August 2, 2010

• Labor camps and land mines

   While it looks like the NorKor Soccer team is getting off with just a round of public humiliation, the coach has reportedly been sent to a labor camp.  Good luck finding another coach.  If NorKor hasn't collapsed by then, I predict their next World Cup appearance won't be until at least 2030.

  read more:

  http://dailycontributor.com/kim-jong-il-punishes-north-korean-football-team-for-world-cup-failure/17705/
  
  http://www.anorak.co.uk/254817/sports/what-really-happened-to-north-koreas-world-cup-coach.html

  Also, one man is dead and another injured after attempting to take home two boxes containing landmines that had washed up from North Korea.  It could be the hard rains or.... could NorKor also be purposely floating these things down the river?  A little passive-aggressive response to the recent joint U.S., Japan and S. Korean war games (saber rattling)  I wouldn't put it passed them.

  read more: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/270129/land-mine-nokor

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