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| Kim Jong Il calls for hydropower stations | |
| 2009-01-07 | |
(Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has visited a newly built power station located in an eastern province and called for the building of more hydropower stations, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The report did not specify the date of the visit. Kim also visited a family that had just moved into a newly built house equipped with electricity for cooking and heating. He said letting every one in the DPRK use electricity is the desire of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). The WPK has called for launching an "aggressive campaign" to boost the country's economy from the start of the new year in an effort to "open the gate to a great prosperous powerful nation in 2012." It was the third report of the top leader's public appearance in 2009. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 Kim also visited a family that had just moved into a newly built house equipped with electricity for cooking and heating. Close relatives, no doubt. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2009-01-07 19:45 |
| #12 National lottery. He's gonna raffle off a chicken. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-07 16:24 |
| #11 How's he planning on paying for these hydro plants? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-07 16:23 |
| #10 He said letting every one in the DPRK use electricity is the desire of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). Yeah, good luck with that, Kimmie... http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/1207koreaelectricitygrikf0.jpg |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-07 16:08 |
| #9 He's a real individualist, though. Everybody else is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-07 15:06 |
| #8 The DPRK makes a great leap forward into the 19th Century! Next up, canals and steamboats, followed by the Iron Horse! Early investors can focus on the whale oil and anti-macasser trade. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2009-01-07 13:49 |
| #7 I see a great opportunity here, should NORK create it's own unique voltage system? Or blindly follow the "Western Demons" system? (Must I say snark?) |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-01-07 13:16 |
| #6 It's all part of his... 1000 points of light campaign. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-07 07:28 |
| #5 Ahh! So they can roast them before making soup out of them. Fine dining, indeed! |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-01-07 07:24 |
| #4 The popsicle sticks are for the turbine rotors. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-01-07 07:22 |
| #3 allong with whatever used popsicle sticks are avaiable Why? So they can make soup out of them? |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-01-07 03:51 |
| #2 a great prosperous powerful nation...with electricity in every home! for cooking AND heating! |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-01-07 02:42 |
| #1 I say we ought to comb all American junk yards for old electric motors of all sorts sizes and states of repair that we can donate to Kim's hydroelectric initiaitve allong with whatever used popsicle sticks are avaiable. I'm sure that Juche will allow him to parlay our goodwill jesture into a remarkable positive impact on NK GDP. Down the road we could send him a wagon train of garbage skows filled to the brim with old tires and later maybe bomb his palace with a gift of every used diaper we can find. Juche showed Korean culture to make this refuse that our hippies compalin about into something positive. What a win-win idea. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-01-07 00:36 |
