Bad news! Just before we were about to start packing up the embassy we received some bad news: Today in the afternoon some construction people showed up and started hammering up the ground between the whale museum and the camp. They drilled deep holes into the earth and on the height of our embassy they turned towards us. They came as close as into the childrens playground we constructed, which is about three metres from our green dome. They started putting up metal fences of about three metres height, so that we are now surrounded by a one hundred metre long fence on one side. It made us of course very suspicious seeing them construct something on the land they were planning the whale meat factory before.

The real shock came, when Jim returned and told us that there has been a new statement in an article on BBC News, quoting Koreas Whaling Commissioner Barng Ki Hiok on the importance of building the whale meat factory: "Once such a facility is built, meat must go there for processing.Then we can easily detect illegal trade. Therefore, construction of such a facility is the best way to prepare for the future, I think."

Apparently he also indicated that this means, the whale meat factory construction will go ahead.