South Korea credits Trump for opening door to talks with North
Anyway, I can't help but feel this is just a ploy to get the west to ease up.
I don't trust the NorK's anymore than you do, I'm cautiously optimistic.
However, North Korea is at that point, about 75 years in where Communism typically fails. History has shown that it takes about 3 generations for Communism to drain all the resources from the general populace and concentrate them with a select few and then there simply is no more production, only slavery and the thing implodes.
Postby Speaker to Animals » Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:12 am
I wonder if Un ever wanted this job. He grew up in Europe. He loved to play basketball and participate in his gaming clans.
That's the irony of all this. Un is basically a gamer. Imagine taking the average gamer in the West and installing him as dictator of North Korea. That's what happened.
Postby Speaker to Animals » Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:15 am
I saw this stupid film years ago about some dot com startup drama. The end of the film, where the main character had lost everything and ended up on the beach, was the only good thing in it.
The character encounters a man fishing on the beach. He asks the man why he doesn't try to make a business out of it since this is what he loves to do every day. The man says that he could do that. He could buy some boats to catch more fish and sell the fish in the markets. He could then hire fisherman to man the boats and build a fleet of fishing boats. Then he could build a supply chain that gets his fish to faraway markets. He would put all of this effort into building this fishery empire so that he could do what he loves, which is to just fish on the beach. Or, he could just fish on the beach.
Maybe Un just wants to play video games and watch basketball. You don't need to rule over North Korea just to do that.
Speaker to Animals wrote:I wonder if Un ever wanted this job. He grew up in Europe. He loved to play basketball and participate in his gaming clans.
That's the irony of all this. Un is basically a gamer. Imagine taking the average gamer in the West and installing him as dictator of North Korea. That's what happened.
Yeah, I looked pretty close at Kim Jong III's background when he took the iron throne. I thought at the time, this guy is going to change all this. His grandfather, Mao and the Communist struggle are mere words to this guy................. then he started killing folks and consolidating power and I was WTF. Didn't expect that.
Maybe Pompeo explained to him he can either sit on the beach and Fish, or feed the Fish.
It's started. The Ladies on the View struggle to find someone, anyone to give credit other than Trump. They imply it was W and the Big O, and say China gets credit.
I really don't see the North actually given up their nuclear arms nor their program. This could be just a ruse (I think they did something similar back in the 1990s) but maybe we should just play ball and see where this actually leads to?
C-Mag wrote:It's started. The Ladies on the View struggle to find someone, anyone to give credit other than Trump. They imply it was W and the Big O, and say China gets credit.
I love how these chicks are saying things like "intercontinental ballistic missile" and "hydrogen bomb" as if they know fuck all about any of this.That show is fucking hilarious all the time.
A contributing factor for why NK is halting nuclear testing, and may seek peace (or at least pretend to as a delaying tactic): Their nuclear program, quite literally, collapsed:
Geologists at the University of Science and Technology of China have presented evidence suggesting the mountain directly above North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site has collapsed, reports the Associated Press. The incident happened following the September 3, 2017 detonation of a nuclear bomb estimated at around 100 kilotons, which is 10 times stronger than any of the previous five tests conducted by North Korea.
I appreciated this tidbit:
The announcement that North Korea’s nuclear tests are coming to a halt—at least for now—will likely come as a relief to Beijing. The mountain-based facility is located less than 60 miles (100 km) from Chinese border, and prior tests have triggered measureable seismic events, resulting in the evacuations of Chinese schools and workplaces.
