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China-Japan-Koreas
China to Kim Jong-un: Take a Plane, Not a Train
2011-04-15
Here's hoping...
Beijing has apparently asked North Korean heir apparent Kim Jong-un to fly on his next visit to China instead of using a train like his father. Diplomatic sources on Wednesday said China feels a rail trip would make it very difficult to protect him.

China has suffered headaches closing off roads and railways due to Kim senior's bizarre habit of travelling abroad only by special armored train. The border crossing alone would attract hordes of foreign journalists and armies of flunkies, and Chinese citizens posted complaints on the Internet about the inconvenience of the traffic disruptions along the way.

Unlike his father, who is generally believed to suffer from a morbid fear of assassination flying, Kim Jong-un is thought to be comfortable with airplanes since he went to school in Switzerland, which is out of range of the paternal conveyance. Kim senior has mounted the fire horse to China no fewer than eight times since 2000, and in 2001 he spent 21 days chuffing all the way to Moscow.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  ION YONHAP > TWO KOREAS TO HOLD EXPERT TALKS ON THE RISK OF MOUNT PAEKDU IN PYONGYANG ERUPTING IN MAY.

Some MSM-Net Perts are arguing that an eruption there could be a BiG ONE, WID SERIOUS REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OUTSIDE OF JUST THE TWO KOREAS???

Espec for RISING CHINA'S VITAL NE INDUSTRIAL SECTORS, + already QUAKE-TSUNAMI HIT JAPAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-15 20:41  

#8  Kim won't get in the "Mile High Club" that way.
Posted by: Glalet Hapsburg3231   2011-04-15 19:58  

#7  Kim Dung Un "Yes massa"!
Posted by: newc   2011-04-15 12:32  

#6  "In Radio Prison, they wash brain of this unfortunate. Hang it up in cool seagull breeze to dry..."
-- Firesign Theatre
"Yung Guy, Moto Detective"
Posted by: mojo   2011-04-15 11:27  

#5  I ran across this recently:

OSS Training Film on Train Derailment.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-04-15 09:34  

#4  Yeah, never heard of stalled train falling 20,000 feet.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-04-15 09:21  

#3  Plane crashes are more reliable. With trains you have to knock down a bridge, and still need ground people to insure that dumb luck hasn't intervened. Gravity usually overcomes dumb luck.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-04-15 07:59  

#2  Kim Jong-un sez:

Well, I might take a plane
I might take a train
But if I got to walk
I'll get there just the same

Goin' to Beijing City
Beijing City here I come
They got some crazy little freebies there
And I'm gonna get me some

Well, I've been sittin' around waitin'
for my old man to die
Got to take a break from NORK-land
And that's the reason why I'm

Goin' to Beijing City
Beijing City here I come
They got some crazy little freebies there
And I'm gonna get me some

[with apologies to the late Wilbert Harrison]
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2011-04-15 02:26  

#1  Uh, uh, ... AND "AUTOMOBILES"???

Gut nuthin.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-15 01:52  

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