An American student was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison with hard labor in North Korea after he admitted stealing a sign in a modern day tale of "Midnight Express."
Dennis Rodman returned from his 2nd visit to North Korea and, get ready for a shock, caused a scene at the Beijing airport. Rodman was upset that reporters had asked him what he had done for imprisoned American Kenneth Bae. Seeing as what he had actually done ran the gamut from "jack" all the way to "shit" Rodman went on a bizarre-even-by-Rodman-standards tirade. I think there
News travels slowly in a land with no internet, but this week's ugly internet rumor that Jon Bon Jovi had died did finally make it to North Korea. And, boy, were they upset!
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Earlier this week, news broke that Korean dictator Kim Jong Il passed away due to a heart attack, and everyone besides North Korea pretty much rejoiced. Jong Il was a pretty cruel leader, but thanks to the insane propaganda that was spread around North Korea his people believed some crazy things about him
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Kim Jong Il, the eccentric leader of North Korea since 1994, has died at the age of 69.
North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency reported that after “great mental and physical strain,” he passed away of a heart attack at 8:30 a.m. Saturday while on a train during a “field guidance tour.”
According to this post at Slate.com, Moammar Qaddafi might be dead, done in by a NATO airstrike on April 30. If so, President Obama and Team America have done in Public Enemy No. 1 and the guy who held that spot in 1986 in the span of two days!