A couple days ago, DPRK showed Kim Jong Un touring a missile production factory. Probably related to the missiles being tested.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/c8d3107ad3ea09f138735a82fc016ac5.kcmsf (30 photos)

https://archive.is/S67Mh

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-inspects-munitions-plants-lauds-increased-shell-2025-05-06/

I missed it in the first press video I watched because the audio was scuffed, but Van Hollen does say that the El Salvador government officials has asked him to do the interview next to a hotel swimming pool.

Van Hollen added that Bukele’s government wanted the meeting to take place by a pool: “They actually wanted to have the meeting [take place] by the side of the pool in the hotel,” he said. “This is a guy who’s been in CECOT. This is a guy who has been detained. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which, of course, is a big fat lie.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/chris-van-hollen-meeting-kilmar-abrego-garcia-1235321088/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_htG1N-1w&t=1659 (start at 27m40s)

Kikkoman is not a US company. It is headquartered in Noda, Japan. It may have some factories in America. That does not mean that it is an American company. They will likely face the tariffs. They probably import much of the ingredients from other countries.

I worked at a Japanese factory (not soy sauce) within America for 1 year. We made the product in America but it was still a Japanese-owned company. There were regularly overseers flying in from Japan to visit the factory. I had to fill out the paperwork with romanized Japanese words. I don't speak Japanese. I had to memorize new words for every terminology of the production process. It was kind of funny seeing white boomer American casually using these words. Just because a factory is located in US, doesn't mean that it is a US company.

That's just not true. You made that up. If people were getting fined $20k per infringement, piracy would be much less common and you'd see it on the news all the time. Piracy laws in the US are very loose. Most people have pirated books or music or movies or games. Most people have not been fined for it.

Here's how piracy is "prosecuted" in the US in most cases. Copyright holders hire a "troll agency" to monitor public peer-to-peer filesharing of their content. The troll agency records IP addresses of the file sharers. The troll agency then sends threatening emails to the ISPs of the file sharers. In many circumstances, the ISP just deletes the threatening email without even telling you. Sometimes the ISP forwards the email to you. You are not obligated to respond to the email. In order to be "fined" for infringement, the copyright holder has to actually take you to court and prove that you infringed the copyright, which is very difficult to prove.

And if you use a VPN, they would never even find your ISP.

Here's an article from last month describing how RIAA and MPAA uses troll agencies to threaten ISPs.

https://torrentfreak.com/eff-sides-with-cox-to-protect-piracy-accused-internet-users-from-copyright-trolls-250109/

There are some more photos of leaflets recovered by DPRK here. The text is somewhat visible but I can't read Korean.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/d5483a1b74ad535c0736a5751b9e1bf2.kcmsf October 11

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/0a80b19626c738b842f1e5066c948677.kcmsf July 14

This link below is an anticommunism political group that releases propaganda balloons from the south. On their website they have photos of balloons that they have released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighters_for_a_Free_North_Korea

http://www.ffnk.net/board/bbs/board.php?bo_table=mv

wow that's the first time that I am learning this. I had assumed that the random american cartoonist was a radical marxist based on cartoons that they had drawn for a satirical internet newspaper. (me if I was delusional)

it's an internet comic. sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not. it's safe to say that 95% of web comics are made by liberals. it's okay to laugh at comics.

Do you think they just fell from the coconut tree and declared this an eternal law?

No I think it's a incorrect analysis to conclude that all labor unions are collaborating with capitalism based on one example, when labor unions have largely been a force which has fought against capitalism. I think you're foolish for trying to defend them. They do partcipate in labor unions and they try to abolish the unions from within. The WSWS was promoting a Trotskyist guy who was trying to abolish the UAW.

I didn't think much of that because 2 days ago Trump trump referenced Mother Theresa in a press statement. In hindsight, it is a bizarre sign.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5119040/trump-mother-teresa-beat-charges-jury-begins-deliberations

Of course I remember the post. I've made posts about victories of the UAW on hexbear at least a dozen times and every time there's always users being pessimistic or hostile. Pessimism towards labor action is unhelpful and antisolidarity and a huge buzzkill.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/golden-arches-ablaze-in-auckland-mcdonalds-fire/IL73DQYPYBCKVMAER3OVK3OCAI/

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202311/25/WS6561db27a31090682a5f0129.html

PLA warns off US warship near Xisha Islands

By Jiang Chenglong | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-11-25 19:31

The Chinese military warned off a United States warship that illegally entered China's territorial waters off the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea on Saturday, a spokesman for the People's Liberation Army said.

Senior Colonel Tian Junli, spokesman for the PLA's Southern Theater Command, said on Saturday that the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper illegally intruded into China's territorial waters off the Xisha Islands on Saturday without the approval of the Chinese government.

The theater command has organized air and naval forces to follow and monitor it, and drove it away according to law, he said.

Tian criticized the US action as a serious violation of China's sovereignty and security, and "another iron proof" that the US is pursuing "navigation hegemony" and creating "militarization of the South China Sea."

He said that it fully showed that the US is a "security risk maker in the South China Sea" and the "biggest destroyer" of peace and stability in the region.

The spokesman warned that the troops of the theater command will remain on high alert at all times and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security as well as the peace and stability in the South China Sea.

This past week, some Russian officials met with Kim Jong Un for negotiations. The Russian official were Sergei Lavrov, Andrei Rudenko, and Alexandr Matsegora.

"(Kim Jong Un) expressed the steadfast stand of the WPK and the DPRK government to work out a stable, forward-looking, far-reaching plan for the DPRK-Russia relations in the new era by faithfully implementing the agreements made at the DPRK-Russia summit, and to promote the well-being of the peoples of the two countries and push forward with the cause of building a powerful state by dint of the said plan."

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/c10d24db95498f4c0b1f705ba7ce05c5.kcmsf

KCNA.kp is a news agency owned by DPRK and hosted in Pyongyang.