North Korea- Women can't ride a bike

[shootingstar]

Very bizarre. (http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/the-most-absurd-human-rights-violations-116-gendered-bicycle-policy-in-north-korea/)

[Melalvai]

At first I wondered why the ban was reinstated, then I realized how difficult it is for us to get even as much info as we did about it. I think this (http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=10231) is the original article and it mentions an anonymous source. This capricious decision is a disappointing direction after our hopes that Kim Jung Un would be a more reasonable dictator, and that we might see progress in North Korea becoming a less miserable place for its people and less dangerous to the rest of the world.

[shootingstar]

Just reading it made me cringe: it shows the young man's lack of perspective and how narrow his world is at this time.