In Communist North Korea, Cell Phones Kill You!
I hate cell phones. Sometimes I still work at the bookstore, and I fucking hate those idiots who stand in line yapping about stupid shit while you’re trying to check them out. I hate idiots who drive while babbling on their cell phones. Worst of all I hate the cretins who just absolutely have to [...]
Happy Birthday Kim Jong Il!
North Korea’s Dear Leader turned 68 this week….or did he? That picture with the article has a serious “Weekend at Bernie’s” vibe going on.
Hmmmm…
What do get the man who has everything, including thousands of people he can order around as he pleases? Well, rare animals of course! Like the Sumatran rhino, which Kim single-handedly brought [...]
Is That Pyongyang You’re Wearing?
My obsession with the freakishness that is North Korea led me to this article about North Korean designer jeans – now available in Sweden!
Noko Jeans
Apparently America only makes blue denim jeans, because North Korea only makes black denim jeans because they hate America so much. I guess they never studied 80’s fashions…
$220 for jeans? How [...]
Kim Jong-il Is a Big Scaredy-Cat
Not much to comment on here, as this is one of the least weird things I’ve heard about Kim Jong-il. It’s just funny that North Korea’s all-powerful Dear Leader is scared to fly.
What a baby.
Dear Leader Takes Over the Island of Sodor…
Inside a North Korean Arcade
A UK website has posted photos allegedly taken inside North Korea. But these aren’t of nuclear reactors or an ailing Kim Jong-il. They’re of something much more important:
An arcade.
Pyongyang Arcade
I don’t know anything about the games, except they’re apparently ‘vintage’ (meaning really, really old). I’m just struck by how utterly… joyless the place looks. I [...]
Did Euna Lee and Laura Ling set back Chinese and South Korean refugee efforts?
Human rights activists in South Korea and China are saying that the capture and subsequent release of American reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling caused authorities to more carefully scrutinize their efforts. As the old proverb says, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were released earlier this month [...]
Fmr President Bill Clinton mounts corageous rescue mission, frees U.S. journalists held in North Korea
Former U.S. President William ‘Bill’ Clinton was airdropped behind North Korean lines last evening, where he secured the release of U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling. Clinton, his face painted in a fearsome grinning skull motif, single-handedly eliminated nearly five-hundred KPA soldiers using highly-secretive special operations tactics pioneered by Chuck Norris as he made [...]
Dear Leader Has Cancer. Maybe.
You know how recent pictures of North Korea’s Dear Leader have looked sort of…zombified? While he’s not dead yet, it may not be far off the mark. According to a South Korean news channel, Kim has pancreatic cancer, which is enough to make anyone look (and feel) like hell.
The BBC Says So
Of course, it can’t [...]
Michael Jackson could have helped American journalists held captive in North Korea
Will the tragedy of Michael Jackson’s death never end? 50 concert dates down the drain, the entire entertainment industry (Nay! The entire world!) in mourning – and now this…news that Jackson considered leveraging his popularity to secure the release of imprisoned American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. At least according to Gotham Chopra, son of [...]
Animated corpse of Kim Jong-Il appears, demands brains
Kim Jong-Il sure isn’t looking himself these days. Where once there was a cuddly, despotic panda-bear with a brush-cut there is now a desiccated corpse that gets trotted out at military parades and nuclear weapons tests. I miss the old Kim Jong-Il.
I can’t wait until the clones grow big enough to make a public appearance.
North Korean Advertising At Its Finest
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a beer commercial from North Korea!
Pride of Pyongyang!
The comments from people who have actually tried the beer are mostly positive, although I am a little puzzled to learn (or maybe I shouldn’t be puzzles at all) that:
Generally, draught Taedonggang was not sold to foreigners.
After watching the commercial though [...]
North Korea’s new head oppressor once a ’spoiled and belligerent’ bully
Imagine that! Kim Jong-Il handed the reins of North Korea’s secret police to his third son, a monstrous fuck once described as ’spoiled and belligerent’ by Japanese sushi chef Kenji Fujimoto. Wired recently posted a mini-bio of Kim Jong-un which paints a pretty dreadful picture.
Much of what we know about Kim Jong-il’s son comes from [...]
Update on Lee / Ling sentencing in North Korea
Of course North Korea’s claims are preposterous. And it’s no coincidence that Euna Lee and Laura Ling were handed a 12-year-sentence just as North Korea ramps up it’s nuclear weapons program. ‘Bargaining chips’? You bet.
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‘Brilliant Comrade’ Slated to Take Over North Korea
So we know (well, as far as we can know anything about North Korea for sure) that Kim Jong Il has chosen his youngest son Kim Jong Un to be his successor when he finally kicks the bucket. And now we know his true name, ala Earthsea:
“Brilliant Comrade”.
Brilliant Comrade
So we’ve gone from “Great Leader” to [...]
Lisa Ling’s sister sentenced to 12 years in North Korean prison
Man, can we just draft a resolution to carpet bomb North Korea? Or at least send Solid Snake in there to rub out all their leadership? There are many, many reasons to dislike North Korea (a country rightly called a ‘thanatocracy’ by Christopher Hitchens) - and they just seem hell-bent on adding more to the [...]
