It's Labor Camps for Those in North Korea who Failed to Show Emotion on Death of Kim Jong-il

More proof most government leaders are nutty madmen (North Korea edition)

PIK.TV reports:

North Korean citizens, who did not take part in the mourning ceremonies for the country’s late Leader Kim Jong-il, are facing up to six months in labor camps, Interfax reported January 11.

According to the South Korean media sources, “People’s Courts” took place all over the country starting December 29 to condemn those who did not show enough emotion after the death of “the great leader” Kim Jong-il.

The People’s Court hearings were reportedly over by January 8. The behavior of those people, who criticized the three-generation principle of ruling the country, was also a matter of discussion during the court meetings.

It was reported earlier that 2012 calendars were fully taken out of stores because the date of death of the late Leader Kim Jong-il was not marked in them.

Kim Jong-il died December 17 of a heart attack in his armored train. The North Korean government, now headed by his son, Kim Jong-un, has promised to continue implementing “the great revolutionary leaders’ ideas” with the aim of reuniting the Korean Peninsula

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How the CIA Would Like Us to View North Korea's Kim Jong Un

If you read the New York Post regularly, you begin to realize that they are Johnny on the spot when it comes to unflattering profiles of foreign leaders who are not viewed favorably by the U.S. government.

And if one of the leaders is captured by the U.S., NyPo will be the first to report that the leader had pictures of Hitler on his closet wall or at least porn videos (See: Osama bin Laden).

Here's what went down with Noriega, as reported by Malcom Lagauche in his book, The Mother of All Battles: The Endless U.S.-Iraq War:

After the 1989 invasion of Panama, the U.S. allowed the press to enter Manuel Noriega’s office. He was portrayed as a sexual pervert. In the office were pictures of young boys, a picture of Hitler, red underpants and pornographic magazines.

A few months later, the first Marine to enter Noriega’s office was released from the Corps. He eventually talked to a reporter and gave his story of the encounter. He maintained that the contents of the office included only a desk, a telephone, a chair, and a typewriter.

Bottom line: When the government needs to define someone, the CIA puts a call into NyPo, along with other news organizations, with a whopper of a story. Thus, it is not surprising that today's NyPo has a profile of new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The profile says that he is a comic book-reading, Chicago Bulls fan, apparently watching Bulls games with a thumb on a nuclear missile launch button. Here's NyPo:

Much about Jong Un remains a state secret, including his age — speculation centers on 27 or 28 — the identity of his mother and his own marital status.

Former US envoy Bill Richardson, who has visited Pyongyang, said the power vacuum created by his father’s death raises “extreme concern because North Korea and the peninsula is a tinderbox.” 

He said the next 24 hours would determine how firmly Kim Jong Un is in control. That’s important because North Korea is believed to have enough plutonium for eight atomic bombs

.According to NyPo, here's how Kim Jong Un got the nod over his two older brothers:

Kim Jong Un is the youngest of three sons of a bizarrely dysfunctional family. His older brother Kim Jong Nam apparently lost his chance to succeed Kim Jong Il after he was caught in 2001 trying to sneak into Japan — using a bogus Dominican Republic passport — to visit the Tokyo version of Disneyland. Another brother, Kim Jong Chol, was said to have been ruled out of the succession race because he is “too effeminate.”

Kim Jong Un is known to speak English, German and French that he picked up in a Swiss boarding school, which he attended under an alias. 

Classmates said he was quiet and seemed to be shy or sullen and uncomfortable with women.

Nice, we now "know" there is a gay brother and a leader uncomfortable with women. The CIA just got the anti-gay conservative right and the women's movement to hate Jong Un, within three paragraphs of copy. Some of this about Jong Un may be true, or all of it, or none of it, just know that the report was very likely put through the CIA filter to put Jong Un in the most unflattering light possible.

Newt Gingrich's Plan to Blast North Korea with Orbiting Death Rays

A preview of Newt Gingrich, Commander-in-Chief.

In April of 2009, Gingrich went on Fox News to declare that North Korea's impending launch of a missile must be stopped — with "whatever preemptive actions are necessary!" reports Wired.

"I'd find a way to have either a small team go in, or a way to deliver either a laser or another kind of device," Gingrich noted.

Gingrich was likely talking about the Airborne Laser, the jumbo jet tricked out with a missile-zapping directed energy cannon. As Speaker of the House, Newt had intervened several times to keep the project alive, despite broken deadlines and mushrooming costs, according to Wired.

Despite being $4 billion over budget, "none of [its] seven critical technologies are fully mature after more than a decade of development," the Government Accountability Office noted in a report.

Wired continues:

Not long after Gingrich's suggestion to use the laser, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates radically scaled back the Airborne Laser effort — and repeatedly pointed to it as an example of everything that was dumb and wrong about the Pentagon's weapon-development process.

As for the North Korean missile that Gingrich so feared, it was as big a flop as the laser Gingrich wanted to fight it with. The missile's first stage fell into the Sea of Japan, and the remaining stages landed in the Pacific Ocean.