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Message 1863240 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 16:17:14 UTC

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Message 1863242 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 16:41:18 UTC

North Korea detained an unidentified US citizen for unknown reasons as he was planning to fly out of Pyongyang International Airport on Saturday morning.
The detention was confirmed by Martina Ã…berg, deputy chief of mission at the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang.
The embassy represents US interests in North Korea, since Washington and Pyongyang do not have direct diplomatic relations.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/23/asia/american-detained-in-north-korea/index.html
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Message 1863247 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 16:58:58 UTC - in response to Message 1863244.  
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What is his motive?

Clyde Haven't you been paying attention? Kim has a history of taking hostages for political leverage.
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Message 1863251 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 17:11:12 UTC - in response to Message 1863244.  

Since nothing is done without either Kim's permission, or a belief that Kim would agree.

What is his motive?

Turn that question around.

What are Yanks doing visiting such an oppressive regime?
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Message 1863254 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 17:20:49 UTC - in response to Message 1863251.  

What are Yanks doing visiting such an oppressive regime?


They are playing at being the " world's policeperson " yet again and like " Cartman the enabler " evryone should respect their ( non f-ing existant ) Authoritie . Sorry just p.m.s.l , bestest joke of the year so far :-)
Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)
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Message 1863269 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 18:24:13 UTC - in response to Message 1863251.  

What are Yanks doing visiting such an oppressive regime?
Likely personal reasons. Seems he is a nobody, like nearly every other hostage they take. As to why, they like humiliation, it is about the only weapon they have they can use.
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Message 1863272 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 18:39:41 UTC - in response to Message 1863269.  

What are Yanks doing visiting such an oppressive regime?
Likely personal reasons. Seems he is a nobody

Not quite, he is a former professor. Wonder if he is like our own resident professor, wants to teach Kim all about "Human Freedom" :-)
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Message 1863278 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 19:07:35 UTC - in response to Message 1863272.  

What are Yanks doing visiting such an oppressive regime?
Likely personal reasons. Seems he is a nobody

Not quite, he is a former professor. Wonder if he is like our own resident professor, wants to teach Kim all about "Human Freedom" :-)

Korean-American Tony Kim had spent a month teaching an accounting course at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), the university's chancellor, Chan-Mo Park, told news agency Reuters on Sunday.
Mr Kim, who also goes by his Korean name Kim Sang-duk and is in his fifties.
Kim Tong Chol, a U.S. citizen was also detained in North Korea last year.

In Korea all are called Kim it seems.
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Message 1863337 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 21:58:50 UTC - in response to Message 1863320.  

Any different reason for this detention?

Reason for the detentions?
If you like to know contact the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang.
http://www.swedenabroad.com/en-GB/Embassies/Pyongyang/About-us/About-the-Embassy/
I don't think they know so much either.
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Message 1863341 - Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 22:06:35 UTC - in response to Message 1863278.  

What are Yanks doing visiting such an oppressive regime?
Likely personal reasons. Seems he is a nobody

Not quite, he is a former professor. Wonder if he is like our own resident professor, wants to teach Kim all about "Human Freedom" :-)

Korean-American Tony Kim had spent a month teaching an accounting course at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), the university's chancellor, Chan-Mo Park, told news agency Reuters on Sunday.
Oh, so his employment contract was unilaterally extended for life. (They have done that before.)
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Message 1863550 - Posted: 24 Apr 2017, 23:11:40 UTC - in response to Message 1863547.  

Entire [USA] Senate being called to White House for North Korea briefing

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/24/entire-senate-being-called-to-white-house-for-north-korea-briefing.html


Oh... FARK.

This does NOT bode well.

All 100 Senators called to the White House for a DPRK briefing...

I am getting the faint smell of a WarDec on the way.
https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE

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Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016.

Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power.
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Message 1863564 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 0:43:27 UTC - in response to Message 1863550.  

Entire [USA] Senate being called to White House for North Korea briefing

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/24/entire-senate-being-called-to-white-house-for-north-korea-briefing.html


Oh... FARK.

This does NOT bode well.

All 100 Senators called to the White House for a DPRK briefing...

I am getting the faint smell of a WarDec on the way.

Yes something fraking big is up. He's been on the phone with Xi again. Probably getting a deconfliction memo going. I really don't want to have to dodge radioactive fallout.
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Message 1863567 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 0:47:53 UTC - in response to Message 1863564.  

I really don't want to have to dodge radioactive fallout.

The kittyman doesn't care, he wants Kim out regardless of the cost, but then again he thinks the orange leader is a good thing.
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Message 1863573 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 1:03:42 UTC - in response to Message 1863564.  
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Unusual setting, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, or is it just smoke and mirrors, again?

The kittyman doesn't care, he wants Kim out regardless of the cost, but then again he thinks the orange leader is a good thing.

He'll change his mind when he finds out the kitty litter is radio active.
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Message 1863574 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 1:15:40 UTC - in response to Message 1863573.  

The kittyman doesn't care, he wants Kim out regardless of the cost, but then again he thinks the orange leader is a good thing.

He'll change his mind when he finds out the kitty litter is radio active.

kittyman is from K-PAX, and can turn into a Beam of Light.
Ain't light a form of radiation?
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Message 1863575 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 1:20:50 UTC - in response to Message 1863574.  
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kittyman is from K-PAX, and can turn into a Beam of Light.
Ain't light a form of radiation?

Yes. That's why Prot wear sunglasses.
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Message 1863595 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 5:02:58 UTC

Who is banging those drums.
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Message 1863598 - Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 5:34:39 UTC - in response to Message 1863595.  

Report:


Reports of North Korea artillery drill as U.S. submarine makes South Korea port call


North Korea put on a massive live-fire drill on Tuesday to mark the foundation of its military, media reports said, as a U.S. submarine docked in South Korea in a show of force amid growing concern over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.

The port call by the USS Michigan came as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steams for Korean waters and as the top nuclear envoys from South Korea, Japan, and the United States met in Tokyo to discuss the North's refusal to give up its nuclear program.

Fears have risen in recent weeks that North Korea could soon conduct another nuclear test or long-range missile launch in defiance of United Nations sanctions.

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that the North appeared to have deployed a large number of long-range artillery units in the region of Wonsan on its east coast on Tuesday, conducting a large-scale, live-fire drill.

The report, citing an unidentified government source, said the live-fire exercise was possibly supervised by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Message 1863686 - Posted: 26 Apr 2017, 7:24:44 UTC

North Korea is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.

Behind the Trump administration’s sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude the country is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.

That acceleration in pace — impossible to verify until experts get beyond the limited access to North Korean facilities that ended years ago — explains why President Trump and his aides fear they are running out of time. For years, American presidents decided that each incremental improvement in the North’s program — another nuclear test, a new variant of a missile — was worrisome, but not worth a confrontation that could spill into open conflict.

Now those step-by-step advances have resulted in North Korean warheads that in a few years could reach Seattle. “They’ve learned a lot,” said Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who directed the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, from 1986 to 1997, and whom the North Koreans have let into their facilities seven times.

No cheers.
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Message 1863722 - Posted: 26 Apr 2017, 13:10:28 UTC - in response to Message 1863720.  
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What would be the best course of action at this point?

Ask the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang:)

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