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2009-03-08 China-Japan-Koreas

U.N. rapporteur calls for effective N. Korean response on abductions

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Need a "Ministry of the Irrelevant" graphis...

Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-08 00:49|| 2009-03-08 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Anybody with the title "rapporteur" should be shot on sight, just on general principles.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-08 01:57|| 2009-03-08 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Btw, "rapporteur" is (used to be) french for (the now commonly used) "reporter" (wasn't Tintin's scout newspaper named "Le petit rapporteur"???), and in familiar use, it means a snitch, with a pueril connotation (Ie the kid who goes telling the teacher what happened)..

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-03-08 06:41|| 2009-03-08 06:41|| Front Page Top

#4 thanks for the etymology...

Rantburg U strikes again!

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-03-08 07:09|| 2009-03-08 07:09|| Front Page Top

#5 A lovely, helpful little site for those things Fr.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-08 08:53|| 2009-03-08 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I was gonna offer up 'professional gasbag' as my translation; guess I was pretty much on target...

Posted by Raj 2009-03-08 09:15|| 2009-03-08 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 And what might that ''effective response'' be, Mr. UN special rapporteur? Kimmie buys you dinner and a hooker?

Posted by tu3031 2009-03-08 13:11|| 2009-03-08 13:11|| Front Page Top

#8 ION NORTH KOREA > seems NOKOR is warning SOKOR, the USA, + NIPPON that any attempt to shoot down its satellite will "precisely" MEAN WAR.

Lest we fergit, TOPIX > JAPAN: NORTH KOREAN MISSLE TO BE SHOT DOWN IFF AIMED/FLIES OVER JAPAN, including offshore territorial waters and islands.

HMMMMMMMM, again the comments made in Tokyo that CHINA shold take over NOKOR has prob rattle Pyongyang, all but officially indic or inferring that not only is NOKOR A FAILED OR FAILING SOCIALIST + COMMUNIST STATE, espec vee intact SOKOR, BUT THAT IS POTENS NATIONAL COLLAPSE MAY INDUCE/HARBINGER THE DIRECT LOSS OF MORE KOREAN ANCESTRAL HOMELAND TO MAINLAND CHINA???

IOW, PYONGYANG > MAY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BY WAR???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-03-08 21:01|| 2009-03-08 21:01|| Front Page Top

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