This subway arson in South Korea is awful. More than two dozen are reportedly dead, and others possibly trapped. Police have arrested a 46-year-old named Kim Dae-han in the attack. Police have said nothing about a motive.

A Google search for “Kim Dae Han” turned up a site called “Light a candle for Palestine,” on which one Kim Dae Han of Korea “lit a candle” several months ago. I don’t mean to suggest that anyone who sympathizes with Palestine is automatically a terrorist (I do, and I’m not), but the conspiracy theorist in me has to wonder… could this be the same guy, a Korean citizen who converted to Islam, and whose pro-Palestinian, anti-American, Islamist beliefs inspired him to stage a terrorist attack in South Korea, hoping it would be blamed on North Korea and thus would complicate the Great Satan’s Iraq war plans by shifting the focus from Saddam Hussein to Kim Jong-Il?

Eh, probably not. But if there is some connection, you heard it here first on BrendanLoy.com. :)

UPDATE, 11:43 PM: I should also point out that there’s probably a lot of people in Korea named Kim Dae Han. Here’s an article featuring a Kim Dae Han commenting on soccer, and here’s a story mentioning a compulsive gambler named Kim Dae Han.