So the US is sending one of their biggest aircraft carriers for purely defensive exercises? Considering how pushed the are from an economic pov, I'm just a little surprised at this.

Actually, I was expecting this; it's almost as they send a Aircraft carrier group everytime North Korea ( or anyone ) make some fuss.

Well, I was expecting the US to do something for the reason you mentioned, and sending an aircraft carrier was the most logical thing to do. I'm surprised they send a carrier that's within one of the biggest classes in the Navy.

Well there's a reason we have so many carrier battlegroups...so that when something comes up we don't feel strapped for sending something.

That's a practical reason not to court Martial MacArthur. Not a legal one. If Truman was feeling truely vindictive and decided that the Democrats were going to lose the presidential race anyway, he'd have had an entire array of things to use to nail MacArthurs balls to the wall. And it'd all be perfectly legal.

There's a reason why the congressional outrage over his dismissal died down and fantasies about Trumans impeachment went with it. Even the hardcore Republicans realized that pushing the affair further would just bring up MacArthurs insubordination and sedition.
It has plenty of resources...none of which can be taken advantage of immediately, due to the decayed state of North Korean industry and infrastructure.

How do you think those Communist parties officials lived with themselves during the Great Leap Forward? Exaggerating their local harvest productivity, so that the Government would take practically all of the Peasants rice and grain, condemning them to starvation?

You read about all these Communist agricultural processes, and you come to a disturbing realization that in many cases Feudalism was a more fair system to the peasants.

It has some, at least according to the FAO:
So, substantial mineral resources, as well as arable land.

Another important resource to factor is cultural, as several important natural or architectural landmarks of the Korean culture are in the North.

That makes me curious as to how much tourism there is in North Korea. I wouldn't have thought there was that much there tbh.

My aunt who works as a Filipino diplomat recently went to NK on a "tour" with some backing from the Chinese government I think. Wasn't much of a "tour" as it was being herded around by angry looking people through some suspiciously happy and joyous populations.

The fact she's a diplomat and had Chinese backing tells me that it's a bit difficult to actually enter NK as a tourist in the first place, which leads me to think that there isn't much of a market for tourism there. I might be wrong, but that's the impression I'm getting from what you said :p

U.S. may stop the terror rainbow: Could ditch colour-coded alerts
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1811216/

They really started pushing that after Soviet aid dried up after the break up of the Soviet Union. It's just an example of how strapped for cash they are (for awhile I think they were also trying to generate revenue from Pachinko machines that North Koreans living in Japan operated).
Indeed. It's hard to organize tourism when you're a militant paranoid state...
even more when you consider that outside of the official tour guide area's, there ISN'T anything a tourist would be remotely interested in.

I was thinking about his work in the Pacific theater, which indirectly leads to major offensives in the SEA region. A couple of biographies I read about him gave him alot more credit than Nimitz.

Or China could just simply outsource the building of their ripoff arms to NK to help them earn money. Capitalism ho! :heh:

Welcome to politics : an act of looking good in front of others while being totally ugly when solving actual pertinent problems. :p

According to Stalin, a bloodbath (war) usually solves problems : no man, no problem. :heh:

Here is something to sate your curiosity. :D

So....do you still want to tour there?

1. the infasture wold have to be completely rebuilt or built as there is nothing modern except its nuke plants

2. the entire population would have to be train for as a modern workforce.

3. you have to feed them

a trick question?

Lol they already do it with so many other good to so many other countries, I don't see why not :heh: But the one thing to consider is that selling their own weapons would put their own military at risk. Even capitalist countries don't want to do that :p

Someone has a thing to say about that:



Gulags, concentration camps and assassins work just as well. Just sayin' :heh:

Ehhh, no not really :heh:

Simple. Ignorance is bliss.

Using the mindsets of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), NMFP (Not My F***ing Problem) and MMOB (Minding My Own Business), they are able to secure their current lifestyles and income streams without any conscience or guilt.

That is how individualism makes people rich, at the expense of society.

Remember, most of their technologies are reversed engineered or ripoffs. See Norinco? They even copied the M16 rifle and changed the pistol grip to a revolver grip! :heh:

The technology itself is dispensable since they are just unlicensed copies. If the Khyber Pass residents can rebuild rifles using resources from the region, North Korea shouldn't have a problem making stuff for China at a much lower cost.

Hence the term : political correctness. Though I fail to see how correct it is to be a total hypocrite.

Come to think of it, Gulags and concentration camps are much better. Unlike prisons where you have to take care of human rights and all sorts of stuff, it eats into taxpayer monies. Concentration camps, on the other hand, force the workers to live and work at the bare minimum : you don't have to even pay them for dangerous jobs such as mining in a firedamp.

If the population within dies, simply arrest more people. From a business standpoint that is maximum efficiency. :D *sarcastic*

Oh I do wonder what was going through Richard Maynard Keynes when he created this system of self-benefit for the people D=.

Of course, that is how most of China is making its money. It makes sense for them to sell quasi-counterfeits to the outside to make more money. I imagine they would make a lot of money from the US considering the gun-culture there. Although I find it hard that gun lovers would be interested in off license goods.

I'll tell you. It's correct as long as there's no one to prove you wrong. That's the motive behind many and all dictators' tactics in purging enemies both internal and external.

There's always hypnosis......just saying' :heh:

China and Russia quit US Dollar.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2...t_11599087.htm

Here's an interesting quote from the article:

You sir are an evil genius. ;)

Meanwhile I agree with that the dollar is too risky, I don't agree with that quote : it sounds like utter bullshit to me.

Fair and reasonable new order? I think they are just extending their rights to build Gulags and suppress dissent against China's exploitation of not just their own people, but smaller countries as well.

Keynes' focus is in building a richer world through inflation, but he assumed one thing : that corruption, nepotism and cronyism will be truly eradicated, and even if there is a monarchy, it places precedence on democracy first; after all, he is born in the UK under the Queen.

Unfortunately it wasn't. In the US, democracy has been corrupted by corporatism, while in China, democracy essentially is taken as the right to exploit the people on the lower-income pyramid, rather than giving them a chance to succeed in life.

He must have rolled over in his grave to see that his great economic plan taken to pieces by people called "lawyers", "politicians" and "responsibility shirkers".

Though it would certainly help their economy if they became more tourist-friendly. This has helped bolster the economies of third world nations for years.

I don't know about this one; don't they tend to make tourist-trap with the only goal to get the money of them at the expence of local population.