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• Nineteen Private Train Stations?

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 519
  The Daily Telegraph looks at Kim Jong Il’s private train and stations . Feel free to express your outrage about … like you know, American sanctions that starve North Korean babies and, like, stuff: The traveling comforts of North Korea’s ailing Stalinist dictator come as a UN report estimated that at ...
  21 hours ago

• US Urges North Korea Not to Escalate Tensions in Yellow Sea

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
  Washington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday.More Articles
  22 hours ago

• Korean Navies Trade Fire in First Incident in Seven Years

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
  North and South Korean naval vessels exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, leaving one North Korean vessel engulfed in flames, South Korean officials said.More Articles
  1 day ago

• Kim Jong-Il is back to basics with six personal luxury trains

  
  Born Rich — Authority: 676
  North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has gone back to basics with six special luxury trains at his disposal to travel around North Korea. Not that Kim Jong-Il is an old-fashioned dictator living in the golden age of rail but the tough guy is said to have a fear of flying. The six trains with a total of 90 armored carriages ...
  1 day ago

• North and South Korean Navy Boats Clash at Sea

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  Tensions between North and South Korea escalated to the point of open combat off the coast of the Korean peninsula early on Tuesday, when navy boats from both sides swapped fire in disputed waters, according to the New York Times.  The New York Times: The Yonhap account, citing an unidentified government source ...
  1 day ago

• North Korean leader Kim Jong-il likes to collect trains

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 496
  While some people enjoy collecting model trains and building tiny stations along scaled down tracks, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appears to have taken this passion to a new level. According to a report in South Korea’s largest daily newspaper, the Chosun Ilbo , Kim has six private trains and 20 stations ...
  1 day ago

• Toot, Toot, Kim Jong Il Express

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  All aboard Kim Jong Il, you cheeky little leader. You didn’t tell me you had 19 private friggin train stations, oh and 90 carriages all for your very own. All of Kimmy’s trains are decked out with conference rooms, reception halls, TVs, satellite phones, elaborate bedrooms and high tech communication crap.Oh and ...
  1 day ago

• N.Korea Ends Experiment with TV Commercials

  
  Waiguoren's Weblog — Authority: 125
  Posted on  english.chosun.com North Korea stopped TV commercials in late August, less than two months after they started to be shown in July. A Unification Ministry official on Sunday said occasional advertising of goods on [North] Korean Central TV started July 2 with a commercial for Taedonggang Beer but stopped ...
  1 day ago

• Details Released About Kim Jong-il’s Private Train

  
  ROK Drop — Authority: 584
  The South Koreans have some pretty good intelligence sources to be able to find out these many details about Kim Jong-il’s private train if true: The private train North Korean leader Kim Jong-il uses on his trips either within the communist country or abroad consists of six around 90 carriages, and some 20 ...
  1 day ago

• Kim Jong-il: No more TV commercials in North Korea

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Media World , Headline news North Koreans dont need DVR technology any more. The most important purpose of these devices -- to fast forward through commercials -- no longer applies, now that the reclusive Communist state has banned television commercials from the airwaves . According to the Yonhap ...
  1 day ago

• Kim Jong-il Is a Big Scaredy-Cat

  
  Yellow Menace - Asian Pop Culture Upside Your Head — Authority: 131
  Not much to comment on here, as this is one of the least weird things I’ve heard about Kim Jong-il. It’s just funny that North Korea’s all-powerful Dear Leader is scared to fly. What a baby. Dear Leader Takes Over the Island of Sodor…
  1 day ago

• For Kim Jong-ils use only: six luxury trains and 19 railway stations

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  North Koreas leader shuns air travel for exclusive train set boasting grand reception halls and hi-tech communications North Koreas leader, Kim Jong-il – who is known for shunning air travel – has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and hi-tech communication facilities, according ...
  2 days ago

• Kim Jong Il Sacks State TV Boss

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  Next they will be humming jingles! Oh crap, seems Pyongy beer (aka Taedonggang beer) commercials have opened a floodgate of capitalist pig commercials and Kim Jong Il is pissed (and not in a good way). Despite initially embracing more diversity on state TV, Kimmy blew his stack when he saw not only Pyongy beer ...
  3 days ago

• Video – My Boyfriend Is The President

  
  Dvorak Uncensored — Authority: 636
  Too bizarre for words. The fact that it’s in Japanese doesn’t help. .color_viewer { border:1px solid; width:70px; background-color:#ffffff; padding-left:10px; }
  5 days ago

• Somebodys Boyfriend Is the President

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 548
  Here is a thing which makes perfect sense… Its funny, me and my friends were just talking the other day about how somebody needed to make a video just like that. I hope somebody didnt overhear us talking and steal our idea. On second thought, I suppose this was just bound to happen. Its kind of an obvious idea. ...
  6 days ago

• The “hostile racket” that comes with North Korea’s human rights season

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 496
  Once a year, North Korea’s often vitriolic rhetoric machine fires up with special intensity to attack those who attack its human rights record. The exchanges usually come toward the end of the year when the U.N. General Assembly approves what has become an annual measure criticising North Korea for having one of ...
  6 days ago

• NKorean team get awards for WC qualification: KCNA

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 155
  North Korea has given awards to its national football squad for qualifying for next year’s World Cup — the first time the team has made the tournament in more than four decades, state media said Tuesday. Merit citations, medals or watches inscribed with the name of leader Kim Jong-Il were awarded to players, ...
  1 week ago

• ANALYSTS: CLINTON HAD PHOTO OP WITH KIM JONG-IL LOOK-ALIKE

  
  Theo Spark — Authority: 637
  Analysts speculate if North Korean leader uses lookalikes to hide poor health? Details . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
  1 week ago

• Kim Jong-il Double May Have Met With Bill Clinton

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 148
  I wouldnt be surprised because remember after the Iraq War first started and it was common knowledge that Saddam had doubles? Then when he was "captured" and tried and killed, no one mentioned the doubles any more. How do we...
  1 week ago

• Seeing Double

  
  Letter from China — Authority: 120
  We just had the largest snowfall that I can remember in four years in Beijing. It turns out that, as the state press explains today, “The municipal weather modification office used artificial means to increase the snow in order to ease the lingering drought.” Mianhua Hutong, not surprisingly, was caught by ...
  1 week ago

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