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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:06 am Post subject: Kim Jong-il thanks 11 countries' leaders, but not Noh |
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http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2007/09/11/0401000000AEN20070911001500315.HTML
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Kim Jong-il omits Roh in thanking leaders for relief aid for floods
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has extended thanks to the leaders of 11 countries for their help in flood relief efforts, the North's state media reported Tuesday, but the name of President Roh Moo-hyun was not included.
"He expressed deep appreciation for their sincere sympathy and warm-hearted comfort," the Korean Central Broadcasting Station said. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: Re: Kim Jong-il thanks 11 countries' leaders, but not Noh |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| Kim Jong-il omits Roh in thanking leaders for relief aid for floods |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| KJI was raised right by his daddy. You do not need to say thanks to a servant. |
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KimchiExplosion
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Nowhere near Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| Wonder what the countries he thanked were? |
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Optimus Prime
Joined: 05 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: |
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| The South are SO the North's b!tch. Scary thing is, the North seems more capable in almost every diplomatic sense than their pink-sweater-wearing counterparts in the South. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Not that Canada's aid was on the same scale as South Korea's, but it reminds me of when Bush failed to mention Canada in his post 9/11 speech. His explanation was something like "Canada is like family. You don't have to thank family." Well, on behalf of the United States of Canuckistan, I just want to say, I'm sorry. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| Exactly. Kim Jong Il takes South Korea for granted. To him, he thinks it is only right that the South should help. So there's no need to thank Noh. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| No no no, you guys clearly don't understand the specialness of this situation. Korea is one. So we cannot say that one country has to thank the other because they are one country, not two. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| No no no, you guys clearly don't understand the specialness of this situation. Korea is one. So we cannot say that one country has to thank the other because they are one country, not two. |
He's right! Why on Earth should The Dear Leader thank that spineless 'American fascist puppet clique'* b_astard?
*actual North Korean propoganda. Read about it here: http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang_p.html |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| I will be pissed off if Canada even gave them 2 cents. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| Clearly, NK still thinks it's the older brother in this relationship. It doesn't quite get SK has mopped the floor with it in terms of GDP. It's still thinking it's 1968 and it has the full backing of the Soviet Union. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Clearly, NK still thinks it's the older brother in this relationship. It doesn't quite get SK has mopped the floor with it in terms of GDP. It's still thinking it's 1968 and it has the full backing of the Soviet Union. |
Do you really think they believe that, though? I'd say it's more self-delusion. People talk about the North's huge standing army (last I heard, at least over a million), but at this point the South would mop up the North militarily (as well as the economic mopping you mentioned). A million or two million strong standing army is nice, but the South has at least 15-25 million people they can call up within hours for duty. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Scotticus wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Clearly, NK still thinks it's the older brother in this relationship. It doesn't quite get SK has mopped the floor with it in terms of GDP. It's still thinking it's 1968 and it has the full backing of the Soviet Union. |
Do you really think they believe that, though? I'd say it's more self-delusion. People talk about the North's huge standing army (last I heard, at least over a million), but at this point the South would mop up the North militarily (as well as the economic mopping you mentioned). A million or two million strong standing army is nice, but the South has at least 15-25 million people they can call up within hours for duty. |
I have read that NK thinks of itself as the older brother. Doesn't it have the mountain upon which Tangun gave birth to the Korean people? Haven't NK archaeologist identified Tangun's tomb in NK? Was not Kim IJ born on the same mountain as Tangun? Isn't it the one with a nuclear sortof bomb? Isn't North Korea the ones who have kept their culture and bloodlines pure? |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I admire the South Korean tradition of bending over and taking a good rogering in the name of reconciliation. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Optimus Prime wrote: |
| The South are SO the North's *beep*. Scary thing is, the North seems more capable in almost every diplomatic sense than their pink-sweater-wearing counterparts in the South. |
This can be easily explained from a game theoretical point of view.
The north doesn't care, the south does, so the south is in a weaker political situation.
Not forgetting the internal political pressures in a democracy are greater then in a Tyranny, it becomes obvious that the North will always have the upper hand in negotiations.
The same with babies, babies act extreme and unpredictable, which gives them the edge in negotiations with their parents. |
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