2013-04-06, 09:55 | Link #842 | |
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Actual attempts to dismantle the North Koreans as a war machine would likely only happen if the North Koreans made a significant military incursion across the DMZ, or did heavy artillery strikes across it.
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2013-04-06, 13:44 | Link #846 | |
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Translation, Fidel was mad as a hater (just like Kim), he just has become frail and fearful as he senses the grim reaper getting near. |
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2013-04-06, 14:00 | Link #847 | |
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North Korean warmongering despite the fact that the South Koreans really have no interest in invading them, and despite the fact that the very people they're war mongering against are the ones who they need resources from to survive as a nation. That's far more dysfunctional than Cuba will ever be. If anything, the real comparison should be how Cuba and North Korea responded to the realities of a post cold war environment where they were cut off from soviet aid. By all discernible measures, Cuba adapted much better than North Korea.
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2013-04-06, 15:28 | Link #848 | |
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Though most of Russian assistance went into Vietnam and Afghanistan - I suspect that US actually tripped the wars on both of the other side of the world because they didn't want the giant cigar on their front door to start smoking.
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2013-04-06, 15:58 | Link #849 |
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I still maintain that all this rhetoric coming out of North Korea is hot air. I will be very surprised if they actually attack and this incident will eventually blow over. Last year we were talking about the possible war between Iran and Israel then there was the dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku islands. This is simply the latest flavour with the warmongering spiel.
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2013-04-06, 16:55 | Link #850 | |
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Wow. I sure was a tool for not realizing something so obvious.
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2013-04-06, 18:21 | Link #851 | |
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North Korea is the last obstacle before we can reach a form of a long-lasting peace in the region just as Serbia was that obstacle for peace in Europe and for the success of the newly-expanded European Union in the 1990s. My strong belief is that once NK is removed from the chessboard by any means, that region will know peace and prosperity. |
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2013-04-06, 18:41 | Link #852 | |
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It's either the quiet before the storm or just a prelude to nothin except Pudgy Kim makin noise. |
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2013-04-06, 22:30 | Link #854 | ||
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My bad, and you smacked me with a mislead reply. Guess we are both square now. Quote:
His resignation is simply him being scapegoated for loss of national pride.
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2013-04-06, 23:10 | Link #855 | |
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2013-04-07, 00:50 | Link #856 | ||
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2013-04-07, 08:23 | Link #857 | |
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No. The United States did NOT consider Cuba part of their sovereign territory. If we did, we wouldn't have let there be a local Cuban government for Castro to overthrow, and we certainly wouldn't have allowed it to exist like this for decades after the Spanish American War. The fact that the US gave the cuban Exiles us citizenship is less about claiming cuba, and more about trying to show solidarity with them as refugees from an anticommunist state. Seriously. Cuba's been an interdependent country since 1902. I'm not even going to dignify this with a response considering that your "interesting thought" that this analogy is coming from has absolutely no basis in reality.
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