The East Asia Thread

ReindeerThistle · Nov 23, 2015

Right. Nobody told Obama not to bomb hospitals...

So, if you are a Southeast Asian and you or loved one in a hospital, get out now! Obama means business.

Takhisis · Nov 23, 2015

CavLancer said:
If you say so Takhisis, but I can't recall a president telling another nation what they must do and I've seen a few come and go.

I remember an arboreous president telling Saddam Hussein to get rid of his weapons of mass destruction

ReindeerThistle · Nov 23, 2015

Takhisis said:
I remember an arboreous president telling Saddam Hussein to get rid of his weapons of mass destruction

Ooo. Good one. That ended badly.

Glassfan · Dec 9, 2015

Just wanted to clear this up.

No censorship in Chinese Internet, says China's top censor.

Zkribbler · Dec 9, 2015

chijohnaok said:
Sounds similar to the red line that Obama issued Assad in Syria. That worked out well, didn't it?

It did.

Up until then, Assad denied that he had nerve gas. After that, he "voluntarily" gave it up.

Takhisis · Dec 10, 2015

Glassfan said:
Just wanted to clear this up.

No censorship in Chinese Internet, says China's top censor.

Can't be censorship to make such a statement then.

btw be aware that you're quoting corporate media so you are inviable

Takhisis · Dec 10, 2015

Kim the young-one rattles a rubber sabre yet again… hopefully.

Kim Jong-Un claims North Korea has developed a hydrogen bomb
Experts are sceptical that the impoverished country would have the technology to develop such a sophisticated weapon

Kim Jong Un made the comments during a tour of the Phyongchon Revolutionary Site which honours his father and grandfather AFP

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has claimed the country has developed a hydrogen bomb - but outside experts are skeptical.

According to the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency, Mr Kim made the comments as he toured the Phyongchon Revolutionary Site - which is dedicated to his father and grandfather, Kim Il Jong and Kim Il Sung, who ruled before him.

Mr Kim claimed the regime's founder Kim Il Sung “turned the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) into a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate a self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation”.

A hydrogen bomb is far more powerful than an atomic bomb and needs more advanced technology to be produced.

Experts are skeptical that the so-called Hermit Kingdom - which reportedly suffered a severe famine earlier this year - would have the capabilities to produce such a weapon.

Dr Jeffrey Lewis from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California said it was “unlikely” they actually had developed the weapon but warned: “I don’t expect them to keep testing basic devices indefinitely either”.

A South Korean intelligence official told the Yonhap news agency that Mr Kim’s comments were probably just rhetoric.

North and South Korea are technically still at war as their 1950-153 war ended in a truce rather than peace treaty.

Tensions between the two countries flared in August after North Korean soldiers fired shots into the demilitarised zone on the border.

In was reportedly in response to a South Korean loudspeaker that had been blaring anti-Pyongyang propaganda.

North Korea carried out underground nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013 and has been subject to UN Security Council sanctions banning all trade and finance activities that aid its weapons programme.

ReindeerThistle · Dec 10, 2015

The DPRK treats its farmer, scientists and other workers very well. I am happy or them. Mess with them and you will be toast, baby.

Takhisis · Dec 10, 2015

That… is a non-answer.

ReindeerThistle · Dec 10, 2015

You don't get to decide that.

I am a supporter of all movements that seek to change the existing social order. The existing social order is bombing hospitals in Gaza and Afghanistan. The DPRK has invaded ONE country, in 1950, and it was provoked. The DPRK is not interested in the influence of a morality that tolerates "pro-life gunmen." I do not blame them.

Now, they have a big bomb. So, provocation is not a good idea.

Zkribbler · Dec 10, 2015

Takhisis said:
Can't be censorship to make such a statement then.

There is no Winnie the Pooh on the Internet in China. President Xi has banned him because he believes Pooh Bear looks like him. I've even written a song about it.
:band:

Christopher Robin and I walked along
Under light from a bright Chinese moon
Looking for Pooh over hill, over dale.
Silly bear disappeared around noon.
His hunny pots gone. Could he be gone for good?
Or will he find his way back to the wood?

So help me if you can, I've got to find
Tigger and Eeyore and Piglet and Pooh
Christopher Robin, theres so much they must do:
Chase all the dark clouds away,
Teach all the children to play
The glorious days of Christopher Robin and Pooh

President Xi is as mad as can be.
His resemblance to Pooh, all can see.
Its a vision of warmth, love and good will to all,
Its not what a tyrant should be.
So, off with Poohs head from all internet sites.
Paranoia again stomps on our childish delights.

So help Xi if you can, hes got to get
Rid of all joy, jubilation, and fun.
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done:
Stamp out free speech and thought,
Jail those who cannot be bought,
Back to the days of the Red doctrinaire,
Back to the days of Tiananmen Square,
These are the day of Xi.
Oh no, oh me!
Xi, Xi, Xi.

ReindeerThistle · Dec 10, 2015

French artist donates oil painting on Nanjing Massacre

French artist donates oil painting on Nanjing Massacre

Englishnews.cn 2015-12-10 21:44:29

NANJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- French artist Christian Poirot on Thursday afternoon donated an oil painting to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall.

"Deliverance" is 2.35 meters high and 7.46 meters long and the biggest piece Poirot has created in more than 30 years. It depicts numerous scenes of violence, such as invaders beheading Chinese, women dying with babies in their arms, orphans crying by dead bodies. Dark clouds cover the city.

From December 13, 1937 to January of 1938, 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers were killed in Nanjing after the city fell intoJapan
ese hands. China last year designated Dec. 13 National Memorial Day for Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.

Like many other Europeans, Poirot admitted to knowing little about the carnage until two years ago, when a friend told him while he was travelling past Nanjing that tens of thousands of people were killed there. Shocked, he decided to create the painting there and then.

Poirot started work in January this year after study documents and photos of the massacre. "I hope to let more people know about the atrocities the Japanese committed during the war," he said.
Zhang Jianjun, curator of the memorial hall, presented Poirot with a certificate and the artist was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Nanjing.

Christian Poirot was born in 1961 and is a member of L'Institut de France
. He was honored when two of his paintings were bought by former French President Jacques Chirac for his private collection.

JohannaK · Dec 10, 2015

And reading these one can't cease to be amazed that "many" people know so little about the world they live in and how it got where it is.

Glassfan · Dec 11, 2015

Takhisis said:
Kim Jong-Un claims North Korea has developed a hydrogen bomb[/URL]

...along with warp drive and phasers :lol:

. ReindeerThistle is right, we'd better not mess with these righteous (starving) farmers or we'll be toast. :eek:

ReindeerThistle · Dec 11, 2015

Thisdocumentary will blow your mind...
Ten Days in North Korea...

Link to video.

Joecoolyo · Dec 11, 2015

Why would I trust Russian Fox News?

JohannaK · Dec 11, 2015

I like that by 3:55 a contradiction has already emerged: while the narrator speaks of a growing economy, an interviewee is grateful for the gift of a very nice (by any standards) flat "with a difficult economic situation".

Takhisis · Dec 13, 2015

ReindeerThistle said:
You don't get to decide that.

You're neither discussing the news article I posted, nor my comment, nor the voices in there. You just turned on the slogan-o-gram.

ReindeerThistle said:
I am a supporter of all movements that seek to change the existing social order.

Is Wahhabism included?

JohannaK said:
I like that by 3:55 a contradiction has already emerged: while the narrator speaks of a growing economy, an interviewee is grateful for the gift of a very nice (by any standards) flat "with a difficult economic situation".

I will specifically not censor you and remind you that two plus two makes five.

ReindeerThistle · Dec 13, 2015

We love the DPRK! <3 <3 <3 <3

DPRK troupes arrive in China for performance

DPRK troupes arrive in China for performance

English.news.cn 2015-12-09 19:59:39

DANDONG, Liaoning, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Two traveling theater companies from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) arrived in northeast China's Liaoning Province on Wednesday to begin a visit to China.

The two troupes -- the State Merited Chorus and the Moranbong Band -- will perform in the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing from Dec. 12 to 14.

The visit will contribute to "deepening friendship" and cultural exchanges between the two countries, DPRK Korean Central News Agency reported.

The State Merited Chorus is well-known for its revolutionary songs.

The Moranbong Band, established in 2012 by DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, is a popular band among the ordinary people of the DPRK.

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Takhisis · Dec 13, 2015

I repeat my question: Does your support for anyone who wants to change the existing order extend to Wahhabism?

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