The Wall Street Journal had an amazing article on North Korea today. It's about a website called North Korea Uncovered, which purports to give a very good overall map of the secretive country. There are sites over 300 square miles where they keep political prisoners. Many of these prisoners starve to death in conditions that make Buchenwald look like a summer camp. Another site is even larger where there is a mass grave for the several million who died in the famines of 1995-1998. One can also see the swimming pools and palatial estates of Kim Jong-Il and his closest associates. The slide show that's online is breathtaking:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124295017403345489.html
I like websites like this and Durham in Wonderland that open up the secretive undertakings of communist regimes.
http://freekorea.us/2007/02/18/holocaust-now-looking-down-into-hell-at-camp-22/
Monday, May 25, 2009
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here go see for North Korea yourself!
http://www.korea-dpr.com/travel.htm
and then shoot over to see aow Tibet is being treated...
they got group tours for students/poet/artists/teacher...
make sure to follow The Red Thread
word is they're poppin' off some nukes
over there now
like kids with firecrackers
once one of the neighbors has some
the other kids want some too
shouldn't it be that
if all americans can have guns
anyone should be able to appeal to selfprotection
vewy kwazee
j
I thought I heard last night on TV that someone in the Obama administration said that we could easily have a third war with N. Korea, and that we could handle it. Did anybody else hear that?
jh: I don't have a google account set up, so I've got to use Kirby's site to send this message. We're off to Canada again tomorrow early, so is much to do with setting Mum's home care again, but I'll email you when we return.
I've some business also oop there in connexion with my social insurance (having been on various student and then work visas in Canada, I'm eligible for a pension there when I'm old enough).
At any rate, know how much I value your posts on Kirby's site, and since we share the Montana experience (though mine is limited pretty much to Missoula and Butte in the late 60s when I was but a teenager) and folk music (I do a bit of very amateur old-timey stuff of The New Lost City Ramblers, Cisco Houston, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, etc.--sans leurs politiques, bien sur!). Best wishes for now, brother John, and pax tibi,
Jh--the anon is I, email me at viveleroi88@yahoo.com Cheers,
Depends on if we want a boots war -- which at this point is simply strategic mumbo jumbo so the state department and pentagon can duke it out while the far lefties train terrorists -- or to actually win.
If we really deem NK as a threat, expect the nukes to fly from one of the offshore subs.
Perhaps it will be reported as "an accident" where NK mistakenly shot off their own bomb. But hardly.
Do you mean American subs, here, GM, or NK subs?
I mean American subs over there, Kirby. If there aren't at least two American subs within close-no-warning-shooting distance of North Korea, I'll smash one of my guitars over the graven image of Kim Jong Il
Kirby: Got to go in a few; our downstairs neighbor (an African-American refugee from Mississippi after the Katrina catastrophe; he works across the street at the VA hospital where I'm being treated. He was navy, I army, his daughter army, my father navy (this statement illustrates the rhetorical and literary figure called "chiasmus," dear ignorant brett). His daughter is back from Iraq and is coming for a visit; we've offered to take them both to dinner to celebrate her service. Because our neighbor's birth certificate was destroyed in the town in which he lived, he can't get a passport at present, so we'll have to do a bit of over-the-border shopping for him (he wants a certain kind of logo t-shirt). Anyway, his daughter's back safely, and we're celebrating early. Then off to Canada--our favourite route--Windsor, London----New Hampshire, Portsmouth (at whose VFW we drank for free--they had the attitude there that we'd driven 600 miles just to visit them), then up to Halifax (where I was a finalist for a post-doc fellowship at Dalhousie back in the 90s--it "was judged" that they hadn't the library to sustain my rarified Latin-Greek researches--and so they "had" to choose the other finalist, who was doing some sort of feminist "scholarship"; nevertheless, I got the satisfaction of shutting down the Marxist grad studies director (and not the first or only time I kicked this arrogant b------ down the stairs) at the U of Washington--a self-preening adulterer--when he'd "heard" I was a finalist he said he'd been to Halifax once for a few days and found in Halifax nothing to do but drink whiskey and smell fish--"Know what's most good about it. J---", I said.--"What's that, Jacques?"--"Well, J---, it's 4000 miles and 4 time zones from this English department!" O Canada!
Thanks. I didn't know about Chiasmus.
Now I do.
GM -- N. Korea is absolutely loaded with artillery and missiles, itself. It might not be able to hit the US but could certainly level Seoul, and take out a lot of Japan if we went for its throat. The place is bristling with armament.
It's basically the only thing they've got.
they haven't even got sandwiches.
And the thing is that those who live there don't know. From birth they are trained to think that Pyongyang is the center of the universe and Kim Jong-Il IS GOD HIMSELF.
Any problems in N. Korea are blamed on the US.
There's a book called The Aquariums of Pyongyang, by a defector.
I haven't read all of it. It tells what it was like to grow up there. They make the people think that they are in Eden. Anyone who objects goes directly to prison without passing Go.
It's a total Monopoly.
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