You know (FR) jokes are fine, in moderation I suppose, but not when they hijack a very serious thread that a Freeper put out initially to engage in meaningful discussion...and following his or her own efforts, such as translating a foreign article for free (yes, it is a service that usually carries a cost) something so the rest of us here Freepers could enjoy in English...such as TLR did.
Very glad JenB that you are one of the Freepers on this thread trying to turn it around since yesterday, so we can all get something out of it re: North Korea, rather than the usual, VERY TIRING jokes about Asian last names...and the one-dimension, cartoon character, juvenile analysis of a dangerous dictator who has nuclear weapons, (which I can assure you is NO JOKE to the hundreds of thousands of S. Koreans, Japanese and Americans within his missiles' range)....like such jokes really anything to do with the great work and a Freeper's selfless scholarship for the benefit of us all! Thanks again!!
Well, I don't really have anything meaningful to contribute to the conversation, since everything I know about North Korea, I learn from informative Freeper sources. But it seems like a situation that we ought to learn about instead of hijacking the thread for really lame jokes based on a cultural difference. I imagine English names sound pretty stupid to people who speak Korean, after all.
I don't think Kim Jong-Il is funny, either. Dangerous is more like it. But then there were people who thought Hitler was 'funny', too, before they figured out how much trouble he was going to cause.