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Robert Mugabe, who presided over the ruin of Zimbabwe, is dead:

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power when the African country shook off white minority rule and presided for decades while economic turmoil and human rights violations eroded its early promise, has died in Singapore. He was 95.

This lion of socialism presided over the ruin of an African bread-basket, among other things. In typical African dictator fashion, he spent his last days in luxury rather than a prison cell.




The unrest is not finished in Hong Kong:

Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Friday to clear renewed protests outside a subway station on the densely populated Kowloon peninsula, the latest clashes in 14 weeks of sometimes violent anti-government unrest. ...

On Friday, the protesters withdrew when police fired rubber bullets, but regrouped in smaller pockets to light fires in the street from wooden pallets, cardboard boxes and other debris. Firemen doused the flames as onlookers casually milled around, taking pictures. 

Also:

On August 13, North Korea’s state mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun said in an article entitled “Stand of Chinese Party and Government Supported,” that “the DPRK fully supports all measures taken by the Chinese party and government to invariably maintain the line of “one country and two systems” and firmly defend its territorial integrity, political stability and socialism.” It further continues, “But the Western forces are obtrusively interfering in China’s internal affair to add fuel to the reckless moves of the dishonest elements, saying this or that,” and that “[t]o take measure for internal affairs belongs to the sovereignty of relevant country.”

Does anyone still think it can convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, its cyber-attacks and run-around of sanctions?




Perhaps the immigration ministry can keep this in mind before they send back North Korean defectors:

A family of four imprisoned at the Yodok prison camp (Kwan-li-so Camp 15) in South Hamgyong Province has committed group suicide, Daily NK has learned.

“The family committed suicide in early August after having been at the prison for around half a year,” a South Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on September 3. “I heard about the incident from regime security officials, which is why it hasn’t been more widely known up until this point.”

At the prison, families are typically forced to live separately from each other. The parents of the family in question received permission to spend the night together after receiving a “commendation,” which is when the suicide took place, the source said.

(Sidebar: a pattern the government seems to fall in.)



(Kamsahamnida)