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July 23, 2006

Kim Jong Il Marries Yonsama in Private Vermont Ceremony

Hey … look at these pics and tell me I’m off base here. Tell me these are really two different people. Ever seen them at the same place and time? Didn’t think so! . . . . . . . . Oh, sure, you could decide to believe the “authorized” reports, like those from Chosun Ilbo (Korean only), the Joongang Ilbo (English) and Yonhap (English), but who are you going to believe? Them, or your own eyes? Big hat tip...

Categories Humor/Satire/Kim Jong Il
July 7, 2006

On ‘Strategic Disengagement’

I don’t really know, of course, but what a discussion Richardson has started with one of this blog’s best-written and researched posts (pursued by James, with characteristic excellence, here). The topic: why North Korea would do something so counterproductive to its extortionate, mendacious, highly successful diplomacy as this ballistic tantrum. Richardson believes the main motive to be an intent to isolate itself from the world. He calls this Strategic Disengagement. I disagree with Richardson’s ultimate conclusion, that Kim Jong Il...

Categories Appeasement/Diplomacy/Kim Jong Il/Kremlinology/WMD
May 1, 2006

What’s the Deal With Kim Jong Nam?

I found this report interesting on two levels. First, a certain “East Asian intelligence agency” is either running a disinformation campaign or needs to shoot whoever leaked a good source of intel on North Korean kremlinology, specifically, “occasional drunken conversations that last more than an hour.” Isn’t that always the best kind, too? Second, the role of Kim Jong Il’s eldest son, Kim “Goofy” Jong Nam, whom I’d though had landed safely on the ash-heap, looks like it’s back in...

Categories Kim Jong Il/Kremlinology/North Korea
April 12, 2006

Shin Sang-Ok Dies

The South Korean film-maker and his actress wife were best known for having been kidnapped by Kim Jong Il to make movies in North Korea, most infamously the stoner cult classic “Pulgasari.” In Shin’s observations about the emperor and his court feature prominently in the writings of North Korea Kremlinologists, including Jasper Becker’s Rogue Regime. Apparently at the orders of Kim Jong-il, then North Korea’s heir apparent and a film buff, both he and his wife, the actress Choi Eun-hee,...

Categories Abductions/Kim Jong Il/Korean Society/Kremlinology/North Korea