South Korea chief in U.S blunder after video ‘insult’
SOUTH Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has accused the country’s media of damaging its alliance with the U.S after a TV broadcaster released a video suggesting that he insulted congress members following a meeting with Joe Biden.
MBC caught Mr Yoon on tape talking to his aides and top diplomats following a brief chat with his US counterpart Mr Biden at the UN General Assembly.
While the audio was unclear, Mr Yoon could be heard using what seemed to be indecent language during comments the broadcaster captioned as: “Wouldn’t it be too darn embarrassing for Biden if those idiots at legislature don’t approve?”
Speeches
Mr Yoon’s meeting with Mr Biden came after they both delivered speeches in support of the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
After the MBC video roused the internet and triggered criticism from rival politicians decrying a “diplomatic disaster”, Mr Yoon’s office denied the report hours later, insisting that he was not talking about the US congress or Mr Biden.
It said the president was expressing concern that the opposition-controlled National Assembly could reject his plans.
HE PROBABLY saw it coming... but Nostradamus has soared to the top of the book charts after apparently correctly predicting the Queen’s death.
The 16th century French astrologer is famous for seeming to foretell events including the rise of Hitler.
Since the monarch’s death, a 2006 book of interpretations of his prophecies has sold almost 8,000 copies after
BORN in 1911, the Bulgarian lost her sight during a storm as a child. But the blind mystic realised she had a gift to still see the future.
She claimed the 44th president of America would be an African-American man — Barack Obama.
A 2011 book claimed she predicted a nuclear disaster, not dissimilar to that of Chernobyl.
And in 1989 she said: “The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing.” This is thought to refer to 9/11 — the “brethren” being the Twin Towers.
She said large cities around the world would be hit by significant droughts and water shortages — and the UK officially had a drought declared in August.
Baba, who died in 1996 at 85, also made some predictions for 2023, including a nuclear explosion and the Earth changing its orbit.
BORN in 1904, this American astrologer claimed a fortune teller read her palm when she was young and told her she would become a famous psychic.
In 1956, she reportedly predicted the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Writing in a magazine, she claimed the 1960 presidential election would be “won by a Democrat” who would then go on to “be assassinated or die in office.”
JFK was indeed assassinated in Dallas in 1963. extracts went viral on social media.
In The Complete Prophecies for the Future, author Mario Reading interprets one of the predictions as “Queen Elizabeth II will die, circa 2022, at the age of around 96”.
Oracle
Here, looks at the chart-topping oracle and others who have predicted the future – often with scarily accurate results...
THIS 16th century nun was dubbed the “Holy Maid of Kent” for her revelations and prophecies.
But they ultimately proved her undoing after Henry VIII took exception to her prediction of his death.
In 1532, she prophesied that if Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn, he would die within a few months and she had even seen the place in hell he would go.
Two years later she was executed — but Henry lived another 13 years.