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| Axis of Evil |
| NKor calls for ''holy war'' |
| 2003-01-11 |
| North Korea called for a ``holy war against the United States'' Saturday and declared it was ready to resume missile tests and may start reprocessing spent fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to make atomic bombs. Nope. I'd say that crisis isn't defused yet... Meanwhile, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said in Santa Fe that North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Han Song Ryol, told him that ``North Korea has no intentions of building nuclear weapons.'' Then why'd they say they do? Richardson said he briefed Secretary of State Colin Powell on the nine hours of talks that stretched over three days but insisted he's not an agent of the Bush administration. Powell couldn't make any sense of the NKor position, either... One day after the communist North announced it was quitting an anti-nuclear pact, government leaders staged a rally in Pyongyang to declare they would seek ``revenge with blood'' toward any country that violates their sovereignty. Is Rantissi in Pyongyang this week? That sounds awful familiar... A crowd of 1 million people - neatly packed into the capital's main plaza, adorned with anti-American banners and huge portraits of President Kim Jong Il - erupted in chants and pumped fists toward the winter sky, shouting in unison, ``We wholeheartedly support it!'' "Hello? Joe's Psycho Gear?... Yeah. We'd like to order a million of those coats with the real long sleeves, please... Uhuh. And a million doses of sedative..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #8 Just another way of saying, "If we can't have our way, we're going to do terrible things to other people." The willingness of True Believers® in one thing or another to help others depart this vale of tears is somehow simultaneously breath-taking and tedious. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-01-11 23:46:26 |
| #7 North Korea's official "religion", outlined by Big Daddy Kim back in the 1950's, is "Juche". Juche boils down basically to "self-reliance" and is essentially only a justification to maintain the Stalinist cult of personality. Kim used it to liquidate "revisionists" who got uppity after Stalin's 1953 death and, inspired by Kruschev's Stalin bashing, asked uncomfortable questions about why NoKo lost the "War To Liberate The Fatherland" (1950-1953). Another great paradox--Just as the "Religion of Peace" murders thousands, "Juche" (self-reliance) means threatening the world with nuclear armegeddon if the government can't (and it can't) supply it's people with the basic essentials of life. What a world, eh? |
| Posted by: JDB 2003-01-11 21:53:12 |
| #6 Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Kim Poor Stalinist, barely kept his country in famin And then one day, he was shootin' for some nukes And Bubba said stop will give ya bubblin' crude Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea Well the first thing you know, Il's a vissionaire Kim’s folk said, Jong, your our Dear Leader Said, Pyongyang is the place you we want to be So they loaded up the Reactors and they threatened South Korea Seoul, that is, seas of fire, World War III Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Il and all his kin Dubbya would like to thank you folks for kindly giving' in You're all invited back again to this locality To have your arse handed to you Diplomaticly No Oil, that is, set a spell, no soup for you, take your shoes off Y'all come back now, hear? |
| Posted by: Richard 2003-01-11 21:49:45 |
| #5 I saw that timeburner interview on CNN also this afternoon at the gym. I began to get pissed and frustrated, so I turned the grade on the treadmill up to 15% and kept upping the speed. Time passed by quite quickly. Got a good workout. I hope that Bush's plan is to have Richardson or whoever "dialogue" with them ad infinitum to satisfy those noisy elements while we make plans. We have been dealing with these inhuman murdering psychopaths for over 50 years now and nothing has changed. This regime has to go to make any human progress north of the 38th. They need a sugardaddy to keep from imploding and our aid is not helping. Put the monkey on China's back. They are the ones that have kept the NKors going for all these years. Like Lincoln said "One war at a time." (if possible). N Korea, the ultimate zen koan. Now I feel better...... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-01-11 19:32:44 |
| #4 Bill Richardson, gov. of New Mexico, was on CNN-I after he spoke to North Korean officials today. It was a long interview, but basically it boiled down to two points: 1) they want attention like the smallest of a family of 8; 2) they're nutty as a loon ... But that's not really news, is it? |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-01-11 19:16:38 |
| #3 I think one member of the Axis of Evil has been chatting with the others a little too long. "Holy war" is straight outta Riyadh, G. |
| Posted by: Just John 2003-01-11 18:36:26 |
| #2 Don't ya have to be religious to have a 'holy' war? I thought NK was atheistic except for its worship of Dear Leader. |
| Posted by: JAB 2003-01-11 16:18:50 |
| #1 No Fred, not sedatives. Haloperidol. And I'd have plenty of extra doses on hand for when the first doses wear off. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-01-11 15:20:18 |