Eason Jordan and North Korea

In the Conservative bloggers' world we pretty much have a hold on the controversy surrounding Eason Jordan as reported by Captain's Quarters blog. However, we're seeing signs of North Korea's boat taking on water as it circles the whirlpool of death. Except that, of course, Eason Jordan believes otherwise.

In The Paralysis of American Policy, 2002, Eason Jordan commented about the state of North Korea's stability in 1999:

When you hear about starvation in North Korea, a lot of very evel-headed people think, “There is no way a country like that can survive.” Well, I can guarantee you this: I’m here to tell you with absolute certainty those guys will tough it out for centuries just the way they are. Neither the United States nor any other country is going to be able to force a collapse of thatgovernment in North Korea.
—Eason Jordan, president, CNN International Networks, in a lecture at Harvard University, March 10, 1999, reporting on nine visits to North Korea

Hmm, Eason must have been quite impressed with North Korea and Kim Jong II elevator shoes? And yet according to "The Peking Duck" stating further the likely and possible collapse of North Korea in its infancy throes.

According to exiles, North Korean agents in Beijing and Ulan Bator are frantically selling assets to raise cash — an important sign, says one activist, because “the secret police can always smell the crisis coming before anybody else”.

And further evidence of Kim Jong II and North Korea going looney over "Team America" as more signs of instability by going against the spirit of Free Expression want to ban the movie Team America, a movie where nobody's immune to the acerbic political satire. A cue for the Jib Jab guys.

"It harms the image of our country," the Lidove Noviny daily quoted a North Korean diplomat as saying. "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture. Therefore, we want the film to be banned."

Banned? Image? Good thing the Czech government is not going to do such a thing. Can't the North Koreans have a sense a humour? And we all know that Kim Jong II is a movie buff.

We told them it's an unrealistic wish," ministry spokesman Vit Kolar was quoted as saying. "Obviously, it's absurd to demand that in a democratic country."

Aye. This is what you get from a democractic country while North Korea spirals around the "vortex of death" before getting sucked into oblivion. Maybe take Eason Jordan along?

UPDATE: Apparently North Korea is off a lot worse with Eason Jordan's latest comments on CNN, although it was 2 years ago on January 14, 2003. Kind of foretold things to come with N.K.'s secret police trying to cash out.

JORDAN: Well, the North Koreans have a history of tough talk, a lot of rhetoric. They talk a lot about war, a lot about killing. It's a lot of hot air.

But the North Koreans, for all the tough talk, are scared of the United States. They're scared of being branded part of the "axis of evil."