North Korea - how serious should we take them?

North Korea - how serious should we take them?

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Ikemi

8,451 posts

207 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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mybrainhurts said:
Ta...what a tool, tourists will be watched round the clock.

Fifteen years hard labour?

What's that, then, baking pies in hot kitchen for Grorious Reader..??
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/02/whats-it-like-to-do-hard-labor-in-north-korea/

kowalski655

14,717 posts

145 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Halmyre said:
I'm at a loss to understand how you 'steal propaganda'. What's the point of having propaganda that you need to steal? Although I suppose it's internal propaganda aimed at NK's own citizens?
According toCNN he nicked a banner from a hotel-no different from nicking a traffic cone over here in reality,waaaay worse in Kim's little world

Munter

31,319 posts

243 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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mybrainhurts said:
Ta...what a tool, tourists will be watched round the clock.

Fifteen years hard labour?

What's that, then, baking pies in hot kitchen for Grorious Reader..??
Probably working on a coal mine or forest on starvation rations. I'm assuming it's all the worst bits of being in a WW2 concentration camp....

superkartracer

8,959 posts

224 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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^^ have a read about the biological weapons testing on the poor disabled and crippled... grim stuff.

AreOut

3,658 posts

163 months

Saturday 19th March 2016
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kowalski655 said:
According toCNN he nicked a banner from a hotel-no different from nicking a traffic cone over here in reality,waaaay worse in Kim's little world
he wanted to brag about later and joke around with his souvenire from North Korea

not so funny for him now eh

tilley441

330 posts

155 months

Saturday 26th March 2016
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Laurel Green

30,797 posts

234 months

Saturday 26th March 2016
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tilley441 said:
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The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. frown

ETA: Perhaps the server is in the US? biggrin

jmorgan

36,010 posts

286 months

Saturday 26th March 2016
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Meh. Better stuff in games and cheap disaster films.

I recommend they watch Sharknado for inspiration in the effects department.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

257 months

Thursday 31st March 2016
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/30/north-kore...

North Korea warned of famine as Kimmy baby scoffs all the pies...

Let them eat roots...hehe

Potatoes

3,572 posts

172 months

Thursday 31st March 2016
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FourWheelDrift said:
I love the soundtrack, it sounds like a drunk tone-deaf music student tried to make a soundtrack for the A-Team using some basic music software.

kowalski655

14,717 posts

145 months

Thursday 31st March 2016
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mybrainhurts said:
Love the comment below the piece that offers a "christian" settlement....get fatty Kim to give up nukes in return for food. Duh,that's exactly what the sanctions are for!!!!

MartG

20,746 posts

206 months

mcgandalf

659 posts

157 months

Friday 1st April 2016
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The damned fat fool has started picking a fight with China.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518620/No...

China could pull the plug at any minute and Kim will be toast. The South Koreans could send in special forces to assassinate him and expect no retaliation from the PLA. The DPRK regime would implode more or less immediately.

hidetheelephants

25,186 posts

195 months

Friday 1st April 2016
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mcgandalf said:
The damned fat fool has started picking a fight with China.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518620/No...

China could pull the plug at any minute and Kim will be toast. The South Koreans could send in special forces to assassinate him and expect no retaliation from the PLA. The DPRK regime would implode more or less immediately substitute one of the generals with a penchant for really big hats or a minor Kim relative as a stand-in and the dance would continue because the juche says it is so and the imperialist capitalist running dogs will not triumph.

mcgandalf

659 posts

157 months

Friday 1st April 2016
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hidetheelephants said:
mcgandalf said:
The damned fat fool has started picking a fight with China.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518620/No...

China could pull the plug at any minute and Kim will be toast. The South Koreans could send in special forces to assassinate him and expect no retaliation from the PLA. The DPRK regime would implode more or less immediately substitute one of the generals with a penchant for really big hats or a minor Kim relative as a stand-in and the dance would continue because the juche says it is so and the imperialist capitalist running dogs will not triumph.
Well - they won't really.

The DPRK isn't your average dictatorship - it's a juche-based theocracy. The Kims - grandfather, father and son - are literally worshipped (or the populace are forced to worship them). Kim Il Sung has been dead 22 years and he remains the 'Eternal President of the Republic'. The DPRK is a republic, but in terms of leadership it has a monarchical succession.

The DPRK regime was very lucky to have had a relatively stable and quick transfer of power from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un when KJI died relatively unexpectedly a few years ago. KJU was never meant to be the heir - the original heir was the older son who fell out of favour when he snuck into Tokyo Disneyland.

If Kim Jong Un dies without a son to readily take over, there will be a humongous power vacuum. It's not as if a senior member of the Workers Party or National Defence Commission can just step in and power will be assured with them. The whole structure will fall to pieces.

FourWheelDrift

88,743 posts

286 months

Friday 1st April 2016
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mcgandalf said:
If Kim Jong Un dies without a son to readily take over, there will be a humongous power vacuum. It's not as if a senior member of the Workers Party or National Defence Commission can just step in and power will be assured with them. The whole structure will fall to pieces.
He has 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Elder brother Kim Jong-nam is in exile but the other 3 are all active in NK politics.

Beati Dogu

8,949 posts

141 months

Friday 1st April 2016
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I thought pie boy was looking even fatter recently and the Wail article says he weighs over 21 stone these days. He fractured his overloaded ankles a couple of years ago and walks with a cane (when he's off camera).

Like every Socialist paradise, some animals are more equal than others. Apparently the average North Korean is up to 3" shorter than the average South Korean, due to the difference in diet and the famine in the 1990s.

cirian75

4,268 posts

235 months

Tuesday 5th April 2016
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Eighteeteewhy

7,259 posts

170 months

Friday 15th April 2016
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