North Korea helping to probe crash in Singapore
August 28th, 2010 | 
Author: Agence France-Presse, 28 August 2010
The North Korean embassy is helping with investigations into a traffic incident involving one of its vehicles in the city-state’s brothel district, Singaporean officials said.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been in touch with the DPRK ambassador on this matter,” a ministry spokesman said in a statement issued late Friday.
“The DPRK ambassador has assured us that the DPRK embassy respected Singapore’s laws and would extend its full cooperation with the authorities in resolving the issue.”
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the North’s official name.
Singapore police told AFP Saturday an investigation into the incident was still ongoing.
The traffic incident took place in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday in Geylang when a parked car was hit by the embassy vehicle, according to an earlier police statement.
“No one was in the stationary car, which suffered a slight dent at the rear,” the police statement said.
Geylang is Singapore’s red light district, where prostitutes openly offer their services on pavements and in licensed brothels, with short-time motels scattered along the neighbourhood’s narrow streets and lanes.
The incident follows a fatal hit-and-run case involving a former Romanian diplomat, Silviu Ionescu, who allegedly rammed an embassy car into three pedestrians last December, killing one of them, after a drinking binge.
The Ionescu case caused a furore in the city-state, which demanded that he be brought to justice after fleeing Singapore.
He is currently in detention in Romania, and will face trial in October after strong diplomatic pressure from Singapore.
Source: AFP
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Ok, to be fair, they were probaby having frog porridge in geylang what else could they do?
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What craps?
Why is this news important?…don’t be fooled.Why?
Let say a Malaysian lorry crash on to your brand new car.So what?…you can cry father mother till the cows come home…In the end..You are lucky if can get any insurance money at all.
So how is this incident with N.Korean any different from thousands and thousands of Malaysian vehicles plying our roads?…if not for the fact that it crashed in a red district.
Folk,PAP is giving prominence to ‘rogue’ states like N.Korea and Romania plying punks in our roads.Meaning PAP is helpless against UN immunity.Get the picture?Don’t be fooled.
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Sin City is good for all the “Liew Maungs”..its heaven indeed !
Come,come, all hve, hot frog’s leg porridge first ,then get a shot or two ,followed by a breezy drive downtwn to marina and throw some money away….sooo..goood !
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Screw all this unscrupulous diplomats!!
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This is Sin City, why else they want to come here ?
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Frog porridge is located at Lorong 9, while the car was said to have caused the accident at Lorong 21.
Incidentally, the car was flying the North Korean Flag – which indicate that it is ferrying a senior diplomat in the car on official duty.
Still, it was said that the car had only the driver onboard when the incident happened.
Where was the senior North Korean official on “official duty” at that hour in Geylang ?
Lorong 21 is a known red light street !!!
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Smoke bomb alert?
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Ha! ha!….the “North Korean” from the “embassy” was meeting one of their “undercover” lady spies….sex for info …lolitas !!
Wonder how many “Secrets” have been leaked or exchanged to them..thru “sexual” favors.
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Where are all the bashers?
Have you guys figure out how to link this into something that can bash PAP?
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It will be another “it bad, what to do, it happened” scenario.The next thing, u will see some ambassadors raping some grandma in broad daylight and there is nothing the gahmen can do about it.
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A story is just ‘a’ story lor – what bashing PAP? How come stereo-typed netizens have the inkling that anything TR mentioned here is ingredient for bashing PAP?
Give TR a break, give true home-grown Singapore citizens a break.
Since many don’t buy the shit times to read which happened also at times to contain news worthy events, so TR readers who visit here also need to KIT about other happennings to right (to rival Today NP, etc)?
In time to come TR may rival with shit times on same footing to cover news ‘as it is news’ not only speaking for PAP.
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Hi Red Army,
Nothing wrong with the article.I am not refering to the article.
What I mean was some of the people who like to response to the article are permanent PAP basher.
These folks are giving TR a bad name
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“Ok, to be fair, they were probaby having frog porridge in geylang what else could they do?”
Agreed. These foreigners from undemocratic country might be screwing the frog in brothel area. Who say frog cannot be a prostitute ? So let’s not jump to conclusion.
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In cases where diplomats are involved, it will be handle by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Usually not through legal but diplomatic channels, unless the country involved relinquishes all diplomatic immunities of the culprit involved then our legal system can do its part but if not…most probably it will be settled privately.This is usually the case everywhere in the world not only here in Singapore.
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