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Comment on I Have an Op-Ed in the Asia Wall Street Journal Today by joseph

joseph — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:56:38 +0000

highly suspicious happenings

Comment on I Have an Op-Ed in the Asia Wall Street Journal Today by Adam Cathcart

Adam Cathcart — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:07:22 +0000

The WSJ link, which was working a few hours ago, is now broken, Google search results for the op-ed also result in a broken link, and search results within WSJ site (I’m inside the pay wall) also net nothing. A little help?

Comment on I Have an Op-Ed in the Asia Wall Street Journal Today by joseph

joseph — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:27:38 +0000

yay congrats! i hope they come to their sense and keep you on as a regular on the wsj op-ed pages

Comment on I Have an Op-Ed in the Asia Wall Street Journal Today by Bob Violence

Bob Violence — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:42:23 +0000

Glans: A decent amount of WSJ articles are freely accessible for a limited time before they get archived and stuck behind the paywall. This editorial is one of them.

Comment on I Have an Op-Ed in the Asia Wall Street Journal Today by Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:34:56 +0000

Lee and Guttenfelder sounds like a law partnership particularly sharp in the area of elite European divorce.. For shits and giggs i didn’t find it hard to come up with a short list of semi credible pretexts for the AP doing what they’re doing up there.
Justification No. …
1. Beat out other journalistic organizations, which lack the cojones and connections, in having staff based in NK. Eventually win something other than that Duranty award.
2. Someone on the ground if and when the regime collapses.
3. The increased light they shine on North Korea will attract, like bees to honey, other journos, some of whom will inevitably take on the moral burden of exposing camps, torture, and starvation. The AP as kind of a charm offensive SAS hack vanguard.
4. That initially they are playing the long view cooperation game, arguably, they say, the only way to play the North Koreans, and will eventually ask for more awkward access for their lenses and notebooks.
5. All the while their guys up there are collating info for devastating book length insights into the horrors of North Korea, to be written up at leisure in the Seoul Hilton. That, or indeed, they really are working for US intelligence (that photo exhibition was obviously a sop).
Not that I go for any of these. But you could add your own below…

Comment on I Have an Op-Ed in the Asia Wall Street Journal Today by Glans

Glans — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:51:43 +0000

That looks like a good op-ed. Too bad it’s behind a firewall. I’ll give money to Rupert Murdoch the day after I give it to Kim Jong-un.

Comment on Open Sources, May 21, 2012 by kushibo

kushibo — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:27:05 +0000

Anthony, if we change it back to Kori-1, its spelling, it will all be better.

In fact, if we have regular scientists do the emergency studies instead of leftist groups with a pro-Pyongyang, anti-ROK agenda do the studies, forecasts will improve that way as well.

Comment on Open Sources, May 21, 2012 by kushibo

kushibo — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:25:09 +0000

As I wrote at length here, there really does seem to be some real cause for concern regarding the possibility of Mt Paektusan erupting. If it’s one of the once-per-century eruptions, it probably won’t be that big a deal environmentally, although it could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s for the regime, which might lose control in even a minor catastrophe.

However, if it’s one of the once-per-millennium “super-colossal” eruptions of Mt Paektusan, we’d be feeling it across South Korea and Japan, and possibly in a lot of other places around the globe.

The last once-per-millennium super-colossal eruption was in 969 AD.

Comment on Open Sources, May 21, 2012 by Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000

I once watched a group of workmen standing around and smoking as they leaned on their diggers in front of the gas station they were supposed to somehow dismantle. They chatted, finished their cigs, climbed aboard their machinery and simply tore into it. We shook our heads and swore, while watching and backing off fast as oil flooded the nearby forecourt. Something like this is bound to happen in the North if they keep splitting atoms in an environment in which they have to share around a single hard hat. Though I guess reactivating magma flows could be the first semi miraculous Kim dynasty act with some foundation in reality. I once heard second hand somewhere I can’t remember that there is an apocalyptic scenario held to by some or other Christian grouping in the South that envisages a nuclear disaster on the peninsula, and I would say an accident is far more likely than an incident. The South scares me too, since this is where I do most of my breathing. 900,000 would apparently die slowly if the Busan plant whose managers sought to cover up a power outage last year ever cracked in half – and with a moniker like Gori-1, something dreadful is clearly foreordained.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2012/05/21/46/0302000000AEN20120521004200315F.HTML

Comment on Open Sources, May 21, 2012 by thomas

thomas — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:06:13 +0000

@Anthony ... I had to look up that volcano business. Good stuff. Thanks.