Thailand celebrates 'supportive' relationship with North Korea

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Thailand celebrates 'supportive' relationship with North Korea
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- Thailand celebrated 40 years of diplomatic relations with North Korea this month.

The two nations released commemorative postage stamps featuring their national birds, the Northern Goshawk and Siamese fireback, meaning citizen-internees of the DPRK can swell with pride when their pre-opened mail shows up three months late.

“We support human causes in the DPRK,” Thai diplomat Cherdchai Chaivaivid said vaguely and uncomfortably in an interview with state broadcaster NBT World. “Both countries support each other in the international community.” [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2015/05/28/thailand-celebrates-supportive-relationship-north-korea


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-05-28

[Jingthing]

Why?

This is about the Thai-China love fest, yes?

[NextStationBangkok]

Bazooka!

Why not, we are going in the same direction....

[KhunMoo]

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[GinBoy2]

Sometimes all you can do is hang your head with disbelief.

Seriously, we're now celebrating relations with the most bizarre authoritarian and all round bat shit crazy regime? I'm almost ready to celebrate fixing deck chair and taxi scams, helluva lot less crazy!

[EyesWideOpen]

Calendar check. Nope, not April 1st. Hmmm. Celebrating relations

with a bat shit crazy regime as one poster put it so well. Other western

countries must read these news stories, and shake their head in

amazement.

[Morakot]

[zydeco]

Somebody is just dying to get themselves on the US trade sanctions list.

[toybits]

I am reminded about that saying about birds and their plumage...

[Jingthing]

What's next?

A celebration of the Thai love of Hitler t-shirts?

[Bluespunk]

"The two nations released commemorative postage stamps featuring their national birds, the Northern Goshawk and Siamese fireback, meaning citizen-internees of the DPRK can swell with pride when their pre-opened mail shows up three months late."

OK, I'm not a fan of coconuts or some of the nonsense they present as news, but that sentence is sheer bloody genius.

Kudos.

[cmsally]

All smooth until some unsuspecting Thai official falls asleep at an official function ! (Check recent news stories for details.)

[ratcatcher]

Gosh, what a coincidence, the flags are nearly the same. Maybe when the Chinese finish taking over Thailand, they can add the star.

[Morakot]

Gosh, what a coincidence, the flags are nearly the same. Maybe when the Chinese finish taking over Thailand, they can add the star.

flag-pins-thailand-north-korea.jpg

kju.jpgpco.jpg

[Always18]

By the friends you choose, you will be judged................

[baboon]

Sometimes all you can do is hang your head with disbelief.

Seriously, we're now celebrating relations with the most bizarre authoritarian and all round bat shit crazy regime? I'm almost ready to celebrate fixing deck chair and taxi scams, helluva lot less crazy!

Dislike them all you want, but there is nothing crazy at all about the D.P.R.K. leadership. They know exactly what they are doing.

[zydeco]

Sometimes all you can do is hang your head with disbelief.

Seriously, we're now celebrating relations with the most bizarre authoritarian and all round bat shit crazy regime? I'm almost ready to celebrate fixing deck chair and taxi scams, helluva lot less crazy!

Dislike them all you want, but there is nothing crazy at all about the D.P.R.K. leadership. They know exactly what they are doing.

Mass murder = psychopath = crazy. At least in my book.

[Morakot]

the D.P.R.K. leadership. They know exactly what they are doing.

That's exactly the problem and makes it so hard to find any mitigating circumstances.

[Bluespunk]

Sometimes all you can do is hang your head with disbelief.

Seriously, we're now celebrating relations with the most bizarre authoritarian and all round bat shit crazy regime? I'm almost ready to celebrate fixing deck chair and taxi scams, helluva lot less crazy!

Dislike them all you want, but there is nothing crazy at all about the D.P.R.K. leadership. They know exactly what they are doing.

Possibly the first two generations did but the guy in power right now is clearly a clueless trigger happy fruit cake.

[GinBoy2]

Sometimes all you can do is hang your head with disbelief.

Seriously, we're now celebrating relations with the most bizarre authoritarian and all round bat shit crazy regime? I'm almost ready to celebrate fixing deck chair and taxi scams, helluva lot less crazy!

Dislike them all you want, but there is nothing crazy at all about the D.P.R.K. leadership. They know exactly what they are doing.

You have a curious definition of whats not crazy!

[lostoday]

I don't want to say anything that would upset anyone but as one of the hero nations of the battle of Pork Chop Hill isn't Thailand still at war with N. Korea?

[baboon]

With the mods permission:

https://youtu.be/7NycnRpFgCQ

[Morakot]

https://youtu.be/7NycnRpFgCQ

3:06 strategic goals of the leaders - no longer unification or economic development, but to die natural deaths in their own beds (not in exile) at an old age

10:30 Rule 1 - No reforms (ie, Chinese-style, market economy)

22:40 Rule 2 - Keep nukes (protects against outside & inside enemies)

27:15 without reform, North Korea can't produce enough food to feed its population, but with nukes (or offers to slow down their development) it can blackmail China, Japan, South Korea, and the US to give it food

31:29 Rule 3 - kill dissenters - zero tolerance for any political dissent

...

[deckape]

I know this is a little OT but watch the coconuts video. There is footage of a Thai A380 landing...stock footage I guess. Is it me or is that landing a little shaky? Looks like the aircraft is rolling significantly on final approach.

[h90]

Sometimes all you can do is hang your head with disbelief.

Seriously, we're now celebrating relations with the most bizarre authoritarian and all round bat shit crazy regime? I'm almost ready to celebrate fixing deck chair and taxi scams, helluva lot less crazy!

Dislike them all you want, but there is nothing crazy at all about the D.P.R.K. leadership. They know exactly what they are doing.

Mass murder = psychopath = crazy. At least in my book.

Bush

Obama

Churchill

have killed lot more people (including civilians women, children) than the crazy one in NK.

[h90]

Don't forget his father bought a complete brewery in Great Britain disassembled it there and sent it to NK to produce cheap good quality beer for his people.

Whenever did my government worry for my thirst?

[phoenixdoglover]

"The two nations released commemorative postage stamps featuring their national birds, the Northern Goshawk and Siamese fireback, meaning citizen-internees of the DPRK can swell with pride when their pre-opened mail shows up three months late."

OK, I'm not a fan of coconuts or some of the nonsense they present as news, but that sentence is sheer bloody genius.

Kudos.

Indeed.

I am reminded of the comments by the daughter of Google Chairman Schmidt, after visiting N. Korea and being shown a room full of people supposedly web surfing.

"One problem: No one was actually doing anything. A few scrolled or clicked, but the rest just stared. More disturbing: when our group walked in--a noisy bunch, with media in tow--not one of them looked up from their desks. Not a head turn, no eye contact, no reaction to stimuli. They might as well have been figurines. "

"Of all the stops we made, the e-Potemkin Village was among the more unsettling. We knew nothing about what we were seeing, even as it was in front of us. Were they really students? Did our handlers honestly think we bought it? Did they even care? Photo op and tour completed, maybe they dismantled the whole set and went home."

More hilarity at https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/home

[ABCer]

In the past 12 months I remember three posts of this quality.

One was about Hitler fried chicken and chips.

The second was the Chula graduates with a Nazi salute.

This "celebration" is the third.

Frankly speaking I tried to write off the first to the shop owner's stupidity.

It was much more difficult to consider Chula Graduates stupid. But I tried to assign it to Thai Education System shortfalls.

Could somebody help me to classify this one, please. "Kindred spirits" comes to mind. But our Leader looks much more dignified.

I am really lost.

[BigBadGeordie]

Sometimes all you can do is hang your head with disbelief.

Seriously, we're now celebrating relations with the most bizarre authoritarian and all round bat shit crazy regime? I'm almost ready to celebrate fixing deck chair and taxi scams, helluva lot less crazy!

Dislike them all you want, but there is nothing crazy at all about the D.P.R.K. leadership. They know exactly what they are doing.

Possibly the first two generations did but the guy in power right now is clearly a clueless trigger happy fruit cake.

Come on, stop messing about, tell us what you really think of him ;-)

[baboon]

I know this is a little OT but watch the coconuts video. There is footage of a Thai A380 landing...stock footage I guess. Is it me or is that landing a little shaky? Looks like the aircraft is rolling significantly on final approach.

No, not Pyongyang. Sunan airport is much smaller.