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Posts tagged "Bosnia"

James Hoare meets Jello Biafra in a dark Pyongyang alley

by | October 18th, 2011 | 06:43 am

When I loaded my CDs into Itunes, I noticed that somehow the Dead Kennedys’ “Holiday in Cambodia” came out as “Holiday in China.”  I ascribed it to the black humor of the lowly paid Chinese tech coding the catalog. Well, maybe in the next version of Itunes it will come out as “Holiday in North [...]

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Not Satire? Kim IV

by Marcus Noland and Jaesung Ryu | October 2nd, 2011 | 12:58 pm

We usually don’t like to pass on unsubstantiated rumor, but in this case it is amusing enough to include in our Not Satire category. A news source from Singapore has it that Kim Hansol, rumored to be the son of Kim Jong-Nam and hence the grandson of KJI, has enrolled (but not arrived) in a branch [...]

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