[freepatriot32]

Park is reportedly stable and started to eat thin rice gruel on Sunday, a hospital official added.

I don't know what would be worse getting slashed in the face with a boxcutter or having to eat thin rice gruel during my recovery from it.

The two were taken into custody. Police say they will bring charges of assault against Ji

I dont know but I think if the only reason your victim doesnt die is pure luck and devine intervintion maybe the charges you face should be attempted murder not just assualt

[freepatriot32]

ping

[OldArmy52]

What was the guy doing out of prison?

Seems S.Korea is run by the Dems too I guess.

[Publius6961]

Does Korea have the Death penalty?

15 years in prison was apparently totally ineffective for this useless waste of skin...

[dangus]

Eh, not too gruesome of a picture.

I'm sure it's quite serious, but the gravity of it doesn't come out in the picture... I've had shaving cuts that looked worse. :^)

[Wally_Kalbacken]

They play for keeps over there!

[ArcadeQuarters]

The eight-time convict...

Ah, so they have a compassionate and progressive justice system.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

You have to allow possibility that N. Korea is opening another front in S. Korea. They already have one between N. Korea and U.S. Then they opened up another in Iran, with quite a lot of help from China and Russia. With 2007 presidential election approaching in S. Korea, their pinko puppets losing badly, and U.S. gaining on them fast, it may be time for N. Korea to create another messy diversion in S. Korea, in the form of nasty political turmoil bordering on civil war.

Kim Jong-il has to achieve the following objective:

(1) keep U.S. busy in places other than N. Korea

(2) coerce or cower potential presidential hopefuls from conservative circles.

If it fails,

(a) eliminate them, either by outright assassination or crippling them, ending their career effectively.

(b) instigate bloody clashes between pinkos and conservatives. First whack conservative hopefuls, and then later some pinko hopeful. This could easily lead to full-fledged mayhem.

(c) the above pretext would give ruling pinkos enough cover to declare emergency (or marshal law,) effectively derailing normal political process.

(d) present a puppet candidate who was not in the thick of bloody struggle and try to rally people around him, urging national reconciliation.

If the sequence (a)~(d) starts to be executed, you would see U.S. CBG's showing up Korean shore, and boomers will converge in the region with missiles ready to launch.

[KittyKares]

This "Ji" guy should not be out in society. Look what he did in prison:

"In October 1998, three months after Ji was sent to a care and custody center in North Gyeongsang Province, he got into a fight with his 63-year-old inmate over switching rooms and stamped on his inmate's forehead three times, the ruling said.

His temper also showed the following year when Ji slashed the face of one of the corrections officers with a piece of glass which he illegally obtained, punched the official's face three times, then stabbed the official's neck with the piece of glass again.

"I will kill you. I will kill all of the corrections officials," the ruling quoted Ji as saying after the incident.

Ji confessed in court that it was because he felt discrimination from the official because Ji was the last one to watch television after the other inmates.

In June 2001, Ji again hit the face of one of the corrections officers, angry because he did not get his tableware changed, the ruling states."

from http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/05/22/200605220049.asp

[Poundstone]

Those Koreans are really nuts. Ever seen one of the frequent mass brawls in their national assembly?

Some countries aren't ready for democracy, I guess.