It appears that China has cut off North Korea from diplomatic efforts. The article linked below states that China will not be sending officials to North Korea and will not accept any from North Korea in response to the recent nuclear and missile tests. You know things are grim for the hermit kingdom when China comes out and does something like that. Hopefully we are seeing a turning point in history for the Korean peninsula, but only time will tell.
Source: Bloomberg
School’s started again, so you know what that means. More vocabulary! Ok, now that I have you worked up, here’s a few words I’ve learned:
Integrated Korean:
능가하다 = to surpass
제전 = big event
종목 = event
축제 = festival
인구 = inhabitants or population
관람하다 = to watch, spectate
널리 = widely
지방 = provinces or region
받치다 = to support, hold up
받침 = letter (jamo) on the bottom of a character (I knew the term, never knew it was based off of a verb. You learn new things every day!)
받침대 = base (of a trophy)
-키로 하다 = -하기로 하다
우승하다 = to win (a tournament)
추측하다 = to guess
무게 = weight
몸무게 = body weight
어처구니 없다 = That’s ridiculous!
KoreanClass101.com:
상처 = wound; injury
Lets go to the Beach (K-Drama, 해변으로 가요):
촌년 = country girl
This image, released on November 5, claims to show Kim with a North Korean military unit. The BBC and the UK’s Times newspaper have raised questions about the legitimacy of this image. Experts point to a line at knee-height that runs behind the soldiers in the front row of the reviewing stand where Kim poses. The line stops at the two soldiers standing to his left and right, suggesting that he was digitally inserted into the photograph.
Source: CNN
Here’s a 48 minutes series of clips taken inside North Korea. This is by the same group that was a part of ‘Friends of Kim.’ You can read about the video at their blog here. This is a very rare look into the Hermit Kingdom:
If you’re looking for documentaries on North Korea, here’s another one called Welcome to North Korea.
