Archive for the 'North Korea' Category

I continually see this story:

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Pentagon creating ‘massive ordnance penetrator’ bomb, aka MOP, as possible Iran, N. Korea deterrent
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, October 13th 2009, 3:05 PM

…but await the actual invention.

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Handout
This artist’s rendering provided by Boeing Co. shows a “massive ordinance penetrator” or MOP bomb, which will become the largest conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal.
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Image: (DeSoto tail lights) Jeffrey Jerome […]

Kim Jong-il loves his Raiders!

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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Images: (beer) ehow.com; (binoculars) image-acquire.com; (Al) via bleacherreport.com (davis portrait) via independent.co.uk; (fa`n mask) via bleacherreport.com); (field) NFLonCBS via sportable.com; (top photo) -I think it is AP (can) via sporthuts.com

So…is Kim Jong-il?

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Was Kim Jong-il photo manipulated?
A new picture of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s “Dear Leader” has come under scrutiny over concerns it may have been doctored to end speculation over his ailing health.
Last Updated: 1:19AM GMT 07 Nov 2008

Kim’s shadow appears to be different to that of the soldiers alongside him in one picture Photo: GETTY/AFP
North […]

North Korean Officials Deny Leader Kim Is Seriously Ill.”–Yahoo headline, 9/10/2008

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

 
By using Kolchak’s Abbott & Costello observation…
 
Then who is he?
 
No, Hu is in charge of China?
 
But he’s not ill?

Who knows?

I would imagine he does.

Vincenzo Kolchak calls it an Abbot & Costello bit…

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

KIM JONG IL ILL

I gotta get me one of ‘em silk windbreakers to go with my horseshoe cleats.

Friday, July 18th, 2008

North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom” wakes from its coma
By Jon Herskovitz Thu Jul 17, 3:56 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea’s phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the worst building in the history of mankind,” the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in […]

Let us hope our stupidity and arrogance has not reached critical mass.

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Because Part I of this series was so incredible, I could not believe it was true. Patapsco Creek Jack wrote the other day about a
Washington Post on-line discussion with Dana Priest.
Voila.
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PART THE THIRD 

From the Sunday London Times…
January 27, 2008
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Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
AN investigation into […]

You fill in the punch-line.

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Bush and Abe warn North Korea to fulfill pact
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Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago
The visiting Japanese premier and the US president insist Pyongyang must freeze nuclear activity, or face more sanctions. By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer.
Please find the entire story at the Los Angeles Times.

How do I blow it? Let me count the ways!

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

A Horribly Familiar Cycle
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, March 1, 2007; 12:10 PM
So let me make sure I’ve got this straight: Top Bush administration officials driven by long-standing resentments used bad intelligence to achieve their foreign policy objectives, which then ended up backfiring spectacularly? And we’re not talking about Iraq?
No, we’re talking about that other […]

Oh-oh! Guess who’s using the Libyan Strongman’s tailor?

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

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