News from North Korea November 2014

North Korean official: Russian investment in railways model for future
A joint North Korea and Russian project to upgrade the DPRK’s railways will become a model for future bilateral economic joint projects, a North Korean railways official said today.

S. Korea opens discussion for N. Korean human rights bill
South Korea’s National Assembly opened discussion on two human rights bills, nearly a week after the passage of a U.N. resolution condemning North Korea’s human rights violations.

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Good Product. Helpful Friendly People. Fast Service.
I've tried the CliC facsimile glasses available throughout SE Asia for about $5 but they don't last. The straight magnifying lenses are okay, but the magnetic clasp is weak and the whole body of the frame easily breaks.
These  genuine ones are about $99AU...made in China, and very good quality.

peng

CliC eyewear/glasses

I've been wearing Clic glasses (the ones with magnetic closing at the front) for about 8 years now and they have been very good.
They seem to last longer than most spectacles and I can always find them, and although the style of them doesn't really change much, the usefulness and practicality of them is very very good.

the Wang-Fitzpatricks in Australia

DPRK/North Korea

The fascinating thing about Western Commentary and Intelligent Insight into the Hermit Kingdom is that pretty well every expert is convinced that it is teetering on the brink of extinction and is the cause of great Instability in North Asia...the only place on Earth where a World War could actually happen.
The experts have been thinking this pretty well everyday for over 60 years now and every day the Regime of the North has demonstrated its stability, growing power and longevity as it is.
True, it is a horrible government, for sure, and indeed most likely the worst government on Earth, as indeed the Chinese call it, but it is also extremely stable and resilient and will abide, with the Un clan at its helm far longer than you or me on the Earth.
We can indeed make up our own opinions, but we can't manufacture our own facts.
DPRK is here to stay, pretty much as is, or better. Nothing will change that. Certainly not the rhetoric of ageing 'foreign devils'. 

40,000 hits, and a statement

This Turtle House blog has had about 40,000 hits so far, which is something, I guess, with me not actually too sure of what a blog or a hit is, or means, but I'm sure it means something a fraction more than nothing.

The ads that appear on this blog, everything from prostatic health, to anti-smoking campaigns, to Bookbinders in Gordonvale, to buying Phillipine prostitutes to bring home really has nothing to do with me at all.

Even though I am Australian born, I do not agree with the Australian Government on just about everything they do that fucks up peoples lives.

Unlike most Australians, I support refugee arrivals & I have no territorial or resource acquisition ambitions in Arabia at all.

I am fortunate to be an Australian, due to the wealth that comes out of the earth, though I dont own that wealth, nor will I be responsible when it runs out...I am not proud of what this place does or represents at all, especially in the rampant destruction of its youth via the massive power of the alcohol barons, a power unaddressed by every government. Unfortunately, we can choose our friends and our own ideas, but we can't choose our own Nation to begin with. That one takes a lifetime. Australia has some good points, as does Croatia. I'm not proud that Croatia actually exists as it is, nor that Australia actually exists as it is, but I do note that both do exist.