Archives for the 'Kim' Category

Busted!

Published on 13 Oct 2008 at 3:09 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Kim.

“New” Kim photos at least a couple of months old. It’s the foliage. Bungled photoprop raises speculation you know who won’t be down to kimchee, if not now, then soon. UK Telegraph: 

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Arive and Werr

Published on 11 Oct 2008 at 9:09 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under Kim.

And a rittre ress ronery* as US rewards NK tantrum. Backward Stalinist holdout despotocracy releases photos to prove Kim Jong Il lives! One problem. They forgot to shoot him holding up a newspaper. Even Castro knew that after X number of decades of holding your nation hostage, when you need to convince the peasants and the [...]

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Kim Cheesed

Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:49 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under Kim, Korea.

 
Commie dictator rallies the troops in ongoing snit over new ROK hardliner’s hard line. Yonhap News:  

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KNews

Published on 10 Mar 2008 at 8:54 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under Kim, Korea, media.

WSJ’s “Rare Glimpse at Pyongyang” vid. What is interesting is how closely this supposedly objective reactionary propaganda resembles the demented, madcap, anti-Juche presentation of “Team America: World Police.” 
Here’s your one-stop spot if you want some straight NK reporting.

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Attention K-Mart Shoppers

Published on 2 Nov 2007 at 7:55 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Kim, Korea.

No, not that K-Mart.  This is a Red Light Special. Stratfor re North Korea’s economic charm offensive, as Kim seeks all the benefits of foreign investment, without any of that political reform, standard-of-living raising nonsense. Stratfor outlines great ground-floor opportunities for boutique investment in old-fashioned totalitarianism for those not averse to a little risk:  

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Picture of Peasants’ Life

Published on 25 May 2007 at 12:34 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under Kim.

DPRK looks back at a folding screen of 19th century peasant life:   
The picture is the most progressive and typical one out of several pictures on peasants’ life at that time.

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Noble Virtue, Boundlessly Modest and Popular, Sharing Joys

Published on 15 Apr 2007 at 11:51 pm. 5 Comments.
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How did you spend the Day of the Sun? Here’s a roundup of what you missed on Kim Il Sung’s 95th:
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) — Documentary film “Finding Himself among the People All His Life” was screened at the People’s Palace of Culture on the occasion of the 95th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
    … The [...]

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Joyous Significance Gratefully Expounded!

Published on 17 Feb 2007 at 9:24 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under Kim, North Korea.

Darn, I missed it on Feb. 14, the Great February Holiday, but it’s never too late to express joy and study the great advances made since the birth 65 years ago of Kim Jong Il. 
Amid all the Songun ecstacy, the NKs themselves apparently forgot last week’s Glorious Shakedown of the Imperialist War Criminal Nation and its Lackeys, [...]

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