Foreign journalists in North Korea told to prepare for 'big' event

[canetoad]

Source: The Age (Reuters)

April 13 2017 - 7:04AM

Seoul: Foreign journalists visiting North Korea have been told to prepare for a "big and important event" on Thursday, although there were no indications it was directly linked to tensions in the region over the isolated state's nuclear weapons programme.

Around 200 foreign journalists are in Pyongyang as the country marks the 105th birth anniversary of its founding president Kim Il Sung on April 15, North Korea's biggest national day called "Day of the Sun".

Officials gave no details as to the nature of the event or where it would take place, and similar announcements in the past have been linked to relatively low-key set pieces.

In 2016, for example, foreign journalists underwent hours of investigation by North Korean officials ahead of what turned out to be a pop concert to mark the finale of a ruling Workers' Party congress.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/foreign-journalists-in-north-korea-told-to-prepare-for-big-event-20170412-gvk142.html

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May be something, may be nothing.

[William769]

1. Is their fearless leader going to fart?

[elmac]

2. Another Rodman visit?

[OldRedneck]

3. A North Korean pop concert?

I'll bet that was a thing of beauty.

[SticksnStones]

4. The detonation of a nuclear device in a tunnel

Link to tweet

An underground test

Link to tweet

[C Moon]

5. His second bowel movement for the year.

[EarthFirst]

6. A giant Donald Trump pinata?

[DesertRat]

7. US Reporter in North Korea

Will Ripley? of CNN tweeted:

Woken up before dawn and told to prepare for a 'big event.' Even our North Korean minders don't know where we're going or what we are seeing

And it's now Thursday in N. Korea.

Link to tweet

[defacto7]

8. He's going to shoot one of his bright shiny new

ICBMs with a 200Kt warhead, it will go up about 1000 feet, something will go wrong as it takes a sudden lunge to the southeast and explodes directly over Pyongyang by mistake.

[BigOleDummy]

9. Wouldn't

that be sweet?

[pecosbob]

10. Then the North Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians would all say we sabotaged the missile

and who would be really sure we hadn't?

[cstanleytech]

12. I'm sure that there would be some idiots like that but then there are also idiots who believe

in things in spite of no evidence to support it like that Santa and the Easter Bunny exist and that Obama was born in Kenya.

[elmac]

11. the suspense is killing me!

[dalton99a]

13. Maybe he's going to execute somebody in public