Be sure to rug up warm tomorrow as heavy snowfall is expected across most of Gyeonggi-do.

Panmunjom is in the DMZ. In any case, I wrote my post from memory. You’ll have to find the original one to find what the guy had written. It’s hard to tell if he was lying without it.

VW sent a half dozen Phaetons and a boatload of Passats north last year.

Isn’t it ironic that the South Korean president will be held captive in NORK during the largest annual Wargame?

I can’t remember if it was here or in another blog, but an American soldier stationed along the DMZ claimed that he had seen shipments of gold being sent up north.

Are we agreeing, despite the severe flooding that has decimated over 10% of the NORK farmland and left countless thousands homeless with who knows how many killed, that this “dog and pony show” will still occur?

My vote is an 11th hour appeal by KJI to postpone the visit so he can “take care of his people” and Roh will be compelled to send an extra boat load of rice and cooking oil in his place.

Actually there’s more than just a consideration of trunk space involved, as you will realize if you give some careful (as opposed to disrespectful) thought to the matter. KDJ didn’t transfer the $500 million personally, did he? He used third parties not only to hide the transaction but to give DPRK plenty of time.

DPRK isn’t going to accept a cash transfer unless their experts have several days to examine all the banknotes, individually and thoroughly (don’t want to get stuck with more “supernotes”, got plenty of those already). In spite of your disrespectful jokes about a possible demise of our ROK President, DPRK/KJI aren’t in a position to unceremoniously detain him for several days under the eyes of the world press while this task is accomplished.

I suppose Krugerrands could be a solution but a couple hundred iron-jawed DPRK security men would have to be detailed to carefully bite down on each one while the summit is still ongoing. And there are power-to-weight considerations; even a powerfully-engined auto that is nevertheless armor-plated and full of Presidential party may not be able to climb the hills between Seoul and Pyongyang with the necessary authority, if the trunk is full of heavy, shining gold.

And offering to leave the car itself behind (cars? can’t read the article) could be positively dangerous, as it could be deemed an insult! Even twenty expensive foreign autos at $100,000 each, conveniently “forgotten” in Pyongyang (while the Presidential party flies back to Seoul to receive the acclaim of the masses) amounts to only $2 million in tribute; pshaw, that’s nothing.