This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: North Korea

  • Oh, Fer Christsakes – Send the Little Idiot Back!

    You’ve probably all heard about the DNI – James Clapper – and his trip to North Korea earlier this month.  During that trip, the DNI secured the release of two Americans detained there – Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae.  He brought them back to the US.

    Well, guess what.  One of them now reportedly claims he really wanted to stay in North Korea.

    Seriously.

    Fine.  Then give the little dumbsh!t the paperwork to renounce his US citizenship – and once he’s done that, put him on a plane to Korea, bus him to Panmunjum, and march his stupid butt north across the “Bridge of No Return”.  Problem solved.

    For some reason this keeps running through my mind.  I’m guessing it’s also what must be running through Clapper’s mind right about now.  With apologies to Strother Martin:

    What we’ve got here is . . . failure to communicate.  Some men, you just can’t reach.  So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it . . . well, he gets it.  I don’t like it any more than you men.

  • NDtBF emerges

    NDtBF emerges

    Kim Yo Jong

    Yesterday we mentioned that Kim Jong Un (known around here as Needle D**k the Bug F***er) hadn’t been seen in a while and the media was speculating that his sister, Kim Yo Jong, (pictured above because you know I’ll take advantage of any opportunity to post pictures of Asian women) was running the Hermit Kingdom. Well, right on cue, Un surfaced last night, according to ABC;

    The mystery ended Tuesday when Kim appeared in state media, smiling broadly and supporting himself with a cane. While touring the newly built Wisong Scientists Residential District and another new institute in Pyongyang, Kim “took necessary steps with loving care,” a dispatch early Tuesday from the official Korean Central News Agency said in typical fawning style. The North didn’t say when the visit happened, nor did it address the leader’s health.

    This bewildering ability to command attention by doing nothing says a lot about the North’s mastery of a propaganda apparatus that puts Kim at the center of everything. Remove for 40 days the sun around which that propaganda spins and the international media, both traditional and social, explode with speculation and rumors.

    So the bad luck we’ve had since January 21st, 2009 is holding.

  • North Koreans hold missing troops’ remains hostage

    North Koreans hold missing troops’ remains hostage

    Kim Yo Jong

    From the Associated Press comes the news that North Korea is being a dick again. They claim that the remains of the troops we left behind over there are being “carried away” like so much landfill;

    About 8,000 U.S. service members are listed as missing from the 1950-53 war, and some 5,300 of the missing are believed to be in North Korea.

    On Monday, an unidentified North Korean military spokesman said in a state media dispatch that the remains of American soldiers are “left here and there uncared and carried away en masse” because of building projects, land reorganization and flood damage.

    The U.S. war remains “now look like no better than stones as land rezoning and other gigantic nature-remaking projects made progress” in North Korea, the spokesman said.

    NDtBF seems to be AWOL these days and it’s rumored that his sister, Kim Yo Jong, is running the joint. But whoever is in charge thinks that they can leverage our war dead’s remains;

    North Korea has been seeking better ties with the outside world in what foreign analysts say is an attempt to lure aid and investment to help revive its moribund economy…There were signs of easing tension earlier this month when a group of high-powered North Korean officials visited South Korea and agreed to revive senior-level talks between the rivals. But the North last week opened fire with machine guns after activists in the South launched balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily armed border. South Korea returned fire. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

    Somehow, I don’t think they’re going to be willing to give up much of anything. Maybe Dennis Rodman can shake something lose. Or Jimmy Carter, or Jesse Jackson. Or maybe someone competent for a change.

  • Ho, Hum: Another Little Tantrum From ND:tBF

    The North and South Korean Navies exchanged fire yesterday.  The incident occurred near their disputed maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea, off their western coasts.

    Neither ship hit the other with naval gunfire.  It’s not clear if either ship was firing warning shots.  My guess is the latter in both cases.  But with the North, you just never know.

    Damn, I do wish ND:tBF would get a hobby that can keep his short attention span occupied – preferably one which doesn’t involve shooting at foreigners.

    Or maybe he should get a girlfriend or six – paid or otherwise.  That seemed to work to keep his dad mostly occupied.

     

     

  • ND:tBF Rattles His Pencil-Thin “Sabre” Again

    According to South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, North Korea has completed preparations for it’s 4th nuclear test.  The test could be conducted it “at any moment”.

    Kim also indicated that it was possible that North Korean preparations are a bluff.  North Korea has been threatening for weeks to conduct another nuclear test in protest of what it calls US and South Korean “hostility”, along with international condemnation, of it’s recent missile test activities.

    South Korea threatened “serious consequences” should North Korea conduct another nuclear test.  Those consequences were not specified.

    Tensions on the Korean peninsula have risen in recent months.  Last week, results of a Joint US-ROK investigation into drone activity in South Korea were released.  The investigation included that 3 drones found in South Korea in March and April were in fact North Korean surveillance missions.

    Rhetoric from both Koreas these days is getting pretty damn heated and nasty, too.  North Korean leadership has recently turned very insulting and racist in its public statements, while South Korean leadership has said North Korea “must disappear soon.”

    I guess ND:tBF was tired of Boko Haram getting all the recent press, and decided to pitch a public tantrum. (smile)

    Stay tuned.  This could get interesting.

    Oh, and the photo of ND:tBF here is priceless. (smile)

  • US Commander in Korea warns against budget cuts

    While the Koreas were exchanging artillery rounds, General Curtis Scaparrotti, the US commander in Korea was warning the House Armed Services Committee that their planned cuts to the force would make it very difficult to respond to any overt military operation from NDtBF. From Stars & Stripes;

    The U.S. has maintained a permanent force level of 28,500 troops in South Korea for years, and added another 800 in January with the deployment of a rotational Army battalion to the peninsula.

    Scaparrotti said his forces are prepared to counter a North Korean attack, but he’s concerned about the readiness of follow-on forces that would be required in any prolonged fight. He warned about the impact of further budget cuts on the U.S. military’s ability to fight a major ground war with the North.

    “If we were to reduce our Army force size based on the [projected] sequestration [levels of 420,000] … we would probably be challenged in terms of maintaining a long-duration conflict or one that included stability operations for some time thereafter,” he told members of the committee.

    Of course, the Obama Administration is hoping for a conflict before the midterm elections that would cost us a lot of lives of servicemen (and hopefully service women) so they can blame the Republican Congress once again, you know like they did for the government shutdown – because it apparently doesn’t matter how many lives it costs as long as the Democrats retain the Senate and pick up the House. Democrats uber alles!

  • And in the “More News from ND:tBF” Department . . .

    Apparently he plans on shooting more than artillery in the near-term future.

    North Korea to reportedly execute 200 officials believed loyal to Kim Jong-un uncle

    Looks like Lil’ Kim Jr-Jr is channeling his inner . . . hell, pick pretty much any Asian despot throughout history.  Killing off the friends and family of all possible rivals – even sometimes those in one’s own family – seems to me to be a fairly common historical practice.

    Note:  those wondering about the acronym referring to Lil’ Kim Jr-Jr can find the acronym defined here.

  • “I just felt like someone would want to know when these people had died”

    Not all heroic acts occur on a battlefield.  And not all are recognized at the time; some are not observed, or otherwise slip through the crack.  Some are even ignored or forgotten for a while – sometimes permanently.

    Sixty-plus years ago, an act of heroism occurred.  It was one among many that occurred during the Korean War.

    It’s a story you’ve likely never heard.  I hadn’t either – until today.

    It’s a story worth hearing.  But you might want to grab a tissue or two first.

    (more…)