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[Eric Blank]

Why would Australia even need ICBM, they can just smuggle some wildlife into America and watch everything die.

Kangaroos would certainly give our coyotes something to yap at.

[Loud Whispers]

What is DPRK may never die, and in strange times even top keks may die

[smjjames]

NK has simply gone into hibernation for the winter.

Have some SK news though: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/asia/south-korea-saenuri-party/index.html A quarter of the former presidents (though she's in a sort of limbo atm as she's still 'in office') party split off and formed their own splinter party.

It would be like if a quarter of the Republicans in the House (and I guess Senate too, but the House resembles a parliamentary house more than the Senate and thus, works better for the analogy) suddenly defected and created their own nevertrump party. It'd be a huge freaking deal here (then again, hyperpartianship), and I'm pretty sure it's equally earth shattering politically in SK.

[redwallzyl]

more missile stuff and now we have trump yelling at them.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/06/508195156/north-korea-s-intercontinental-missile-is-coming-together

that's also a singularly unimpressive picture.

[Skyrunner]

Interesting times, politically.

Ban Ki Moon is making a run for presidency and I jope he fails. I dont like conservatives and hes hyper conservative, in the form of preserving status quo. Since Korea's status quo is conservative, therefore Ban would continue that trend.

[Max™]

Ahem.

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/818993828870942721

[redwallzyl]

Ahem.

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/818993828870942721

Glorious keks were had by all.

[Flying Dice]

Well-played, parody account.

[Max™]

Shhhh.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

DPRK Thread was post-truth before it was cool, tell your friends/symbiotes.

[Cyroth]

Well-played, parody account.

It is the Democratic Poe's Republic of Korea, it makes no difference if it is a parody account or a real one. they sound the same anyways. 

(if you expand poes law to every extreme, not just religion.)

[Sergarr]

Samsung Heir Faces Arrest on Charges of Bribing South Korea’s President

Mr. Lee is accused of instructing Samsung subsidiaries to make payments totaling 43 billion won ($36 million) to the family of Ms. Park’s confidante, Choi Soon-sil, and to two foundations that Ms. Choi controlled, in exchange for help from Ms. Park in facilitating a father-to-son transfer of ownership control of Samsung.

Although Samsung has often been investigated on corruption allegations, neither Mr. Lee nor his father has spent time in jail. The elder Mr. Lee was convicted of bribery in 1996, and of tax evasion and breach of trust in 2009, but in each case, he was not arrested, and his prison terms were suspended. Each time, his criminal record was later erased in presidential pardons, and he soon returned to Samsung’s leadership.

In 2009, the elder Mr. Lee was convicted of evading taxes on 4.5 trillion won ($3.8 billion) that he secretly inherited from his father, Lee Byung-chull, the founder of Samsung. The funds were kept hidden in the bank and securities accounts of Samsung executives. He was also convicted of involvement in helping his son buy stocks of a Samsung subsidiary at an illegally low price.

In the current scandal, Samsung was accused of making payments to Ms. Choi in exchange for a decision by the government-controlled National Pension Service to support a contentious 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates. Moon Hyung-pyo, the chairman of the pension fund, was indicted on Monday on charges that he illegally pressed the fund to back that merger when he was South Korea’s health and welfare minister.

Ms. Choi was indicted in November on charges of coercing 53 big businesses, including Samsung, to contribute $69 million to her two foundations. Prosecutors identified Ms. Park as an accomplice but stopped short of filing any charges against the businesses, all of which insisted that they were under government pressure to donate the money.

this whole thing is just full of "what the fuck"

Loud Whispers I need your commentary on this

[Grim Portent]

A Neoliberal politician involved in business related corruption? I feel shock, horror and a complete lack of surprise.

EDIT: To be less shitposty, this reminds me a lot of the various scandals that popped up under Blair and Brown (though I think some predated them and just came to light in their time as PMs,) and possibly Cameron, though by that point I'd mostly stopped caring about Westminster politics. In particular that thing about businesses being given reduced taxes as part of private negotiations with the boss of revenue and customs, the links between various senior politicians the journalists involved in the phone hacking scandal. From my observations powerful Neoliberal politicians have a tendency to be paired with corporate and journalistic corruption. Not that it's unique to them of course, but they've been a pretty dominant political ideology for 20-30 years in a lot of places now.

[Loud Whispers]

rip in pes neolibs
u made good fones

[Culise]

Not to worry, though he was also held, Lee Kun-hee is still safe, at least from arrest.  He may still end up indicted, but he won't be arrested before then.  Now, his son in the article above, though, may not be so lucky...