Kim Jong-CHILL!

This week we're revisiting the absurdity of North Korea's military regime with a surreal story of petulance and some behind the scenes pictures of the side of North Korea they don't want you to see! (pictured left) 

The ritual illusion that is the six-party nuclear talks in Beijing is being held again next week, and North Korea is kicking it off in style by stating that it will be ignoring Japanese delegates at the meetings. A foreign ministry spokesman said:

"We will neither treat Japan as a party to the talks nor deal with it even if it impudently appears in the conference room, lost to shame"  

The reason for this childishness is Japan's intimation that the problem of the dozens of Japanese citizens the North Korean government has abducted over the years would need to be solved if aid was going to be given to the military dictatorship.

North Korea clearly feels that its national dignity is being impugned by this request, and has instead repeated its demands for exorbitant amounts of money in reparations for 

the Japanese occupation of Korea that ended in 1945. These funds, Kim Jong-Il hopes, will be the silver bullet that will allow North Korean scientists to crack the problem of complete 180 degree splits in North Korean female officers' goose

-step (insufficiently pictured right).