1. THANK YOU TLR, for providing a TRANSLATION (Korean to English), which was your personal work based on your proficiency, something you took time out for and did not simply post an English article. You gave us here on FR a rare, exclusive peek at some news we otherwise might not get through the US MSM for weeks on end, due to the language barrier and the general poor reporting of the MSM (which is why many of us are here!).
2. I, and I know others, appreciate your efforts ALL THE TIME on FR on the North Korea issue. I'm sorry if we cannot, just for a moment, try to get a serious thread going on this topic. You provided your best. It seems like 80% of the comments are/were juvenile remarks about Asian names, just because they sound 'strange' to our culture and collective ear.
3. Take heart. It is precisely because(as they are bombarded by news)not a few Americans know all the players and intricate issues, for example, in Israel vs. Palestine fiasco, but they are abjectly asleep at the wheel (except maybe 10-20 freepers who are regular, thinking contributors to the North Korea threads) on the DPRK situation, and seem to have spent little-to-no time trying to analyze the various important local NK/SK players in this deadly game where hundreds of thousands of Americans and S. Koreans and Japanese are at immediate risk due to D.P.R.K. WMD and deadly intents.
I'll try to join you tomorrow to pick up on this discussion later, and try to turn this thread around to one of substance. I like humor on FR just as much as the next guy, and I indulge in it myself. However, just perhaps (I am thinking) that you may have closed your day over wherever you are, but maybe wondering if we couldn't have gotten a little more intellectual "traction" on this informative FR D.P.R.K. thread and your brilliant translation and further connecting of the dots as good if not better than any of our investigative journalists or intelligence agencies. Thanks again TLR from many of us. (I'll try to research DPRK KCNA dispatches from around that time for anything out of the ordinary from Pyongyang.)
Thank you for your support and encouragement, as always. Despite disproportionate number of jokes, this thread scored thousands of hits.
I hope people would get better informed.
I'll second AIT's post, my Korean is limited to the necessary phrases to get the really hot duck kimchi they only usually serve to Korean customers at a little NYC restaurant.
Thank you and Gamsa hamnida.