My latest Seattle Times op-ed is online. I wrote it late last week in response to the North Korean missile test-launch hubub.
Two words, then one: “Go ahead” followed by “quarantine.”
Image Source: The Seattle Times
From the Dong-a Ilbo: “President of the Families of Abducted and Detained in North Korea, confirmed yesterday at a press conference, ‘A former South Korean soldier surnamed Kim is currently staying in a third country. He crossed the North Korean border at around 10 p.m. on June 14. He joined the South Korean army in August 1951 at age 17. He is now 74 years old.’”
- #GI Korea has an excellent and lengthy post on the background, events, and aftermath of the 2002 accident where a U.S. armored vehicle killed to schoolgirls. I arrived in Korea a few days after the accident, but things didn't start to heat up until two months later, as I was returning to the States.
- #Via Reuters: “…there was strong suspicion a huge shipment of methamphetamines seized at the former U.S. navy base of Subic north of Manila this week came from clandestine drugs laboratories in North Korea.” The Joker took over Batman’s abandoned cave.
- #From TimesOnline: "THE first case of murder and suicide caused by North Korea’s new food crisis has emerged with the account of a man who killed his hungry wife and children and then took his own life in despair." This report can't be confirmed, but it is entirely plausible.
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June 28th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Good article James!
I think cartoon title should have read “Go ahead punk make my day” with George W holding 45 caliber revolver to Kim head just like Clint.
By the way I live in Bellevue, WA.
Cheers
June 28th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Thank you, Duke. But a “45-caliber revolver” would be somewhat anachronistic. A 45-caliber autoloading pistol(45 ACP) or, more commonly known as, Colt 45 would be a better fit (speaking of which, the US military is transitioning back to a 45 ACP joint combat pistol from the current NATO standard 9mm Parabellum).
And Clint had a 44 caliber revolver (44 Magnum… although shockingly, he once said in the Dirty Harry series that he loads it with 44 Specials for “better control” i.e. less recoil).
Bellevue, eh?
My wife and I thought about moving there from Seattle (or to Issaquah) before settling on an exurb of D.C.
I miss PacNW summers (though I hear it’s 90 degrees F there now).
June 29th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Go Ahead, Launch It and See What Happens
Go Ahead, Launch It and See What Happens
Go Ahead, Launch It and See What Happens
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