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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Two U.S. Journalists in N. Korea Are Said to Be Pardoned ::
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, pardoned two jailed
American journalists, the official KCNA news agency has
reported, according to Reuters. The report came after former
President Bill Clinton met with the reclusive and ailing Mr.
Kim in Pyonyang on Tuesday.
Mr. Kim granted "a special pardon," KCNA said in a statement ::
America is weak because its workers do not strive
Now before the expert analysts get to deputise their August substitutions in commercial media and even the blogosphere ((you too can blog for cash just carry zango banner adverts!)) let us wonder where this leaves the new Obama / Clinton White House's relationship with the Korean peninsula region, its issues & whether or not this is good news for our own Sean Garland and the fake 100$ bills are going to be forgotten about now.
But before all that let's consider what the issues really are :-
Far from being the usual clichéd nuclear arms thing, it really is about stemming the flow of squillions of refugees and would be migrants from entering the People's Republic of China. Releasing two hostage spies is paltry compared to the hordes of brainwashed Koreans who would like to cross over into China and not only get a bite to eat but fry everyone's brain in Stalinist repitition spewing forth about their eternal leader, glorious revolution and heavenly satelites.
Sure they'd set Chinese capitalism back two generations.
Bill Clinton can go home now and stick his fingers down his throat in his private jet which has probably in its time served rendition and coke or smack shipments & cuddle up to his pillow in a bedroom adjoining Hilary and know he's achieved something "Team America" just couldn't do during the Bush years.
He has pleased the Red Chinese.
George Bush senior, was of course the first US diplomat and envoy sent to Red China before even the USA would recognise it and long before Nixon had thought to ship out all the blue collar workers' jobs to the place.
But now not only do we see the debut of the Obama / Clinton & Clinton "team America" - we see a new phase in Chinese power.
"China is prosperous because her workers never question their fortune in happiness and harmony"
America is weak because its workers do not strive
To err is human: to forgive divine. Just as the North Koreans are to pardon the misdemeanours of two wandering US journalists, so too many years back did the American establishment pardon Clinton's executive misdemeanours with a comely intern in a room adjoining the oval office.
"The New York Times offers us a photo of Mr Clinton looking like a waxwork model sitting next to the glorious leader Kim Jong-il."
His official title is not "Glorous Leader".
Kim Jong-il's official title is "DEAR Leader".
His father Kim il-Sung's title was "GREAT leader".
This can also be translated as "Eternal Leader" or "Supreme Leader."
Kim il-sung is STILL the president,even though he has been dead since 1994.
His title is also "Eternal President of the Republic".
North Korea is now such an impoverished basket case we can presume that when Kim Jong-il's son takes over HIS title will be:
"THE..........Badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt poor, down-and-out, empty-handed, flat broke, fortuneless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in want, indigent, insolvent, meager, moneyless, necessitous, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poverty-stricken, reduced, stone broke, strapped, suffering, underprivileged, unprosperous.......LEADER."
And also:
"THE......Atomic-Bomb Totting........LEADER."
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Last June (2009) the successor to the dear leader was named. North Korean officials were reportedly told to support Kim Jong-un after the North's 25 May nuclear test. Kim Jong-un is one of three known children of Kim Jong Il by his third concubine Ko Yung Hui. Little Kim has a brother Kim Jong Chu and an elder half brother Kim Jong Nam. Dear leader Kim's current wife has the endearing name of Kim OK by the way. Here's a BBC article complete with simplified family tree : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8078324.stm & the wiki on Kim Yong Un - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un
as for the title of this comment it is a sample of the English translations of the stuff that comes out of North Korea. the US state department has an interesting list of languages on the basis of how difficult they are to learn, speak and translate. Korean is the most difficult language for English speakers. Michael Harrold became the first British citizen to be employed by the North Korean government in Pyongyang in 1987. His job was to assist the North Koreans with their rhetoric.
Michael Harrold wrote a book about his seven years in Pyongyang, entitled Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea.
"One very senior translator once asked me whether using the title Great Leader every time we referred to Kim Il-sung was perhaps too repetitive and limited its impact, and I agreed," [he told the BBC in a recent interview] ..." So, for a time, the term was occasionally dropped from North Korea's English language news reports, much to the excitement of foreign journalists. Speculation began to run rife, Mr Harrold recalled, that the leader was losing his grip on power. "I think they were somewhat disappointed when I told them it was simply a translation issue,"
read article : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8143047.stm
Ireland is strong because her workers follow the eternal leader's kindly and patient guidance to the most proper production & fulfilled quotas on corn & crab paste