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What exactly did Moon watch when he went to the Rungrado Stadium and delivered his 7-minute speech and was applauded 12 times in the process)? Was it "Brilliant Fatherland?" Mainly yes but with custom-tailored content for Moon
Actually there was no title. KCNA said Moon tok in "mass gymnastics & artistic performance." No mention of Brilliant Fatherland, why? Prolly negotiated & some of the content expunged. Moon's boss Roh got in hot water after attending Arirang games in 2007
news.donga.com/List/PoliticsN…
But some still have problems with Moon going. Greg Scarlatoiu of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea: "By attending the mass games, President Moon endorses the regime ... the mass games are built on the backs of North Korean children."
voakorea.com/a/4578952.html
There were still scenes like these with preschool children running around and doing split-second gymnastics ... which apparently were objectionable.

Harks back to NK's long tradition of using children for propaganda: preschool kids playing giant guitars & singing hymns to KJI. One of the tools of regime maintenance (surveillance) can get overburdened when running a personality cult: have to start young
Speaking of the Arirang Games which preceded Brilliant Fatherland, Clinton declined to go when he visited in 2009. That was to bring back 2 US journos being held in NK. Was his former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta who advised Bubba not to attend
japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/3…
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Donga reports an economic delegation composed of representatives of US agricultural & German mining businesses visited NK in late Sept. The German concern is interested in NK's magnesite/graphite reserves and US agro biz looked at investment opportunity
news.donga.com/List/PoliticsN…
The timing of this was late Sept when Pompeo's 4th visit had been decided and US-NK dialogue was ongoing. NK treated this economic delegation well. The US concern is supposedly the largest one that sells agro & animal protein prods (Cargill, Tyson Foods?)
sedaily.com/NewsView/1S5Y4…
Front page news in SK courtesy of Donga. NK is known to have rather large mineral reserves other than just coal: copper, lead, iron ore, tungsten plus rare earth/rare metal elements like molybdenum. SK estimates it's worth $3.6 trillion (on the low side) imnews.imbc.com/replay/2018/nw…
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Foreign Minister Kang in another mini-controversy after Japan's Nihon-Kezai reports SoS Pompeo "blew up on her" after learning about the military agreement signed by SK and NK at the Pyongyang summit. N-K quotes Pompeo, "What do you think you're doing?"
news.joins.com/article/230344…
N-K: "There was no prior discussion about the nature of the military agreement SK struck with NK." Pompeo was said to be particularly upset about the 'no fly zone' established within proximity of MDL. US reconnaissance planes regularly fly near the area for surveillance of NK
Kang pretty much acknowledged something like that happened when asked about it at the National Assembly: "I wouldn't characterize it as 'furious' or 'blew up' but there was dissatisfaction re not being fully informed. So yes, I was asked a lot of questions"
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Japan declines to attend a naval event in Jeju after repeated calls by SK not to arrive with its Rising Sun Flag symbolizing Imperial Japan. However the real reason why it chose not to attend is more intricate.
koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
What happened is SK kept telling Japan's Embassy and Defense Minister that only the national flag should be flown. But Japan insisted it will come bearing the Rising Sun Flag. Then apparently SK NSA Chung and new Defense Minister Jung came up with a ploy
english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2018/…
They leaked news that the lead vessel of the host country may switch to ROKS Dokdo, which is the largest SK navy vessel. Dokdo is an island but also the name of this LPH-class amphibious vessel with a platform that can launch helis, Ospreys and even VTOLs
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Yes children, it was an amazing life. Why I had what would be considered today a mansion but then it was just a 2 bedroom apartment. For two people... let me see, 1,2,...why we had 5 different spouts where water came out.
2 different kinds! 1 just for drinking
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And we weren't even rich. We were what you called lower middle class.
Huh? Oh, well it just means we had enough to, well for instance we had 4 cats, & fed them meat 2 or 3 times every day! & sometimes we had enough extra money we could go out & pay people to make us amazing food.
They called it a buffet.
You could eat everything you could think of.
What's that? Oh, well I guess they didn't do anything to stop it because the people in charge made money off of it.
They kept going the same old ways.
Fishing & tossing away 80%of a catch.
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Moon is taking an enormous risk in being so public and aggressive with his bold North Korea promises, especially with so little to show for them so far. If NK does not come through - and odds are it won't - it will destroy Moon's presidency & convince /1 english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2018/…
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though I am a big fan of the "for the love of god, read another book" meme wrt Harry Potter, which I have only seen and never read, I am going to break my own rule to make some comedy. here we go
now that the Hollywood Walk of Fame horcrux is down, let's get Matthew Lewis a White House press pass and see what Sarah Sanders does
this concludes the revised and improved version of my already bad Harry Potter joke

thank you for your understanding
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#Brilliant
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