Update: I guess someone finally told Kim Jong-il how it looks, so the games are now delayed:
“It has now become hard to continue the performance as working people in different parts of the country are all out to recover from the flood damage these days,” the official KCNA news agency reported.
Original post:
Poster via diy.despair.com, h/t on the story to Lost Nomad.
After missile and nuclear tests and uranium enrichment, the U.S. sanctions North Korean firms while Pyongyang reverses, making overtures. It’s not an accident, it’s a pattern of strategic disengagement.
- #Vanity Fair, of all publications, has a lengthy article on North Korea’s counterfeiting operations, including Office 39. Well worth a read. (h/t NE Asia Matters)
- #The Chosun Ilbo has an article about a new book by Chang Jin-song (formerly affiliated with the North Korean Workers' Party) that details Kim Jong-il private life, including the inside scoop on all his lady friends. According to Chang, one unfortunate young lady to get Kim's attention was, "brutally executed after she spurned Kim's persistent advances and fell in love with another man."
- #Gizmodo has an excellent array of Kim Jong-il photos; In Which We Provoke Kim Jong Il in 77 Offensive and Hilarious Ways. Some are sure to become often used classics.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 am
100,000 people in costume giving the finger to South Korean taxpayers!
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
And 200,000 to cheer them on;
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2007082333538
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Odd, the 75th the establishment of its People’s Army happened on my birthday. I am going to start my own cult of personality now.
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Jack Dong-mu! (“dong-mu” = honorific form of “comrade”)
And happy birthday! (생일 축하해요.) [Belated]
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yeah bow down to meeeeee!
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Sounds like a cross between Kim Jong-il and Eric Cartman.
August 24th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Ha Ha Ha!!! Kim Jack-Il
August 24th, 2007 at 12:29 am
haha…
August 24th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
believe it or not, this little event may be the only thing giving hope and unity to these people..