Is it just me, or does it seem like DPRoK's saber rattling is getting less traction than it ever has?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/north-korea-praises-trump-and-urges-us-voters-to-reject-dull-hillary
― King Nagl (Eazy), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
Awesome
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
the Dennis Rodman of American politics
― am0n, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
interesting:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/satellite-imagery-suggests-china-is-secretly-punishing-north-korea/2016/06/30/8638d8d6-3ee8-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html
― Mordy, Sunday, 3 July 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/08/louis-cole-vlogger-north-korea
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/asia/north-korea-executes-deputy-premier.html
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has executed his deputy premier for education and purged two other senior officials, sending them to re-education camps, the South Korean government said on Wednesday.Jeong Joon-hee, a spokesman for the South’s Unification Ministry, said at a news briefing that the South Korean government had used various means to confirm the execution of Kim Yong-jin, the deputy premier, and the purge of Kim Yong-chol, the head of the United Front Department of the ruling Workers’ Party, which handles relations with, as well as spying operations against, South Korea. Choe Hui, a deputy chief of the party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, was also banished for re-education, Mr. Jeong said.
Jeong Joon-hee, a spokesman for the South’s Unification Ministry, said at a news briefing that the South Korean government had used various means to confirm the execution of Kim Yong-jin, the deputy premier, and the purge of Kim Yong-chol, the head of the United Front Department of the ruling Workers’ Party, which handles relations with, as well as spying operations against, South Korea. Choe Hui, a deputy chief of the party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, was also banished for re-education, Mr. Jeong said.
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
should send my resume to the agitation department
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 1 September 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/who-is-kim-jong-un/
iirc this piece goes over a lot of the same ground as the one published on NK in the LRB last year, with the same conclusions (i.e. what an incredible fuck-up). Except it gives Jong-Un a good review, of sorts.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
It seems he is actually pretty good at the old totalitarian dictator game. A few pieces I have read in the past seem to have overstated the importance of his gift economy game without even mentioning his frequent liquidations of top brass and clever playing of S Korea's fear of regime collapse to his own advantage.
― calzino, Thursday, 1 September 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
could regime collapse really be any worse than it is right now? are there really worse actors than kim?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
regime collapse = millions of destitute north koreans pouring into south korea
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
you may be aware of situations in which bordering countries wish to keep our immigrants from poorer neighbouring states?
this thread title bums me out
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:15 (eight years ago) link
Can't it get changed to "North Korea: Still Bizarre," or something like that?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
you may be aware of situations in which bordering countries wish to keep our immigrants from poorer neighbouring states?― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, September 1, 2016 6:13 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, September 1, 2016 6:13 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
never heard of it
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:19 (eight years ago) link
does SK really think of north koreans as foreign refugees? i know that there are still a lot of divided families w/ ties that go to before the division. wouldn't they be happy for an opportunity for reunification? and doesn't kim jong-un being overthrown suggest an opportunity for that? (i really don't know i'm just theorizing)
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Z34DuOf.jpg
(Except without the cars, I guess.)
― pplains, Friday, 2 September 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link
does SK really think of north koreans as foreign refugees?
Yes, absolutely. Definitely from a practical perspective of health issues, integration into education, sustained employment, etc but increasingly from a 'national' perspective as well. It's partly generational - a higher proportion of older than younger Koreans think of people from the DPRK as being the same nationality as them, according to surveys. There's a social stigma in being from the North - and that's with refugee numbers in the tens of thousands rather than 25m.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 2 September 2016 07:46 (eight years ago) link
Half-brother (the one always in pajamas and gambling in Macau) assassinated.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
Kim Jong-Un's gained like 100 pounds in the last few years, wtf
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
A fatal poison you can spray on someone at an airport ... hilarious and not scary at all.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
It must be some scary shit when you've got your family potentially coming after you (see also Robert Durst's brother)
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
It sounds like he was apolitical and no kind of threat. Some mild criticism of it being a third gen succession regime in his history but not much else.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/STcom/status/831765067091865606
There are reports both suspects are dead.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 09:07 (seven years ago) link
That image is strangely fascinating and creepy
― calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
Hilarity continues!
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:37 (seven years ago) link
this is fucking crazy, also a good way to get away with an assassination plot i suppose: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/suspect-north-korea-killing-thought-she-was-taking-part-in-tv-prank-indonesia-siti-aisyah-police-kim-jong-nam
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
makes a good cover story for her. if you can't avoid the facts, muddle the motivation.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 17 February 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Plausible though because what assassjn would be fool enough to expose themselves to camera scrutiny
― calstars, Friday, 17 February 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
News that he was killed with WMD VX gas is pretty scary, because now there's a smoking gun pretense for Trump Inc. to shout "WMD!" Well, that and nukes.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2017 12:47 (seven years ago) link
that was probably north korea's entire supply of vx tbf
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 February 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
On the other NK thread as well - good read:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/24/world/asia/north-korea-propaganda-photo.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
that bomb looks like its missing a gigantic fuse
https://lh4.ggpht.com/fxsJt9QQyQAxHIFGAKK_ZgIkknZeOjCbK1ULw9F1vvMkr_mGp1z0NgzwYXvVNVO1KA=w300
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, interesting, but isn't it equally plausible that these are...totally empty inside?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
lol! it is just missing a big black on white Acme Nuff Destructive Nuclear Warhead label on the side.
― calzino, Friday, 24 February 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZwwoUYC.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:22 (seven years ago) link
they sure have great taxidermists
― StanM, Saturday, 8 April 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link
this should be where the camera pulls back to reveal that Kim Jong-un and the ppl around him are in fact more waxworks standing on another stage, and so on into infinity
― soref, Saturday, 8 April 2017 07:53 (seven years ago) link
I can't think of a more terrifying brief than having to make a utopian diorama of the ex-great leader.
"Shit, does he look too normcore?" and "I'm crap at modelling hands, better put them in the pockets" might have been part of the discussion.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 April 2017 09:59 (seven years ago) link
Is there a coin slot, does he move?
― StanM, Saturday, 8 April 2017 10:03 (seven years ago) link
he does look pretty normcore - my grandad used to rock that tan coat/olive trousers combo
― soref, Saturday, 8 April 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
he has a look of my dad now you mention it
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 April 2017 10:23 (seven years ago) link
urge to position small armies of miniatures on that excellently manicured flocking
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm surprised they kept the patches in the grass.
― pplains, Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
Also, wanna know what I'd like to visit? A museum containing an exact wax replica of my deceased father.
― pplains, Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link
Ron Mueck went one further and made a hyperealist naked sculpture of his dead dad's corpse, but that was different.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
pplains we were hoping to surprise you with this later but since you mentioned it
*slooowly opens mystery door*
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 April 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
Oh, and it's not made of wax . . .
― nickn, Saturday, 8 April 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
Would love to read about how that Eddie Bauer look plays in Korea and elsewhere.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Saturday, 8 April 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link