of the question, Afghanistan for sure. Better food, better scenery, more freedom not that that's saying much.

It's entirely relevant to consider which would be easier to escape.  In Afghanistan, you were free to leave.  That's one freedom you wouldn't have in North Korea.

[minionofmidas]

Ignoring the "how to get out best" which is really a way of weasling out of the question, Afghanistan for sure. Better food, better scenery, more freedom not that that's saying much.

It's entirely relevant to consider which would be easier to escape.  In Afghanistan, you were free to leave.  That's one freedom you wouldn't have in North Korea.

Ah, free to leave. That's something entirely different from able to leave.

[MODU]

I'd go to Korea.  Gives me a chance to brush up on my Korean which I learned years ago.  Plus, might find me a cute asian gal to call my own.  And with my savings, I could live like a king over there.  I'll just have to hire my own guards to keep the Reds off my property. 

[2952-0-0]

Bumped given recent events.

[Ferguson97]

Afghanistan. I'm a dude so I can just pretend to be a convert if need be, bide my time, and escape.

[dead0man]

I've already got a big beard, so obviously Afghanistan



(the "easier to escape" is the actual reason though)

[Alcibiades]

Afghanistan. As brutal as the Taliban have been at their worst, it is impossible for them to exercise the level of control over the population that North Korea does.

[Spark]

North Korea. Not trying to lose my head.

[PSOL]

The Taliban are taking Afghanistan back to the 90s, while currently the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea isn’t milking 90s nostalgia or talking points anymore—and its people are both objectively materially richer than Afghanistan along with richer culture wise as of Mid-August with nice semi-legal party drugs and better modern literature.

[Dr. MB]

As an American defector to North Korea I’d probably get a nice apartment and a job producing propaganda with the regime. Plus I’d guess I’d have a chance to travel outside the country at some point and make my escape then.

[HisGrace]

"Easier to escape" is dodging the question. It's asking where you'd rather live not escape from.

Anyway, I recently thought that North Korea is only the second worst place to live in the world now. Really think you guys are underestimating how bad the Taliban is. Unless they really have moderated from last time this is going to be a bloodbath with them summarily executing people all over the place for even the smallest violations of Islamic law. The DPKR obviously sucks as well and is very politically repressive but you'd probably be more or less fine if you kept your head down and pretended you loved Kim Jong Un.