Keeping the Spotlight on Kim Jong-il – China Sports

From the article: ...yet we showed considerable pluck throughout the 90 minutes. We battled like ancient Koryo warriors. We galloped up and down the pitch like the horsebacked drawers and water and hewers of wood, just like our holy ancestors did in Ancient Koryo, before we were defiled by foreigners.

From the article: With Bam Bam’s condition weakening by the day and his restive population subsisting on a spartan diet of poor-quality foodstuffs — northern refugees to the South claim that starvation rations persist in certain parts of DPRK — North Korea, yet again, is decimating itself from within.

From the post: ...while we’ll never know for certain what was said in precise detail, here’s how a likely conversation may have gone down, once all the diplomatic niceties and inter-state formalities were promptly stripped away...

The post’s author provides two very specific reasons – throwing a wildcard third into the mix just in case things go completely boobs up – as to what the Chinese might have been up to by hastily (?) inviting Kim to the PRC, and why – despite all sensible and practical reasons militating against their continuing to do so – the Chinese persist in propping up a DPRK dictatorship that always seems mer