Randomness Corner: Hot happenings on the floral arrangment front in North Korea.

KCNA, the North Korean state media outlet, has their fingers on the pulse of breaking political news.

Headline Pyongyang:

Floral Basket to Kim Jong Un from Economic and Commercial Councilors Corps

The dear respected Kim Jong Un received a floral basket from the economic and commercial councilors corps here on the New Year 2013.

Hu Chenpei, second secretary of the Chinese embassy, conveyed the floral basket to an official concerned on December 26 on behalf of the corps.

What? No Edible Arrangement? Gin-of-the-Month Club membership?

Admittedly, floral baskets do make for a lovely accent piece to any home or outside seating area.

North Korea claims to have discovered proof of a unicorn lair.

The Korean Central News Agency--the state news outlet for North Korea--claims archeologists in the country have confirmed the existence of a unicorn lair used by their old king Tongmyong.

The news agency reports that "a rectangular rock carved with words 'Unicorn Lair' stands in front of the lair."

Sounds all very on the up and up to me. That's how the Egyptians found King Tut's tomb after all. There was a piece of plywood with a big arrow pointing toward the sand that said 'King Tut's Tomb Down Here.'





photo: NBC/Today Show

All his closest friends called him Kimmy.

Dearly departed dictator, Kim Jong-Il, was a humble man. North Korean television (state controlled propaganda or teenage love diary of Kim?--you decide!) released a list of titles they say foreign dignitaries and leaders bestowed upon the honorable and modest Kim.






According to Harper's Magazine, the various titles include:

• Supreme Commander at the Forefront of the Struggle Against Imperialism and the United States (ed.: So silky smooth off the tongue.)
• Greatest Saint Who Rules with Extensive Magnanimity
• Lode Star of the Twenty-First Century
• Best Leader Who Realized Human Wisdom
• Leader with Extraordinary Personality
• Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness
• Eternal Bosom of Hot Love  (ed: Also my profile handle on eHarmony.)
• Master of Literature, Arts, and Architecture
• World’s Best Ideal Leader with Versatile Talents
• Humankind’s Greatest Musical Genius
• Master of the Computer Who Surprised the World  (ed: Steve Jobs and Kim Jong Il: separated at birth.)
• Man with Encyclopedic Knowledge
• Guardian Deity of the Planet
• Heaven-Sent Hero
• Power Incarnate with Endless Creativity
• Greatest Man Who Ever Lived  (ed: Rivers Cuomo is going to want a cut from that title.)
• Present-day God
• World’s Greatest Writer  (ed: Cormac McCarthy and Maya Angelou are going to be pisssssed.)