The fear of North Korea

[klr]

It amuses me that a school of economics can't raise money.

Carlyle didn't call economics "The dismal science" for nothing. He must have been referring to its meagre potential for research earnings.

[FBM]

Then there's the flair of North Korea:

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[Gawdzilla Sama]

No wonder they're short on resources.

[klr]

Now that's some serious medal bling.

Methinks our fraternal comrades are trying to compensate for something with the ridiculous number and size of those medals. And the over-size hats as well.

[FBM]

Well, they are gun owners.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, they are gun owners.

I'll bet very few of them remember which end makes the noise.

[Rum]

Someone's been meddling with those guys..

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Someone's been meddling with those guys..

Pink Floyd?

[Rum]

Well they certainly have a medley of medals they're meddling with there..

[FBM]

Well they certainly have a medley of medals they're meddling with there..

I doubt they've actually ever put the pedal to very many of them, though.

[Coito ergo sum]

North Korea rebuff's South Korea's offer to negotiate -- http://news.sky.com/story/1077998/north ... afty-trick

Kim Jong Un is nowhere to be found for the last 2 weeks. Probably doing his taxes, I expect. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/45684 ... ay-kim.htm

Celebrations in the DPRK -- http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130415/DA5LRK6O0.html

[FBM]

Say "cheese," everyone!! North Korea happy Korea! Worker's Paradise (TM)!

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[pErvinalia]

[Rum]

Obviously overpowered by the fat kid's charisma..

[klr]

George Galloway distinguishes himself again:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04 ... 50682.html

Controversial MP George Galloway has praised the "cohesive, pristine, innocent culture" of North Korea and blamed the US for "war mongering" to engineer the current crisis on the peninsula.

The MP for Bradford West gave the analysis earlier this week on his "Comment" show for the Iranian state-funded Press TV, when asked whether he thought the US was more dangerous than Kim Jong Un's bellicose state.

"We have to examine exactly who is threatening whom," he said, first reported by the Daily Caller. "Because one of the things I learnt on my two visits to North Korea, is that this is an extraordinarily cohesive political entity and society.

"They are courageously refusing to bow the knee to big power diktat and domination."

He added the caveat that he "does not agree with the North Korean system. I've been there, I've seen it up close and personal.

"But there have been achievements in North Korea, they have a satellite circling the earth. They have a nuclear power industry, even though they suspended it on false promises from President Clinton and US statesmen.

"They have a cohesive, pristine actually, innocent culture, a culture not penetrated by globalisation and Western mores.

He accused South Korea of being a "puppet state" of the US, adding: "I am much more afraid of the United States of America and so are most people in the world.

"North Korea has no intention to harm any of us. North Korea’s problem is with South Korea.

"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.”

"I believe that this is a United States trumped up little crisis,” he said. “They have pushed and pushed North Korea into a corner."

A YouTube clip of the segment has been widely tweeted, with many pouring scorn on Galloway's comments.

Galloway reiterates that he would not "like to live in North Korea".

"Not least because they certainly don’t believe in God in North Korea,” he continued.