Changing the boundaries of the DMZ so that North Koreans can more easily go fishing would be a valuable goodwill gesture.
I'd be more amused at this turn of events except at how screwed we are. Boy I'm glad we're concentrating on Iran!
More evidence that we're moving to a war footing.
well, we just learned last week that Bush petulantly asked his Saudi foreign policy tutor, Prince Bandar, "why do I have to know all this stuff about North Korea?"
(Is the adverb 'petulantly' just superfluous when talking about Bush?)
Anyhow--now we know. They're going after South Korea's fishing rights, inside the territorial waters. (way inside).
I think I would prefer Prince Bandar over his actual foreign-policy advisors.
it's not a counterfactual thing: Bandar was his *actual* foreign policy advisor. It's in "State of Denial". Rox Populi says it's in the first 13 pages.
I would weep for our nation if I had any more tears.
WTF is going on? Minutemen on campus at Columbia?
10: See, we're not so different after all.
comity! let's go piss off the vegans.
10: Of course there are communist fish. Haven't you ever heard of red snapper?
I was really hoping to take the Kid to South Korea to see where he was born. Somehow 'This nuclear slag is your birthplace' isn't the same.
the poor bastards were probably starving.
But since they're communists, they would've agreed beforehand to share whatever was caught, thus completely eviscerating their motivation to fish well.
eviscerating their motivation to fish well
You misjudge New Socialist Man, K-sko.