Kim Jong-Un Bans All Weddings, Funerals And Freedom Of Movement In North Korea (independent.co.uk)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: Weddings and funerals have been banned and Pyongyang is in lockdown as preparations for a once-in-a-generation party congress get underway in North Korea. The ruling Worker's Party of Korea, headed by the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is due to stage the first gathering of its kind for 36 years on Friday. Free movement in and out of the capital has also been forbidden and there has been an increase in inspections and property searches, according to Daily NK, which claims to have sources in the country. The temporary measures are said to be an attempt to minimize the risk of "mishaps" at the event, according to Cheong Joon-hee, a spokesman at South Korea's Unification Ministry. Meanwhile, North Korea has been conducting missile tests left and right, many of which have failed miserably.

Comments

Great opportunity

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's nuke them while their entire leadership is all in one place.

Naturally, the headline is misleading.

[Frosty Piss]

Not news for nerds, stuff that really doesn't matter outside North Korea. By the way, this is only for a week, during the North Korean Party Congress. Move along, nothing to see other than a bunch of North Korean nut bars.

Actually, here's an interesting story: The North Koreans have restaurants and other businesses in China and other "friendly" countries, primarily to generate cash for Un's emmenthaler cheese addiction (look it up), and increasingly, the staff of these businesses are defecting.

A Drone strike solution

[Okian Warrior]

I keep thinking how the US will drone strike wedding receptions on flimsy evidence, even assassinating our own citizens and their children for even *meeting* with an alleged terrorist

...and a single drone strike in NK could solve much of the world's conflict.

Take one of the Chinese ambassadors aside, have a quiet word, get a secret "OK" from the leadership, and *BANG!*. No more fear, uncertainty, and doubt in South Korea or Japan.

We could even disavow all knowledge. Classify the relevant documents for 50 years, like we did with Nixon extending the Vietnam war for political gain (by taking actions which were probably treasonous).

*Sigh*.

But we're a step closer to having Bison be our national mammal, and Harriet Tubman will be on the $20.

USA, the leader of the free world.

Uh... really?

[Okian Warrior]

It sets a bad precedent. And the risk of retaliation is great.

Um... retaliation from whom?

And wasn't the precedent set when we tracked down and killed Saddam Hussein? (And his "most wanted" cronies, conveniently passed out to our soldiers as a deck of playing cards?)

Or how about Manuel Noriega, who was the head of a foreign nation, and we sent in a seal team to capture him, kidnap him, and bring him to the US to stand trial?

Or how about (with help from the UK) overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in order to install the Shah, who was a brutal dictator who tortured people for the next 38 years?

Or overthrowing the democratically-elected leader of Guatemala?

And that's only in the last 50-ish years, and ones that I can remember on the spot.

Bad precedent?

The US does whatever the hell it wants, and doesn't care overly much about world opinion.

Re: This is the future that Republicans...

[stealth_finger]

And there is a risk that everything you have heard about North Korea is wrong, that all information you have about it just is propaganda so that you won't see what real freedom is like. If you go to North Korea as a tourist, how do you know that you aren't led into a fake city setup in South Korea to make North Korea look like a dictatorship?

The analogy still holds, Andromeda is gluten free enough.

If North Korea was even remotely free there would be more than one way in on a tourist trip that still makes the place look like shit. There would probably be North Koreans all over the place going on about how good it is back home. Also they wouldn't have a dead man as eternal president for ever.

Re:This is the future that Republicans...

[DigiShaman]

There's actually two axis when it comes to American politics; at the very least. There's the typical Left vs Right in social ideologies that everyone knows about, and then there's another that cuts through the other axis; authoritarian vs anarchist.