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May 20, 2010
Oh North Korea!
Kim Il Sung statue - North Korea, originally uploaded by Eric Lafforgue.
I don't know what to make of North Korea. On the one hand, they're a dangerous country with a very large military who may possess nuclear weapons; on the other hand, they're comical. Take, for example, their reply to a new report which concludes a North Korean torpedo is responsible for the sinking of a South Korean naval ship near the North/South border:
A North Korean defence spokesman said the country would "respond to reckless counter-measure with an all-out war of justice", the state KCNA news agency reported.
It gets better. The official news agency website, which, by the way, looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator, has even more to say about the matter:
This being a hard reality, they are pointing a dirty accusing finger at us like a thief crying "Stop the thief!"
It is a trite method of the successive south Korean puppet regimes to fake up a shocking case and use it for floating a story about "north wind" whenever they find themselves in a crisis.
These days they are using for this plot even "deserters from the north" who had found their ways to a dumping ground and human scum.
What does this even mean? After reading this, I'm convinced whoever is teaching English in North Korea learned it from a boxing promoter. How else to explain "war[s] of justice," and "dirty accusing fingers" and constant stupefying proclamations? Maybe the only thing they have in English is the quotable Don King? I can think of nothing else.
Keep digging that comedy gold, North Korea. Just please don't nuke us in the meantime.
entry no. 1459
Posted at May 20, 2010 02:31 PM