Dear Kim Jong-Il, Dr. Evil called and he told you to back off

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.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030513-47005.htm

I mean… come on North Korea… just because your leader has the entire Bond set on videotape doesn’t mean you have to act like a Bond villain.

Maybe the “Dear Leader” (or the Dear Munchkin Leader) just wants to direct his own reality TV show with his country and the US.

whatever happened, be sure that North Korea will deny it

I presume the article is a sensationalization of North Koreans painting a US helo with a laser targeting system?

Not that the Reverend Sun Myung Moon doesn’t have a pro-South-Korean agenda… but still, old Kim Jong Illin’ and Chillin’ has also just given us this:

Watch this space… could get a bit tricky.

“I call it ‘The Alan Parsons Project.’”

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?

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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.

Don’t worry, soon Bush will invade Syria and this problem will be solved…

What the fuck is a “Chinese laser gun”?

A laser gun that speaks Cantonese, I’d wager.

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.

Somehow, I’m less than terrified.

It shoots MSG.

There are lasers used to blind pilots (causing retinal damage), aren’t there? Perhaps this is what they’re talking about?

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.

His dad died about 10 years ago.

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.

“OW! My stomach lining!”

Sorry, they were out of sharks at the Evil Overlord Pet Store. But they were having a sale on sea bass, so we got twice as many.

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.”

is Kim Jong-il doing heroin or something?

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.

Good stuff on the blinding lasers. Lets hope nobody ever incorporates them into a bra. :smiley: