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    October 18

    The Onion and the Yangpa

    Always a fan of theonion.com, but I do believe they have outdone themselves with this gem about NK's ability to spend a few billion on war machinery but not a few pennies on food for their citizens:
    A few highlights in case you don't care to read all about it
    - "This is a grand day for the Democratic Peoples Republic Of Korea, whose citizens have sacrificed their wages, their food, and their lives so that our great nation could test a nuclear weapon thousands of feet beneath our own soil," read an excerpt from the statement. "Now the rest of the world must stand up and take notice that the DPRK, too, is capable of decimating years of its wealth at any given moment."
    - Across the country, North Korean citizens cheered wildly after learning their nation had violently transformed the equivalent of 2.3 billion hot meals, 11 million housing units, and 1,700 hospitals into their component atoms. Others celebrated by gleaning recently harvested rice paddies for leftover grains.
    - Yet, despite North Korea's claim that it will proceed with further nuclear testing, the international community is skeptical of whether it has the means to do so, in wake of news over the weekend that leader Kim Jong-Il has authorized the use of the remaining three percent of North Korea's GDP for the construction of six monuments bearing his likeness.
     
    Ouch...!  haha.
     
    In an unrelated, yet mildly related and equally cutting (pun intended...you'll see) site is the Korean equivalent: http://theyangpa.wordpress.com/ ("yangpa" in Korean = "onion" in whatever language that is). 
    If you are in Korea, the sarcasm will really be appreciated...if you are not in Korea, well then, I am not sure what you will make of it.
    Just a little quip from the yangpa related to the national pastime of getting cosmetic surgery:
     
    Number of Eyelids in Korea Nearly Doubles
    Despite no significant increase in the population, the number of eyelids in Korea has nearly doubled. In a completely unrelated story, a local plastic surgeon was seen rolling around in a pile of cash.

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    windbellwrote:
    hi,Scott~!Long time no see ,how are you ?
    You changed your background picture of space ,yes?
    So I can feel a differenct from before~!
    Are you busy recently? I'm a kinda ~! I do some additional experiments except classes.
    And in Harbin, it snow the other day.Maybe in Korea,it is still warm while here a little cold.
    So hope you didn't forget me ,a girl from China ,who will bless you all the time~!
    Nov. 18

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