Yakoob on 9/2/2012 at 05:11
Reminds me of this:
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demagogue on 9/2/2012 at 05:56
Haha I love polka. We grew up going to Brave Combo concerts here in Texas, only the best American polka band ever. (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCRtAwKPrS4) This is now a polka thread.
apdenton on 10/2/2012 at 05:33
wow this is just madness! those poor citizens. and whats more the rulers have nukes!? fucking crazy world.
Azaran on 10/2/2012 at 09:28
Developed in a lab....:laff:, you can't beat that
Azaran on 11/2/2012 at 01:59
It's not yet confirmed (
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/10/idUS232818209920120210) but now Kim Jong Un might be dead too. There's rumours from China that came out today that some kind of coup has taken place. It might be just a rumour, but you never know:
Rumors that Kim Jong-un, the country’s supreme leader, has been assassinated just months after he took power originated on Chinese microblogging service Weibo and have now spread all over Twitter.
Others are reporting that Jong-un, believed to be 28 years old, may be on the run rather than dead, but both reports claim that some kind of coup is taking place.
One person on Weibo wrote (loose translation): "north korea's biggest leader kim jung un, this morning in beijing time 2:45 am, had his residence broken into and was assassinated by unidentified people, who were shot dead by his bodyguards in korea's embassy in beijing, vehicles are rapidly increasing in number, and have surpassed 30 of them, this sort of battle formation hasn't been seen in over two years. please verify this."
The rumors remain unsubstantiated. However, the reports are beginning to attract a great deal of attention, especially now that a couple of American news outlets including the Atlantic Wire have reported on them.
Weibo is in many ways the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, and disseminates news at a rapid pace. People were tipped off that there was something happening that involved Jong-Un, who succeeded his late father Kim Jong-Il, because of the mass of cars parked outside of his resident.
For good reason, many Twitter users are exercising caution, aware that news like this can spread without much to sustain it.
A sample of the dubious tweeters:
“Kim Jong Un apparently assasinated in Beijing. Source: 'Chinese Twitter'. What does that even mean? One Chinese person's account? or @China?” AdamThompson1 tweeted.
“Wait for confirmation on Kim Jong Un death rumors. Twitter is also reporting that ‘Jonas Brothers are the best band,’” Matt Binder wrote.
“Rumors from Chinese twitter that Kim Jong Un assassinated this morning in Beijing. pretty unlikely,” Dan Bennett posted.
So did social media spread the news or cause unnecessary hysteria? We will update when the news develops.
Michelle Ong contributed to this report.Koki on 11/2/2012 at 06:50
Haha, in a way it's impressive - here we are, twenty first century, 24/7 news coverage all over the world, and when it comes to North Korea they can only manage rumors of most powerful man in the country being assassinated.
demagogue on 11/2/2012 at 11:21
It's like the story Bill Bryson tells at the beginning of In a Sunburned Country about the Aus prime minister taking a walk on the beach and disappearing, and he asks how is it possible that a country's PM just disappears and nobody knows what happened...
