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Dear Leader

Posted Monday, November 1st, 2010 at 14:43

This has nothing to do with photography or fotoLibra, but apparently there’s another Dear Leader lurking around as well as me. For those of you not in on the joke ho ho Jacqui Norman in her Newsletters and Picture Calls routinely refers to me as the Dear Leader. I refuse to speculate as to why. Anyway, it looks like the other Dear Leader might be handing over his crown shortly.

I refer to Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (or North Korea as we call it). This is a fascinating out-of-this world country, neither democratic nor a republic, and I’d love to go and see it. An American commentator, Nicholas Eberstadt, wonderfully remarked a few years ago when North Korea introduced money for the first time (up till then citizens had been allocated what the Government deemed they required, so there was no need for cash) “You might say they’ve left Pluto and reached Mars. This sounds like very central change, and not tinkering at the margins, but it is still a long ways to Earth.”

Maybe this was where the winner of the Best Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe was referring to: “I’ve just come back from the holiday of a lifetime. Never again.” Still, as this NASA photograph of the Korean peninsula at night shows, North Korea is a great place for star gazing. The lights go out on the 38th parallel. No light pollution here. In fact, nothing at all. Poor dabs.
Korean Peninsula at Night
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One Response to “Dear Leader”

  1. sue Says:
    November 4th, 2010 at 18:40

    I thought that someone said that Pluto is no longer a planet.?
    anyway, thanks for a wonderful story as usual….!!!!!


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