A North Korean state-run news agency launched an ugly, racist diatribe against U.S. President Barack Obama this month, unleashing one vile insult after another. The rogue state called the U.S.’s first African-American head of state a “crossbreed with unclear blood” and a “wicked black monkey,” among other terms. The agency also said that Obama “still has the figure of monkey while the human race has evolved through millions of years,” and went on to denounce him: “It would be perfect for Obama to live with a group of monkeys in the world’s largest African natural zoo and lick the bread crumbs thrown by spectators.” The diatribe was recently brought to light by Josh Stanton , who blogs often about North Korea, following Obama’s recent invitation to South Korea. The issue of race has special resonance in North Korea, where the Stalinist regime has gone to great lengths to instill a sense of racial purity in its citizens. Some background from The Washington Post: “[W]hen North Korea talks about race, it’s almost always important, and telling about the state ideology.” “North Koreans fundamentally have a race-based worldview, showing more similarity to fascist Japan during World War II than Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.” They also have no economy, human rights or value to speak of. North Korea’s state orthodoxy is described as “too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader.” It’s also run by tyrants and a terrible, terrible place to live. Dennis Rodman had no comment, but Kim Kardashian , who just learned racism is a thing that exists and is totally appalled, plans an Instagram rebuttal. Donald Sterling meanwhile … we’re not going there.
NBA Hall of Fame member Dennis Rodman is in North Korea right now. File that under THG Headlines You Didn’t See Coming This Morning. Rodman, along with three current members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, are apparently filming a TV show for a US media company. The company said they hope engage in some “basketball diplomacy.” North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, who just oversaw the country’s recent nuclear test, is known to be a big basketball fan. So … can’t hurt, we suppose? Shane Smith, the founder of U.S. media company Vice, says: “Is sending members of the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] strange? In a word, yes.” “But finding common ground on the basketball court is a beautiful thing. “These channels of cultural communication might appear untraditional, and perhaps they are, but we think it’s important just to keep the lines open.” As the delegation arrived at Pyongyang’s airport, Rodman said: ”It’s my first time, I think it’s most of these guys’ first time here, so hopefully everything’s going to be OK, and hoping the kids have a good time for the game.” Bull Bullard, one of the three Harlem Globetrotters on the tour, said they were hoping to teach North Koreans some of the team’s signature basketball skills: “We’re going to teach them, we’re going to show them what we do,… a lot of magic with the basketball, a lot of wizardry, a lot of fun and entertainment.” It was not clear exactly what the players would be doing while in North Korea, but Vice promises “documentary style news reports from around the world.” Rodman, a Hall of Fame member, is as famous for his tattoos, piercings and cross-dressing as he is for his rebounding titles and five NBA championships. He used to play for the Chicago Bulls which, according to a memoir by Kim Jong-un’s former sushi chef, was his favorite team as a young man. Rodman and his group will be in the country until March 5.
Seeking an image makeover for himself and his impoverished, rogue nation, North Korea’s youthful supreme leader is implementing some new social policies. Among them: Allowing women to wear pants, platform shoes and earrings, making mobile phones available, and endorsing previously banned foods like pizza. Kim Jong Un, 28, who took over after the death of Kim Jong Il last year, is also giving kids free trips to zoos and amusement parks. What a guy, right? Following in the footsteps of his late grandfather, the country’s founder Kim Il Sung, he has announced plans to create a “children’s heaven nation.” “It’s part of his plan to imitate a warm, fatherly impression ,” said Dong Yong-Sueng, North Korea specialist at Samsung Economic Research Institute. Kim Jong Un clearly wants to establish an image that harkens back to what some North Koreans nostalgically remember as better times in the 1970s. Under his grandfather, the country’s founder Kim Il Sung, the country was economically backed by the USSR and had sufficient food to feed the nation. Kim Jong Il, by contrast, was seen as a strong but cold leader. His reign, which began in 1994, was marked by escalating conflict and soaring poverty. The image of the leader has significance in a tightly controlled society, and Kim Jong Un has sought to embrace the youthful energy of the country. Whether cellphones and pizza accomplish that remains to be seen.
One of modern history’s greatest monsters, the grand crab of the Hermit Kingdom, is dead of heart failure at 69 after a 17-year reign of terror. This is how North Koreans with a television heard the news : And here is some ritualized public weeping in the streets : As in most totalitarian monarchies, the death leaves a potential succession crisis in its wake. Son Kim Jong Un , the foreign-educated,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 19/12/2011 09:28 Number of articles : 3
“They are psychopathic types, with a #39;flabby old chap#39; for a leader who prances around stadiums seeking adulation,” said the document, classified as secret. In the document detailing a conversation between Lee and US deputy secretary of state James B. Steinberg in May last year, Singapore#39;s elder statesman said he would be surprised if the North Koreans agreed to give up their nuclear weapons. Singapore#39;s founding father Lee Kuan Yew called North Koreans “psychopathic” and leader K
Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion ($75 trillion) in compensation for six decades of hostility. The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, says the cost of the damage done by the US since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is estimated at $US64.96 trillion. The compensation call comes on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1950-1953 Korean War. KCNA said the figure includes $US26.1 trillion arising from US “atrocities” which left more than 5 million North Koreans dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing. The agency also claims 60 years of US sanctions have caused a loss of $US13.7 trillion by 2005, while property losses were estimated at $US16.7 trillion. The agency said North Koreans have “the justifiable right” to receive the compensation for their blood. It said the committee's calculation did not include the damage North Korea had suffered from sanctions after its first nuclear test in 2006. LMAO! http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/24/2936414.htm added by: iamfree
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Bill Clinton went on over to North Korea , met the crazy dictator there, and won: North Korea has pardoned Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee for their slanders and calumnies . Reuters has the breaking news . You have to give Kim Jong-Il credit.
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