By SHELTON BUMGARNER
Marmot’s Hole Guest Blogger
“Dynamic Korea” lived up to its name this week, with Dr. Hwang Woo Suk announcing that he’d cloned man’s best friend, leaving the possibility of man himself being next the pink elephant in the scientific room.
The response from Western media was swift and expected:
The lead Seoul National researcher, Woo Suk Hwang, has been hailed as a champion cloner, with success from lab rats to a cloned pig strain that could suppress rejection of pig organs by humans. Now he’s a father of sorts to the no-doubt well-loved Snuppy. It’s a tour de force for its difficulty. But is it really anything else? We hope not.
Meanwhile, the six-party talks seemed to be on a road to nowhere, with positive news seemly tapering off into an unsettling calm of foreboding.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Six-party talks to defuse the North Korean nuclear crisis will continue into another day but negotiators may call a recess allowing them to return home for consultations, Japan’s chief negotiator said on Saturday.
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The talks appear to have become bogged down over North Korea’s insistence that it be allowed to keep programmes to generate electricity. Washington is demanding a complete, verifiable dismantling of all of its nuclear programmes.
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To bridge the gap, Washington had offered North Korea the right to pursue peaceful nuclear activities if it agreed to the strict terms of the non-proliferation treaty (NPT), a diplomatic source said. Pyongyang rejected the proposal because of the strings attached.
U.S. officials have not confirmed the report of the offer, which would mark a softening in Washington’s position.
Despite a well-known history of not being trustworthy when it comes to any sort of nuclear technology, the DPRK is on the verge of allowing its last, best, hope of extricating itself from its current rock and a hard place position slip through its fingers by rejecting the generous power offer now on the table.
Koreans were momentarily diverted from brooding over a growing wiretapping-slush fund scandal mixing Samsung and high-powered politicians this week when they were forced to come to grips with the fact the nude bouncing of a couple of knucklehead punks was captured on a live MBC video feed for four seconds and broadcast nationwide.
The Quote of the Week comes from the AP, regarding ‘Gochu-gate’:
“It’s as if they’ve committed sexual violence against all viewers,” the mass-circulation Joong-Ang Ilbo newspaper said in an editorial Monday.
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Sorry to digress but this story was so funny.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.....airline_dc
What was this guy thinking? The woman may appreciate his advance? He watched a way too many X-rated movies.
7 years in prison!
Deepak, you’re all wet.
“Skin cells taken from Jahagirdar, an Arizona man whom authorities said did not know the woman, showed a “significant quantity of the victim’s DNA was present on his hands” after the incident, the statement said.”
If Deepak can hire the Dream Team, he can get off. OJ did it.
Here is how he can do it.
1) Sexual history of the victim: She is not a careful person. Dig some dirt. She may had some abortions and wild parties.
2) Special agents: See if any one had bad feelings about any minority, especially about Indians. Did he make jokes about that Indian character in the Simpsons?
3) DNA match: You can hire some experts who will throw doubts about the findings. Was the sample contaminated? Was the chain of custody kept? Any breaks? Who did the testing? Certifications?
Heck, even I can get him off.
” I was just pulling the blanket, which was mine, toward me and then I noticed her fly was open. I woke her up to tell her that. She went berserk.”
If everything fails, use “Race” card.
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Baduk just brutally violated this thread, someone get him his meds.
Sorry about hijacking the thread. However, the topic was so dry that it needed livening up.
Bumgarner, you are too serious. In the fever to cover all stories, you are losing interesting tidbits.
Let’s get more human interest stories, shall we?
“???????? ?????? ??????????” hahahaha….
For those who have not seen it yet, I present the NK showgirls.
http://photo.donga.com/usr/pho.....dxno=37661