Comments on: North Korea by Google Earth: Kim Jong Il’s Largest Palace http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daniel http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-80737 Daniel Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:01:20 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-80737 Doesn't kim jong il hate traveling in airplane? Doesn’t kim jong il hate traveling in airplane?

]]> By: The alien http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-57015 The alien Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:10:54 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-57015 Kim Jong-il the greatest? Man, you got problems! Kim Jong-il the greatest?
Man, you got problems!

]]> By: Jack http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-56995 Jack Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:41:33 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-56995 <blockquote cite="if i had a dying wish"> Be careful what you wish for...</blockquote>

Be careful what you wish for…

]]> By: Joshua http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-56988 Joshua Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:34:40 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-56988 Aim high, jake. Aim high, jake.

]]> By: jake 15 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-56985 jake 15 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:28:04 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-56985 kim jong il is tha best if i had a dying wish it would be to meet him in person and get a V.I.P. tour of his house in pyongyang kim jong il is tha best if i had a dying wish it would be to meet him in person and get a V.I.P. tour of his house in pyongyang

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Korean Election Update: Lessers Versus Evils http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-55518 OneFreeKorea » Korean Election Update: Lessers Versus Evils Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:15:07 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-55518 [...] Lee Myung Bak, the current front-runner, has all of Park’s bad qualities and none of her good ones.  Several years ago, I wrote this profile of Lee Myung-Bak and described his Stalinist-sounding public-works schemes, his poor track record for ethics in government, and his tendency to say adolescent or zany things.  Who can forget the time when, as mayor, he offered the city of Seoul to Jesus Christ, despite the fact that Seoul’s population must be nearly half Buddhist?  Lee still hasn’t dropped the idea of building a canal through the mountainous spine of a peninsula ringed with excellent, modern ports.  Since then, Lee M.B. has been running to outdo Chung Dong-Young on the amount of the taxpayers’ largesse he would funnel to Kim Jong Il.  (Yes, this is what passes for “conservative” in today’s Korea.)  Lee M.B. has proposed a new industrial park to harness North Korean slave labor.  Much sillier is his idea of raising North Korea’s per capita income to $3,000.  Only a fool can doubt where the vast majority of this wealth would end up:  aimed at Seoul and Osaka, ticking on the wrists of Pyongyang bureaucrats, and flushed down the urinals of this palace.  Either Lee M.B. (a) doubts that, and you can complete the syllogism yourself, or (b) he’s being deliberately insincere to get votes.  I prefer Theory (b), but neither option should give Korean voters much comfort.  And now, he finds himself immersed in a stock-manipulation scandal.  Question the timing if you will.  Like last-minute candidacies, last-minute prosecutions are a fact of Korean political life. [...] [...] Lee Myung Bak, the current front-runner, has all of Park’s bad qualities and none of her good ones.  Several years ago, I wrote this profile of Lee Myung-Bak and described his Stalinist-sounding public-works schemes, his poor track record for ethics in government, and his tendency to say adolescent or zany things.  Who can forget the time when, as mayor, he offered the city of Seoul to Jesus Christ, despite the fact that Seoul’s population must be nearly half Buddhist?  Lee still hasn’t dropped the idea of building a canal through the mountainous spine of a peninsula ringed with excellent, modern ports.  Since then, Lee M.B. has been running to outdo Chung Dong-Young on the amount of the taxpayers’ largesse he would funnel to Kim Jong Il.  (Yes, this is what passes for “conservative” in today’s Korea.)  Lee M.B. has proposed a new industrial park to harness North Korean slave labor.  Much sillier is his idea of raising North Korea’s per capita income to $3,000.  Only a fool can doubt where the vast majority of this wealth would end up:  aimed at Seoul and Osaka, ticking on the wrists of Pyongyang bureaucrats, and flushed down the urinals of this palace.  Either Lee M.B. (a) doubts that, and you can complete the syllogism yourself, or (b) he’s being deliberately insincere to get votes.  I prefer Theory (b), but neither option should give Korean voters much comfort.  And now, he finds himself immersed in a stock-manipulation scandal.  Question the timing if you will.  Like last-minute candidacies, last-minute prosecutions are a fact of Korean political life. [...]

]]> By: Joshua http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-51636 Joshua Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:07:42 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-51636 John, did you compare them to the numbered links to the photographs verified by defectors? You have to admit that the shapes of the racetrack, the buildings, and the ponds in images 5 and 6 are a dead-ringer. John, did you compare them to the numbered links to the photographs verified by defectors? You have to admit that the shapes of the racetrack, the buildings, and the ponds in images 5 and 6 are a dead-ringer.

]]> By: John http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-51634 John Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:58:06 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-51634 I think the group of buildings whose purpose you could not guess. Are the Barracks of his Special Forces. The ones that guard him that is. Those look like they have all the facilities for sustaining a large group of military type personel. I think the group of buildings whose purpose you could not guess. Are the Barracks of his Special Forces. The ones that guard him that is. Those look like they have all the facilities
for sustaining a large group of military type personel.

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » The North Korean Air Force by Google Earth http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-42610 OneFreeKorea » The North Korean Air Force by Google Earth Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:29:39 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-42610 [...] [Update:  Welcome Weekly Standard readers.  Please take note of some of the other North Korea Google Earth tours here:  the concentration camps at Camp 22 (of gas chamber infamy) and Camp 16 (the site of a recent mass escape), North Korea’s “ghost cities,” and Kim Jong Il’s palace complex northeast of Pyongyang, which comes with its own “pyramid scheme.”] [...] [...] [Update:  Welcome Weekly Standard readers.  Please take note of some of the other North Korea Google Earth tours here:  the concentration camps at Camp 22 (of gas chamber infamy) and Camp 16 (the site of a recent mass escape), North Korea’s “ghost cities,” and Kim Jong Il’s palace complex northeast of Pyongyang, which comes with its own “pyramid scheme.”] [...]

]]> By: Sonagi http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-38932 Sonagi Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:19:51 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/10/its-good-to-be-the-king-kim-jong-ils-home-and-office-by-google-earth/#comment-38932 Well, now that you've been outed by Meena, you're not a crypto-racist anymore. :) Well, now that you’ve been outed by Meena, you’re not a crypto-racist anymore. :)

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