North Korea Not Responding to U.S. Requests About Soldier Who Defected
I wonder if Private King now wishes he got on the aircraft last week?:
State Department Press Secretary Matthew Miller is seen answering questions during a daily press briefing at the department in Washington on July 24, 2023 in this captured image. (Yonhap)
The United States has not had any substantive response from North Korea about the safety of a U.S. service member who crossed the inter-Korean border into the reclusive state last week, a state department spokesperson said Monday.
Matthew Miller also said the North has not responded to any requests, including those from United Nations Command (UNC), to confirm the whereabouts or well-being of the U.S. soldier.
“It is my understanding that there have been no new communication since last week. communications that happened in the early days,” the department spokesperson told a daily press briefing when asked if there has been any communication with North Korea.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but King will be used as a bargaining chip at some point when North Korea needs to use him. They just don’t need to play that card yet.
Paging Dennis Rodman.
Have you seen the NK music scene?
Appalling and outdated.
They aren’t giving him back.
They need aspiring DJs.
Corporal Park is queuing for potatoes. He’s been waiting three hours, as the queue moves forward, when the grocer comes out of the shop and announces, ‘Sorry – we’re out of potatoes for today!’
Corporal Park is furious. ‘This is ridiculous!’ he yells. ‘I slaughtered priests in Angola, I mortared civilians in Zimbabwe, I work my fingers to the bone in the factory – surely the least I can expect is a few potatoes!’
And then a young commissar appears at his shoulder. ‘Hush, ajeossi,’ he says. ‘You’re upsetting people. Things aren’t so bad. Remember what this kind of behaviour would have got you in the old days…’ And he lifts aside his jacket to show a holstered pistol. Corporal Park’s hwabyeong is stifled and he wearily shuffles home.
‘Why so sad, yeobo?’ asks his wife. ‘Have they run out of potatoes?’
‘It’s worse than that,’ says Corporal Park: ‘They have given all their bullets to Putin!’
Stephen, that’s pretty funny!!!
Plot Twist:
They didn’t “give” Putin anything.
They sold everything.
…so you would think there would be some potatoes.