🚀 go-pugleaf

Lady Liberty wrote:
> "die gedanken sind frei" <judgedredd@ij.net>  said, and I quote:
> ...
> 
>>    God, what a classic idiot. You see we already did that with North
>>    Korea. 
>>We used the same head completely up the ass mentality. To borrow a
>>phrase, does stupidity on your level hurt?  You want us to confront a
>>nation that has nukes? Maybe you missed the NK Preimier saying yesterday
>>that he "will" nuke South Korea if there are "any sanctions" applied to
>>his country.
> 
> 
> No shit? Did he really say that? Do you have a cite?

Hell, I heard a sound-bite on NPR when this all started, where they said 
that "aggression towards NK will result in the destruction of NYC, Chicago, 
Washington DC, and Los Angeles".


> 
> I've been of the impression for weeks now, that N Korea is just trying to 
> extort more aid handouts from us, to support their utterly failed Stalinist 
> style communist regime. If we give in to such extortion, it will never end.

Hey, it worked before, why wouldn't it work this time?


> 
> And then on top of it, the frelling S Koreans are behaving like assholes to 
> us now too. We should just pull our forces out of S Korea and tell them; 
> good luck, you're on your own. The ingrates.


That's been the North's objective all along. Look, there are a lot of NK 
propagandists in SK, and they're very adept at manipulating SK opinion as 
long as they take their time and are subtle about it. Also, the present 
hostility in SK is founded in a huge fubar by US forces. Two schoolgirls 
were crushed by a US vehicle, the military justice system failed to convict 
the drivers and the way it was done looks like a huge whitewash to me, the 
SK people see it as incompetence on the part of the drivers, a whitewash by 
the military courts, and not even one actual apology was ever issued, much 
less did any responsible officer resign or get cashiered.

Apparently one of the NK strategies recently is to convince the SK people 
that NK is after all their poor deprived relatives, being starved and frozen 
by those nasty anti-Korean imperialists in the US, Japan, and the PR of 
China. All decent SK people should feel sympathy for the NK relatives, 
hatred for the imperialists, and open their arms and purses to their 
relatives up North, and not-incidentally open their borders to NK troops, 
out of uniform of course, after expelling those hateful milk-smelling 
bignoses that have kept repressive governments in power and turning the SK 
people into disreputable lackeys and minions of foreign imperialists etc etc 
etc.

It seems that the SK people are eating it up, the younger folks, anyway.

See also http://www.kimsoft.com/ for english-language 'news and views' from 
both sides of the Parallel.


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