22 April 2010
Things You Can’t Eat: “North Korea spent more than US$5.4 million on fireworks displays along the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang on Wednesday to celebrate former leader Kim Il-sung’s 98th birthday the following day. And President Lee Myung Bak, sounding more like an OFK guest blogger than ever, asks, “How much corn could you have bought with that money?” It’s on.
Is North Korea expanding its army again?
Did Kim Jong Il cancel his trip to China over the Cheonan Incident? But if my hunch is right, this development wasn’t entirely unanticipated.
Kremlinology: Open News has more succession propaganda, via a North Korean army newspaper.
Pictures of the very weird (even to the Chinese) North Korean exhibit at the Shanghai Expo.
Off-Topic
Some cool pictures of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano.