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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:12 AM
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Kim Jong Il: I'm an Internet expert

The Associated Press
http://www.bnd.com/breaking_news/story/145499.html

SEOUL, South Korea --North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an "Internet expert" during summit talks with South Korea's president this week, a news report said Friday.

The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun asked that South Korean companies operating at an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed to use the Internet, Yonhap news agency reported, without citing any source.

"I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired," Kim told Roh, according to Yonhap.

"If that problem is addressed, there is no reason not to open" the Internet, Kim said.
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North Korea is one of the world's most closed nations, with the totalitarian regime tightly controlling outside information and tolerating no dissent. Radios and TV sets in North Korea can only receive state broadcasts and ordinary people are banned from using mobile phones, let alone the Internet.
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Kim reportedly asked former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her e-mail address when she visited Pyongyang in 2000. A North Korean general cracked a joke about President Bush during high-level military talks with the South earlier this year, saying he read it on the Internet.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:16 AM
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1. This should give Stephanie Miller and Jim Ward some material
to fill 5 minutes of their show.
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lynnertic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:18 AM
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2. I'd like to see his MySpace page.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:19 AM
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3. Drinking Game: How many times will Al Gore's name be mentioned?
Break out the phone number for AA, folks, we're about to go on a bender!
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:19 AM
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4. And Bushler reads 60 books a year...
These fucking tyrants are all alike at bottm. They are all preening little liars with a murderous thanatos complex.

Bushler and Kim Jong-Il. Peas in a pod. Kissin' cousins, mentally-speaking.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:21 AM
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5. I'm a very good driver.
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renie408 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 09:04 AM
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8. LOL...n/t
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:26 AM
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6. Sic Vint Cerf on him.
n/t
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 08:27 AM
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7. But is he an internets expert?
That's what I'd like to know.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 11:26 AM
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9. Compared to moron*, he is an expert. nt
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gorekerrydreamticket Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 01:25 PM
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10. on porn, no doubt.....n/t
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