Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) — The statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il riding on horses together were erected at the Mansudae Art Studio with approach of the Day of the Shining Star. Their construction, the first of its kind in the history of the Workers’ Party of Ko[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Goldfinger’
February 14th, 2012 - 12:17 am § in Uncategorized
Valentine’s Day, North Korea: Statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Erected
February 12th, 2012 - 11:07 am § in Misc.
Apple/FOXCONN Workers Pledge Not To Suicide
You are NOT allowed to commit suicide: Workers in Chinese iPad factories forced to sign pledges Factories making sought-after Apple iPads and iPhones in China are forcing staff to sign pledges not to commit suicide, an investigation has revealed. At least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China hav[...]
February 3rd, 2012 - 5:39 pm § in Misc.
Interview with Kim Jong Il
The Onion, PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—In surprisingly candid remarks today following his father’s death, Kim Jong-un, heir apparent to North Korea’s highest government post, expressed doubt that he was sufficiently out of his mind to succeed longtime dictator Kim Jong-il. Kim says the task[...]
February 3rd, 2012 - 11:02 am § in Misc.
More Pressure on Apple
What’s the dirty secret behind all our glittering tech gadgets? That question was on the minds of many this week as The New York Times turned up the heat on a long-simmering story about Apple supplier Foxconn’s labor practices (and Apple’s response to the situation). In the followi[...]
January 31st, 2012 - 10:37 am § in Misc.
Is Apple in North Korea?
More evidence of something peculiar happening in the hermit kingdom. In 2008, Korea’s Dear Leader blessed his subjects with the gift of 3G. Now iPhones are showing up in the hands of North Korean military even though cellphones have been banned as part of the country’s 100 days of mo[...]
January 28th, 2012 - 3:51 pm § in Misc.
South Korea opening up to the iPAD?
South Korea has reversed a decision that banned games from the iOS App Store. For the past several years, the South Korean App Store has not included games due to concerns about objectionable content that could not be easily filtered. This decision to ban games was made by the Games Ratings Board, a[...]
China: The Precipice of Cheap Labor
New technologies will likely cause the same hollowing out of China’s manufacturing industry over the next two decades that the U.S experienced over the past twenty years. That’s right. America is destined to once again gain its supremacy in manufacturing, and it will soon be China’s turn to wo[...]
January 21st, 2012 - 12:25 pm § in Misc.
APPLE: More rumors about “Goldfinger”
Another very strange bit of evidence about Apple’s project Goldfinger has emerged from videos coming out at North Korea mourns its Dear Departed Leader. In going through this video on a frame editor, my contact came across this single older frame that seems to suggest Koreans were also mournin[...]
January 10th, 2012 - 12:49 am § in America
Steve Jobs Returns?
A $99 posable figure Steve Jobs action figure appears to have elicited an immune response from the corpus of Apple. The company, In Icons, has been nown to make other effigies, including the figures of Kim Jong Il apparently used by North Korea in some of the photographs taken after the Dear Leade[...]
Analysis of New North Korean Leader
“Kim Jong-un is a pale reflection of his father and grandfather. He has not had the decades of grooming and securing of a power base that Jong-il enjoyed before assuming control from his father,” said Bruce Klingner, an Asia policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. “[...]