Now that the Norks are *really* going to nuke us, I have one question: what's up with their lids?

I guess we need to retaliate by issuing updated world maps including the island of Korea, including the new Seoul deepwater port.

Apparently that diplomatic visit by Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters didn’t go as well as had been hoped.

One wonders if the North Koreans found this book, and didn’t realize it wasn’t a history book.

I love how the top brass are shown listening intently to the Dear Leader’s (or whatever the this one’s sobriquet is) wise words, a couple even taking notes. Obviously not a staged photograph.

I wonder how much money the “Genius Bar” guys make at the Pyongyang Apple store?

Great Leader: Kim il-Sung; Eternal Leader now, from Heaven
Dear Leader: Kim Jong-il (he so ronry)
Supreme or Outstanding Leader: Kim Jong-un, this twerp
Cite (and follow internal cite on history).

Is that an unplugged yellow Ethernet cable below the iMac?

I also noticed the iMac. “Death to America,” but we sure like the stuff you imperialist pigs design.

Make a “K”…bent thing…make an “I”…easy, just a line…“M” couple of mountains…

Am I the only one that parsed the OP’s question to mean “What’s up with their eye lids?” :confused::stuck_out_tongue:

Will North Korea be a harbor or a parking lot?
There are some geological questions here.

Wilderness and wildlife refuge.

(Well, in fact, the DMZ, because it is generally left alone, has become a sort of informal wildlife refuge. So the idea isn’t totally daft…)

That’s probably for his laptop.

The same thing happened in East Germany during the Cold War. The Soviets kept everyone out of the area within 5 km (I think) of the border with West Germany, so it reverted to wilderness of sorts. Don’t know if it’s still that way or not.

The first thing I noticed in those pix was all the fruit salad on the gernerals’ uniforms. They’re too young to have been in the fighting during the Korean War, so North Korea must give out ribbons pretty freely. Even more freely than the US.

“…and this one is for Fearless Leader Ass Kissing, Second Order…”

Nope. The map is curved. Duh.

I just hope nothing interferes with Kim Jong Un’s follow up to his hit Gangnam Style:

The missiles are fictional. They can fly in any curve they want.

Sure they are. They achieved their position by lying, stealing, and murdering. It doesn’t take much intelligence to do that.

Back to the headgear…

My dad wore one of these, so that is where I came to my idea of the proper proportions for military covers. I seem to notice them; from the police kind with the points to the ones worn by various military officers. For example, I’ve noticed that the British use(d) hats with narrow brims; which was a little jarring in the fictional movie Memphis Belle, where USAAF officers’ hats were in the British pattern. ISTM that Eastern Bloc countries used hats with very broad brims, for example Russian officers’ hats.

Since NorKo were so closely tied to the Soviet Union, I suspect their officers’ caps were pattern after their ally’s ones. The pill box hats/kepis? I don’t know.

Heard a guy on CBC radio yesterday, comparing North Korea and its threats to Freedonia.