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Happy Birthday, Kim Il-sung

April 13th, 2013

By Dan Miller Well, sorta. Maybe it will be his last, but I wouldn’t count on it. Kim Il-sung was born (it is written and may even be true) on April 15, 1912. There are over 500 statues of Kim Il-sung in North Korea. The most prominent are at Kim Il-sung University, Kim Il-sung Stadium, Mansudae Hill, Kim Il-sung […]

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Tags: Japan, Kim Il-sung, North Korea, nuclear weapons, South Korea, threat, war
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President Obama Will Visit North Korea

April 7th, 2013

By Dan Miller Through his newly appointed press secretary, Dennis Rodman, President Obama today announced that he and Mr. Rodman will visit Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang next week. Their meeting is expected to eliminate all of our petty misunderstandings. This is a guest post by Senator Ima Librul, (L., Utopia). He is a member of […]

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Tags: DPRK, negotiation, North Korea, Obama, peace, Rodman, satire, visit, war
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Is the 1950 Korea Mess Relevant to the New Korean Mess?

April 6th, 2013

By Dan Miller Probably very little, beyond the differences. The North Korean invasion of South Korea began on June 25, 1950 when North Korean troops — many of them battle-hardened veterans of Mao’s fights against Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists — crossed the thirty-eighth parallel to invade South Korea, initially at the Ongjin Peninsula. They met with little […]

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Tags: DPRK, missiles, North Korea, nuclear, South Korea, U.S., war, warheads
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Islam Is the Only True Religion of Peace, not Terror

March 26th, 2013

By Dan Miller This is a “guest post” by Sheik Mohamed ali-Baba, a well known Islamic scholar, “humanitarian,” redistributionist and spokesman for al Qaeda. My own comments follow his rant. I, Sheik Mohamed ali-Baba, graced these otherwise perverted and insignificant pages last year with my endorsement, on behalf of Al Qaeda, of President Obama for […]

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Tags: foreign policy, Iran, Islam, Israel, North Korea, religion, satire, terrorism, war
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Iraq and Vietnam

March 20th, 2013

By Jan Barry Nearly 6 years ago, I shared these thoughts as part of a panel discussion at The New School university in New York City, on May 10, 2007… Much of it still applies as Americans mark the 10th anniversary of invading Iraq. They are two different countries in different parts of the world. […]

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Tags: critics, foreign policy, Iraq, lessons, strategy, veterans, Vietnam, war
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