[Borges]

Mostly posted for the bolded statement. OMG

[Borges]

PING

[Greg F]

No encore prease. My opera company is sreepy.

[garyhope]

“Mr. Pak was also asked, provocatively, whether Mozart or Mr. Kim, who has been credited with directing movies and other creative accomplishments, was the greater opera composer. “I’m not in a position to fully answer your question,” Mr. Pak said.”

And he was thinking: “What, you crazy asking me question like that! Unless I say Great Leader Kim Il Dingy Dong best composer, me and whole family get killed. What, you crazy ask me that. You stupid. I know nuuuuthing, NUUUUthing! Go way, you bad man.”

[HoosierHawk]

Mr. Mehta deflected questions about the human rights record of North Korea, whose government has kept its people tightly isolated, interned hundreds of thousands and closely limited personal freedom.

Leave it to the NY Times to wrestle with the fact that North Korea is a Stalinist state.