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85 Year Old Korean War Veteran Held In North Korea

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  • #2
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    ....mentalists all right.


  • #3
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    North Korea really need to work on their PR.


  • #4
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    North Korea really need to work on their PR.

    Apparently, Kim Jong Un has had ex NBA player Dennis Rodman over as a guest, with a view to organising a basketball match between the USA and North Korea, sponsored by Paddy Power.

    I'm not making this up.


  • #5
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Actually he's not a Korean war vet, who share's the same name, but yeah, brings it up to 9 the number of US prisoners over there now

    Probably will be bargained at a later stage for trainloads of lobster or Swiss ski lifts "for the people"


  • #6
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Struggling to see why anyone would want to 'tour' North Korea.


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  • #7
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,071 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Wattle wrote: »
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/family-detained-korean-war-vet-merrill-newman-worried/story?id=21000290

    Hope he gets to go home soon. What a bunch of paranoid nutters.

    I know right.. only a nation of absolute lunatics or savages would detain foreigners like that and hold them for extended periods of time without any evidence of wrongdoing, and with no expectation of a fair trial. That **** would never happen in a developed and progressive nation.


  • #8
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I know right.. only a nation of absolute lunatics or savages would detain foreigners like that and hold them for extended periods of time without any evidence of wrongdoing, and with no expectation of a fair trial. That **** would never happen in a developed and progressive nation.

    Here he comes lookin to start a fight. What a surprise :rolleyes:

    They're holding an 85 year old guy who is no threat to anyone. Don't you think that's a touch paranoid? But no you twist it any way you want. I should of course have denounced every nation on earth that has dodgy policies and listed them all individually in my post just to satisfy you.


  • #9
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Misleading Headline is misleading!!!

    I thought the mad bast@ards were still holding a US Korean War Vet....since....the Korean war. Me is disappoint!


  • #10
    KwackerJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    Send in Delta Force....if only the existed!!


  • #11
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Wattle wrote: »
    Here he comes lookin to start a fight. What a surprise :rolleyes:

    They're holding an 85 year old guy who is no threat to anyone. Don't you think that's a touch paranoid? But no you twist it any way you want. I should of course have denounced every nation on earth that has dodgy policies and listed them all individually in my post just to satisfy you.
    Yeah right. I was heading into Tesco there a while ago and a pensioner elbowed me out of the way for the last tin of half price Roses. You can never be too careful.

    On a more serious note, NK apathy has set in for me. If they said Kimmy was eating babies for breakfast at this stage, I'd kinda go - that mad, bad fcuker, tsk tsk. Somthing needs to be done...zzzzzzzz


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  • #12
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Calibos wrote: »
    Misleading Headline is misleading!!!

    I thought the mad bast@ards were still holding a US Korean War Vet....since....the Korean war. Me is disappoint!

    In one sense they are still at war as I don't think they have ever declared it has ended or signed any treaty or such. Something about that rings a bell but I may have messed it up. Anyway it's late and I'm between w@nks so I'm not all there right now.


  • #13
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    TwoShedsJackson wrote: »
    Struggling to see why anyone would want to 'tour' North Korea.

    Its one of my ambitions. The place is unique in the world today.

    I'd love to visit the place before it eventually becomes westernised.


  • #14
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    ^^^ Cuba before North Korea.
    Cuba will be westernised long before North Korea.


    This is a bizarre story. Why arrest a 85 year old man ?????


  • #15
    jimboblep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭jimboblep


    KwackerJack wrote: »
    Send in Delta Force....if only the existed!!

    They do 1st special forces operational detachment delta no chuck norris though


  • #16
    Khomeini
    Site Banned Posts: 348 ✭✭Khomeini


    The forgiving nature of the Korean people saw this war criminal go free.

    He confessed his crime and has spat in the face of the people who showed him leniency. He should be extradited to DPRK now to face trial for his crimes against the Korean people.


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