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2004-05-19 China-Japan-Koreas

WTF? Sat Photo of 130 Fires Blazing in NK - via Instapundit

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Posted by Frank G 2004-05-19 20:09|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You beat me to it! I have no idea what it means. Probably just Communist incompetetance.

Posted by Phil B 2004-05-19 9:23:17 PM|| 2004-05-19 9:23:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd love to see someone lay that photo over a map of Nork prison camps. I'd bet there's some really bad shit going on, and God willing it's bad shit for the Nork regime.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-05-19 9:29:02 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-05-19 9:29:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there any particular reason why we should care about this development?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-19 9:39:24 PM|| 2004-05-19 9:39:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 now that is weird..if this is not doctored there are some serious fires going on....maybe all that talk of how nkor is mpregnable was just pychops a ploy..

Posted by Dan 2004-05-19 10:31:03 PM|| 2004-05-19 10:31:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 photo caption:

Heat signatures and some wisps of smoke from wildfires burning in Korean Peninsula are seen in the photo created by American commercial satellite, GFMC. While two forest fires and a normal fire have broken out in South Korea, it appears about 130 fires -- possibly forest fires -- are visible in the North.

130 to 2 . . .

That's like a US Marine kill ratio.

Posted by spiffo 2004-05-19 10:31:43 PM|| 2004-05-19 10:31:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Didn't someone just provide a post about the NK scientists finishing up a chemical process that creates water? It looks like they have mastered condensation just in time. It would be tres hard to extinguish 130 forest fires by rolling around on the embers.

Does bark taste better cooked or raw?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-19 10:37:18 PM|| 2004-05-19 10:37:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The NORKs just wanted Rummy to have a new picture to replace the night photo of the peninsula on his wall.

Posted by GK 2004-05-19 10:51:34 PM|| 2004-05-19 10:51:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I didn't think that there was any edible ground cover left in the Hermit Kingdom. First they ate the grass, then the tree bark, then anything that could be chewed...What could be left to burn?

Posted by RWV 2004-05-19 11:13:57 PM|| 2004-05-19 11:13:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Assume for a moment that they are intentionally burning trees, and doing so in an almost panicked way, in some kind of war preparation, which seems to be a preoccupation of theirs.
Trees would generate a lot of smoke, if they were making some kind of military movement and were afraid of being observed. Fear of a nuclear-weapon induced firestorm?
I'm just not paranoid enough to figure it out, I guess.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-05-19 11:15:52 PM|| 2004-05-19 11:15:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 see? After reading the comments, I was correct on the Title: WTF???

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-19 11:18:35 PM|| 2004-05-19 11:18:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 As any Californian will tell you, it takes lots of money and fuel to successfully fight forest fires, two things that are probably in rather short supply in the Land of the Morning Juche.

Posted by RWV 2004-05-19 11:35:11 PM|| 2004-05-19 11:35:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Kim is worries that Burnam Forest is on the way to high Dunsinane Hill.

See is his wife is obsessively washing her hands.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-20 3:59:31 AM|| 2004-05-20 3:59:31 AM|| Front Page Top

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