I guess all the newsmakers are out enjoying nature today. It's a weekend, so not much going on. Good thing we have those pirates, and that pesky Pyongyang, or else you'd be looking at a blank page.
- ROK government orders its warship out of Somali waters as owner of hijacked South Korean oil supertanker begins negotiation with captors (AFP, Yonhap)
- DPRK military delegation tells Chinese officials North Korea had nothing to do with sinking of Chonan (links here)
- President Lee sends condolences to Poland over plane crash that killed Polish President and many government and military officials (Yonhap)
- One South Korean and two Vietnamese charged with steering cargo ship through protected waters around Australia's Great Barrier Reef (Reuters, BBC)
- Seoul rejects Pyongyang demands to go to Kŭmgangsan later this week over frozen tourism assets (Yonhap, Korea Times)
- Chinese agencies begin selling tours to Kŭmgangsan (Yonhap)
- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says North Korea believed to have between one and six nuclear weapons (Yonhap)
- Tourists in Chinhae grin with excitement that loathed symbol of Japanese aggression will soon fall from trees and be trampled beneath their feet (Donga Ilbo)
Sadly, this is the norm South of the immigrations checkpoints along the U.S. side of the border: One illegal immigrant births eight U.S. citizens that she can't support, so it's up to the U.S. taxpayers to do so!
ReplyDeleteThere's more than one octomom out there taking advantage of the system. But, she's not the only Mexican citizen hiding out within 25 miles of the border in Texas, California and New Mexico, and 75 miles of the border in Arizona. She only got caught because she needed to go farther into the interior and got caught at one of the checkpoints about 70 miles from the border on her way to Houston.
Do you have any ideas on how to curb this type of abuse?