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Oct. 2nd, 2003
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The North Korean Lag
Oct. 2nd, 2003 08:44 amI propose that there be a new unit of time--the NKL, a.k.a. the North Korean Lag, which is the amount of time between when an event commences and when it is strategically admitted to and thus scheduled for deployment in the US press. an accurant time line cannot be constructed if you just follow US newspapers covering sequential "revelations" about North Korea--that information, or, rather, that ordering of information has to do with some mathematical formula that is derived from a combination of Kim Jon Il's time-release information as a part of his Roadrunner will-to-power plan and the Shrub administration's Wile E. Coyote attempts at containment, which is also in the dictionary as a prime example of oscillating schizmogenesis. North Korea never fully dismantled its nuclear facilities, and has been consistently nipping away at the hands the feed it (well, by "it" i mean Kim John Il himself, rather than his starving emaciated gymnastics-performing population) and that has been a consistent, if not well-publisized aspect of both the Sunshine policy and Clinton's deterrent program. But it is convenient for the US press to present this information in booming headline clusters--North Korea reopens the nuclear plant! North Korea kicks out atomic inspectors! North Korea is building the bomb! This policy of presenting information according to the principle that in evolutionary science is known as "catastrophism" is characteristic of the Shrub administration and in line with the constant low-grade Orwellian approach to the news. How many of the people that freak out over this headline today remember that North Korea already admitted to having the freaking bomb, which is what pretty much ended the trilateral talked between US, Korea and China several months ago:
"North Korea's representative Li Gun pulled aside U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly on Wednesday and told him "blatantly and boldly" that the country has at least one nuclear weapon, one official said.
Gun asked, "Now what are you going to do about it?" the official said.
the question that needs to be asked, every single time, is why now? why is the story being "broken" today? The NKL applies to all news, not just ones having to do with North Korea. the news are rarely "new anymore"--the whole CIA spy leak scandal first appeared in the press months ago, but someone decided to make it front-line material a few days ago. the logical question should always be meta, whether you are prone to "conspiracy theory" or not--and what does "conspiracy theory" even mean when plans for world domination, James Bomb style, are laid out for the world to see on the PNAC website?
North Korea is a weird, weird, fucked up place, and Kim John Il is an insane bloodsucker who, among other things, apparently kidnapped a famous Hong Kong film directore in the 1980s along with his wife, put him in prison for 5 years and his wife in labor camps, then reunited them in his castle or whatever to the sound of jubilant trumpets and forced him to make propganda and North-Korean homegrown Godzilla movies after that. There are plenty of things to sensationalize about that weird insane place. But the US press is doing its own thing; it's breaking up the continuum of actions and information that can only be properly understood and evaluated in its proper temporal framing, with each action positioned in the context of the unsuccesful ongoing "negative contitioning" games between the insane leaders of both countries, rather than drawing the outline from the strategically deployed dots that spell out "Axis of Evil." The real stuff is happenning in between the dots.
"North Korea's representative Li Gun pulled aside U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly on Wednesday and told him "blatantly and boldly" that the country has at least one nuclear weapon, one official said.
Gun asked, "Now what are you going to do about it?" the official said.
the question that needs to be asked, every single time, is why now? why is the story being "broken" today? The NKL applies to all news, not just ones having to do with North Korea. the news are rarely "new anymore"--the whole CIA spy leak scandal first appeared in the press months ago, but someone decided to make it front-line material a few days ago. the logical question should always be meta, whether you are prone to "conspiracy theory" or not--and what does "conspiracy theory" even mean when plans for world domination, James Bomb style, are laid out for the world to see on the PNAC website?
North Korea is a weird, weird, fucked up place, and Kim John Il is an insane bloodsucker who, among other things, apparently kidnapped a famous Hong Kong film directore in the 1980s along with his wife, put him in prison for 5 years and his wife in labor camps, then reunited them in his castle or whatever to the sound of jubilant trumpets and forced him to make propganda and North-Korean homegrown Godzilla movies after that. There are plenty of things to sensationalize about that weird insane place. But the US press is doing its own thing; it's breaking up the continuum of actions and information that can only be properly understood and evaluated in its proper temporal framing, with each action positioned in the context of the unsuccesful ongoing "negative contitioning" games between the insane leaders of both countries, rather than drawing the outline from the strategically deployed dots that spell out "Axis of Evil." The real stuff is happenning in between the dots.