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It’s Good to Be the King

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gifted new sniper rifles to top government and military officials following a weeklong ruling party congress celebrating his leadership, with state media highlighting an image of his teenage daughter taking aim at a shooting range as her increasingly prominent appearances fuel speculation Kim is grooming her as a future leader. [More]

I wonder what would happen if an ordinary citizen tried that…

Not that the South, which Americans have died for and continue to protect, is much better…

And “proud son of Korean immigrants” Andy Kim wants to impose that here.

[Via bondmen]

Where There’s a Will…

An illegal alien from China pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea by concealing them inside shipping containers that departed from the Port of Long Beach, California, and for committing this crime at the direction of North Korean government officials, who wired him approximately $2 million for his efforts… In May 2023, Wen purchased a firearms business in Houston, paid for with money sent through intermediaries by one of Wen’s North Korean contacts. Wen purchased many of the firearms he sent to North Korea in Texas and drove the firearms from Texas to California, where he arranged for them to be shipped. [More]

How did he pass NICS? How did he get an FFL? What was the name of his business? And where were all Joe Biden’s “zero tolerance” IOIs?

Funny, how “news” accounts by “real reporters” don’t seem to be curious.

How much more attention did he need to call to himself? Is it wrong to wonder if anyone’s palms were getting greased? Including not just his ATF overseers, but agents at docks approving shipments to hostile nations…?

What a Democrat dilemma that this illegal alien criminal will face deportation once he’s served his sentence. I can see heads exploding trying to figure which side to take.

UPDATE

Looks from the criminal complaint that he used “straw purchasers.”

I’m still not clear on what this “firearms business in Houston” is about, but then with all the stuff I gotta do today, I’ve only had time to scan the complaint, not go through it line-by-line.

[Via WiscoDave]

Project Gun WOKer

Undocumented immigrant shipped weapons to North Korea from California [Watch]

Everybody (in “real” media) seems to be missing the real story:

[Via Jess]

Aid and Comfort

North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say [More]

Who says Bezos and Zaslav don’t have the country’s best interests at heart?

A Matter of Degree

Defector Warns That the U.S. Is Becoming More Like North Korea [More]

I’d say the Democrats and their unquestioning enforcers are…

[Via bondmen]

Bullet Points

‘The city… will remain on lockdown until all 653 bullets are found,’ a resident of the northern province of Ryanggang, where Hyesan is located, anonymously told RFA’s Korean Service. [More]

Now that’s some “commonsense gun safety,” right there.

I wonder how many suspects, associates, and family members have been tortured and executed — so far…

And yeah, “bullets. We get it.

[Via WiscoDave]

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