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Shocker! North Korea throws tantrum, breaks agreement

Posted by: Phineas on April 18, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 13 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Only a fool or the Clinton State Department (but I repeat myself) couldn’t see this one coming: North Korea said on Tuesday that it was abandoning an agreement it made in February with the United States, in which it promised to suspend uranium enrichment, nuclear tests and long-range missile tests. The North [...]

 

“We find your lack of sincerity disturbing, comrade”

Posted by: Phineas on January 13, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Well, now we know why North Koreans were crying so hysterically at the death of psychotic brandy-swilling midget Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il last month. As I wrote at the time: Some of it may be genuine fear for the future, and I’m sure some of it is also fear of what happens [...]

 

Four must-reads on North Korea

Posted by: Phineas on December 20, 2011 at 2:48 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Busy day today, but I wanted to share with you four articles on the world’s largest prison camp masquerading as a nation, aka “North Korea,” and its uncertain future. Each has something worth your attention: Writing from Tokyo, the New York Times’ Martin Fackler interview Korea “experts” (as if anyone can be [...]

 

North Korea: mourning for a dead God-King

Posted by: Phineas on December 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas When you’re told every hour of every day of your existence that only one brilliant man stands between you and disaster, this kind of reaction to news of his death is expected: Kim, his father, and their cronies made these people’s lives a Hell on Earth since 1945, a nightmare existence perhaps [...]

 

Up-twinkles for Dear Leader: an Occupier eulogizes Kim Jong-Il’s North Korea

Posted by: Phineas on December 19, 2011 at 1:01 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Ah, Dear Leader, Sun of Socialism, Great Man Who Descended From Heaven!! (1) How it must warm the cockles of your Stalinist heart to see how your juche message of “more brandy,” kidnapping filmmakers to make movies for you, drug smuggling, and counterfeiting resonates with the followers you left behind… especially in [...]

 

This just in: Kim Jong Il no longer “ronery”

Posted by: Phineas on December 19, 2011 at 12:17 am » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Because he will have plenty of company in Hell: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear program. A tearful television announcer dressed in black said [...]

 

Russia’s North Korean slaves

Posted by: Phineas on December 16, 2011 at 3:28 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas An appalling, but sadly unsurprising revelation at The Daily Caller that the world’s largest prison camp masquerading as a nation, North Korea, rents out its own people as slaves in Siberian camps: Q. In this Vice Guide you are traveling not to North Korea, but into the Siberian region of Russia where [...]

 

“Occupy” movement gains another notorious ally: North Korea

Posted by: ST on October 19, 2011 at 9:27 am » 4 Comments

First it was Nazi groups and communists.  Now it’s the North Korean regime: The reclusive North Korean government says the Occupy movement shows that people are fed up with capitalism’s ills, and attributes the protests to the “extremely acute socio-class contradictions” created after the global financial crisis in 2007. The official Korean Central News Agency [...]

 

Canada stands on principle; Obama goes “meh.”

Posted by: Phineas on July 13, 2011 at 3:35 pm » 10 Comments

**Posted by Phineas A couple of weeks ago I could barely contain my disgust over the appointment of North Korea as head of the UN Conference on Disarmament. It seems I wasn’t the only one, and it’s great to see a liberal democracy refuse to participate in this disgraceful sham. Good for you, Canada: Foreign [...]

 

The UN takes “farce” to a whole new level

Posted by: Phineas on June 30, 2011 at 1:01 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Really, I thought they couldn’t get any more ridiculous than naming Iran, a Sharia-enforcing fascist state, to the Commission on the Status of Women, but they did it. Meet the new President of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament: North Korea Despite numerous breaches of arms embargoes and continued threats to expand [...]