Open Sources: Is this Kim Jong Il’s daughter? Also: Open News on Drugs in N. Korea
Now here is a prom date you probably can’t turn down.
Does anyone else find this sort of rhetoric eerily similar to what the Nazi press said about Britain and France in the 30’s?
China’s humiliations at the hands of Western powers in the past centuries “left the Chinese people with the deep pain of having seas they could not defend, helplessly eating the bitter fruit of being beaten for being backward,” said a front-page editorial in the paper.
All of this nationalist rage will probably have a terrible ending, and the potential damage to humanity is even greater than it was in 1939.
Open News has a whole series on the country’s growing drug problem:
– Some background on the origins, history, and scope of the problem: “Especially in this extremely difficult situation, drugs have become a way to cope for those who harbor strong discontent and a sense of loss.”
– The North Korean government’s involvement in manufacturing and selling illicit drugs.
– The authorities are now trying to regain control of their borders, as customs inspectors take bribes to allow drug shipments through.
– Today, elementary school kids are become drug addicts because they’re using meth as a replacement for medicine that isn’t available (Margaret Chan was unavailable for comment).
– All of this is hurting the Chinese people, too, but the concerns of local authorities won’t matter much. Beijing is more interested in using Kim Jong Il to keep Korea divided and cause security problems for America.
Joshua Stanton thinks a thirty-seven year old woman is a potential prom date.
Pardon my ignorance about military and naval science, but can’t missiles destroy a carrier from far beyond the range of its air complement?
Nazi Germany had a red flag, it was a member of an evil axis, and the name of the party included the word Sozialist. Yes, there are many parallels.
Would China really violate the immunity of North Korean diplomats? I’m shocked.
What? You’ve never heard of cougars?
She’s fat enough to be an American cougar.
Re the Nazi comparison, I really don’t think it holds up. Nazi Germany was still on a technological par with Britain and France (and better in many cases). China is saying how it suffered at the hands of the West due to technological inferiority. With this new carrier it is a symbol of how this technological gap is narrowing. Of course it is dressed up in nationalist rhetoric which nobody wants to hear, but I really don’t think there’s anything to worry about.
37 is young by western standards Glans. For American , Americans women live to be 85, men 75, by average in this century, If you are Korean maybe middle aged . Americans are never middle aged before 40-42. Be that it may Korean women may be middle aged by her standards, and she is only in her late 20’s .
Ajummas at 30? now that is unique to Korea. Honestly if you are going to call a person old for being born in 1980, then yes let that remain a unique trait to that peninsula. Even though she was born in 1950-55.,…
Oh wait, that is his sister
Ditto81, I’m not sure you know what a prom is. A ‘prom date’ i.e a girl invited to attend the prom of an older boy, might be fifteen to seventeen years old. If she’s attending her own prom, escorted perhaps by a slightly older boy, she might be seventeen or eighteen years old.
Glans, after reading that, i’m not sure of a Mid-western prom date is. BTW we are corn fed,…
Be Glad Glans that you were not. Our prom dates in the Midwest are always filled with corn and flour, even the aneroxics.
Even though they have access to fish from the Great Lakes and Oceans.