N. Korea:Why is this man smiling?(Kim's Great Game)

Time ^ | 06/14/04 | Anthony Spaeth

[TigerLikesRooster]

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[TigerLikesRooster]

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[xrp]

Kim Jong-Il loves American movies and would LOVE to be a movie maker here in the USA. Why don't we offer him $100,000,000 venture capital to set up his own movie studio and an estate in Hollywood so he can cruise with the rest of the Hollyweirdos. The condition would be that he give up power in North Korea. I think he'd go for it.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #4

I thought of something similar. Give Kim Jong-il the exclusive control of Pyongyang, and make it an East Asian version of Las Vegas & Hollywood rolled up together.

Gambling, showgirls, movies, (and prostitution). It is a Kim Jong-il kind of world.

[BenLurkin]

"Asia doesn't know if it loves or hates him"

Is that true?

How could anyone not caught in '1984' style nightmare LOVE kim?

[nuconvert]

Bump

[shaggy eel]

I think he'd go for it.

,,, you know, he's one whacko guy. He lets his people starve to death and keeps feeding his hairdresser. How could anyone hope to last anywhere with a hairdo that bad? Hollywood needs this guy right now, more than they know.

[bluefish]

"Asia doesn't know if it loves or hates him"

- Is that true? How could anyone not caught in '1984' style nightmare LOVE kim?

Maybe the reporter is just projecting. The reporter doesn't know whether he loves him or hates him.

[sergeantdave]

The U.S. can't seem to stop him. Asia doesn't know if it loves or hates him. So the position of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il looks stronger than ever

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Anthony Spaeth: "I come to praise dictator Kim Jong Il, not to bury him."

(Apologies to Mr. Shakespeare)

[hinckley buzzard]

Asia doesn't know if it loves or hates him"

Is that true?

How could anyone not caught in '1984' style nightmare LOVE kim?


TIME has long been known for writing its articles for eighth-graders. Recently its articles appear to have been written BY eighth-graders.

[SevenofNine]

Wait a minute I think I saw that episode on Comedy Central Kid Noterious AM I RIGHT

You know Robert Evans animated show

[risk]

Asia doesn't know if it loves or hates him.

Isn't that really what Time's editors think?

Fifteen of Dongducheon's leaders shaved their heads last week and went to Seoul to hoist a protest banner outside the National Assembly building. The banner was written in their own blood.

They're evidently protesting the pullout because they'll lose business when the Americans leave. They also seem to want compensation for lost business during 50 years of American troop presence. I can't figure out what's on their minds.

Sorry for the questionable taste, but there's evidently graffiti near by featuring a bearded biker saluting Jane Fonda. "LEST WE FORGET."

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #13

These clowns in Time used to claim in 80's that Soviet Union would last for a long time, and Soviet's new charm offensive was undercutting U.S. efforts.

To these guys, any appearance of stalemate on N. Korean nukes is the opportunity to padd up Kim Jong-il's stature.

[Squantos]

Oh dats a keeper !..........Thanks !

Stay safe !

[Gal.5:1]

N.Korea facts:
capitol: Pyongyang

size: a little larger than Tennessee

religion: official state religion: Juche, which teaches that human beings are the masters of everything. Kim Jong Il has more than 1,200 titles, including, "The Eternal Sun" and "The Guardian Deity of the Planet".

social groups:The government puts citizens into groups . People in favor with the government are allowed to live in the capitol where the government gives people food, medical care and other help. The government puts everyone else in these other groups: "unstable" and "hostile".

Unstable group members have fewer rights and get less food. They can't go to the capitol without permission. Hostile group members have no rights. They are given the hardest, most dangerous jobs. If people are suspected of not agreeing with the government, they are placed in the unstable or hostile groups.

Still others are called "non-humans". They are placed in prison camps and treated like animals. Thousands of Christians are among the "non-humans" in the camps; they are there because they will not deny Christ.

source: Link International, student publication of Voice of the Martyrs.

[Boot Hill]

“Why is this man smiling?”

It is illogical to try to make sense of the facial expressions of psychopaths.

--Boot Hill

[AmericanInTokyo]

Taglines say it all.

Thanks again.

[risk]

Speaking of the final destination of those eight new bombs, the future is an enigma, isn't it? We live in interesting times.

[Allegra]

I'm just finding all kinds of stuff for you today.

Any minute now, I expect to see a nice, juicy talk radio story for ya...