Posted on 08/11/2010 7:25:13 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
BEIJING — A 13-year-old American plans to visit North Korea this week and perhaps meet leader Kim Jong Il to pitch his idea for a "children's peace forest" in the demilitarized zone.
Jonathan Lee, who was born in South Korea and lives in Mississippi, is scheduled to fly to Pyongyang on Thursday from Beijing with his parents, the family told The Associated Press. They said North Korean officials in Beijing gave them visas Wednesday night.
Jonathan said he expects to meet with North Korean officials and will propose the children's peace forest, "one in which fruit and chestnut trees would be planted and where children can play."
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That was so funny to scroll down and see that.
Yeah, stupid parents. I hope they don’t look for me to donate or stand in the rain with a candle when this kid gets held hostage for food aid or some sh$t.
Maybe little Jonathan and his parents will get a “reality” TV show. I think that is where this is going. Little Jonny Chestnutseed.
I think the kid and his parents live in namby-pamby land. The DMZ, however, not so much. It would take 50 years to clean that mine laden mess up.
“Children’s Peace Forest”? Hey, just some 500 miles NW they have a “Children in Pieces Camp”.
Is that near the coal mine that the soccer team lives in?
My thoughts exactly. Be my guest kid, you run along ahead and plant that chestnut tree real good.
No foreigner can get a visa to NK unless NK sees them as useful idiots. In this case it's quite obvious. NK will use him for a PR campaign. Perhaps he will even meet the NK leader (or his double - who in the US can tell the difference?) and he will be told all the right words. While these words are spoken and photos taken, technicians will be preparing for another nuclear test.
Let’s put an interesting twist on this: what if he gets to meet the heir apparent, which would be another sign of sucession?
Are you an ex-Marine drill sargent turned therapist, by any chance?
Why would parents in my home state of MS do something this nutty?
If he has any fat on his bones they might eat him!
How touching. Though, I wonder if this kid saw the story about the sociopath that was recently caught marinating his cat in the trunk of his car in preparation to eating it. Because if he did, he might get some idea about how the ruling sociopaths go about running North Korea, and how they might view little ones like himself. After all there is terrible famine under way in North Korea right now. Hey, just some food for thought, you know what I mean?
Enjoy your cell kid; just don’t bend over in the shower to pick up the soap.
No need to worry about the ol’ electrodes on the nuts gag; you’re too young to think about having kids, anyway.
Oh, and you might want to pick up a bit of light reading for the plane ride over: “A Thousand and One Ways to Cook Tree Bark”
There must be more to this story. A 10 year old kid does not just fly from Mississippi to meet the President of South Korea TWICE in two years. His father must be some sort of political operative or otherwise connected to the South, and quite likely the North. You just don’t “go to North Korea” like this. Its a set up by some liberal in Washington with a connection to South Korean peaceniks.
I hear N Koreans are always on the edge of starvation. I bet they cook him and eat him.
Now why would they send for American all that way when theyve got a Chinese place right next door?
LOL!
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