Wolf Blitzer Gets ‘Red Phone’ Scoop

Just how much do North Korean officials love New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson? Enough to let him and media-mate Wolf Blitzer jump on the phone live from Pyongyang after a critical Sunday, December 19th meeting with General Pak Rim-su, in charge of both the DMZ and Korean War armistice.

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Live from Pyongyang… It’s Saturday Night!

If the events of Saturday, October 9th in Pyongyang are any indication, 27-year-old leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un is planning on getting jiggy with the notion of a closed off media state. Around the same time that the cherubic youngest son was being spotted in his first public appearance at a performance by the crack Arirang Games troupe, all media hell was breaking loose nearby at the Hotel Koryo.

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A Wacky Vision of North Korea’s Future

In terms of scenarios that may unfold for North Korea in the near future, few are as entertaining as the one put forth in the extended trailer for the February 2011 Kaos Studios/THQ video game Homefront. Apparently, Kim Jong-il is going to die in 2012, after which successor Kim Jong-un unifies North and South Korea (2013), annexes Japan (2018) and eventually takes over the United States through Hawaii by means of a disabling electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) attack, disseminated via telecommunications satellite.

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Much Ado About Bieber

Until this week, I had never heard of the website Faxo.com, officially launched on July 31st, 2009 and based in St. Louis, MO, or its adjacent parent company e2e Partners. Comically enough, a quick look at the e2e website reveals that despite a business services motto proclaiming “success is not determined by where you are today, but where you are headed tomorrow,” all items listed at press time on their “Events” page are dated 2002.

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The Daffy Mail

The guiding principle behind the Twitter feed @LiberateLaura has always been to pass along information that goes beyond my own personal beliefs. Which means I don’t always agree with the opinions being expressed or contend, by sharing something, that I am also suggesting it is entirely accurate.

Filed under: Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Media