In very bad news for some neighbourhood The Age brings word that North Korea is sniffing around for an embassy in Canberra.
Labor MP Michael Danby, who chairs the Australian Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said the plan to re-establish a mission in Canberra could be ”part of the mysterious small steps by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to engage with the international community”.
Even so, North Korea surprised the international community in December by launching a long-range rocket that put a satellite into orbit, which many experts saw as a cover for testing ballistic missile technology.
A spokeswoman for the department said the government did ”not oppose the re-opening of the embassy, which would provide a channel to Pyongyang to convey messages of importance to Australia, including on the (North Korea’s) nuclear and missile activities and human rights”.
North Korea closed its previous embassy in January 2008 – a little over five years after opening it – claiming it could not longer afford to run the mission.
It previously had a Canberra embassy for about a year in the mid-1970s but closed it without warning. The first the Australian government knew was when the North Korean diplomats were spotted at the airport with their families.
Anyone want to speculate on what they might bring in the diplomatic bags to turn a dollar out of the operation?
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Always room for a few more norks in this town!
What will they bring in? Primarily counterfeit US currency, closely followed by drugs. Possibly guns.
I spent a few days working in South Korea in the 90′s. I’ve never seen such a bunch of hard faced stone cold killers in all my life, and I’m just talking about the airline flight attendants here.
The Northerners reputedly make the southerners appear warm and welcoming, so I see no need for this. We have no common interests with these arsehats, tradewise or any otherwise, and all they will bring us is trouble. If we need to send them a message of importance to Australia, it can readily be done via phone, email or SMS.
Vindalu said :
According to you..
Hmm something resembling talcum powder?
Darn, I thought this was about what’s breast for our society, not a bra-zen attempt by N.K to B cup-led with Australia. I am titillated at the prospect of some arousing discussion on RiotACT about how to restrain this, before it spills out into a jug-antic fiasco.
If my mammary serves me right, the Norks just shot a load [of satellite or something] all over Japan and the Philippines. Now that is just rude. Then to ask us to support such an upfront proposal like some kind of playboy, just makes me wanna heave. Cross my heart.
I, for one, was horribly disappointed after clicking on the headline.
Yes, but they sound like such fun people from what’s listed on 100 things to like about Pyongyang.
Perhaps I’m showing my vintage but norks to me have always been sweater puppies and you can never have enough of them.
Girt_Hindrance said :
Me too. A distinctly un-bouncy story.
im sorry but does anyone else take offense at the racist term used to describe one of the poorest and most terrorised people on the planet?
a national descriptor is not racial.
searcher3489 said :
No thank you. But if you wish to take offense on behalf of other people, the Cornish could do with some sympathy. Go have a damn good cry about how the English have treated them, if you get off on that sort of thing.
To me, North Korea is that place that they made fun of in Team America.
I wonder what they think of Gangnam Style?
Can they fit the Pong Su in a diplomatic bag?
At first when I read the header & am like WOOOOHOOOOO…….
but now that I read the content I am like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ
wildturkeycanoe said :
bo[s]om, bo[s]om!
Carry On Commenting…
searcher3489 said :
The stupid is strong with this one.
Jim Jones said :
Especially as the NORKS who will be coming will generally be rich and the ones doing the terrorising back in their own country.
Spiral said :
RACIST!!!
wildturkeycanoe said :
Winning
searcher3489 said :
Nope. Not me.
searcher3489 said :
Don’t be sorry, because I haven’t taken offense.