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And you thought he only ate cupcakes.... Labels: humor, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:45 PM
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Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, humor, Kim Jong-Un
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:48 PM
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Bizarre as it may seem, the Korea Times on Tuesday reported that the new edict went into effect in the capital of Pyongyang two weeks ago, and is now being enforced nation wide.
However, not all North Koreans greeted the mandate to look like their leader with fondness. Radio Free Asia quoted one local saying "our leader’s haircut is very particular, if you will. It doesn’t always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes."
Another former Pyongyang resident now living in China noted "until the mid-2000s, we called it the ‘Chinese smuggler haircut,'" adding that the haircut was shunned until Kim began popularizing it.
The new order is a severe cutback from the former 28 authorized hairstyles. Until now, men had a choice of ten hairstyles, and women had their choice of 18 haircuts, with married women having a wider variety to choose from, reports Want China Times.
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The program even proposed health reasons for the short hairstyles, claiming longer hair steals energy from the brain.
According to the existing regulations before everyone was ordered to look like Kim, men were to cut their hair every 15 days, keeping it under two inches, while older men were allowed to grow up to three inches, apparently under the assumption that energy to the brain is less critical the older you are.Still waiting to hear whether Kim's good friend, former NBA star Dennis Rodman, will comply.
Labels: Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, nuclear proliferation
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:33 PM
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Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Iranian nuclear threat, Kim Jong-Un, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:01 PM
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Read the whole thing. What could go wrong?With the US's experience with North Korea clearly in mind, it is possible to assess US actions with regards to Syria and Iran. The first thing that becomes clear is that the Obama administration is implementing the North Korean model in its dealings with Syria and Iran.With regards to Syria, there is no conceivable way to peacefully enforce the US Russian agreement on the ground. Technically it is almost impossible to safely dispose of chemical weapons under the best of circumstances.Given that Syria is in the midst of a brutal civil war, the notion that it is possible for UN inspectors to remove or destroy the regime's chemical weapons is patently absurd.Moreover, since the agreement itself requires non-compliance complaints to be discussed first at the UN Security Council, and it is clear that Russia is willing to do anything to protect the Syrian regime, no action will be taken to punish non-compliance.Finally, like his predecessors with regard to Pyongyang, Obama has effectively accepted the continued legitimacy of the regime of Bashar Assad, despite the fact that he is an acknowledged war criminal.As was the case with Pyongyang and its nuclear brinkmanship and weapons tests, Assad won his legitimacy and removed the US threat to remove him from power by using weapons of mass destruction.As for Iran, Rouhani's talk of closing Fordo needs to be viewed against the precedents set at Yongbyon by the North Koreans. In other words, even if the installation is shuttered, there is every reason to believe that the shutdown will be temporary. On the other hand, just as North Korea remains off the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism despite the fact that since its removal it carried out two more nuclear tests, it is hard to imagine that sanctions on Iran's oil exports and central bank removed in exchange for an Iranian pledge to close Fordo, would be restored after Fordo is reopened.Like North Korea, Iran will negotiate until it is ready to vacate its signature on the NPT and test its first nuclear weapon.
Labels: Ayatollah Ali Khameni, Barack Hussein Obama, Bashar al-Assad, chemical weapons, Iranian nuclear threat, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Syria
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:35 PM
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Senior North Korean officials received copies of “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s rambling prison memoir, as gifts for Kim Jong Un’s birthday this January, according to a report by New Focus International, a North Korean news organization that sources from defectors and volunteer citizens within the country.
The famous Nazi autobiography was reportedly distributed as what’s called a “hundred-copy book,” which refers to Pyongyang’s practice of circulating an extremely limited number of copies among top officials, though most books are forbidden in North Korea. Gifts marking the leader’s birthday are typically imbued with special political significance.
The book was apparently not distributed to endorse Nazism so much as to draw attention to Germany’s economic and military reconstruction after World War One. A North Korean who works on behalf of the country in China told New Focus that Kim gave a speech endorsing Germany’s inter-war revival and encouraging officials to read “Mein Kampf.”
“Kim Jong Un gave a lecture to high-ranking officials, stressing that we must pursue the policy of Byungjin in terms of nuclear and economic development,” New Focus’s North Korean source told them by phone. “Byungjin” translates literally to “in tandem” and refers to official policy of developing the nuclear program and economy simultaneously.
The source continued, “Mentioning that Hitler managed to rebuild Germany in a short time following its defeat in World War One, Kim Jong Un issued an order for the Third Reich to be studied in depth and asked that practical applications be drawn from it.”I wonder whether his Iranian and Syrian allies handed it out too. What could go wrong?
Labels: Adolph Hitler, Kim Jong-Un, Mein Kampf, North Korea
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:52 PM
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Labels: Kim Jong-Un, LATMA, naqba, Nazis, North Korea, Tawil Fadiha
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:38 PM
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Iran has been closely linked to North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs. Analysts suspect that Iranian assistance was critical in rapidly advancing North Korea’s missile program. Iranian missile experts are thought to have been on the ground during North Korea’s recent rocket launch, and there have reportedly been high-level meetings between Iranian and North Korean officials on the issue.
On the nuclear front, Pyongyang has developed its nuclear arsenal despite international sanctions and diplomatic efforts. In 2003, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the Treat on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The country tested nuclear weapons in 2006, 2009, and in February 2013.
The February 2013 test was suspected at the time of being a mechanism for Iran to outsource its nuclear development to North Korea, with a U.S. official saying that “it’s very possible that the North Koreans are testing for two countries.” Suspicions heightened earlier this month when it emerged that the North Koreans had taken unusually stringent measures to shield the composition of the blast from detection. It is feared that the explosion was uranium-based rather than plutonium-based, as had been the previous two tests.
North Korea is not known to possess a pathway to creating weapons-grade uranium. Meanwhile the Iranian program largely focuses on enriching uranium, with Tehran making moves to activate a plutonium pathway only recently. Any uranium bomb tested in North Korea would functionally be treated as an Iranian bomb, either directly or because Iran had transferred the technology to build it.
Meanwhile Western officials have drawn parallels between how the two countries developed nuclear weapons, with an emphasis on the need to prevent Iran from following North Korea’s example and using negotiations to stall for time while developing the infrastructure necessary for acquiring weapons of mass destruction.And yet Iran continues to do just that, and the West continues to go along via the P 5+1 talks.... And Iran is a bigger threat.
Iran would also be different from other nuclear rogue states. The West often fears a nuclear Pakistan, given that a large part of its tribal lands is ungovernable and overrun with Islamic radicals. Its government is friendly to the West only to the degree that American aid continues.
Yet far larger and more powerful India deters nuclear Pakistan. For all the wild talk from both the Pakistani government and tribal terrorists, there is general fear in Pakistan that India has superior conventional and nuclear forces. India is also unpredictable and not the sort of nation that can be periodically threatened and shaken down for concessions.
Iran has no comparable existential enemy of a billion people — only a tiny Israel of some seven million. The result is that there is no commensurate regional deterrent.
Nor does Iran have a tough master like nuclear China. Even Beijing finally pulls on the leash when its unpredictable North Korean client has threatened to bully neighbors and create too unprofitable a fuss.
Of course, China enjoys the angst that its subordinate causes its rivals. It also sees North Korea as a valuable impediment to a huge, unified, and Westernized Korea on its borders. But that said, China does not want a nuclear war in its backyard. That fact ultimately means North Korea is muzzled once its barking becomes too obnoxious.
A nuclear Iran would worry about neither a billion-person nuclear existential enemy nearby such as India, nor a billion-person patron such as China that would establish redlines to its periodic madness. Instead, Tehran would be free to do and say what it pleased. And its nuclear status would become a force multiplier to its enormous oil wealth and self-acclaimed world leadership of Shiite Muslims.
If North Korea has been a danger, then a bigger, richer, and undeterred nuclear Iran would be a nightmare.Meanwhile Nero Obama continues to fiddle and to send his minions to talk about linkage. Get ready for nuclear war, folks. It's coming.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Iranian nuclear threat, Kim Jong-Un, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea, P 5+1
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:14 AM
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Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, humor, Kim Jong-Un
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:59 AM
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The Obama administration calculates it's likely North Korea may test fire mobile ballistic missiles at any time, based on the most recent intelligence showing Pyongyang probably has completed launch preparations, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
The administration believes a test launch could happen without North Korea issuing a standard notice to commercial aviation and maritime shipping warning them to stay away from the missile's path, according to the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the information.
He cautioned most of the information comes from satellite imagery, so it's impossible to reach a definitive conclusion because the United States has no means to gather information on the ground.
"We hope they issue a notification, but at this point we don't expect it. We are working on the assumption they won't, " the official said.
He said the launch could be "imminent," but also cautioned that the United States "simply doesn't know."
Labels: intercontinental ballistic missiles, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, nuclear weapons
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:45 AM
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Labels: Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, nuclear
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:06 AM
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