Posted on 12/16/2013 6:33:28 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Ping.
I think little Kim is being challenged and he’s trying to consolidate his hold. Hopefully they can overthrow him.
Who would dare challenge him? The military? He did purge a lot of the generals. If North Korea does collapse, its ripe for evangelization from Asia’s missionaries in the south.
Not to worry. It will be back soon, in a revised, sanitized, new-and-improved version ... once Dear Leader decides how things “really” happened.
No problem, the communists have been teaching us to “live in the present.”
Or Cubby’s nuts...
Hopefully,not until after Dennis Rodman holds his next basketball clinic.
Hopefully we all won't have a need to learn Korean.
Here they go again. They are going to rewrite them all?
lol
NK state media is kind of new to the online thing
Yeah something up very Stanlist of Chia Chub
Not sure I agree here. While lack of awareness or interest in the internet or international public opinion was probably accurate for former leaders of the “Hermit Kingdom,” the current North Korean dictator studied in the West and reports indicate he's a regular user of the web.
It's almost impossible to say anything with certainty about North Korea, but we have good reason to assume this “delete button” order came straight from the top, or at least with Kim Jong Un’s advance consent.
Another factor is that while people overseas who are web-savvy can use things like Google archives and the Wayback Machine, most people in North Korea can't do things like that unless they have special access privileges. It wouldn't surprise me if this “delete all” decision was designed to keep what passes for North Korean “intelligentsia” from researching the history of Kim Jong Un’s executed uncle.
I'd appreciate hearing from Tiger Likes Rooster and American in Tokyo on their thoughts about motives.
29 posted on 12/16/2013 10:29:37 AM by C210N: “Hopefully we all won't have a need to learn Korean.”
Trust me. It's not as easy as it looks.
And it doesn't look easy.
But Hangul does have an advantage over English — the spelling reflects current vernacular pronunciation, not the late medieval way our English spelling would say words like “knight” and “night” should be pronounced. English orthography was “fossilized” centuries ago and does not reflect subsequent developments in speech.
American English (thanks to Noah Webster) did modernize some spellings such as “plough” to “plow.” But the spelling of many words did not change and probably won't change for several more generations. Look, for example, at the near-universal resistance a generation ago to changing the spelling of “through” to “thru” when the Chicago Sun-Times and other media tried to “update” spellings to reflect current English pronunciation.
Trust me. It's not as easy as it looks.
Well, thinking positively, don't have to learn a lot of Korean... just some common phrases:
"YOU! Pick the rice in the pattys over there..."
"Where do you want me to hang up the portrait of our Dear Leader?"
Personally, I find “yes, yaobo” (honey) to be the most useful Korean phrase.
But I think that applies to any husbands anywhere regardless of language ;-)
The big shiny gray thing on the left must be a North Korean Dalek.
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