I’ve seen some artwork in one book of the bird and seen it referred to as a “High Altitude” paint scheme, but nothing I’ve seen so far provides the exact color(s).

I suppose it might have been either Med Sea Grey, Sky or PRU Blue. Also, nothing I’ve seen gives a clue if the undersides sported a different color, or if this was a monotone paint job on the whole bird.

Can anyone help?

Hmmm.

Well, point taken on one thing. Air Koryo is probably more like the Lufthansa of the 30’s (a quasi-military arm of Nazi Germany that nominally performed a civil function). But Air Koryo is no more a simple airliner than North Korean state-owned banks are simple banks.

Nonetheless, the comparison wasn’t so much about who is more evil or any nonesense like that (I don’t particularly care to engage in quantification of evil). Just as giving Nazi paraphernalia to someone who is Jewish will likely enrage, certainly offend that person, especially if he suffered loss of family at Nazi hands, handing me — whose family was abducted and perished at the hands of the North Korean regime — a North Korean government paraphernalia is enraging. That’s it.

I find it bizzarre that you would find it “unfortunate and offensive.” I would certainly like to know the reasoning behind that statement.

As for the content of this blog, the final arbiter on that is Richardson who is the owner and editor of the blog. But I think I would not be out of bounds to say that while much of the blog is about substantive policy issues regarding North Korea and the surrounding region, posts do occasionally veer into the odd, the humorous, the personal and even, very rarely, the angry. After all, it is a blog.

However if I were you, I’d delete this post.

-You’ve overreacted to a fairly innocuous gag gift to put it mildly.
-Your comparison of Air Koryo to the Luftwaffe is unfortunate and offensive; Lufthansa would have been the correct comparison to Air Koryo, and he did not give you KPAF t-shirt.
-Using a blog dedicated to such serious issues, as a forum to publically call your brother-in-law names and cast aspersions on his character over a silly little gag gift; denigrates the rest of the so far excellent content.

If I were you, I would delete this post, shove the t-shirt in a drawer somewhere and reappraise the issue in about six months with a cooler head. Then make your decision.

It is nice to see that you are back.