“Some people imagine there is a building somewhere with a secret door they can open and find a group of scantily clad women enriching uranium.”
This delectable quote, attributed to Christopher “Kim Jong” Hill, is passed along by U.S. Representative and blogger Ed Royce. It seems that every North Korea wonk in Washington is laughing at Hill’s quote this week.
Admittedly, I’ve certainly imagined everything Hill described, but not all at the same time. Alas, only my imaginings about the building, the door, and the uranium ever came completely true. As for the remainder, the prospects seem rather bleak.
At Hill’s urging, North Korea was removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on October 11, 2008, to reward it for its progress toward nuclear disarmament and for promising to be nicer.
Discuss among yourselves.
Where did you get that artwork?! Did you make that?
Did South Korean counterfire really rattle North Korea’s gun crews?
http://www.monster-island.net/
links to
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2010/11/26/a-couple-of-more-links/
which says
“Not sure how much of this I believe, but Radio Free Asia — citing multiple sources inside North Korea — is reporting that the South Korean counterfire really rattled North Korea’s gun crews, leading to casualties, a mass bug-out and arrest. Also worth noting is that word of the battle spread quickly in North Korea, almost in real time.”
and links to
http://www.segye.com/Articles/News/Politics/Article.asp?aid=20101126001248&ctg1=08&ctg2=00&subctg1=08&subctg2=00&cid=0101010800000
which I can’t read, because it’s in Korean.
Theresa, I found it on Bing by searching for “uranium girl.” Go figure.
Glans, That all sounds pretty suspicious to me. We learned from the Cheonan incident that very little of what the ROK MoD said during the first week was actually true, and the MoD certainly needs to sound like it gave as good as it got. I’m not doubting that 155mm fire could be quite accurate, but I’m not ready to trust those reports.
Modesty Blaise is quite the pop band…