Ursa Majoris Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Original story. Revalue the currency and limit the amount that can be exchanged. Follow-up - the law of unintended consequences.....or was it? The entire population reduced to poverty in one stroke. Kinda puts US problems into perspective, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Korea has been severely f-ed up for a lonnnnnnnnng time. I'd like to think that the warped POS in charged finally dying (what is he like 100?) will help, but with his son all set to step in, I doubt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westvirginia Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Ya gotta love that gov't control... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 In North Hamgyong province, a merchant couple in their 60s killed themselves after hearing of the revaluation, said the Daily NK, a Seoul-based online news outlet that focuses on North Korean affairs. When are those people going to rise up and take back their country, their freedom, their lives??? When is someone going to put a bullet in the head of that insane dictator? I don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 When are those people going to rise up and take back their country, their freedom, their lives??? When is someone going to put a bullet in the head of that insane dictator? I don't get it. The media must be fun over there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 read this yesterday, from the ever-eloquent chris hitchens. Here are the two most shattering facts about North Korea. First, when viewed by satellite photography at night, it is an area of unrelieved darkness. Barely a scintilla of light is visible even in the capital city. (See this famous photograph.) Second, a North Korean is on average six inches shorter than a South Korean. You may care to imagine how much surplus value has been wrung out of such a slave, and for how long, in order to feed and sustain the militarized crime family that completely owns both the country and its people. But this is what proves Myers right. Unlike previous racist dictatorships, the North Korean one has actually succeeded in producing a sort of new species. Starving and stunted dwarves, living in the dark, kept in perpetual ignorance and fear, brainwashed into the hatred of others, regimented and coerced and inculcated with a death cult: This horror show is in our future, and is so ghastly that our own darling leaders dare not face it and can only peep through their fingers at what is coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 When are those people going to rise up and take back their country, their freedom, their lives??? When is someone going to put a bullet in the head of that insane dictator? I don't get it. One item from the article Az posted says: The United States and its partners make up in aid for the huge shortfall in North Korea's food production, but there is not a hint of acknowledgement of this by the authorities, who tell their captive subjects that the bags of grain stenciled with the Stars and Stripes are tribute paid by a frightened America to the Dear Leader. It's likely that we, through our wish to help the people avoid death, are propping up the regime and putting off the day of reckoning that will surely come. Although it's a tough decision to make, completely cutting off all aid, isolating N Korea through blockade and mounting a massive propaganda blitz to overcome the North's jammers might be the best option. This might force either a revolution or a military takeover. Even a military junta might be easier to deal with (i.e. saner) than the lunatic in charge now. We'd have to guarantee the south and be prepared to wipe out hundreds of thousands of NKA troops as they crossed the border. I think we need to deal with this whole thing right now before they reach the point where they can actually be a major threat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I think we need to deal with this whole thing right now before they reach the point where they can actually be a major threat. you mean, pre-emptively? how very neocon of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westvirginia Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 you mean, pre-emptively? how very neocon of you. Man, ursa knows more about the shrub doctrine than Sarah Palin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 you mean, pre-emptively? how very neocon of you. At least we know they have real nukes, not just two spud guns and a catapult. And I'm not talking about committing trillions in treasure and thousands of lives either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driveby Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 At least we know they have real nukes, not just two spud guns and a catapult. And I'm not talking about committing trillions in treasure and thousands of lives either. Must be hard to find size 13 tap shoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_gop_liars Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 At least we know they have real nukes, not just two spud guns and a catapult. And I'm not talking about committing trillions in treasure and thousands of lives either. Would Colin Powell need to bring aluminum tubes to the U.N. to make this happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 Must be hard to find size 13 tap shoes. Easier than Iraqi WMDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Flick Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 When are those people going to rise up and take back their country, their freedom, their lives??? When is someone going to put a bullet in the head of that insane dictator? I don't get it. The answer is depressingly simple: they have no idea what they're missing, nothing to compare what they lack against anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Must be hard to find size 13 tap shoes. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 you mean, pre-emptively? how very neocon of you. All I know is that in '03, when we had a hard-on to go after some dictator who possessed WMDs, why didn't we go after the guy who actually had them? Not enough oil over there? Because we didn't want to start a war with a guy who could actually bomb us? You know, WMD is like RBI, the plural is all jacked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 All I know is that in '03, when we had a hard-on to go after some dictator who possessed WMDs, why didn't we go after the guy who actually had them? well for one thing they didn't have nukes until 2006. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 well for one thing they didn't have nukes until 2006. They pulled out of the anti-proliferation treaty in '03. That would have been enough if they were in the Middle East. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 The answer is depressingly simple: they have no idea what they're missing, nothing to compare what they lack against anything else. I don't know man... when 60 year old couples are killing themselves because they have no hope, based upon their nation's fiscal policy... seems like they know enough to choose death over another moment under Kim Jong Il. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Flick Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I don't know man... when 60 year old couples are killing themselves because they have no hope, based upon their nation's fiscal policy... seems like they know enough to choose death over another moment under Kim Jong Il. True, but their perception of their leader is one of near deification. They'd bring greater dishonor onto themselves (or so they think) if they went after him instead of offing themselves. I just don't think we can comprehend. They think we're the fakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 They pulled out of the anti-proliferation treaty in '03. That would have been enough if they were in the Middle East. I assume you're just trying to be glib here, but there is literally NO ONE this side of h8tank who seriously advocated military action against NK in 2003 (or since, really). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duchess Jack Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Az... I have been meaning to ask: what the hell is that thing in your avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Az... I have been meaning to ask: what the hell is that thing in your avatar? Blue Dog Democrat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duchess Jack Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Blue Dog Democrat it looks confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 it looks confused It's getting ass-raped by Republicans....or will be soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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