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Their website has only the KCNA logo, and the usual links to Korean and English articles--including most recent ones, but everything else has been WIPED CLEAN on that cover page. Furthermore that sole cryptic message centered in the middle of the top page, which nobody could get out of the existing fonts and format that it was in (a mixture of Chinese fonts and odd symbols), was just sitting up there for several hours, now completely taken down. I am concluding that it was some kind of external message telegraphing something to North Korean diplomatic missions abroad, stating something, but what the something was is hard to discern. At least I posted the text of it verbatim here, although it is encoded and on the face of it looks like nonsense.

Tiger, this dovetails into the 821 KPA Female unit visit of the Chia Pet which they went over and over and over again on radio and TV for several days. As you know, they never repeat it that much, and of course as you pointed out, the foliage issue has now come forth. However, Professor Shigemitsu here in Japan is not sure if he is dead, since borders have not been shut down, but on the other had Shigemitsu had him as already dead with doubles posing for him, so there is a lot of contradictory stuff. UN diplomats, eastern European or African diplomats in Pyongyang, maybe even IAEA team if they are up there again now, if they have sharp eyes, would notice something if it were coming down. No reports (yet!) of somber music, or tanks in the streets, or nothing out of the ordinary yet on the radio.