Comments on: Kim Jong Il Death Watch http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/ Wed, 23 May 2012 10:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dan Ó C http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69014 Dan Ó C Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:49:15 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69014 The one of the guys in front of the factory has a kind of Pink Floyd-esque quality to it. Maybe I'm getting a little too continental, but I've never seen such a collection of deeply unattractive individuals. Kim appears to be slowly melting...hope it speeds up. The one of the guys in front of the factory has a kind of Pink Floyd-esque quality to it.
Maybe I’m getting a little too continental, but I’ve never seen such a collection of deeply unattractive individuals. Kim appears to be slowly melting…hope it speeds up.

]]> By: Sonagi http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69008 Sonagi Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:58:40 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69008 What's with the hippie cliches? A fifty-something, very small town grandma-looking colleague of mine owns at least forty pairs. I kid you not. What’s with the hippie cliches? A fifty-something, very small town grandma-looking colleague of mine owns at least forty pairs. I kid you not.

]]> By: Sonagi http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69007 Sonagi Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:53:33 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69007 Thanks for updating with the addition of the first picture. He IS wearing blush. Thanks for updating with the addition of the first picture. He IS wearing blush.

]]> By: kushibo http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69005 kushibo Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:46:39 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69005 I'm a grad student. I can't afford Birkenstocks for the moment. There was the time someone spammed hundreds of blogs with my account and got me flagged as a spambot, preventing me from getting into my own blog! I wonder if tags from that misadventure aren't floating around. Anyway, I only pointed it out this time (since I know you're aware of the problem since you've commented on it yourself) because of the curious fact that at almost the same time on the same computer at the same IP address in the same format one got through but the other didn't. Now I don't want to leave this comment without addressing the post at hand, so I'll just opine: Why does the sixth picture remind me of an 1980s Alan Parsons Project album cover? I’m a grad student. I can’t afford Birkenstocks for the moment.

There was the time someone spammed hundreds of blogs with my account and got me flagged as a spambot, preventing me from getting into my own blog! I wonder if tags from that misadventure aren’t floating around.

Anyway, I only pointed it out this time (since I know you’re aware of the problem since you’ve commented on it yourself) because of the curious fact that at almost the same time on the same computer at the same IP address in the same format one got through but the other didn’t.

Now I don’t want to leave this comment without addressing the post at hand, so I’ll just opine: Why does the sixth picture remind me of an 1980s Alan Parsons Project album cover?

]]> By: Adam Cathcart http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69004 Adam Cathcart Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:21:34 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69004 Birkenstocks! Glorious reference! I was hoping that North Korea could get some export deal for those <a href="http://adamcathcartphoto.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/marijuana-plants-growing-on-a-bridge-connecting-north-korea-and-china/" rel="nofollow">hemp </a>tote bags at Trader Joe's that <a href="http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/03/hope-change-and-bigger-bombs/" rel="nofollow">you mentioned</a> earlier, and that there was some way of using the environmental issue to leverage the upscale eco-left in my American city of Seattle to <a href="http://adamcathcart.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/european-press-roundup-envisioning-dprk-environmental-movements/" rel="nofollow">get interested in North Korean human (eco) rights</a>. In general it would be good to have a Birkenstock-Penny Loafer coalition on North Korea, even if the comments queue gets a little slow for some of us. As for the Wikipedia entry on Kim Jong-un, it is half-decent (16 reasonably credible footnotes) but fails to include the extensive German interview with his classmate (so far as I know, is only available in English translation <a href="http://adamcathcart.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/kim-jong-un-in-bern-full-translation-of-die-welt-interview/" rel="nofollow">here</a>) or the <a href="http://www.hebdo.ch/Exclusif_Coree_Nord_dictateur_Suisse_1461_.html" rel="nofollow">standard L'Hebdo article on Kim Jong-un</a> (which I have yet to translate but may get around to if I can get hopped-up enough on espresso and organic goat cheese). It's all about "2Pak Chol." But be forewarned: if you open the French link, there is usually some sexy magazine cover side bar about infidelity. Who ever said the Francophone Europeans had trouble being subtle in their critiques of the Kim regime? Birkenstocks! Glorious reference! I was hoping that North Korea could get some export deal for those hemp tote bags at Trader Joe’s that you mentioned earlier, and that there was some way of using the environmental issue to leverage the upscale eco-left in my American city of Seattle to get interested in North Korean human (eco) rights. In general it would be good to have a Birkenstock-Penny Loafer coalition on North Korea, even if the comments queue gets a little slow for some of us.

As for the Wikipedia entry on Kim Jong-un, it is half-decent (16 reasonably credible footnotes) but fails to include the extensive German interview with his classmate (so far as I know, is only available in English translation here) or the standard L’Hebdo article on Kim Jong-un (which I have yet to translate but may get around to if I can get hopped-up enough on espresso and organic goat cheese). It’s all about “2Pak Chol.” But be forewarned: if you open the French link, there is usually some sexy magazine cover side bar about infidelity. Who ever said the Francophone Europeans had trouble being subtle in their critiques of the Kim regime?

]]> By: Joshua Stanton http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69003 Joshua Stanton Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:55:15 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69003 You need to be patient. For some reason, some of them get stuck in the moderation cue. My filters don't like you for some reason. You don't wear Birkenstocks, do you? You need to be patient. For some reason, some of them get stuck in the moderation cue.

My filters don’t like you for some reason. You don’t wear Birkenstocks, do you?

]]> By: kushibo http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69002 kushibo Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:09:00 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69002 ERASE THIS MESSAGE: Joshua, why do half of my messages end up going through and half don't (the ones that don't go through <em>usually</em> end up being fished out of a spam filter, I presume). I just sent two link-less comments on two different posts and one went through while the other is in limbo. ERASE THIS MESSAGE:

Joshua, why do half of my messages end up going through and half don’t (the ones that don’t go through usually end up being fished out of a spam filter, I presume).

I just sent two link-less comments on two different posts and one went through while the other is in limbo.

]]> By: kushibo http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-69001 kushibo Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:07:28 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-69001 Glans, Northeast Asia needs the US military presence. It is the only player in the region not after another's territory. How about the US just agreeing not to put any bases in the territory of the former DPRK? Glans, Northeast Asia needs the US military presence. It is the only player in the region not after another’s territory.

How about the US just agreeing not to put any bases in the territory of the former DPRK?

]]> By: Sonagi http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-68999 Sonagi Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:54:59 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-68999 @Adam: In the Clinton visit photos provided by the KCNA, Kim Jong-il's face looks airbrushed to the point of blurriness. @Adam:

In the Clinton visit photos provided by the KCNA, Kim Jong-il’s face looks airbrushed to the point of blurriness.

]]> By: Glans http://freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/comment-page-1/#comment-68995 Glans Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:31:13 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/09/05/kim-jong-il-death-watch-4/#comment-68995 Kim Jong-Il's mortality is axiomatic. All foreign ministries have to take it into account. I just hope the Chinese government will cooperate with South Korea, Japan, and the United States. How's this for a plan: Chinese forces stay out of Korea, the South annexes the North, and American forces withdraw? I leave the details to competent professionals. Kim Jong-Il’s mortality is axiomatic. All foreign ministries have to take it into account. I just hope the Chinese government will cooperate with South Korea, Japan, and the United States. How’s this for a plan: Chinese forces stay out of Korea, the South annexes the North, and American forces withdraw? I leave the details to competent professionals.

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