Heh. Being left out of a North Korean nuclear strike, I should have such problems…
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[li]The fizzled A-Bomb test[/li][li]The Failed Rocket Test[/li][li]?[/li][/ol]
Thereafter comes the mass graves…
He had the snappy lines, but Oddjob did all the math. Hats off to him.
Hell, they even admitted the launch failure to their own people, and didn’t blame it on the West*. That’s got to be a first.
*yet
My, but I was a tad bit surprised by that.
Looks like things are starting to break down without Kim Jong-Il.
I’d say it’ll get worse before it gets better, but given what we know of NK, I feel safe in saying things can only get better.
Why do we continually agree to provide food aid to these fuckers in return for empty promises that they never intend to keep? I seriously doubt that a lot of that food aid gets to the people that need it anyway…is there any oversight on our part where the food goes? If not, then let them get hungry enough to revolt and overthrow their insane government.
It just seems like a big waste of time and money otherwise.
I’m hoping that maybe people there are more aware of what BS their regime is and less willing to automatically come to the defense of it.
Plus a 3rd generation of superhuman god-men (now that a good deal of north koreans have supposedly seen VHS and DVDs of life in South Korea and can compare it to the north)? Even that is going to strain credibility.
[1994] Looks like things are starting to break down without Kim Il-sung. [1994]
But that’s just one take on what transpired. You’re forgetting just how super-advanced everything in North Korea is. The world was judging the launch based on the non-North Korean rockets they know. So, when this superior rocket took off then exploded, the small-minded westerners saw failure. But those in the know in North Korea knew that the rocket was supposed to explode and did so at the precise right time. Unseen, unseeable, and unimaginable was the invisible rocket ship released at the time of “explosion”. Right now it is hovering outside the oval office and lip reading everything said inside, the Jong-Il-nauts trying to stifle their chuckles.
At least, that’s what I heard from this guy’s North Korean brother-in-law.
One of the Tosh.0 writers tweeted: “Let’s just thank God that the North Koreans are the only kind of Asians not good at math and science”
NYUK NYUK NYUK
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/295926/north-korea-blows-chance-dominate-news-cycle
Cameron Gray: “That North Korean rocket broke up faster than Kim Kardashian and . . . fill in the blank.”
Zero Hedge: “North Korea is redefining the term, ‘minuteman’.”
The endlessly irreverent Duchess Rebecca: “Imagining Kim Jong-Un sitting alone, crying, listening to ‘Rocket Man’ on repeat.”
That was my thought too. Austin’s great, but it’s much smaller and less important that Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
On the bright side, they’re still busy packing 10,000 tons of dynamite into a tunnel to simulate a 10 kiloton “nuclear weapons test”.
The pattern has been 1 step back, 2 steps forward. That humble admission will soon be followed by renewed saber-rattling and foreigner-blaming.
Don’t I know it. The fact that they have admitted it to their own people is something new, but there are some serious concerns because they did.
The regime has lost face among their own people. I give it about a fifty fifty chance that they double down and try to do something bigger than a missile launch. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried another nuclear bomb test just for the patriotic value. Kim Jong Un doesn’t seem like a reformer to me.
You are so wrong. I have the “Late Edition” and it is on the front page and continued on page A7. The national edition is probably the first that goes to press.
Your agenda is worse than the North Korean goverment. Get a clue.
The only better result would have been if Dear Baby Leader and all the crazed minions who have fucked up the poor North Korean civilians had been in the rocket.
Profit?
Hi Opal?
Late Edition = New York Edition?
I don’t have an agenda that I know of. I got a clue.
So you got a New York Edition and you’re claiming that the National Edition is probably the first that goes to press. Do you understand that the editors had the story for both the National Edition and the New York Edition/Late Edition? Can you explain why the New York Edition/Late Edition has the headline North Korea, Defiant, Fails In Rocket Test while the National Edition has the headline North Korea Launches A Rocket, But It Fails and why the same story by the same reporters was put on the front page of the New York Edition/Late Edition but not for the National Edition?
Can I make a request?
Can we just not give a shit about how quickly the The New York Times reported the story? It’s just one of many, many news outlets.