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

Posted by BeauHD on from the freeze-don't-move dept.

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.

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  1. Great opportunity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

    1. Re:Great opportunity by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Donald? Is that you?

    2. Re:Great opportunity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's going to be a great mushroom cloud. We've had mushroom clouds in the past and they were great and we're going to have them again. And..And..they are going to pay for the mushroom cloud. It's going to be a huge mushroom cloud and America is going to be great again.

  2. Re:This is the future that Republicans... by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    A well-regulated incandescence, being necessary for the illumination of a free state, the right of the people to use shitty light bulbs shall not be infringed!

  3. Uh... really? by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.