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whatever7 posted:How come the last two South Korean disasters were both boat sinking? Was there any older major boat sinking accident from either Korea? Department store collapsed in the 90s that killed 500+.
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Onion Knight posted:Are... are you sure you went to South Korea? On Earth? Reunification doesn't mean the South has to open the borders to mass migration immediately. It would make a lot more sense to maintain the DMZ as an internal border and run the North as defacto colony for the next few decades. Letting the Chinese set up a Korean "Autonomous" zone would be politically untenable.
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Onion Knight posted:
What the hell kind of bullshit is this? I teach at a Korean High School so I know that this is laughably untrue.
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Negrostrike posted:Something's fishy at the Blue House... The government is melting down like you wouldn't believe. The country has basically been ruled for the past four years by President Park's friend who sunk her claws into her 30 years ago by convincing her that she could channel the spirit of her dead mother. Nancy Reagen, eat your heart out, this poo poo is crazy! The country is going nuts over this. The media is throwing around accusations that this cult leader was basically running Park’s flagship culture program and in charge of hundreds of millions in spending, and that's the tip of the iceberg. She's apparently had access to all classified documents. These rumors were always there since the 80s but no one believed. It's like America waking up to find out that Obama really was a secret Muslim all along, or the Labour party discovering that Harold Wilson really was a Soviet spy.
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Vagabundo posted:If there's one thing that the Koreans get right, aside from their awesome cuisine (bibimbap supremacy), it's protests. I work near the big Government Center in Sejong City and there are protestors outside it all the time.
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Nov 1, 2016 12:21
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Phlegmish posted:So, will this topple her, or just make her unelectable in 2017? Term limit. she can't run again, unless I majorly misunderstood something.
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Nov 1, 2016 13:41
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nelson posted:Just before this story hit, she was trying to get a bill through that would allow the president to run multiple terms. I guess that's not going to happen now. As I remember it, that bill would not apply to the current president.
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Nov 2, 2016 06:47
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nelson posted:The article I read was short on details. What's the best English language news source for Korean news? I usually go here http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/
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fishmech posted:There were plenty of leftists who would prefer the south to be part of a unified Korea under the North's rule in the old days, particularly during the various southern dictatorships. That started to ebb away when democracy finally set in and general South Korean living standards really improved while the North started to crater, but there's still going to be some of the same old guard around now who want a dear leader. Wasn't a leftist congressman arrested and convicted for plotting with the north a couple of years ago.
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Feb 28, 2017 05:07
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Moon pledges to raise the defense budget from 2.4% of GDP to 2.9% http://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170718000936#cb
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Juffo-Wup posted:First, it's pretty hosed up to imagine that the US has the right to simply invade whatever place they want. Second, if you catch yourself thinking that the people of North Korea really would have been better off under a (second) US military occupation, it's worth asking yourself exactly what evidence exists for that belief. How well South Korea has turned out.
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WarpedNaba posted:Trump can't start a war by declaring it through a tweet, I presume. When he was making his tweets about transgender people in the military, the Pentagon was terrified he was doing exactly that. Unfortunately. The President has the power to unilaterally attack any nation on Earth.
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Paradoxish posted:I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. North Korea has sunk an ROKN ship in the relatively recent past and the response was deescalation. They've shelled an ROK military installation and the response was deescalation. If the US launches an air strike against North Korea, the thing that Kim Jong-un is going to want more than anything else is peaceful deescalation. The problem is that he's also probably going to need to risk some kind of limited military response to keep his own political position stable. I arrived in the ROK in 2009. Korea has changed over the last decade. I really doubt that the South will just sit back and take it the next time the North attacks a ship or an island. They will retaliate in kind.
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Conspiratiorist posted:It's literally impossible. I'd like to learn more about this. Are you talking about climate change induced drought causing famine and lack of drinkable water?
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School just finished an air raid drill and an F16 flew right over ahead, lower than I've ever seen. Creepy
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maskenfreiheit posted:You're in Seoul? Sejong, 100-150 meters from the Government Complex
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Aug 30, 2017 08:31
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You can't win an ABM race with a real world power because they can just build more missiles, more cheaply than you can build interceptors. But is that true with North Korea? Surely the economic disparity means we can build more interceptors than they can build ICBMs. We just need to put a system like Brilliant Pebbles in orbit.
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brockan posted:That's what I've been wondering too. NK watchers say that a US military strike would take weeks of buildup, including a mass evacuation of Seoul and a much larger military buildup. But NK has said that that they will strike if they see any signs that the US is planning to attack, and these would be clear signs. Call in one of the Ohio Class Cruise Missile Boats to port for repairs. Violate treaty by converting the cruise missiles to nuclear warheads. Send it out to the Sea of Japan, launch a 154 warhead, nap of the earth, first strike with no warning. Unlike an attack with ICBMs, this has no chance of being misinterperted by Russian/Chinese warning systems as a strike on them. Not advocating this, since I millions would die including me. But it would be one way to pull off surprise.
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Sep 4, 2017 01:12
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TheRat posted:There's no reliable way to intercept ICBMs That's why you have to build a lot more interceptors than the enemy has missiles, which makes an arms race with a major economic power unwinnable. North Korea is not a major eocnomic power.
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Sep 4, 2017 01:14
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Ynglaur posted:Showing Russia we can't be trusted with nuclear treaties is a poor exchange. A nuclear war on the Korean peninsula would be horrible, but Russia and the US could end the human race. Haven't the Russians recently violated the intermediate ballistic missile treaty in Europe? Also, didn't that boat already sail when W. Bush violated the ABM treaty?
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Sep 4, 2017 03:50
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Mulva posted:In retrospect giving a gently caress about Communism was the stupidest thing the United States ever did, and boy howdy was that a long list to top. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-claims-h-bomb-test-experts-urge-trump-talks-n798431
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OhFunny posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ab0d_story.html Well the Chinese should have thought about reigning the North in before things got this far. This is a very predictable escalation. It's not a surprise.
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Burt Sexual posted:When does Saudi Arabia get their first nuke? IIRC, Pakistan promised to sell them some if Iran goes nuclear.
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Grouchio posted:"Men have lived on the slopes of Volcanoes for centuries, and they have slept well at night. We can do the same thing." - Some guy on another forum I talked to. Eventually those volcanoes blow up and kill everybody though...
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whatever7 posted:I can't determine how crazy Kim is until I get a clarification on the execution method he used on his uncle. He had his half brother assassinated with nerve gas in an busy international airport! That's literal Bond villain stuff.
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Got a ticket to the Men's Half Pipe Final on Feb 14th. Got a love motel in Gangneung, the 13th, triple the normal price at 180,000 Won. My wife just got me train tickets at the station. This means I am one of the lucky ones, because the pecularaties of Korean geography and calendar are going to absolutely gently caress over thousands of foreigners. (For context I've lived here for 8 years) First of all, if you go on Bookings.com or whatever app you like and put in Pyeongchang you are going to be offered a pension (Konglish for cabin) in the mountain near a small village named Pyeongchang in the middle of nowhere. It would literally take you 10 hours by bus to get to the main Olympic stadium from there. I actually accidently booked one of these, but realized my mistake in a couple of minutes and canceled for free. Then I managed to get a ratty looking love motel room close to the Gangneung train station. Lots of foreigners with no experience with Korea are going to find themselves in random mountain cabins in the middle of nowhere. Then I bought a train ticket to Pyeongchang on the 13th, but I shouldn't have done that. I needed to get one for Gangneung instead. That's easy to fix, just go down to the station and exchange. It's the train back on the 14th that was the problem. The 14th-18th are the Lunar New Year. And train tickets on those days, only go on sale at 9am KST on January 17th. KTX tickets then sell out within half an hour nation wide. This is not something generally known to foreign tourists, who are going to show up and not be able to get train tickets. What's worse, is that even if you have already purchased the Olympics KTX pass, for those five days you have to go on line and reserve specific seats for those days. So, there are alot of people who will show that think they have tickets, but won't. Also, very few people in Gangwando speak English, so it's going to be hard for foreigners to get around in general. At least the signs all have English on them. https://www.koreaexpose.com/korails-pyeongchang-olympic-discrimination/ quote:until the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics open on Feb. 9, another issue is getting foreign visitors worked up. This time, it’s ticket bookings for the new KTX (high speed rail) line that connects Incheon International Airport, Seoul and key new stations in the Olympic zone.
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Hospital fire kills more than 30.  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-hospital-fire-south-korea-sejong-hospital-miryang-today-2018-01-26/
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Baronjutter posted:I remember only like a year ago there was a deadly fire that killed a bunch of olds in a nursing home in korea as well, I remember being really mad because it described the whole thing in detail and it was an absolute inexcusable failure in the very basics of both fire safety and nursing care. Unless you're in a large public building built after 2010 this doesn't exist, and even then it's iffy.
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Paradoxish posted:A US ship involved in this is going to be attacked at some point. North Korea (probably) sunk an ROKN ship just for shits and giggles in the middle of a joint exercise with the US. That was to prove Kim Jong Un was a badass. He was young and untested and that ship was sunk to prove to the military he had what it takes.
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Warbadger posted:Pretty much. They weren't at war and they had no reason to think that anyone was going to torpedo them. If they even detected the torpedo in third baffles they'd have had very little time to figure out what it was and report it. They fight naval battles over that line relatively often. No RoK ship is going to think that.
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Willo567 posted:So if Bolton is placed in the White House, should we kiss our asses goodbye? We're probably only going to have one big war and Pompeo wants one with Iran. So, it depends who wins the behind the scenes battle for Trump's ear. Maybe Mattis will try to play them off each other.
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Demiurge4 posted:https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/986208912205467653?s=21 The North has always required American withdrawal in return for a treaty, so I'm skeptical. Even if they do sign a treaty, how does that materially change things? Will they stop building nukes? No. Will they draw down the number of soldiers on the DMZ? No. Will they stop aggressively patroling the maratime border? No. Will they stop selling missiles to middle eastern countries and counterfitting US currency? No. So, what exactly does it accomplish accept good PR for both parties.
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Thump! posted:The key difference is that Obama and Bush sent the officials there. Pompeo did this without Trump's knowledge. Wait, really?
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Fojar38 posted:Wouldn't this just be madman theory? Something which seems to have been until recently successfully deployed by, among others, Kim Jong-Un? Madman theory is taking advantage of your opponent by pretending to be insane. Actually being insane is not the same thing.
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Kthulhu5000 posted:That's kind of the crux, and the conflict, behind how China sees North Korea and the US sees it. The US has always been pretty dogmatic around wanting regime change and reform, while China (being nearer to North Korea geographically and politically) has probably been more open to just giving up the charade and engaging with North Korea as it is, human rights warts and all.
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J33uk posted:Soooo short of a hilarious heel turn did the Korean war just actually end? They've pledged no more war 3 times before after big summits (1992, 2000 and 2008 IIRC). 4th times the charm?
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Chomskyan posted:Lmao, South Korea was basically a US colony run by former Japanese collaborators. The US and the former imperial government had already massacred over 100,000 people in the south by the time Kim Il-sung "invaded" (except not really, because you can't invade your own country) The North had plenty of japanese collaborators in their government. They basically kept the entire propaganda arm intact and had them replace the words Japan with Korea.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I think if Russia starts rolling armored divisions down to the 38th parallel someone might notice. The only reason the DPRK exists is because the Chinese army intervened in the war, as did the Soviet air force.
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Calling it a revolution is over selling it a bit.
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Chomskyan posted:That's what the activists call it, and I think they're right to. But feel free to be an annoying pedant I've lived in the ROK for eight and a half years, so I know what I'm talking about. You were completely capable of going around, living your normal life at the time if you wanted. A revolution should be highly disruptive in order to earn the title.
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