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Happy New Year!
Thanks for running an excellenyt blog. I always look forward to visiting.
Don’t drink too much soju and good luck at kut.
Akemashita Omedetou Gozaimase from across the nearby sea
“Sae hae bok manhi baduseyo” to you and the always-entertaining crew who post on your blog.
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Kevin
I hope that everyone had a good turn of the axis, tilted though it may be and wobbling along on a 26,000-year cycle.
Sorry to have been so silent lately — somehow, life has gotten in the way of comments. I’m always lurking though …
Jeffery Hodges
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I am a new visitor from Taiwan.
“The Marmot’s Hole” is a very interesting Blog.
Very good job~~~
Not to be outdone by you, M, the DPRK has sent out New Year’s greetings as well. From this morning’s US broadcast of Headline News (Sat 1 Jan PST):
“North Korea New Year Message — US moves against it could lead to war on the Korean Peninsula”
[a "News Brief" (ie text display on bottom of screen)]
Couldn’t find any story to support this at CNN.com, but in a web search I found what seemed to be several references to previous New Year’s messages from the DPRK. Kimsoft.com has archived the 2003 version (http://www.kimsoft.com/2003/nk-2003.htm).
Perhaps just a few words are rearranged annually, and the same basic thing is reissued each year?
No, wait, this presents an interesting problem for the nameless DPRK Communist functionary charged with writing it. If he just resubmits the same thing as last year, he get chewed for lack of originality; but, if he gets too inventive, he could be sent to the camps for being a dangerous reactionary.
The solution: take good notes on the Dear Leader’s speeches all year, and feed him back some of his earlier lines (innovatively rearranged). Then pray to Lenin that he’s in a good mood when the draft is sent in for approval!
Imagine if our functionary had had a few too many, and in drunken good feeling simply submitted
“Wishing you all the very best in 2005″
as you have done here. My goodness, it’s enough to make one wince. Better for him if he was swept out to sea by a tsunami.
In my ignorance I didn’t realize that the western calendar new year would be such an occasion for grandiose DPRK pronouncements. I suppose I had a vague notion of the Chinese calendar, and the happy images of Hong Kong & various USA Chinatown Chinese New Year celebrations.
I suppose Korea used that calendar (or something similar) before westernization? But now of course that’s one of the old ways & totally rejected by communism. 5 year plans are in; dragons weaving down the street with firecrackers popping are definitely out.
(Do they do that in South Korea, or is that strictly Chinese? Surely everybody likes firecrackers…even a hardened DPRK general officer would smile, as he is reminded of 25,000 rounds a minute crashing down on Seoul).
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