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“Kim Jong-Su, the general secretary of the North Korean FA, has said the Dear Leader gave ‘in-depth guidance’ on how to develop the game in the country and the coach himself has claimed he received regular tactical advice during matches, apparently using mobile phones that are not visible to the naked eye.”
"Jong-Il, a man of many talents, is said to have developed the technology himself. Before you laugh in disbelief, remember this is the man who scored 38 under par in his first-ever game of golf — with five holes in one — making him the greatest golfer of all-time. He’s got skills."
At university it was claimed in his biography that he wrote no fewer than 1,500 books in three years
His all time favourites including Rambo, Friday the 13th, Godzilla and “The Eternal Bosom of Hot Love".
Kim apparently produced a patriotic 100-part documentary series on the history of his North Korean homeland as well as writing a book titled On the Art of Cinema.
Kim also apparently composed six operas and enjoyed staging musicals.
He reportedly spread the myth across North Korea that he could control the weather with his moods, as if by magic.
Kim had female staff inspect each grain of rice to check it adhered to standards of length, weight and colour.
He reportedly drank £450,000 of cognac each year in a country where average income was about £580
A recent new list of luxury imports now also reveals a penchant for Chinese dolphins, French poodles, and African aphrodisiacs and is said to have developed a palate for Donkey meat as well lobster and expensive French wine.
Minju Joson, a North Korean newspaper, reported once that Kim invented a product described as "double bread with meat" and created factories to produce them in order to feed his students and teachers. Some observers noted it was very similar to an American-hamburger.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8965694/50-fascinating-facts-Kim-Jong-il-and-North-Korea.html
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Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
feeder wrote: Frazz's mind is like a wiener dog in a rabbit warren. Dark, twisting tunnels, and full of the certainty that just around the next bend will be the quarry he seeks.
Fafnir wrote: When Kim Jong Il was born, a new star lit up in the sky.
That wasn't all;
" Kim Jong-il's official biography states he was born in a secret military camp on Baekdu Mountain (Korean: 백두산밀영고향집) in Japanese-occupied Korea on 16 February 1942. Official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow across the sky over the mountain and a new star in the heavens."
and when he died
"The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report that during his death, a fierce snowstorm paused and the sky glowed red above the sacred Mount Paektu. The ice on a famous lake also cracked so loud, it seemed to shake the Heavens and the Earth.[129]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
America, has cities disguised as European, citizens are only allowed one coffee per day, and Americans, as you sit inside your cozy homes, you don't realize the truth! You are homeless, murdering, homosexuals!
Hmm, Yakfaces Fascist NWO or KIm Jong-un's truth? it's hard to know which way to turn these days..............
But, seriously:
Spoiler:
Living in tents. Drinking coffee made from snow. This is your life in America, filtered through the incisive prism of North Korean propaganda.
The world’s most militarized society is shaking its head over what it describes as an epidemic of Americans “buying guns to kill each other, especially children.” What’s purportedly North Korea’s latest propaganda video — released this week and packed with stock footage that would impress Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim — brings trolling to the next level.
Fun facts about America, according to the video: there are no more birds in the U.S., as they’ve all been eaten by the starving masses. American houses “blow down very easily,” leaving the American Red Cross to supply emergency housing only thanks to humanitarian aid (including tasty cakes) from Pyongyang. Other parts of America are “often disguised as foreign countries in Europe.” (Just go with it.) Most Americans are entitled to a single cup of coffee daily, made from snow. This what Dennis Rodman is telling new bro Kim Jong-un?
“They this is how they live in modern-day America: huddled together,” says the video, showing a supposed American homeless shelter of spartan metal bunk beds, “the poor, the cold, the lonely, and the homosexual.” Presumably, these are heavily armed poor, cold, lonely homosexuals, ready to kill children.
As with much great trolling, North Korea is taking some of its great weaknesses — the grinding poverty, food shortages and official bellicosity — and projecting them onto its adversary. The low-budget production values and occasional cinematic inaccuracies (that pay phone in the subway doesn’t look like an American model) give the effort a certain inadvertent flourish.
You certainly wouldn’t know from the video that North Korea’s threatened its southerly neighbor with nuclear annihilation after unilaterally withdrawing from the armistice that has kept a fragile peace on the Korean peninsula for over half a century. Recent successes in its missile tests and nuclear detonations, mixed with a new young leader and tougher international economic sanctions appear to have prompted a surge in Pyongyang threats.
The North has done nothing so far, short of releasing videos portraying its soldiers’ Beatlemania-esque love for Kim and threatening an annual U.S.-South Korean military exercise. The Navy says its routine presence on and near the peninsula — destroyers, anti-ballistic missile cruisers and the aircraft carrier USS George Washington — is on watch, and thus far has no plans to augment it.
Napoleonic style propaganda. nothing more.
For anyone who is a bane of a feline being. 'Napoleonic style propaganda' means the newspaper published between 1796-1815 by warring nations during Napoleonic wars, bashing each other on the issues of morality (which such media usually said that citizens loyal to the enemy nations regualrly breaches all items of 5 Silas). in this case, N. K. propagandists bashed american citizens in the same way french media attacked 'Englishmen' (and vice versa) 200 years ago.