[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping!

Great time for Obama to send Stephen Bosworth and Son Kim from the State Department to Pyongyang, tomorrow our time, to kowtow, eh? / sarc

[txhurl]

BTTT

[mitchbert]

This may be bigger than we might think. Keep an eye, and be safe.

[gogogodzilla]

Here’s the link to the original version (in English) at the Digital Chosun Ilbo.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/12/07/2009120700209.html

And here are three related articles about the currency conversion:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/12/03/2009120300331.html
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/12/03/2009120300576.html
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/12/02/2009120200765.html

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[mkjessup]

Thanks for the ping AiT!

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Just when you think things can't possibly get worse for the long suffering North Korean people, it does.

And of course our own Dear Comrade will most likely offer to help prop up the Dear Leader's regime in the interest of 'stability on the Korean peninsula' (or some crapola like that).

I hope the South Koreans AND the Japanese (might as well include Taiwan too) understand fully that they cannot depend on the 0bamunists that have seized control of our government.

It's the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I have adjusted my tagline accordingly.

[SevenofNine]

Can’t wait till Pyorngang Patty to faint when she see Obama LOL!

[TigerLikesRooster]

In S. Korea, it was reported as "전투준비." That is, "Ready for Combat." I suppose it means they should be ready to deploy and engage targets(in this case, 'rebelling civilians') as soon as order comes down.

I came across an interesting development, which can only happen in N. Korea. There are sudden increase of people dying, especially increased suicides. The N. Korean securities are investigating to determine if it has 'anti-state motivation.' That is, if you are upset and decide to off yourself instead of taking on the state, they won't let you go off quietly. It is bad enough that one has to take his own life out of abject despair. Now the securities come in and see why you died. If you offed yourself for 'subversive reason,' it could affect your family left behind. The wrong suicide would posthumously earn you the label of anti-state criminal.

Any hint of resistance would not be tolerate, not even suicides. Only in N. Korea.

[popdonnelly]

“Great time for Obama to send Stephen Bosworth and Son Kim from the State Department to Pyongyang”

Our own government is becoming increasingly useless.

[jhpigott]

The ONLY news I’ve heard about this incident aside from the OP was a weird bit on NPR this morning stating that the envoy for NK showed up unexpectedly in SK today for emergency talks they didn’t got into details.

Have either of you heard anything about an NK envoy in SK today for unspecified emergency talks??

[Cacique]

This is a template for us. I am expecting that the people in charge here will try a similar stunt or devalue the currency via hyperinflation, profligate printing and government spending.