According to a recent Angus Reid poll, 45 percent of Americans consider NK to be an “enemy,” 28 percent “unfriendly,” while 17 percent say “friendly” and 4 percent say an “ally.” Makes one wonder what percent is addicted to crack (4?). Don Kirk has more on this in the ATimes.
In an article at the Asia Times, Riddles and enigmas from North Korea, Andrei Lankov speculates on how governments get intelligence from inside North Korea, and lists some of the other valuable sources of information from the country.
- #From Mainichi and via the Chosun Bimbo, "In his first reported appearance following news of his hospitalization, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il lost his temper while watching a college soccer match, denouncing several players' long hair as "disgusting," according to a source close to the North Korean government. The outburst was followed by a nationwide ban on long hair for men." We'll all be watching the next soccer match to see if it's so.
- #Outward Bound, an international non-profit outdoor education program, is offering fully funded (including transportation to/from sites) outdoor adventure excursions to all OEF/OIF veterans. It doesn't matter what your current military status is (active, inactive, discharged, retired) - you're eligible to attend as long as you deployed in support of OEF/OIF combat operations while in the military.
- #Via AFP: “South Korea has lifted an overseas travel ban on Hwang Jang-Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean defector ever to come here and a harsh critic of the Pyongyang regime. . . Hwang, former secretary of the ruling Workers' Party and an ex-tutor of Kim Jong-Il, defected during a trip to Beijing in 1997.” His travel restriction was due to 10 years of pro-North ROK leadership, now over.
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May 23rd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I’m surprised that a majority of people even knew enough about North Korea to know it’s not our buddy. Hell, if you asked our citizens to name the president of the USA, I bet a good 5 to 10 percent wouldn’t even know…
May 24th, 2007 at 5:18 am
C’mon, everyone knows who President Cheney is!
May 24th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
“C’mon, everyone knows who President Cheney is!”
Of course! He’s the guy with the lesbian daughter who just had a baby. If I see one more headline scream “lesbian,” I’ll scream. Mary Cheney isn’t the VP’s “lesbian daughter;” she’s his daughter. Period. Who said the media was liberal?
May 24th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Those are the capitalist liberals (the sort that is not bothered by anything like cognitive dissonance) who know the word “lesbian” forces males to read the article, click on the link, or linger over the TV report that much longer. Who knows what sort of crazy lesbian footage they could run?