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sgtnoobkilla
Profile Joined July 2012
Australia249 Posts
September 17 2014 14:03 GMT
#2441
Man overboard! Wait a minute...

US man held after attempt to 'swim to N Korea'

South Korean authorities say they have detained an American man they believe was trying to swim to North Korea.

Guards arrested the man, in his late 20s or early 30s, on Tuesday at a river border near the demilitarised zone.

Border patrol troops found the American lying on the southern shore of the Han River, a government source told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Yonhap said he told investigators he wanted to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

.....

Source

Yonhap said he told investigators he wanted to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
lol'd

Is September usually the month when the idiots start crawling out of the woodwork?
Don't play with your food unless it plays with you first.
oGoZenob
Profile Joined December 2011
France1503 Posts
September 17 2014 14:20 GMT
#2442
meh, who wouldn't want to sacrifice everything to have the supreme chance to meet the glorious leader ?
I like starcraft
Reaper9
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1724 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-17 15:37:13
September 17 2014 15:36 GMT
#2443
I apologize on behalf of my idiotic countrymen. Then again, I really shouldn't. Never cared much for darwin award winners. Maybe if they did their fucking research on the labor camps, people wouldn't be so eager to rush there.
I post only when my brain works.
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11507 Posts
September 17 2014 16:58 GMT
#2444
Yeah, trying to swim into NK to meet Kim Jong-un is definitively worth a Darwin Award. There are some stupid things people do that i can understand. And then there is trying to break into NK.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
September 29 2014 01:19 GMT
#2445
So why are there rumors and reports that Kim is dead after not being seen in 3 weeks? Is that odd especially when it comes to North Korean politics?
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Zooper31
Profile Joined May 2009
United States5710 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-29 02:10:12
September 29 2014 02:09 GMT
#2446
Cause he really hasn't been seen in a long time and the NK news (which is government controlled) is reporting him missing apparently.

My guess is he's either been assassinated, left the country or somehow died accidentally and they are trying to figure out how to tell the public and not let things fall into chaos.
Asato ma sad gamaya, tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, mrtyor mamrtam gamaya
Coppermantis
Profile Joined June 2012
United States845 Posts
September 29 2014 05:04 GMT
#2447
Everything I've read seems to suggest that he has fallen ill, especially given his weight and limp at his last sighting.
Deleuze
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom2102 Posts
September 29 2014 07:30 GMT
#2448
Ok, source anyone?
“An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.” ― Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II
Coppermantis
Profile Joined June 2012
United States845 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-29 07:55:11
September 29 2014 07:54 GMT
#2449
Stuff like this.

Pearson was able to find a glimmer of official information in a new documentary about Kim shown on North Korean state television: "The wealth and prosperity of our socialism is thanks to the painstaking efforts of our marshal, who keeps lighting the path for the people, like the flicker of a flame, despite suffering discomfort," the voiceover states over footage of Kim walking with a limp.
REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1903 Posts
September 29 2014 07:54 GMT
#2450
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2014/09/26/24/0401000000AEN20140926004851315F.html

"I understand that he is suffering from gout along with hyperuricemia, hyperlipidemia, obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure.[...]Another source familiar with the communist country claimed that North Korean doctors recently made secret visits to Germany, Switzerland and other European countries to find ways to treat Kim.

As Kim's health deteriorated, however, there is speculation that European doctors may have later made trips to the North as well."
sgtnoobkilla
Profile Joined July 2012
Australia249 Posts
September 30 2014 07:01 GMT
#2451
Pork Chop's obviously had one too many Hennessys for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

No doubt some of the government's elites will be taking advantage of his absence though.
Don't play with your food unless it plays with you first.
Deleted User 183001
Profile Joined May 2011
2939 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-30 18:28:04
September 30 2014 18:26 GMT
#2452
One can wish that Kim was the only guy keeping North Korea communistic and down, but the sad reality is there's much of the political and military bloc that are more hardline than him.
sgtnoobkilla
Profile Joined July 2012
Australia249 Posts
October 03 2014 05:07 GMT
#2453
North Korea Ready to Start Nuclear Talks

GENEVA — A senior North Korean envoy said Thursday that his country was ready to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program, but must maintain its readiness in the face of joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea.

In an interview, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations, So Se-pyong, also said that his country was not planning a nuclear test and that reports that its leader, Kim Jong-un, was ill were “fabricated rumors.”

The negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear program have stalled, but in Geneva, Mr. So said, “We are ready,” adding, “I think China and Russia and the D.P.R.K. are ready,” referring to his country, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He continued: “But America, they don’t like that kind of talks right now. Because America does not like that, so that’s why the countries like South Korea, Japan also are not ready for those talks.”

.....

In light of American and South Korean military exercises, Mr. So said, “We have to be alert; also, we have to be prepared to make countermeasures.” Asked whether North Korea was preparing a nuclear test or to fire a missile, he replied, “No, no.”

Mr. So said that denuclearization “is the party’s policy.”

Questions about Mr. Kim’s health were prompted by his failure to appear in public for weeks, and then by a video that showed him limping. But Mr. So denied that Mr. Kim had had surgery on his ankles, and asked about the nature of his ailment, Mr. So said, “That is rumors, fabricated rumors.”

Mr. So said it was not clear that the United States was willing to negotiate the release of three Americans held by North Korea. “I was told that they asked for the government of America to have negotiations on those problems,” Mr. So said, “but I don’t know whether America is ready or not to release them, or have some understandings or the recognition of those crimes they made.”

Source


North Korea 'not planning any missile or nuclear tests'

North Korea is not planning any missile or nuclear tests, the country's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, So Se Pyong, has told Reuters news agency.

Mr So was also quoted as saying that North Korea was ready to resume six-party talks on its nuclear programme.

North Korea has been conducting missile and nuclear tests since the negotiations broke down in 2008. The envoy also dismissed as "fabricated rumours" recent reports that North Korean leader Kim Jon-un is unwell.

.....

"For the six-party talks we are ready," Mr So told Reuters, adding that Russia and China were also prepared.

.....

Source

Interesting how this comes at the same time Kim's called in a sickie...someone up top sure is pulling the strings around to shift the rhetoric in a different direction.
Don't play with your food unless it plays with you first.
Sub40APM
Profile Joined August 2010
6336 Posts
October 03 2014 07:30 GMT
#2454
it would be a turn for the better if some Chinese sponsored coup finally wrapped it up this cult of personality and put North Korea on China's reform path
ElMeanYo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1032 Posts
October 04 2014 16:33 GMT
#2455
A surprise visit from North Korean delegates to south Korea just happened:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/04/world/asia/north-korea-officials-surprise-visit/

This could be a really good sign.
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Myles
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5162 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-04 17:21:14
October 04 2014 17:20 GMT
#2456
lol at the thread title change because I was going to do the same thing

North Korea actually being somewhat agreeable is very surprising
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Conti
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany2516 Posts
October 04 2014 17:23 GMT
#2457
Hasn't this happened in the past? NK suddenly seems kind of nice and reasonable for a bit, and then two weeks later they threaten to annihilate the entire world again with their imaginary bombs.
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
October 04 2014 17:27 GMT
#2458
On October 05 2014 02:23 Conti wrote:
Hasn't this happened in the past? NK suddenly seems kind of nice and reasonable for a bit, and then two weeks later they threaten to annihilate the entire world again with their imaginary bombs.

Well, atm there isn't a glorious leader to push the hard line. Regime change will take decades, but it's a start.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
andrewlt
Profile Joined August 2009
United States7702 Posts
October 04 2014 17:43 GMT
#2459
I would just like to pop in and thank the mod that keeps us updated by changing the thread title. It put a smile to my face.
Brindled
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States508 Posts
October 04 2014 21:27 GMT
#2460
Could be related:

https://news.vice.com/article/top-north-korean-officials-make-surprise-visit-to-south-korea
"Meanwhile, British media has reported that Pyongyang was in a state of lockdown and that a coup d'etat had possibly occurred amid the notable absence of North Korea's leader from the public eye in the last 26 days.

But sources in Pyongyang told NK News, a Seoul-based source of North Korea news and analysis, that life in the city seemed to be running as normal and that there were "no signs of any tense situation in the city.""

https://news.vice.com/article/former-top-official-says-kim-jong-un-is-no-longer-in-control-of-north-korea
"Asked to speculate about the state of the dictator's health and what it could mean, Jang replied that outsiders focus too much on the actions of Kim Jong-un, ignoring the real power brokers who control the government behind the scenes."
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono @TL_Brindled11
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