Ling & Lee--what do you think?

[LauraMax]

This story is disturbing on so many levels. I can't claim to understand North Korea, its culture or its goals, but it seems to me like they're behaving like a 6 year old acting out for attention, except a 6 year old w/nuclear weapons.

Those two girls face a horrifying fate if they actually do end up going to some kind of labor camp. Anyone who thinks the N. Koreans will allow two reporters to spend 12 years in a prison camp & then release them so they can tell their stories is dreaming.

OTOH, it doesn't seem likely they'll end up in a prison camp. At some point some kind of deal will be made.

Still, there's this question rolling around in my head I can't shake: WHAT WERE THOSE TWO GIRLS THINKING??????????

 

[MAYNARDSMOM]

I didn't get the details of this story just saw the headline that they may be going to the camp. That is enough to sound very scary to me!

 

[GMonkey]

Well, Kim Jong Il has chosen his youngest son to succeed him, which I imagine will piss off the older brothers enough to stage a coup, which will let S. Korea and the US swoop in to liberate the starving masses of N. Korea.

I think that Team America World Police depicted what a crazy toddler Kim Jong Il really is.

On the other hand, journalists go to great lengths to bring us information, but I think that they can really mess things up by not being more careful. I don't know exactly what sort of advanced prep they did with experts on procedures there, but it seems like it wasn't enough.

Korean politics is particularly interesting to me as my husband is active duty USAF and has been stationed there in the past, and is probably going there again in 2010 for 2 years.

 

[LauraMax]

Well, Kim Jong Il has chosen his youngest son to succeed him, which I imagine will piss off the older brothers enough to stage a coup, which will let S. Korea and the US swoop in to liberate the starving masses of N. Korea.

I think that Team America World Police depicted what a crazy toddler Kim Jong Il really is.

On the other hand, journalists go to great lengths to bring us information, but I think that they can really mess things up by not being more careful. I don't know exactly what sort of advanced prep they did with experts on procedures there, but it seems like it wasn't enough.

Korean politics is particularly interesting to me as my husband is active duty USAF and has been stationed there in the past, and is probably going there again in 2010 for 2 years.

<gasp> I saw that kid! OMG! He looks like a hip hop star........he was interviewed & said he didn't really want the job & wasn't much interested in politics.

LMAO at the crazy toddler comment. It reminds me of my mayor.

Jeez, sorry your DH has to go there, it seems incredibly scary.