Anju Links for 8 April 2008

MORE TRAIN WRECKS in North Korea have injured hundreds, according to the Daily NK. Recall that an explosion that may have killed hundreds in the town of Ryongchon in 2006 was triggered by a train accident.

SPEAKING OF THINGS THAT SOUND DANGEROUS, I wonder where these North Korean soldiers were getting the scrap iron they were selling to China. Even in the United States, there are idiots who deliberately drive into live-fire zones of U.S. military bases to collect scrap iron. We used to deal with this pretty frequently at Ft. Irwin.

IT DOES SEEM that North Korea’s Day of the Sun Day of the Sun is emphasizing Kim Jong Il almost as much as his father, which may put this item in some context.

GREAT NEWS FOR FANS OF RACIAL PURITY: Someone has invented a computer program that can determine a person’s ethnicity from a small DNA sample. There are supposedly beneficial uses for this, although those aren’t the uses that come immediately to mind.

THOSE 240MM ROCKETS North Korea was selling to Burma have attracted the attention of the government of Singapore. Something tells me Singapore probably won’t botch this, and if money was laundered, they’ll find it.

WTF IS WRONG WITH CANADA LATELY? Next time someone gets the vapors about the PATRIOT Act might, could, possibly someday do in the wrong hands and talks about moving to Canada, ask them if they know what’s going on in Canada these days try to encourage them. Psst — in Canada, the government hands out free weed every Thursday!