2009-04-19, 21:26 | Link #61 |
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Communist party surges as Japan's economy withers
Japan products found on NKorea missile kit vessel People are supporting the communists who most likely had a role in product mislabeling involving Chinese goods and mostly likely are involved with exporting parts to North Korea that can be used as a type of missile kit against Japan, it is definitely unbelievable. On the contrary, this rising concern can also be blamed on Aso's impressive capabilities. If only he could have fixed the economy, as well as other matters. Things wouldn't have go downhill now. Perhaps, now is a good time to call for general elections considering that Ozawa isn't doing too well either. Then again, what happens if the Liberal Democrats actually lose..? The Democratic Party of Japan consists of people with multiple beliefs in which some have conflicting views. There are the hawkish conservatives and at the same time, there are also the socialists and communists. How will their policies play out if they take control of the government? Let me guess.. First, Ozawa will schedule a trip over to China. After that, Ozawa will be having a meeting with Obama to discuss his anti-American views, such as not supporting the Afghan mission and then, what will come next? I cannot imagine. |
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On the other hand, we have North Korea, a nation that can barely feed it's people. A nation who's borders can be seen from orbit at night because that's where the lights from towns and cities in South Korea and China stop. The only reason they can even field what they have is because they ignore pretty much all other areas of their economy and throw money into rockets while children starve.
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Personally I would recommend sending in SAD to kill off the generals (in whatever way they deem fit) and the brainwashed military personnel, to me the country is pretty much a basket case with little left for salvaging.
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ELECTION 2009--BATTLE FOR POWER / Scant airing of abduction issue
It seems that resolving the abduction issue is a task of extreme difficulty as that North Korea is unwilling to cooperate while the United States don't seem to care much, not mentioning that South Korea is in the same boat. Nonetheless, the issue of the abduction should not be forgotten as that the abductees are most likely still alive and are figuring a method out of North Korea. ELECTION 2009--BATTLE FOR POWER / How Japan should treat DPRK It seems that the main reason why North Korea won't abandon its nuclear arsenal is to use it as a possible deterrent when they try to unify the two Koreas by military force as that the United States will not be able to rescue their allies due a nuclear threat. For that matter, the issue is actually very serious yet it won't be resolved easily. Last edited by Shadow Kira01; 2009-08-28 at 14:22. Reason: updated. |
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A Mighty Manga Miracle
North Korean comics, a key element of state control, are under attack by reality,
and losing badly. North Korea is having lots of problems with its propaganda efforts. While few North Koreans (usually only trusted government officials) have free access to the Internet, and a few more (along the Chinese border) can use Chinese cell phones to communicate with the outside world, many more have access to CD players that can display (mostly pirated) foreign movies on their TV sets. These CDs are smuggled in from China, and many of them contain movies and TV shows from South Korea. This stuff is immensely popular in North Korea, where the standard TV and radio fare is relentless, and poorly executed, propaganda. But South Korean comics are getting in as well, some of them on CDs, in scanned format. The South Korea comics, called manhwa, are heavily influenced by the Japanese version, called manga. The South Korean manhwa originally came out of China, more than Japan (which occupied Korea from 1905-45, and created an intense hatred of all things Japanese in Korea). But in the last few decades, the explosive growth, and influence, of manga, has influenced South Korean manhwa, and the less creative North Korean comixs." See: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/hti.../20101019.aspx |
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At the moment, China is having real issues with North Korean refugees spilling over the border and into China. As long as NK continues to be the way it is, China will keep getting refugees that it doesn't want. So, in a sense, China wants a stable NK.
So the US and it's allies should do nothing. Ignore NK. Don't offer it anything, don't provoke it, don't attack it. Let it continue to be a failed state. Sooner or later, Kim is gonna die, and odds are there will be changes at that time. Or China will get so fed up with NK, that they will back any plan the US wants to do. Nukes? Give me a break. Nukes are freakin' HARD to make. You have to construct them in just the right way, with just the right materials, which are also hard to make. You need a specific form of plutonium, refined a certain way. You need your explosives to trigger in just the right way to uniformly compress the ball of nuclear material so that it triggers the chain reaction. If you're off by one atom in your calculations and implementation, it ain't goin' off. That's the simplest layman's version, but all it means is that NK will never have a working nuke. They simply don't have the resources nor brainpower. And no one would be willing to help them, because no one wants a nuclear North Korea. Right now, the only reason NK is used against the US+allies, is because the US+allies are showing interest in the region. So, if we simply ignore it, no other countries will have reason to support it. And thus, China is left holding the sack with hundreds of thousands of starving refugees flooding it's country. |
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I have to agree with Kaijo. People are seriously overestimating NK's capabilities, when it's nothing more than a state that has been run into the ground waving its fists and threatening other people for help. Any blatant actual attempt to start something would result in its end, and China will either make nominal complaints while doing nothing, or take over the place itself.
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