“Cheonan-gate?” “Poster-gate?” Another Infamous North Korean Farce? – General

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.

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Were the holy CIA and other Western spy services able to infiltrate their way into his closets, his pantries, his drawing rooms, his knickers, or his sleeping wings, a crystal-clear accurate read about Kim Jong-il’s inner state of mind would obtain. Clearer than thousands of spun pages of academic analysis and psychological profiling.

From the article: I’m dating myself here, of course, but I can still remember watching this grainy commercial back in the day with a Cap’n Crunch-filled cereal bowl perched on my lap while sitting in front of the Boob Tube in crinkled morning PJs. If you’re part of this privileged minority, please let me know here.

Yanji is a desolate city 50 miles from the river border between China and North Korea. With its Stalinist architecture and tile-clad buildings, it could be Anywhere, China. But on closer inspection, cross-border influence is signaled by the Korean-language signs, Korean coffee shops, and Korean karaoke bars that are dotted around the city.