Daily Archive for September 3rd, 2007

North Korea and Iran friends? Who knew?

On a sidenote, Iran and North Korea have some sort of pact. Not a lot to go on, but still interesting.

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Propaganda Time!

Why not add some sunshine to your humdrum day and sing a song about pretty girls, plentiful fruit and working in the worker’s paradise?

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Are happy days ahead for Kim Jong Il? (Update 2)

Kim Jong IlHe is getting removed from the terror list and the sanctions will be lifted (No official word from Washington yet). Therefore, Kim Jong Il has a lot to smile about:

The U.S. has agreed to take North Korea off its list of terrorism-sponsoring states and lift all economic sanctions, the communist country’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said, in its first public confirmation of the accord.

“The U.S. decided to take such political and economic measures for compensation as delisting the DPRK as a terrorism sponsor and lift all sanctions,” the unidentified spokesman said today in a report carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. The DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the country’s official name.

Is it time to break out the bubbly, get a few ladies and have a party at one of his mansions while the people starve?

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North Korean abductions are named at the White House (Update)

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Izumi Asano is the man behind an event to call out the names of all victims, including 83,000 South Koreans abducted during the Korean War alone.

That’s a lot of people. This looks like an interesting event most likely not to see the front page of a lot of papers. North Korea does not seem to be on the forefront of many peoples’ lists of things to learn or to be concerned about. Sure, most of my friends have heard about the nuke issue or seen Kim Jong Il on Team America. I just wish the humanitarian crisis was on the news more often. The same goes with the abductions conducted by the Dear and Great Leaders:

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