North Korea’s military fired a laser in March at two U.S. Army helicopters patrolling the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in what U.S. officials call a provocative action, The Washington Times has learned.
What I love is how the State Department and others say that Kim’s not crazy. This is a guy who’s let millions of his own people starve to death, has something like the entire population wearing buttons which tell everyone else how much Kim likes that particular person, is building up his military at the expense of the civilian population, is building nuclear weapons, and is trying to get into a pissing contest with the most powerful nation on Earth, and he’s not crazy? This must be some use of the word “sane” that I’m not familiar with. Because as far as I’m concerned, anyone willing to do all of that, fits perfectly into my definition of “stark raving mad!”
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*Originally posted by RobbieFal *
**via the Moonie Times:
North Korea’s military fired a laser in March at two U.S. Army helicopters patrolling the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in what U.S. officials call a provocative action, The Washington Times has learned.
Was this ia shark-mounted laser, or one enclosed in quotes?
But is he actually nuts, though? After all, he’s only recently inherited the mantle. Does it run in the family, or are the individuals involved actually sane in context, but the situation in which they’re operating is mad? I mean, according to the state newspapers, wherever the Dear Leader goes, rainbows spontaneously appear, and he hits at least 9 holes-in-one every time he plays golf. This is a country that survives on food parcels from China.
I think I’ve just coined a phrase: State Psychosis.
I had one of those when I was a kid. It was made out clear moulded plastic, and when you pulled the trigger, it shot sparks and went “VZZZZzzzz! VZZZZzzzz!” It broke after about two weeks.
Ahhh, the Washington Times. The paper that fish refuse to be wrapped in.
According to what the article says, a Chinese laser gun is a weapon which can permanently damage/blind a person at a distacne of up to 3 miles, by using a special type of laser.
Now that’s all well and good, but I can’t believe that you can zero in on someone’s eyes from 3 miles away, even with the high powered scopes that the military uses. Add in the fact that your target will most likely be moving, making it even harder to lock in and this sounds like yet another case of the Times hyping something beyond any and all reasonable bounds, simply 'cause Rev. Moon is desperate for the Apocalypse to start.
And yeah, I think he’s got some mental problems. whetehr it gets into the crazy area is another question altogether.
It is known that Kim has a vast collection of pornography, including some 8,000 videos, he has/had a “harem” and that he has been treated at least 10 times for various and sundry social diseases.
So… what’s the over/under on “The Director” dying of an STD here?
but KCNA.co.jp is weird…
“Anecdote about Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave on-the-spot guidance to the newly built syringe factory on December 19, Juche 89 (2000). After looking round its production processes, he said he would take some injectors produced there for test use.
A few days later, he met an official and told him that he had got injections with the syringes and some of them had pained him. And he said that the pain might be caused by needles, so efforts should be directed to improving the quality of needles for people and servicemen.”
The use of blinding lasers is not something new. (That link describes the apparent use of a laser by the Russian crewmen of a suspected spy boat against a Canadian helicopter crew.)
Personally, I think Kim Jong-Il is as sane as can possibly be. His country’s been listed among the “Axis of Evil”, and the U.S. seems to want to bomb each of them. From his point of view, the U.S. is intent on war, and all the “nutty” stuff he’s been doing lately makes much more sense if you think about it that way.
As has been remarked many times in the media, it’s going to take Bush some doing to explain why Iraq was a threat (especially with no "WMD"s to date), and North Korea is not, 'cause until he does, I don’t see why Kim Jong-Il is going to feel he can settle down.
