[vannrox]

Hum.

[DoughtyOne]

The chairman of the party for Peace and Poopdeck Control probably has about as much authority as an unemployed homeless person in the United States.

[struwwelpeter]

Russia doesn't speak with one voice, but any amount of support for North Korea is troubling. It may be subtle psychological pursuasion, or just the ruminations of impotent dinosavry who miss the good old days.

Sort of like judging the US based on Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi's passe bleatings.

America-bashing is in vogue now. No Russian politician dares voice support for the war in Iraq, even though they know full well that anything less than total American victory would mean bad days ahead for all non-Islamists.

They just wish the inevitable hadn't come so soon.

[John Valentine]

Back in my leftist days thirty years ago or more, I attended many "seminars" of the type mentioned in this solipsistic press release from KCNA.

They are ususally attended by no more than six or seven deadender Lennin wannabes and their plain-jane girlfriends.

I suspect this Moscow "seminar" is much the same.

After all, how many people do YOU know that want to waste their time discussing the superiority of the "army-based policy of the DPRK" or celebrating the 10th anniversary of the election of Kim Jong Il to the DPRK National Defence Commission?

Even in Moscow, I suspect you could count them on your fingers.

[struwwelpeter]

Here's a little bit about the organizer of the "teach-in":

Umalatova Sazhi Zayndinovna

• Father
  Died November 1994 during the Grozniy attack (agency PostFactum November 28th,1994).
• Mother
  In 1944 after the liquidation of the Chechnyan-Ingushian Autonomic Republic the parents of Sazhi Umalatova were deported to Kazakhstan. In 1957 after the resurrection of the republic the family returned to Grozniy.
• Nationality
  Chechnyan (according to data of "Russian Gazette" August 14th 1993)
• Family situation
  Married
• Spouse
  Said Umalatov, engineer-mechanic of the Grozniy factory "Red Hammer".

[Leto]

Noting that it is Kim Jong Il's political philosophy that neither peace nor sovereignty and prosperity of the country would be thinkable without its army,

Who ever came up with the idea that the PRNK is prosperous lives in the same alternative universe and the Iraqi Minister of Information.
;~)