The more specific issue I think though, was that basic, considerate Freeper Etiquitte (and I would hope Jim Robinson would agree) is that when someone starts a serious thread where the intent of the thread's author or contributor (who may have put some initial, difficult and specialized work into it such as translating from a foreign source) is to encourage real FR information exchange, it is not considerate to have it hijacked into the same, very very endlesstired jokes about Korean last names (by people who have nothing substantial to say about DPRK news due to their lack of knowledge and comfort-zone with mere joke after jok), with (an initial) majority of FR thread posters just taking the thread away from it's intial and sincere purpose by the thread author and in some cases, foreign source translator: to inform.
Some people do the same thing when an important story on FR about Japan, for example, Koizumi's statement on the Self Defense forces' deployment to Iraq, is brought up on FR for serious discussion, and then a ton of people flood and bastardize the threat with silly, juvenile endless jokes about "Godzilla" and "Mothra", and plaster manga or comic pictures, when we are trying to engage in some analysis. Why can't primarily joke threads about Asian issues be maintained somewhere else on FR?
(Posts #126 and #127 are good cases in point.)