March 30, 2004
Meanwhile, this from North Korea:
"The U.S. imperialists, who are obsessed by world supremacy, are pushing ahead with preparations for a genetic and biological warfare in real earnest to exterminate other nations. It was exposed some time ago by Hatman, a famous writer and journalist of the United States." Who is Hatman?
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I am vengeance! I am the night! I am... Hatman.
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The sinister Hatman is everywhere.
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is this some sinister spy-flick alias of languagehat's???
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No, he was that guy that had that pop song along time ago, where his lyrics were interspersed with lots of "Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop", right?
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"Hatman is a high resolution linux pacman clone, written by James Pharaoh, and Tim Fisken. For lots more information read the README file."
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or, perhaps hatman is languagehat's doppelganger!
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Hatman the famous writer has revealed many details of the USA's secret weapon. The answer is Kryptonite, Korea...
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I didn't knew they spoke Spanish in North Korea...
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In all seriousness: Thom Hartmann This is an interesting example of how the North Koreans garble information comming in from the outside world. The strange partial refferences to the Revolution in Military Affairs, the Project for the New American Century, and 'Genetic Bombs' can all lead me to this article.
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dreadnought! DING DING DING! i think that's a winner.
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In my opinion, KCNA peices like this give us an invaluable insight into the poor state of training in DPRK institutions responsible for assessing the actions and motives of all of us out here. Among other things, it highlights the wrong-headedness of those (including the current US administration but also many of my colegues) who beleive that the North Koreans are using their military forces solely for the purpose of wringing more foreign aid out of the outside world. They have no capacity to predict how we will act and would never take such a calculated risk. As far as the DPRK is concerned, we are dangerous, unpredicable and deeply threatening.
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Burgler: "Who are you?!" Hatman: *Pulls burgler closer* "I'm Hatman."
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I hear that Phyongchon District Sports School is going to field a strong girls soccer team this year, can Hatman confirm or deny?
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"...this article" Crap, I think I better dye my hair!
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All-India Agricultural Workers' Union be frontin'.
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Now that you have uncovered my secret identity I must return to North Korea. I hope you are happy, feckless monkey persons. *swirls cape, vanishes into the night*
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Who was that hat man?
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"One might say that this year's North Korean nuclear crisis has been postponed — to be rescheduled at a date more convenient for the political calendar."