Monday, October 09, 2006

What's Chosŏnmal for "Nein Danke"?


So while the west continues to piss about in the desert, chanting "it's not about the oil" like some mediaeval penitent making a prayer between each strike on the head with a plank of wood, mumbling between times about the "weapons of mass destruction" etc. etc. - North Korea just goes and does it.

North Korea has announced that its made its first nuclear test, an underground explosion in Gilju in the Hamgyong province. The more nuclear we have, the more nuclear will spread. The more this shit will end up in the hands of people who go "You say mutually assured destruction like it's a bad thing". It really doesn't help when ichiban superpower is high on rapture rhetoric too.

Saw Keith and Helen on Saturday and got an early birthday present, cd single of Roy Harper's "The Death of God". One could quote so many of its lines, but how about for today:

Hoping and praying
And praying and hoping
Praying and hoping to die
Blowing my life away
Taking some others
A new kind of old passer-by
But I won't be passing you by
'Cos I'm the Samaritan
With a bomb in my eye
And my finger on the trigger
Of goodbye

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