I felt quite surreal while reading the following piece of figure skating news from North Korea...
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2007/200702/news02/19.htm
Some photos of this festival:
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6146/73467634uk2.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4294/01ii3.jpg
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/7875/70vb6.jpg
Maybe 'Dear Leader' is an avid figure skating fan. Based on his voracious appetite for American culture, I'm pretty sure he reads golden skate forum on a regular basis. Which skater does our 'Dear Leader' prefer? Kimmie Meissner or Emily Hughes? My bet is Emily Hughes.
If George W. Bush is smart, he should dispatch a U.S. figure skating delegation to North Korea. Watching world-class figure skating live is definitely the best theraphy for Kim Jong-il' nerve. As a result, he will be far less likely to detonate another nuclear bomb.
I found a couple of youtube links of North Korean figure skaters' performances. This can be considered GS fans' birthday gifts to 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7QUlA5Zf1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVU6xpMc6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=217d1dmSY70
Figure skating for peace! :chorus:
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2007/200702/news02/19.htm
The 16th International Paektusan Cup Figure-Skating Festival was held from Feb 15th to Feb 17th in Pyongyan. This figure skating festival was held to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's birthday.
A closing ceremony was held at the Ice Rink on Feb. 17.
Present there were Choe Thae Bok, Choe Yong Rim and Kim Jung Rin and Vice-premier of the Cabinet Kwak Pom Gi, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, Mun Jae Dok, chairman of the Korean Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, and Pang Chol Gap, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, officials concerned and working people and sportspersons in Pyongyang.
A ceremony of awarding prizes to successful skaters at the festival took place. They are Chinese Zang Min, Russian Oxana Kazakova, Bulgarian Sonia Illieva Radeva, Belarusian Sergei Davydov, Hungarian Julia Sebesteyen, Swiss Jamal Othman, Uzbek Olga Akimova and Olexandre Shakolov, Ukrainian Alla Beknazarova, Volodymyr Zuyev, Elena Grushina, Ruslan Goncharov and Oxana Baiul, French Stannick Jeanette, Frederick Dambier, Marina Anissina and Gwendel Peizerat, U.S. Suyra Bonaly and Korean Sung Mi Hyang, Jong Yong Hyok and Kim Yong Suk. Mun Jae Dok in his closing speech expressed the belief that all the participants in the festival would meet together in the future, too, to brilliantly adorn the ice rink celebrating the February holiday in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.
Then followed exhibition performances by skaters who participated in the festival.
Some photos of this festival:
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6146/73467634uk2.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4294/01ii3.jpg
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/7875/70vb6.jpg
Maybe 'Dear Leader' is an avid figure skating fan. Based on his voracious appetite for American culture, I'm pretty sure he reads golden skate forum on a regular basis. Which skater does our 'Dear Leader' prefer? Kimmie Meissner or Emily Hughes? My bet is Emily Hughes.
If George W. Bush is smart, he should dispatch a U.S. figure skating delegation to North Korea. Watching world-class figure skating live is definitely the best theraphy for Kim Jong-il' nerve. As a result, he will be far less likely to detonate another nuclear bomb.
I found a couple of youtube links of North Korean figure skaters' performances. This can be considered GS fans' birthday gifts to 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7QUlA5Zf1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVU6xpMc6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=217d1dmSY70
Figure skating for peace! :chorus:
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