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 South Korea Snubs Kim Jong Il Funeral InvitationPosted on Dec 23, 2011
Other than a small group of people specially authorized by the government in Seoul, no South Koreans will be attending the funeral of deceased dictator, film star and golf prodigy Kim Jong Il, despite overtures from the North. A general ban prevents ordinary South Koreans from attending, even if they wanted to, and the current regime in Seoul, which took a harder line toward Pyongyang than the previous administration, will not be sending any representatives. —PZS
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By heterochromatic, December 25, 2011 at 11:29 am Link to this comment
The South Korean government sent their condolences to the Korean people and is
Report thisnot going to send an official delegation to mourn a dead dictator and have it
interpreted as showing approval to the pre-deificaion ceremony that will be
interpreted as approving the ascension of the new Kim dictatorship.
By PatrickHenry, December 23, 2011 at 3:54 pm Link to this comment
No ‘spring’ in North Korea.
Report thisBy blogdog, December 23, 2011 at 1:03 pm Link to this comment
Joy to the World
Report thisBy Project Mayhem, December 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm Link to this comment
My pleasure. And Merry Christmas… that is, if you decide to hold off on the bullet to the head till after you’ve opened your presents.
Report thisBy blogdog, December 23, 2011 at 12:23 pm Link to this comment
right, rejected everywhere I go - the world over - time to just shoot myself -
Report thisactually behind schedule - thanks for reminding me
By Project Mayhem, December 23, 2011 at 12:10 pm Link to this comment
“...not prejudicial
I’ve lived in East Asia), ergo: post-judicially I cite an East Asian oxymoronic homily: Korean Hospitality.”
I’ll assume this is some crude attempt at wit? I, too, lived and worked in East Asia - Korea, specifically, for nearly eight years. I never found the hospitality wanting, nor did any of the friends and family members who came to stay with me there over the years. In fact, I only ever saw Koreans acting less-than-hospitably to foreigners who genuinely deserved it; churls and the culturally moribund were treated in kind by their hosts. I’d suggest that your “non-prejudicial homily” says far more about you than it does Korea.
Report thisBy gerard, December 23, 2011 at 10:28 am Link to this comment
Childish language and behavior: “...star and golf prodigy Kim Jong Il, despite overtures from the North…. A general ban prevents ordinary South Koreans from attending, even if they wanted to ...>
These people are brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins! Keeping them apart in the throes of an international nuclear-sick imbroglio takes all the silliness and chilling propaganda in “diplomatic” dictionaries. Humane people will see a funeral as an opportunity to mend fences and hearts. Sensitive
Report thispeople will not make tired jokes about a possibly deranged and insecure ego-maniac with a huge army. Thoughtful people will not keep feeding the fires of war and turn up their noses “despite overtures from
the North.”
By blogdog, December 23, 2011 at 9:48 am Link to this comment
Seoul…has imposed a travel ban on ordinary citizens… - not prejudicial
Report this(I’ve lived in East Asia), ergo: post-judicially I cite an East Asian oxymoronic homily:
Korean Hospitality
By BrooklynDame, December 23, 2011 at 8:27 am Link to this comment
Did they really expect otherwise?
Report thishttp://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2011/12/kim-jong-il-rest-in-pea-actually-
nevermind/
By PatrickHenry, December 23, 2011 at 3:38 am Link to this comment
A failure to seize an opportunity.
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