| 26th February 2008 10:37 AM |
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(President Obama will be grooving in the front row I'm sure)
North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the Communist state, a diplomat at the country's embassy in London said Tuesday.
The diplomat confirmed reports in the British media that Clapton had been officially invited to Pyongyang — the first such invitation to a Western rock star to the isolated nation.
"Eric Clapton is a well-known musician and guitarist, famous throughout the world," said the official, who declined to give his name. "It will be a good opportunity for Western music to be understood better by Koreans."
Clapton's spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment. The Financial Times newspaper reported Tuesday that Clapton, 62, had agreed in principle and suggested 2009 for the gig.
North Korean authorities have long shunned rock and pop music, although Kim Jong Chol, the Swiss-educated son of national leader Kim Jong Il, is reportedly a huge Clapton fan.
Recently North Korea has begun to build tentative cultural ties with the West. The New York Philharmonic played in Pyongyang on Tuesday, and North Korean State Symphony Orchestra is due to perform in London and the English city of Middlesbrough in September.
The Financial Times said the invitation to Clapton was in return for the Korean orchestra's British tour.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Clapton_invited_to_play_North_Korea_02262008.html |
| 26th February 2008 11:10 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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Rev Twenty Redlights wrote:
North Korean authorities have long shunned rock and pop music, although Kim Jong Chol, the Swiss-educated son of national leader Kim Jong Il, is reportedly a huge Clapton fan.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Clapton_invited_to_play_North_Korea_02262008.html
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| 26th February 2008 11:38 AM |
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| Riffhard |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Idiocy on display!
Riffy |
| 26th February 2008 11:53 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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Riffhard wrote:
Idiocy on display!
It's called "Diplomacy." |
| 26th February 2008 11:59 AM |
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| Riffhard |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
It's called "Diplomacy."
Perhaps you should read up on Neville Chamberlain. And by the way just exactly what did this little idiotic diplomacy result in? Read a little.
This was stupidity plain and simple.
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| 26th February 2008 12:06 PM |
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I think if N Korea will accept all of our fat stupid women then lets begin exports immediately..Send the fat stupid guys too in wigs just like Korea's puny leader. |
| 26th February 2008 12:09 PM |
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quote:
Rev Twenty Redlights wrote:
North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the Communist state, a diplomat at the country's embassy in London said Tuesday.
The diplomat confirmed reports in the British media that Clapton had been officially invited to Pyongyang — the first such invitation to a Western rock star to the isolated nation.
Perhaps it is time that the Rolling Stones performed in Hanoi .
Perhaps it is time that ....................
***** ABRUPT END TO TRANSMISSION !!! ******** |
| 26th February 2008 12:13 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
>And by the way just exactly what did this little idiotic diplomacy result in?<
No major war with North Korea and China, or nuclear war on the Korean Penninsula since 1953?
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| 26th February 2008 12:25 PM |
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| 26th February 2008 12:31 PM |
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| 26th February 2008 12:36 PM |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Yes this one's good. It was the economic pressure that Reagan used to bring down the USSR. Regardless of what the liberals of today say. Rewriting history does not change it. I mean hell's bells even Gorby tells it like it really was.
This one is not bad either. Afterall during the Cold War it made perfect sense to engage China. Nixon did that with great success. Which eventually led to China opening up econnomically with the rest of the world.
Hard to argue with this one either. I mean we were talking about defeating Hitler here afterall.
As for the whole no war with North Korea argument. Well I suppose you could say that, but I'd point out the fact that it was that trip with Notbright that ushered in N. Korea's nuclear development, and sped their enrichment program up by decades because of stupid choices by that reckless admin. Of course don't let little things like facts get in the way of your happy little Pollyanna scenario that you have mapped out.
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| 26th February 2008 03:55 PM |
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| glencar |
TTM doing politics is like watching a mouse on crack! |
| 26th February 2008 03:58 PM |
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| 26th February 2008 04:00 PM |
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TTM doing politics is like watching a mouse on crack!
Blue ...... Er , Um ... do you have any m- material ?!
I am completely dry .
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| 27th February 2008 12:25 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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glencar wrote:
TTM doing politics is like watching a mouse on crack!
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