Big thanks for the endorsement and for the spotting my error.

Cheers!
-Nkmonitor

Send teachers into NK to teach English and other foreign languages, the rudiments of economics and business, not nuclear physics. The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, scheduled to open later this year (we shall see), is recruiting American nuclear scientists to come and teach at their experimental university. For what purpose, one might ask? Go, if you must, out of sheer curiosity or adventurism or fame, but prithee do not fool yourself that you are a noble missionary charting out a new alternate lifestyle for North Korea’s young minds. You will only be of service to the state and its nuclear program. Might have better luck instead trying to convert the Islamic Republic of Iran into a Christian nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_University_of_Science_and_Technology

As for the pencil bomb, how touching, the intermingling of flute and xylophone and electric “harp” at the moment of revelry, giving way to the martial call of the bugle. I wonder how many harpists there are in the North, and wonder how many North Koreans will get to hear the NY Phil in late-Feb, coincidentally around the time of the inauguration in the South. Were I the Dear Leader, I’d hand out a rain check and demand a heftier check later, lest I be misperceived as sending Seoul a congratulatory note. Five years ago, the DL gave his blessing to Roh in style with a short-range missile blast just hours before the inauguration.

Such a prima donna is he, the Dear One, surrounded by legions of fawning fans gazing at him on both sides of the Pacific and the whole world as his stage upon which to strut his stuff. Imagine the tales that Shakespeare could have wrought out of him. Would’ve made Hamlet and Othello and Macbeth prosaic–or even comic heroes.