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  • LTW - Soft or Firm, Abe Time, & Ramen Rage

    Tue, 04/30/2013 - 00:49 — yhs816

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    1) Kim Jong-un softens as South Korea reacts firmly

    Strong winds from North are letting up in Korean peninsula as South Korean president Park Geun-hye showed her teeth that she would not dance to Kim Jong-un’s music. Park made a bold decision to pull out the remaining 175 South Koreans in Kaesong Industrial Complex, making it the first time no South Koreans in Kaesong in 10 years. Probably realizing Park is much harder to crack, Kim went into soft drive mode, showing up in “Deppan Yaki” restaurant, not in military base, surrounded by civilians, not by generals. Kim also allowed a picture of him and his wife shopping at a cosmetics store under South Korean brand ‘Laneige.’ As the joint South Korea –U.S. military exercise winds down on Apr 30, experts think it will enter into a dialogue mode after two months of confrontation. 
      
    Another chicken born after GM CEO Dan Akerson.  U.S.golf star Dustin Johnson and Zach Johnson decided to withdraw from the Ballantine’s Championship held last week at Icheon, 60km south of Seoul, as they got scared over threats from North Korea. They must be Americans whose national anthem sings “Oh, can you see …… and the home of the BRAVE!”
     

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  • LTW - Sex, Bribes, & Video, Flexed Stealth Muscle, & Asia FTA

    Mon, 04/01/2013 - 20:04 — yhs816

    1. National
    1) U.S. flexes muscles while Kim Jongun still opens his big mouth
    Cold and warm in Korean peninsula at the same time. Cold because the U.S. flew two B-52 Bombers from Guam, and another B-2 Stealth Bomber from Missouri to South Korea to scare the hell out of Kim Jongun while Pyongyang Central Broadcasting Station said ‘Supreme leader’ Kim Jongun ratified a strike plan against the U.S. mainland (Austin, Texas), American bases in Guam, Hawaii, and  South Korea.  Warm because North Korea still allows free flow of South Koreans in and out of Kaesong Industrial Zone north of DMZ where 123 South Korean companies are hiring 53,000 North Korean workers, and North Korea’s General Bureau of Tourism is telling Chinese tour operators, “Don’t worry. There will be no war in Korean peninsula. Send more tourists” Analysts think Kim’s vicious rhetoric against the U.S. and South Korea is rather toward North Koreans to reinforce his position in North Korea. 
       

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  • LTW - Peninsula Tensions, Bball Fixing, & Tourism Rank

    Mon, 03/18/2013 - 23:20 — yhs816
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  • LTW - Back in Blue, Worm Diplomacy, & H Power

    Mon, 03/04/2013 - 19:33 — yhs816

    1. National
    1) Park returns to Blue House after many years
    President Park Geun-hye was sworn in as the 18th president on Feb 25, returning to Blue House (Korean White House) 33 years and 3 months after she had to leave following her father’s assassination. Park pledged to stimulate the flagging economy and warned North Korea that it will end up the “biggest victim” of its nuclear ambitions. Her speech much focused on economic revitalization. Mentioning the “Miracle on the Hangang River” his father achieved, Park promised she will create a second Miracle on the Hangang River. She used the words “Korean people” 57 times and “happiness” 20 times during the speech.
        
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  • LTW - Rocket Launch, Super Ads, #1 in Plastic Surgery

    Mon, 02/18/2013 - 22:12 — yhs816
     
     
    1. National
    1) North Korea conducts third nuclear test
    Kim Jong-un celebrated lunar New Year with his first, the third one to include two from his late father, nuclear test on Feb 12, just a day before Obama’s State of the Union address to send a “Leave me alone” message. The blast was estimated to be 7 kilo ton of TNT, about half the magnitude of Hiroshima.  South Korea has beefed up its military alert one level up, deploying long range cruise missiles to target any part of North Korean territory. While the UN Security Council condemned the test, Chinese government has not expressed as much criticism that the U.S. and South Korea were hoping for. It is reported that North Korea has informed China that there will be one or more tests this year. 
      
    More chance for a man biting a dog than China ditching North Korea, no matter what Kim Jong-un does. If the two Koreas get united with South Korea leading the unification process, Chinese soldiers might have to watch muscular American G.I.s lifting their weights across Yalu River, the border between China and North Korea.

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  • LTW - Thick Glass Ceiling, Minor Baby Boom, & NK Anger

    Mon, 01/28/2013 - 20:38 — yhs816


    1. National
    1) North Korea in anger over a slap in the face by UN
    Just hours after the UN Security Council’s unanimous decision to sanction North Korea over a rocket launch in Dec, North Korea vowed to boost its nuclear program. North Korea said there will be no more denuclearization talks “due to the U.S.’s worsening hostility toward North Korea.” North Korea also lashed at China for its agreement on the UN sanction by saying “ Big counties had been pressured by the U.S. and relinquished basic principles that must be protected.” It has threatened “strong physical countermeasures” against South Korea if Seoul directly takes part in the sanctions. A report from Johns Hopkins University said North Korea’s third, Kim Jong-un’s first, nuclear test is imminent.

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  • LTW - Google in NK, Prez #'s, & Good To Be Born Korean

    Mon, 01/14/2013 - 21:40 — yhs816


    1. National
    1) Google CEO visited North Korea
    Google CEO Eric Schmidt and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson made a four day visit to North Korea on Jan 7 despite U.S. government’s opposition. They met with leading North Korean officials, and toured a computer lab at Kim Ilsung University. In the interview at Beijing Airport after the visit, Schmidt said he went to express his view that North Korea will be better off with more cell phones and wider internet use. Richardson said “dialogue rather than conflict” is needed at this time of leadership changes in South Korea and Japan. South Korean government hoped the Americans’ visit will promote peace and stability in Korean Peninsula. Not known whether they met with Kim Jongun.
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