What 30 officials?

FORWARD!

Two thoughts: 1) the Koreans are wonderful people north and south, full of creativity, tradition, and work ethic. What a shame for those in the north to suffer as they must. 2) the South Koreans may be the smartest country in Asia, perhaps wiser than the proverbial” wise Chinese.” They do not want North Korea to lose suddenly in a war or otherwise. They know they are not prepared for 20 millions of starving North Koreans to show up on their doorstep, looking for food on day. (Dirty little secret – East Germany’s implosion set back Western Germany for a decade.) They seek slow engagement, not hoping, but knowing, North Korea will implode some day and they (S Korea) must be prepared to handle the human flotsam and jetsam. If Lil Kim doesn’t push the button first.(BTW, North Korea knows alll the above too and knows South Korean knows it – so its own populace is being held hostage and starved in a game of politics.)

One of the things taught at charm school is not to off your friends.

Another is to look less wooden.

This guy could be all right with a little coaching, a couple of weeks at a Cali spa. RS should start a fund to help bring L’il Kim around.

It also frames the good Leftist/Occupy dingbat hippy chick I saw the other day crowing about N. Korea’s Living Wage perfectly, against the backdrop of her own mindblowing stupidity.

No seat belts, just nooses.

No traction tires just worn down ones

No windows they used all the glass for their new hotel

No driver education since they thought no one would drive

And that red light always gets them with how fast it changes

It doesn’t have the emotional pull of some of the more personal accounts like The Aquariums of Pongyang or Escape from Camp 14, as it’s more of an academic study/primer, but it really provides a lot of insight into the current Kim Jong-un regime, with their neo-Juche ideology for a return to the glory days of his grandfather, laced with the “military first” business of his father and the obsession with political control and nuclear weapons.

Either way, this isn’t a surprise, and you folks should read that book.

?An analyst said it was also unusual for a leader publicly to find fault during such a tour, adding the move was intended to ?spook? government officials and tighten his grip on the elite. ??

Compare to:
?It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They?d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they?d find the first five guys they saw and they?d crucify them. Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.?

? Al Armendariz, Region VI Administrator, Dallas EPA

That said, North Korea has to be considered one of the places on earth closely resembling hell.

Mew

Anyway, my very entertaining Russian History teacher, Mr. Fudge, when teaching about the untimely deaths of many of the tsars, would tell us they “slipped on a bar of soap in the shower.”