“North Korea is best known to the West in its doomsday role as its mad tyrants gamble with nuclear destruction…a few pioneering economists, analysts and businessmen believe the regime is taking tentative steps towards building Asia’s next tiger economy.

“Let’s say for a moment China were to allow open foreign participation in, say, the securities brokerage sector. Once we get past the rhetoric and the high-minded ideals, foreign firms are not coming to China to clean the place up - they’re coming to make money.

“Many scientists now believe that the infamous Kim Jong-il fart may not be such a success as claimed. It is more likely a weaker version of the ad hoc test conducted by Pakistan as a response to India’s test in 1998.”

“Google will have to give up a lot of control in order to get YouTube off the ground in the PRC, and that will certainly not sit well with the legions of well-meaning but non-vested Self-Appointed Guardians of the Interests of the Chinese People in newsrooms and living rooms across America.

Occasionally, the system malfunctions, and someone like Chen Liangyu is sacrificed, but China has already become a kind of “kleptocracy” in which officials shamelessly and routinely plunder public property.

” Geek Town, Akihabara in downtown Tokyo where geek is chic and dork is bork. Amongst the myriaD stores bulging with electronic doodads, gizmos, and whatdahellisdats I stumbled upon several stores offering … plastic fun of action figures that I never saw under any Christmas tree when I was a wee one

Malaysia will levy fines on those incorrectly using the national language, and will set up a specialized division to weed out offenders who mix Malay with English, news reports said Thursday.

“We are doing research to find out their habits, behaviour, how they have sex and such,” he said.
Syed Abdullah said some texts on religion also mentioned naughty and randy ghosts.

“From the initial data, I’d say someone with no workable nuclear weapons (Kim Jong Il, I am looking at you) should be crapping his pants right now.”

“An actress playing Secretary Albright is shown presenting Kim Jong Il with the Michael Jordan basketball,” — too ‘hot’ even for the RNC.