North Korea, while officially advising foreign diplomats to leave the country, continues to encourage the visits from foreign tour groups. The photo shows a group of North Korean citizens excitedly welcoming the foreign tourists with the signs roughly translated from Korean as “Welcome hostages!”
North Korea’s rhetoric, never exactly conciliatory, grew even more hostile in the recent weeks. The country’s leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to incinerate the United States and South Korea, asked foreign diplomats to leave the country, and moved the missile launchers closer to the coast. Last week, North Korea even posted threatening clips on YouTube, signaling that the hostility escalated to the whole new level. So what’s really behind North Korea’s aggressive behavior? Here are 10 possible reasons.
1) The country’s attitude turned much more hawkish since Kim Jong Un appointed Dick Cheney as Vice Supreme Leader of North Korea.
2) Bashar al-Assad asked Kim Jong Un for a friendly favor, one deranged dictator to another, to distract media attention while he’s trying to quietly get rid of those pesky Syrian rebels.
3) This behavior is just North Korean version of March Madness.
4) Kim Jong Un keeps visiting the army units and inspecting front lines, because he wants to delay as much as possible his inevitable return to the dreaded household chores at home.
5) There is a severe food shortage in North Korea, and we all tend to act crankier when we are hungry.
6) Kim Jong Un watched too much Fox News and became convinced that Obama is coming after him to take away his guns.
7) North Korea is conducting military testing to test the patience of the United States and South Korea.
8) Kim Jong Un is trying to score some free PR to help him land a guest spot on the Honey Boo Boo reality show.
9) During his recent visit to North Korea, Dennis Rodman must have introduced Kim Jong Un to some powerful mind-altering stuff, probably coffee.
10) Kim Jong Un is upset that US Department of State denied his green card application.
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Oh yeah… another Dick Cheney slam… you know I never get sick of those… Maybe the guy is just making up for having a really small…. country…
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I know you don’t. In fact, it’s your work that keeps Dick Cheney in my mind.
It certainly makes sense that Kim Jong Un is getting Dick to compensate for his… his country…
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Oh yeah… tie it all together and wrap it with a bow!
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You know, tying Cheney and Un together isn’t such a bad idea…
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Can they be naked?
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This is an unusual request, but I’ll see if that can be arranged.
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Definitely number 5 ! Someone should just make him a sandwich.
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Lil Kim looks awfully well fed, though clearly his brain isn’t getting enough vitamins.
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Agreed! Maybe he needs to do some sun bathing, that vitamin D can do wonders for a bad mood! 😉
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Unless he gets a sunstroke while sunbathing, then everyone is screwed 🙂
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Brilliant! Demented … but brilliant!
I think it was the combination of Dick Cheney and Fox (sic) News that did him under.
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Thank you! “Demented”, that’s a compliment I don’t often get. 🙂
A combination of Cheney and Fox can do anyone under.
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Great list! Numbers 1,7,8 are faves.
A couple other possibilities:
1. He proposed to Chinese beauty Qi Shu and was rudely shut down. Probably because of his small…country…
2. Trade restrictions on luxury items have stymied his diet of Lobster, Caviar, Kobi Ribeye, and New York Cheesecake. Now he has consume whole farm animals at a time to maintain his girth. The situation has made him very cranky.
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Thank you, I read that North Koreans were very upset that Chinese joined the UN sanctions and stopped the shipments of Rolexes to the regime.
But what made you think Kim proposed to Qi Shu? I heard he really liked Dennis Rodman.
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Rodman wasn’t willing to wear a dress “as often” as Kim would like.
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Yes, Kim Jong Un and his ridiculous notion that people should wear clothes in public….
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Haha!
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Part of it was a miscommunication with one of his generals who said “Nuke the Chinese” and was talking about the leftovers. [stolen from somewhere :-)]
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It would have been miscommunication, if North Korea actually have a microwave…. 🙂
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Chortle…….
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You had to figure Cheney was involved.
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Lol! #1 is my fave also..Well done, again@List of X. Glad to see you back in action blogging again..
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Thank you! I’m almost back – just to finish that post for you, and I’ll be more or less up to date. Except now it’s Monday and back to work overload again….
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You’re so very welcome; always. And take your time for the best things in life are worth the wait…I appreciate your efforts and willing to be I’ll love it. Stay uplifted and encouraged this week at work. 🙂
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I figure that Cheney is always somehow involved. Anytime there’s a war, he’s my first suspect.
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Mine too until his April 1 “conversion.” 🙂
http://dougandrhonda.blogspot.de/2013/04/dick-cheney-admits-mistakes.html
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He’s had so much practice drunkenly shooting his friends in the face, that makes total sense. Also he creeps me out.
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Are you referring to Dick Cheney or Kim Jong Un here? 🙂
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Yes.
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Who needs Fox news when we have you?
Well done!
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Thank you! But the more appropriate question would be, “Who needs Fox news at all?”
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Nobody with half a brain, that’s for sure!
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I’m with you on # 3. And maybe he’s just UNhappy about his name being Kim Jong UN.
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Oh yes, I imagine United Nations experiences severe conflict of interest when it has to impose sanctions on Kim Jong UN.
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Love it! so UNconventional of you.
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I like #3 the best. Simple case of March Madness run amok. Hey, what can you say about a nuclear-armed dictator who idolizes Dennis Rodman? And we all thought Rodman went away, didn’t we?
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Jest because Rodman stopped playing, it doesn’t mean he’s gone away. He’s off the TV, but he can still visit foreign countries and suck up to random dictators.
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Brilliant, funny, intelligent and just plain fun to read!
Thanks!
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Thank you!
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I just realized this post was from 2013. It was recommended to me on your site. Funny thing is, it took me a while to believe it was later, because things are much the same, except now we have our savior to make it better, Donald Trump. Yay.
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We’re so much safer now that Donald Trump keeps us safe from our enemies like Canada and Japan.
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He definitely deserves that Peace Prize!
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He also deserves the Nobel prize in economics for the US economy doing so well, a Nobel prize in physics for being so smart, and a Nobel prize in medicine for being so healthy without any exercise.
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And of course literature for his voluminous twitter ‘writings’.
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Yes, absolutely.
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