"He asks what part of the deal you did not understand. He says perhaps his translator did not make it clear to you. He says he should fire his translator?"
Posted on 05/18/2009 8:19:01 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
(LEAD) N. Korea's pointman on inter-Korean relations executed: sources
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SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea executed its pointman on South Korea last year, holding him responsible for wrong predictions about Seoul's new conservative government that has ditched a decade of engagement policy toward Pyongyang, sources said Monday.
Choe Sung-chol, who as vice chairman of the North's Asia-Pacific Peace Committee had pushed for bold reconciliation with Seoul's previous liberal governments, disappeared from public sight early last year amid reports that he was fired. Rumors spread in January that he was forced to work at a chicken farm, but a number of sources privy to North Korean internal affairs told Yonhap News Agency that Choe was executed last year to shoulder the blame for inter-Korean relations, which changed drastically with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's inauguration.
Failure frequently leads to death sentence and life-time imprisonment to prison camp for one's family, that is, slow and painful death.
Ping!
Term limits...
"He asks what part of the deal you did not understand. He says perhaps his translator did not make it clear to you. He says he should fire his translator?"
Term expired ...
From the Daily Red Star Bulletin: Beloved Dear Leader Kim Jong-il is seeking a volunteer to fill the vacancy for vice chairman of the North’s Asia-Pacific Peace Committee. Who will step forward to help Dear Leader? ...anyone...?
Damn Chia Pet more hardcore than Donald Trump
Great morale-booster they've got there...
The North Koreans have a rather literal understanding of the term "You're fired!"...
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