North Korea's isolated spectacle

Boston Globe ^ | June 22, 2002 | Lucian Kim

[sarcasm]

YONGYANG, North Korea - While the eyes of the world are transfixed by the competition for soccer's top prize in South Korea and Japan, the Stalinist regime of Kim Jong Il has scraped together its meager resources to put on its own spectacle: 100,000 people moving in robotic synchronicity in giant May Day Stadium.

[SandfleaCSC]

And they have nuclear weapons.....I'm starting to dig my shelter as soon as the sun comes up.

[goldstategop]

You can thank Bubba for making it happen. The same one who made $9.2 mil.

[piasa]

Usually rigid visa regulations have been eased in the hope that tourists, including Americans and South Koreans, would flock to Pyongyang for the festival. Results have been modest.

Why yes, I am just so eager to fly in to catch a show like this which includes such sights as women kicking yankee invaders and people holding up placards to make a collective 'big red head,' and the dancing eggs sound like a real treat. What do the vendors sell iin a stadium like that, hot roasted peanut shells? Popcorn husks?

[xJones]

Local media reported that foreign luminaries, including the mayor of Katmandu, Nepal, ''unanimously said that Arirang is the greatest extravaganza of worldwide value ever in human history.''

Well if that luminary, the mayor of Katmandu likes it, it can't be all that bad.

[GuillermoX]

Socialism or Death!!