cousin nadin lights a new campfire

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022590531

Oh my.

nadinbrzezinski (117,893 posts)    Sat Mar 30, 2013, 04:07 PM

North Korea Threatens to Close Factories It Runs With South

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea, reiterating that it considered the Korean Peninsula back in “a state of war,” threatened Saturday to shut down a factory complex it jointly operates with South Korea that stands as the last significant symbol of cooperation.

The industrial park, the eight-year-old Kaesong complex in the North Korean border town of the same name, is a crucial source of badly needed cash for the heavily sanctioned North. It funnels more than $92 million a year in wages for 53,400 North Koreans employed there, and its operation has survived despite years of military tensions. The latest threat to close down Kaesong came amid a torrent of bellicose statements by the North in recent days, widely seen as a strategy to increase pressure on South Korea and the United States to soften their policies on the North.
 
Although South Korean officials reasserted that they were ready to retaliate if the North committed any military provocations, they said they saw no imminent sign of any such attacks. On Saturday, cross-border traffic operated as normal, allowing hundreds of South Koreans to travel to and from Kaesong.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/world/asia/north-korean-sites-are-down-in-possible-cyberattacks.html

Now this is one of the signs that things coud potentially get out of control

Dear leader is truly turning blue this time as he holds his breath.

Let me add this good article.

North Korea is funny. That's why we have to take it so seriously

A defining moment in the North Korean narrative is the Korean War of 1950-1953, when the Communist leader Kim Il-sung led the North in an invasion of the South and was pushed back by US-led forces. Schoolchildren in the People’s Republic are taught that American troops carried out horrific atrocities against their grandparents and that the US would do it all again were it not for the iron leadership of the Kim family.

The War dominates the North Korean mind and landscape, but equally important is what happened next. Peace time coincided with the wave of de-Stalinisation that swept the Communist world in the mid-fifties. Even within North Korea, liberal-minded Marxists demanded greater personal liberty and economic reform. Kim's response was to shift the ideological justification for the regime away from Marxism and towards a unique quasi-religious nationalism called Juche. Kim became like a god, and when he died he remained head of state, governing from the afterlife.

In official accounts, the birth of his successor, Kim Jong-il, was accompanied by the appearance of a double rainbow – elevating him from Number One comrade to a veritable avatar. This secretive boy with a bouffant hairdo and a penguin's body was cast as the god of sport. When he played his first ever round of golf in 1994, he supposedly scored 11 holes-in-one; he found the game so absurdly easy that he announced there and then that he would never play again.

North Korea’s football coach also said that Jong-il guided the team during the 2010 World Cup with the help of an invisible cell phone – technology that the regime claimed the leader himself had invented. When the next in line, Kim Jong-un, came to power in 2011, the pantheon gained a more gregarious deity, who smiled a lot and visited people in their homes. The extraordinary nature of his visibility cannot be over-stressed: Jong-il rarely was seen in public, but Jong-un can't keep away from the cameras. He is the Kim of Hearts.
 
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100209722/north-korea-is-funny-thats-why-we-have-to-take-it-so-seriously/

zappaman (7,755 posts)    Sat Mar 30, 2013, 04:32 PM

1. How many OPs have you started on this?

At least 5-6, right?

^^^the above's the whole campfire.

[Skul]

Dear leader is truly turning blue this time as he holds his breath.

Wondering why Obowow would do that? 

[Mr Mannn]

If I had a gennie, I would wish Nads was the one posting about being hit by a car.
It would be far more entertaining.

[Skul]

If I had a gennie, I would wish Nads was the one posting about being hit by a car.
It would be far more entertaining.

Automobiles have a hard time making a PTSD claim stick.

Edit to add...
A couple more comments did show up.

Response to zappaman (Reply #1)
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 05:19 PM
Star Member bluedigger (9,844 posts)
2. I'd put the over/under at a dozen.

Just moving the same shit back and forth from GD to LBN and vice versa.

[GOBUCKS]

On Saturday, cross-border traffic operated as normal, allowing hundreds of South Koreans to travel to and from Kaesong.

There are hundreds of South Koreans who have clearly not been reading posts by the crazy bald dwarf.