By GI Korea on September 12th, 2010 at 8:49 am

ROK Drop Open Thread – September 12, 2010

• kushibo
  3:34 am on September 12th, 2010 1

  After reading through KCNA reports on Kim Jong-il's visits to China, I'm making the bold prediction that KJI is considering Chinese-style reforms in North Korea, perhaps for after he's gone. They did try it before, but Beijing quashed it.

• kushibo
  3:36 am on September 12th, 2010 2

  Whoops. That was the wrong link. This is the right link.

• Glans
  8:42 am on September 12th, 2010 3

  An important Youtube clip for Kushibo and the entire ROK Drop community:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuyoc_gais4

• kushibo
  2:22 pm on September 12th, 2010 4

  Unless I get a free book from Euna or a promise all her proceeds are going to charity, I'm not interested.

• Zilchy
  7:18 pm on September 12th, 2010 5

  No one even thought to rank on Tom? The fine administrator of this wonderful site gave us "Carte Blanche" to rail the Red Devil of all Red Devils (not that we need permission or haven't on a constant basis), and NO ONE!!

  OK, I'm game!

  Tom,

  Where are you? What are you doing? Hide the lube, your husband is coming home. Japanese porn is boring, Korean porn is atrocious! Try European or North American. Korea #1. The U.S. #2, like the pooh.

• ChickenHead
  8:47 pm on September 12th, 2010 6

  kushibo,

  I watched the trailer.

  Puke.

  …"arrested on the river"…

  She still can't bring herself to tell the truth.

  And she talks about the "lessons I learned".

  Let me guess, Euna…

  Don't cross into North Korea.

  Humph… was that one of them?

  Except for Robert Park, Aijalon Gomes and Evan Hunziker, nobody else had to learn that lesson through experience… and those people were/are all crazy, drunk or both.

  Detached from reality is a slightly better excuse than careerism, self-promotion and greed.

  The lesson I learned is, you can do anything you want in a modern, liberal, tolerant, multicultural society… and, instead of being held responsible for actions that caused trouble (or worse) for a lot of people, one is showered with attention, fame, pity, money and career advancement…

  …well, if one is connected to the mostly-talentless Hollywood set that tries to be taken seriously by associating with politicians… and politicians who hope some superstar status will rub off on them by associating with the Hollywood set… and self-important "journalists" who insert themselves anywhere possible.

  Meanwhile, Hollywood vomits up one over-hyped crap movie after another, "journalism" is mostly manufactured fluff shaded with agenda-driven opinion and self-serving politicians are running the country deep into the ground.

  But its all self-congratulatory smiles for the cameras.

  Did I leave anything out?

• Leon LaPorte
  9:03 pm on September 12th, 2010 7

  Tom who?

• Mohamud
  10:39 pm on September 12th, 2010 8

  Senior UN official launches attack on UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon.
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-1070720…

• JoeC
  10:23 am on September 13th, 2010 9

  NPR recently reported on the previously untold deeds of the USS Kirk destroyer following the fall of Vietnam.

  The ship's crew played heroic roles in the rescue of fleeing military and civilian South Vietnamese.

  They participated in the rescue of a fleet of South Vietnamese military helicopters packed military and their families, who flew out over the South China Sea without any assurance they would find a place solid to put down.

  Huey's coming onto the ship's small flight deck, dispatching their passengers, the pushed off deck into the sea to make room for the next.

  Then the crew sees an incoming Chinook, a huge helicopter to could no way land.

  "Picture this, we're steaming along at about 5 knots. And this huge airplane comes in and hovers over, over the fantail, opened up its rear door, and starts dropping people out of it. It's about 15 feet off the fantail! There's American sailors back on the fantail, catching babies like basketballs!" he said at the time.

  A young mother in the helicopter — the wife of the pilot — dropped her three young children, including her 10-month-old baby daughter.

  Kent Chipman, a 21-year-old Texan, was one of the sailors who ran under the helicopter to catch the people who jumped out. "I remember the baby coming out," he recalled. "You know, there was no way that we were going to let them hit the deck or drop them. We caught them."

  Then, the pilot, Ba Nguyen, ditches his craft while leaping from his window, and survives.

  The Kirk was not done. Soon they was ordered to turn around, go back to Vietnam on the lone mission to repatriate or scuttle military naval ships, which turned into a mission to rescue the entire remnants of the South Vietnamese Navy and their families; reported to be up to 30,000 of them. Incredible stuff.

  I think this story should be told during every NEO (Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation) exercise as a sobering tale that even when things go wrong they can still end up right.

• Leon LaPorte
  6:47 pm on September 13th, 2010 10

  I know I may regret it but I'll throw it out there: What does everyone think of the Kia Soul?

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