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In triumph for Trudeau, China frees Canadian missionary detained near North Korean border for two years https://t.co/IyHsylEMxK

— James Pearson (@pearswick) September 18, 2016

A trail is flooded by heavy rains in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan on Sept. 17, 2016. The southern region has been affected by the influence of Typhoon Malakas that is headed northward with strong gusts. The country’s weather service, Korea Meteorological Administration, issued advisories or warnings for a number of southern cities, including Ulsan and Busan. (Yonhap)

What concerns is not North Korea’s statement, but where their foreign minister is making the statement from.  This would be a huge provocation against the US if they ever sold any of their increasingly capable missiles to Venezuela that could be pointed at the US.  Considering the current economic crisis in Venezuela this obviously is not a near term concern:

North Korea is ready to launch new attacks, the country’s foreign minister has said, suggesting the communist regime may take further provocative action following North Korea’s recent nuclear test.

“North Korea is ready to launch another attack in defiance of the provocations by the United States,” North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said.

He made the remarks during a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Venezuela on Thursday (local time).

Last week North Korea conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test, eight months after its fourth nuclear test.  [Yonhap]

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Has anyone ever tried traditional Korean gamhongro before?:

During the Japanese colonial era, there was a crackdown on home brewing, followed by the influx of alcoholic beverages from the West. Traditional Korean liquors subsequently faded from popular use, but have recently been making a comeback.

There is, for instance, gamhongro, literally “sweet red dew,” which was considered one of the three best liquors of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). This drink has been passed down by Lee Ki-sook, the 60-year-old daughter of Lee Kyung-chan (1915-1993), who was known for his ability to brew moonbaeju, a drink made from wheat and millet that has been placed on the National Intangible Cultural Heritage list. In modern times, gamhongro has only ever been produced within Lee’s family.

In former times, Koreans enjoyed gamhongro so much that it even appears in a traditional folk tale, titled “Byeoljubu-jeon,” which is about a turtle luring a rabbit into the sea to use its liver in order to cure its ailing king. The rabbit takes the bait when the turtle tells it that there is a plentiful supply of gamhongro lying in wait beneath the sea.

Before passing away, Kyung-chan taught the art of brewing to his two sons. Ki-choon, the elder son, learned the recipe for moonbaeju while Ki-yang, the younger son, was taught how to make gamhongro.

When Ki-yang died in 2000, gamhongro almost disappeared from the world forever, but feeling the dire need to pass on her father’s legacy, Ki-sook started making gamhongro based on what she had seen her father do.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

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Typhoon Malakas May Affect Korean Peninsula Late this Weekend https://t.co/ikgnHJzMKI #Korea #busan #seoul

— Haps Magazine (@hapsmagazine) September 15, 2016

South Korean National Assembly Speaker Chung Se-kyun (front row, 2nd from R) pays tribute at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12, 2016, during his visit to the United States, in this photo provided by the parliament. Chung is to hold talks with U.S. parliamentary leaders to discuss ways to cooperate amid heightened tensions caused by North Korea’s latest nuclear test. (Yonhap)

This just goes to show that even North Koreans can have a sense of humor:

This is satirical political comedy, Pyongyang style.

A recent episode of the snappily named “The stage of optimism that Songun presented — Volume 11,” which airs on state-controlled Korea Central Television (KCTV), lampooned the US leader and “oppressed” South Koreans ahead of the North’s nuclear warhead test this month.  [CNN]

Here is what former US President Bill Clinton thinks in regards to what to do about North Korea:

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said North Korea is a “funny country” that is good at making bombs and missiles, but unable to feed its people, and its leader Kim Jong-un appears to be “more militant than his father and grandfather.”

Clinton made the remark in an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose Tuesday night, saying he “worked very hard” with former Defense Secretary and North Korea policy coordinator William Perry and then Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili to prevent a nuclear-armed North Korea.

“I worked very hard to avert this when I was president. And my former defense secretary, Bill Perry, and General John Shalikashvili … They went there and said, you know, this can’t happen, and so we worked very hard to avoid it with some success,” Clinton said.

The former president declined to discuss what the North Korea policy of his wife Hillary Clinton would look like, saying he wants her to speak for herself. But he added that the Democratic presidential nominee has suggested that the U.S. should toughen the sanctions and try to get the support of Russia and China.

“North Korea is, it’s a funny country. That is, they’re good at making missiles and bombs, and they can’t bring in a rice crop,” Clinton said. “They believe that you, and the news media, and those of us who are in the political world, all over the world, that all of us, we never think about them unless they misbehave.”  [Yonhap]

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If anyone is wondering, there have been no sign of nuclear fallout landing in South Korea:

South Korea has yet to find any traces of radioactive materials from North Korea’s latest nuclear test, a nuclear safety commission here said Thursday, confirming the country remains safe from nuclear fallout.

“The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission has not found any traces of radionuclides, such as xenon, in its tests of soil, water and air samples following North Korea’s fifth nuclear test,” the commission said in a released statement.

The commission has been testing samples every 12 hours since Monday, two days after the communist North said it successfully conducted its latest nuclear detonation test.  [Yonhap]

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