Let the Hype begin!

[canman]

Well here it is Saturday night and already every tv station is covering live the landing of the returnees jet. I figure there won't be any other news for the next month. At least.

[Taro Toporific]

Well here it is Saturday night and already every tv station is covering live the landing of the returnees jet. At least.

Arrrg! Somebody disrupt the airport pleeeease. Where are the terrorists when you need them?


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Also, they ain't "returnees" 'cause they ain't ever been in Japan.

[canman]

How can you call somebody who has never been to the country, doesn't speak the language or know anything about where they are going, except that they are the devil, how can you call them returnees. Hell I would venture to say a lot of the members of Fgaijin are more Japanese than these people.
My wife red to me some of the other family members whose relatives are still missing are really pissed at Koizumi. I guess you can't win for losing. What did they expect, L'il Kim to role out the bodies and personally help load them on a plane?
I don't think this iissue will ever be fully resolved, but lets move on to something else, please.

[Taro Toporific]

My wife red to me some of the other family members whose relatives are still missing are really pissed at Koizumi. I guess you can't win for losing. .

Koizumi's North Korea Trip Is a Flop in Japan (New York Times / May 24)
Although Mr. Koizumi's move ended 18 months of separation for the families, many Japanese on Sunday said he paid too high a price [[$13-31 million]]
....While Americans debate whether North Korea's missiles can hit Guam or Hawaii, Japanese know that North Korea's missiles can hit Japan, only a few hundred miles to the east.
While Mainichi delicately called the promise of aid "recompense," the conservative Sankei Shimbun called it "ransom."

[Taro Toporific]

[canman]

Why did the North Koreans pair Jenkins with Ms. Soga? Because if you look at it now, it was a masterful move on their part whether planned or not. There is no way the US can allow him to come to Japan without prosecuting him. So the only way to solve the issue is to send him to China, which I'm sure the US will not be happy about.
I wonder does Ms. Soga speak any English? I would love to see an interview done in English with her, and get her true feelings.

[Taro Toporific]

Why did the North Koreans pair Jenkins with Ms. Soga? Because if you look at it now, it was a masterful move on their part whether planned or not. There is no way the US can allow him to come to Japan without prosecuting him.

Japan could scam diplomatic privlege for dumbo Jenkins and the US could not extradite him. Right now he could be made Japan's honorary council of Vladivostok and then he could come to "visit" Japan, hee, hee.

Koizumi told Jenkins he wouldn't be sent to US
Mainichi Shimbun, May 24, 2004
... Koizumi talked with Mitoji Yabunaka, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and presented a written pledge to Jenkins in English, beginning, "I guarantee ..."

Despite receiving the pledge, Jenkins was still reluctant to come and decided not to return with Koizumi on Saturday. The Japanese and North Korean governments are planning for Jenkins and his daughters to meet with Soga in a third country.

Originally Beijing had been proposed as a place for the meeting, but the government is now considering Vladivostok in Russia as an option because it was feared North Korea's strong connection with China could restrict Jenkins' speech and actions.

In addition to there being no agreement between Russia and the United States to hand over criminals, direct flights to the city leave from both Niigata Prefecture, where Soga lives, and Pyongyang.
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http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040524p2a00m0dm001001c.html

[Taro Toporific]

It just gets funnier.


FAMILY HISTORY FINALLY REVEALED
Abduction story shocks abductees' kids
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 --Japan Times
KASHIWAZAKI, Niigata Pref. (Kyodo) Kaoru Hasuike, one of the repatriated Japanese abductees, said Monday his North Korean-born children were visibly shocked to learn how their parents had been kidnapped to the country in the 1970s.
Hasuike and his wife, Yukiko, who returned to Japan in 2002 after being kidnapped to North Korea in 1978, were reunited Saturday in Tokyo with their 22-year-old daughter, Shigeyo, and 19-year-old son, Katsuya, for the first time in 19 months....
"They were silent, and seemed baffled. I told them that I had been forcibly taken (to North Korea), and they seemed to be shocked to learn what being abducted means specifically."
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Hasuike said his children seemed to have been vaguely aware, through articles in North Korea's Rodong newspaper, that their parents were Japanese abducted to the country. Hasuike had said earlier that he had never told the children that he and his wife are Japanese.
When Hasuike and his wife came to Japan in October 2002, they reportedly told the children that they were "going on a trip." They did not return to North Korea.....

[Jack]

Canman, where did you find that "Expos" avatar?

[bejiita]

Canman, where did you find that "Expos" avatar?

Probably from Google's Image Search.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

The news has sucked about this.

The day before yesterday it was 15 minutes on "the boy drank orange juice" and then repeated every hour.