Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
Anyone who says that they absolutely know what the nutty buggers are up to is talking nonsense, but this and this in particular are the best summaries that I’ve seen so far. The whole thing revolves around leverage and threats and the use of same, and the only coutry that has any real non-war diplomatic [...]
AH thought experiment: Someone sets off a powerful nerve gas container at North Korean Army HQ during a Big Meeting, managing to decapitate the North Korean government. What happens next, if the country collapses without a shot, as per Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? Think of the big OMG situation when the Germans reunified. [...]
British amateur chef dies from eating his own over-hot-spicy chili. North Koreans sneaking across the border to China to go to the local Wal-mart equivalent – for food, etc. Mr. Butcher, the tenants want you to stop cutting meat before 9 am; you’re too loud. Yeah, whatever happened to Wiedemann, Schoenling, Burger and Hudepohl! All [...]
**** stars out of five. Trailer on YouTube. An excellent movie about the life of a soldier in China’s mid-20th Century wars, it reminds me a good deal of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and BAND OF BROTHERS, along with ENEMY AT THE GATES. The soldiers in the story are all part of the PLA / Red [...]
The North Korean Army’s Rockettes Squad. Now, THAT’S Juche, dammit. “I told him, ‘I will love you through your maggots,’” she told the newspaper. Harry Potter fanfiction: While there are no shower scenes there is a good deal of bonding over marrow bones and broomsticks. In the bloody Torygraph, no less! A review of the [...]
“Why should I care about North Korea?” – George W. Bush. “Basically, I see a lot of people drinking Kool-Aid. It is red. But it has no flavor and no nutritional value.” – John Hood, for NATIONAL REVIEW
Various reports of a North Korean nuclear test taking place. National Review: “Mark Foley has checked himself into rehab for alcoholism. We hope the scotch was older than the boys”. All Tower Records stores to be liquidated. On MEET THE PRESS this morning, Bob Woodward said that after his new book was released, Dick Cheney [...]