Also see: A Hoax a Day....
"The South Korean government touted him as a national hero and announced plans to set up a committee to promote Hwang for a Nobel Prize. Time magazine named him as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2004.... eventually his two published papers on the research were found to be fabricated.
So governments and media lie and/or are easily fooled, 'eh?
--more--"
This next one is not funny because it is what I would have called an Invisible Ink story -- one that NEVER APPEARED in my printed paper but somehow made the web.
"South Korea offers food to the North" by Associated Press | October 26, 2009
SEOUL - South Korea offered today to provide North Korea with 10,000 tons of corn, its first direct aid to the impoverished neighbor in nearly two years of strained relations.
Sometimes the tears are happy ones, like when peace is advanced and people are fed.
The offer does not mean that Seoul’s conservative government, which has linked aid to Pyongyang’s progress in abandoning its nuclear programs, is resuming full-scale assistance to the communist nation, officials said. Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae Sung stressed that the offer is purely humanitarian and that Seoul is not considering further assistance....
I'll take whatever we can get right now.
For a decade, South Korea was one of the biggest donors to the North, shipping hundreds of thousands of tons of food across the militarized border every year. But the aid stopped after President Lee Myung Bak took office last year with a pledge to get tough on the North....
Under U.S. pressure no doubt (anyone check those election results?)
North Korea, which has faced chronic food shortages since flooding and mismanagement destroyed its economy in the mid-1990s, typically falls at least 1 million tons short of food every year and relies on outside assistance to feed its 24 million people....
Then HOW CAN THEY be such a THREAT, this PISS-POOR COUNTY that is STARVING? 'Cuz they have a pop-gun nuke that keeps the U.S. from invading?
Ring the bell, readers:
"Latvian meteor-crater hoax backfires"
