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2006-08-30 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve 2006-08-30 13:23|| || Front Page|| [11140 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steve,

In their defense, August is the usual vacation month in the DPRK, where everywhere leaves the city, heads out to the country, and collects all the grass clippings and bark shavings they can find for the upcoming winter.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-08-30 13:59|| 2006-08-30 13:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Steve, you gonna finish those fries?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-08-30 14:17|| 2006-08-30 14:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Why does this just seem so hysterical. I know they are dead serious but there are comics who pay for writers to produce stuff like this.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-30 14:45|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2006-08-30 14:45|| Front Page Top

#4 socialism breeds this stupidity....afterall when you have a record like 50 million dead to starvation or the politics of difference, it becomes a necessity to rationalize out loud....me thiks they forget there are folks within earshot.

Posted by Hupusing Uneter3867 2006-08-30 15:08|| 2006-08-30 15:08|| Front Page Top

#5 "Ulji Focus Lens?" Who comes up with these codenames? I mean, come on! Think of the classic code names: "Overlord," "Dragoon," "Husky," "Olympic," "Torch," "Avalanche." They all have that bold, decisive quality to them. "Ulji Focus Lens" -- sounds like a cheapass third-party accessory for that no-name Pentax-thread 35mm camera you got in the duty-free shop in Ulaan Bator.

Posted by Mike 2006-08-30 15:48|| 2006-08-30 15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 So, I take it you're not a fan of RSOI/Foal Eagle, then?

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-08-30 16:05|| 2006-08-30 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Why does this just seem so hysterical. I know they are dead serious but there are comics who pay for writers to produce stuff like this.

This is really tame and lame compared to the KCNA I used to know and love. I really miss the "sea of fire" and splittle-spewing rhetoric of old.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-08-30 16:06|| 2006-08-30 16:06|| Front Page Top

#8 "Operation Eagle" -- that works.
"Operation Foal" -- passable.
"Operation RSOI/Foal Eagle" -- too clunky.
"Operation Steamroller" -- now you're talkin!

Posted by Mike 2006-08-30 16:24|| 2006-08-30 16:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Ulji Focus Lens or "UFL" as it is know in the states is an abbreviation for some Korean words. The "U" is the last name of some famous Korean warrior and I don't remember about the rest. I thought it was pretty gay the first time I heard it too....

Posted by Bama Marine 2006-08-30 16:35|| 2006-08-30 16:35|| Front Page Top

#10 This is really tame and lame compared to the KCNA I used to know and love. I really miss the "sea of fire" and splittle-spewing rhetoric of old.

Things just haven't been the same ever since Ahmadinejad hired away Baghdad Bob from Kimmie.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-30 16:45|| 2006-08-30 16:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Ulji Focus Lens?
Ooooooooooooohhhhhh Shit!

Posted by Ulgi Ant 2006-08-30 18:41|| 2006-08-30 18:41|| Front Page Top

#12 The NorKor Commies proclaimed to be fighting for pan-Korean liberation from Japan, "foreign white devils", and China. Their usefulness to the Chicoms is to die for China while holding off South Korea, Japan, and the USA-UN Command whilst the PLA moves against Taiwan-SE Asia-WESTPAC andor attacks Northern Japan from Siberia, i.e. where US-Allied milfors are NOT. The Norkies = Lebanese = Syrian, etal have to decide what their people are, and what kind of freeedoms and future they want by and for themselves. 'Cuz right now, the enemy of the USA = Israel is NOT for them - any destruction of the USA = Israel does NOT mean they "win".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-30 23:22|| 2006-08-30 23:22|| Front Page Top

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