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2009-03-20 China-Japan-Koreas

US voices concern about seizure of American journalists by North Korea

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 TOPIX > US: NORTH KOREA COULD FIRE SEVERAL MISSLES AT ONCE, + JAPAN [Navy/MSDF] PREPARES TO SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREAN MISSLE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-03-20 00:53|| 2009-03-20 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to oil the hinges on the Gorebot. The journalists were making a film for Current TV.

This is scary bad mojo because Kimmie has just got himself a pair of gen-u-wine Grade A human shields.

Could this be part of the test that Joe Biden promised us? Bush never ransomed any American hostages, and as a result I believe fewer were taken. Team Obama may take a different view, and as a result it would become open season on Americans 'round the globe.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-20 01:10|| 2009-03-20 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 "Journalists" from Gore's channel?
is this like "red on red"?

Posted by 3dc 2009-03-20 08:01|| 2009-03-20 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 They were probably screwing around, doing something really stupid on the border. I can't see the norks acting without being triggered.

Posted by gromky 2009-03-20 08:55|| 2009-03-20 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 They were taking photos from the Chinese side and ignored Nork border guards warnings.

Posted by ed 2009-03-20 09:02|| 2009-03-20 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 But ed, if they'd stayed on the Chinese side of the border, how could the North Koreans put hands on them? If the journalists stepped across the border, though...

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-03-20 09:11|| 2009-03-20 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 The Norks definitely crossed into China to seize the two. The Norks are NOT the US Border Patrol. If the Cinese don't raise a stink, then legal niceties are just that, niceties. Paranoid, Xenophobic and Stalinist are the words I would use to describe them.

Posted by ed 2009-03-20 09:27|| 2009-03-20 09:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Could we trade 'em for Keith Overbite and Tweety Matthews?

Posted by William Marcy Tweed 2009-03-20 09:40|| 2009-03-20 09:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Trade 'em, hell; given them those two as an interest payment.

Posted by AlanC 2009-03-20 09:46|| 2009-03-20 09:46|| Front Page Top

#10 US voices concern about seizure of American journalists by North Korea

Cause we don't know what they may be 'carrying', best to use full medical isolation to avoid catching anything nasty.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-20 10:45|| 2009-03-20 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Learning the hard way that there's some people in this world that just don't fuck around, eh, girls?
Heed the lesson...

Posted by tu3031 2009-03-20 10:53|| 2009-03-20 10:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Plenty more where they came from.

Posted by mojo 2009-03-20 11:12|| 2009-03-20 11:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Two liabilities, comin' up!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-03-20 15:27|| 2009-03-20 15:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh, no! They will eat them!

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-03-20 16:13|| 2009-03-20 16:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Sounds like a political-rehab opportunity for Bill "El Jefe" Richardson.

Posted by Pappy 2009-03-20 19:12|| 2009-03-20 19:12|| Front Page Top

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