Archives for the 'Korea' Category
Pawn Swapping
Published on 10 Aug 2009 at 9:42 am.
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Filed under Clintons, Iran, Kim, Korea, media, moronocy.
The UK Daily Mail offers a version of the back story on Bill’s North Korean rescue mission from assorted unnamed insiders, as well as details on the captured journos’ capitalization plans and a depiction of embarrassingly amatuerish behavior that is said to have got them in this mess in the first place.
Meanwhile, in Iran, the mullahs are [...]
It Depends What “Sincere” Is
Published on 4 Aug 2009 at 8:58 pm.
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Filed under Clintons, Kim, Korea.
Credit where credit is due. Bill Clinton is probably the perfect guy to send to negotiate with Kim Jong Il. Here’s how the Central Korean News Agency reported the proceedings, via CNN:
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Let’s Make A Songun Deal
Published on 4 Aug 2009 at 9:28 am.
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Filed under Clintons, Kim, Korea.
UPDATE: Bill gets results. CNN, breaking, they’re pardoned andheading home.*
Bill’s in Pyongyang to plead for the release of his former veep’s journalists. NYT.
Nothing up on the Central Korean News Agency site yet. They must be still trying to figure out which way to play this. Good humiliation opportunities: “Yes, you can have your spies, but [...]
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Son Of Sung
Published on 16 Jul 2009 at 9:21 pm.
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Filed under Hollywood, Kim, Korea.
My kids mark time by the release dates of Harry Potter flicks. One of my daughters knows the “Pirates of the Caribbean” production details and the due date of the second sequel, still several years out. They talk about the actors, who’s in, who’s out in the next one. I feel a little left out in those dinner [...]
Big Stick, Soft Speech
Published on 26 May 2009 at 8:16 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea.
The NKs, seeing as they just flipped off Obama and the West in a big way, are surprisingly restrained in their expressions of joy in announcing this latest triumph of the Juche Idea. For once, actions speak louder than words. DPRK News:
Still Crazy After All These Years
Published on 26 May 2009 at 7:55 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea, Obama, nukes.
Legal Insurrection pantses the left on Bolton, dubbed “crazy” for suggesting in the Wall Street Journal that Crazy Kim planned to test Obama, and that Obama with his Kumbayah foreign policy tendencies, might not be up to the test. (More correctly, Crazy Kim pantses the left. Legal Insurrection just points it out.)
Anyway, the good news after yesterday’s NK [...]
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French Achievement
Published on 4 May 2009 at 1:54 pm.
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Filed under Europe, France, Korea, Mexico, USA, western civilization.
The Frogs excel at eating and sleeping. via Boston Herald. Mexicans have less fun. Though chicos have more fun than chiquitas. Koreans are the skinniest. I’m pretty sure they aren’t including North Korea, because forced starvation is not fair.
All fascinating though it sounds to me like the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which conducted this study of [...]
NK Satellite Launch Hailed Abroad!
Published on 6 Apr 2009 at 10:54 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea, commies, rockets.
DPRK News:
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union released a statement on March 31, in which it expressed deep apprehension over the reckless moves being made by the United States and its followers to hinder the launch of the experimental communications satellite “Kwangmyongsong-2″ by the DPRK, a sovereign [...]
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Point, North Korea
Published on 5 Apr 2009 at 8:14 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea, Obama, rockets.
NK rocket launched, not shot down. NYT, which reports it’s a desperate cry for attention. In a statement, President Barack Obama states firmly that North Korea’s action is a threat to the northeast Asian region and to international peace and security and a clear violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1718 and he will immediately blah [...]
Axis Of Evil
Published on 29 Mar 2009 at 10:43 am.
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Filed under Iran, Korea.
Speaking of mythological stuff that wowed peasants in the past, Times of London: Iranian missile experts in North Korea to help with the launch.
Gorenalists Nabbed By NKs
Published on 19 Mar 2009 at 11:07 pm.
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Filed under Korea, media.
Sounds like something from “Team America: World Police,” but it’s real, and given North Korea’s history of bizarre abductions and holding people for decades, it’s potentially problematic.
AP: Two Americans working for warmal laureate Al Gore’s Current TV seized by Kim Jong Il’s regime. They were ordered to stop shooting on the China-North Korea border and didn’t. [...]
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Pizza To Die For
Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 10:18 pm.
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Filed under Korea, food.
Pyongyang’s first authentic pizzeria opens its doors. Timing’s a little awkward. UK Telegraph:
Life Sucks, And Then You Die
Published on 16 Mar 2009 at 11:02 pm.
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Filed under Korea, UN.
If you’re lucky you don’t get tortured first. United Nations does something relatively useful. It reports widespread misery, starvation, imprisonment, torture and death in North Korea. It isn’t exactly news. Vitit Muntarbhorn tells the UN Human Rights Council someone should do something about it. Unclear who or what he has in mind. Reuters:
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Warning Shot
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 10:43 am.
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Filed under Japan, Korea.
Across North Korea’s bow as Japan grows a set, warns ahead of NK satellite launch it will ding any dongs headed its way. UK Guardian. The K’s “peaceful space program” is perceived as a skirt for its Taepodong-2 ballistic missile program, and another thumbing of the nose at us. Sounds like a good opportunity to test missile [...]
More Tests
Published on 9 Mar 2009 at 7:51 am.
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Filed under Iran, Korea, Obama, elsewhere.
JPost: Israeli general says Iran has crossed the nuclear threshold.
CNN: NKs warn against intercepting “satellite” launch. It’ll mean war if the aggressor interferes with peaceful intercontinental ballistic missile test, taking place during US-SK military exercises … kind of dangerous because those things fall short sometimes. Never mind the risk that friendlies might be under it. [...]
выигрыш-выигрыш*
Published on 2 Mar 2009 at 10:04 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Korea, Obama, Russia, nukes.
Obama reportedly is looking at giving the Russians what they want … no missile shield … if the Russians will help out with Iran on nukes. Novosti:
Foreign Policy Pop Quiz
Published on 30 Jan 2009 at 9:29 am.
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Filed under Korea, Obama.
For Obama, as North Korea tears up agreements with a South Korean government that wants to link aid to good NK behavior. BBC:
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NK New Year
Published on 2 Jan 2009 at 12:15 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea.
Kim Jong Il’s terror, extortion and subjugation apparatus sucks up to Obama. via Boston Herald:
Congratulations!
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 9:21 pm.
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Filed under Cuba, Iran, Kim, Korea, Obama, chavez.
Pouring in for the president-elect of the United States of Omerica. Change, we hope, say the world’s despots. Worst first. BBC, Hope for Iran:
Touchy Issues
Published on 30 Oct 2008 at 10:14 pm.
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Filed under Korea.
Discrimination for the blind carries the day in Korea, where the high court sided with blind masseurs seeking to uphold their century-old monoploy on massage licenses. Justice, never blind, may have eyeballed the fact that two visually impaired backrubbers offed themselves in protest to the more recently law letting ooglers knead. The court’s decision upholding [...]
Debris Threat
Published on 29 Oct 2008 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea.
North Korea issues one against the South. VOA:
Mata Hwa-ri Nabbed
Published on 27 Aug 2008 at 1:52 pm.
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Filed under Korea, sex.
North Korean spy “used sex as a tool for her spying.” It’s a low-budget Bond scenario, as model defector/anti-communist speaker Won Jeong-hwa is accused of taking in $60,000 in cash and goods for funneling information she got after seducing a Capt. Hwang, among others who apparently let their little hwangs do the thinking. via Boston Herald. [...]
Kim Cheesed
Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:49 pm.
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Filed under Kim, Korea.
Commie dictator rallies the troops in ongoing snit over new ROK hardliner’s hard line. Yonhap News:
KNews
Published on 10 Mar 2008 at 8:54 am.
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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.
Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Published on 2 Nov 2007 at 7:55 am.
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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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Concerns About Stability
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 7:27 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Korea, Syria.
This is interesting. Concerns about stability in the region stalled attack on Syrian nuke facility.
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About Korea
Published on 4 Jun 2007 at 12:02 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Korea.
As this Washington Post editorial notes, the 54-year old war is back in the news. Bush’s invocation of its name drew mockery and disgust as well as, in this case, recognition that what he is talking about is stabilizing the country, the region, the future. A position all reasonable parties in government are going to have to arrive [...]
Kimblogging
Published on 29 Jan 2007 at 10:47 pm.
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Filed under Kim, Korea.
Kim gets big hits:
Pyongyang, January 29 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Il’s famous work “Songun-Based Revolutionary Line Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution” was reportedly carried in the Internet homepage of the National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification of south Korea on Jan. 18. After its publication [...]
