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backifran posted:Slightly off topic, but does anyone here want to go on an organised tour to north korea with me next year? This sounds like a Bad Idea.
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I thought Mexico was the only country fatter than the US.
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Discendo Vox posted:Please make the following a thread rule: What's that supposed to be?
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qkkl posted:Do North Koreans follow Kim because they fear him, or because they think their way of life is better than South Koreans? BR Meyers would say it's neither; it's more a matter of nationalism. Sure our standard of living is worse, but we haven't become the lackeys of non-Koreans, so we're better anyway!
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Nucken Futz posted:Ha Ha Ha! He's not being naive, just telling an ideologically motivated blue lie.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:45
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Some Guy TT posted:Like, you do realize that even if we did invade North Korea, we'd probably still have to keep the prison camps open, right? They're not filled to the brim with democracy lovers. Even the main political dissidents are in there for plotting to take more power for themselves. They don't care about democracy, except to the extent they'll probably pretend that they do to pull one over on occupying American forces, which is what happens pretty much every time we try to make friends out of our enemy's enemies. Of all the dumb things in this post, this stands out as especially absurd and repugnant. Just for starters: East German political prisoners didn't stay imprisoned after German reunification, and as far as I know no problems resulted from their being freed. More to the point: They could at least free the people who are in there for the "crimes" of family members! Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Oct 23, 2017 06:53
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Some Guy TT posted:edit: gently caress it I'll just spell it out for you. Communist East Germany voluntarily relinquished power. There was do dramatic build-up about the need to punish Communists for crimes against humanity. They cooperated with the changeover. For such a situation to happen on the Korean peninsula would require such a dramatic reversal of the current situation of political brinkmanship that we might as well be talking about an alternate universe. My post was assuming a situation where current North Korean leadership is removed by force, and probably sets up a successful insurgency against foreign invaders. Not exactly far-fetched, when we factor in that considerably less competent political factions in the Middle East have managed to do the same. None of that has any bearing on the ideology of the currently imprisoned political dissidents, though. Some Guy TT posted:But then again you're assuming my United States/North Korea prison comparison is intended to make the latter look good rather than the former look bad, so I'm guessing you're reading my posts with blinders on. I'm not reading your post that way because you compared North Korean internment camps to US prisons, I'm reading your post that way because you justified locking up political dissidents (and now you're justifying locking up their families too, apparently).
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Oct 23, 2017 15:06
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TsarZiedonis posted:the article only seems to prove to me that a first strike may be preferable to allowing a handful of otherwise irrelevant wealthy degenerates in a backwater country the ability to kill millions. Pretty sure a first strike would still result in the death of millions.
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Dec 9, 2017 22:30
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icantfindaname posted:And that's before even beginning to engage with him being obsessed with the idea of Asians as a race-obsessed hive mind I don't think he believes Asians specifically are a race-obsessed hive mind (and a lot of his work punctures those kinds of orientalist assumptions), so much as that ethnic nationalism in general is an ideology with a lot of appeal to the average person in most countries (or at least more appeal to the average person than Marxism - thus the other communist countries either collapsed or became only nominally red, but NK remains stable because it was never actually red to begin with). Then again, Meyers's views on NK seem to have become somewhat more hawkish recently compared to his past writings. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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Dec 31, 2017 06:22
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FuzzySlippers posted:Edit: With Bannon gone I don't know of anyone in his inner circle that is particularly bullish on China or East Asian affairs. I think you mean "hawkish," not "bullish," unless you mean that no one in Trump's inner circle expects East Asian markets to go up.
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Jan 3, 2018 03:57
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Peven Stan posted:Not biotruths, this country’s military would rather sit back and lob bombs and missiles than chase the taliban up into their mountainous bunkers. The Russians may have lost Afghanistan but at least they went through the motions of trying to root out the mujahideen through close combat. Do Russians not count as white?
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Jan 9, 2018 22:18
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Some Guy TT posted:That's actually a fairly intriguing and plausible theory. But how does that jive with Myers' general insistence that Juche is completely seriously believed by the entire North Korean population? If there's people alive today who were around when the North Korean state and they knew there was no Juche around back then, they're not going to suddenly believe Juche was there all long just because the North Korean government says so. I thought Myers specifically claimed that North Koreans don't believe in Juche; they believe in a totally separate set of propaganda.
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Jan 26, 2018 01:37
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Willo567 posted:What makes you think we're all going to die? The contrast between this post and your avatar is a bit jarring, lol. I do agree that the bloody nose strike probably won't happen, but "probably" isn't good enough for something like that.
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Feb 9, 2018 23:07
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I've heard there is a surprisingly (to me) pro-DPRK contingent among Japanese Koreans, with pro-DPRK schools and such. Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon Though their membership and popularity have declined over time.
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Feb 12, 2018 06:46
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SeANMcBAY posted:They’re getting a surprising amount of good media coverage with all this Olympics stuff and the visit To a rather unnerving degree, actually. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2018-northkorea-sister/head-held-high-kims-sister-returns-to-north-korea-idUSKBN1FW1BC?il=0 Reuters posted:A prim, young woman with a high forehead and hair half swept back quietly gazes at the throngs of people pushing for a glimpse of her, a faint smile on her lips and eyelids low as four bodyguards jostle around her. https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/962702986794405889 (The screencapped tweet seems to have been deleted.) https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/10/asia/kim-sister-olympics/index.html CNN posted:Kim Jong Un's sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Well, it's very both those things, don't get me wrong. I don't think it's the poorest; the famine was some time ago, and material conditions in many African and some Middle Eastern countries are probably worse. I think it has a legitimate claim to being the weirdest, but that's not exactly something you can quantify.
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Feb 22, 2018 05:30
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Peven Stan posted:Forjar's been predicting the imminent demise of china for almost half a decade now. Are you going to toxx for a Spencer presidency? quote:American foreign policy in east asia involves buying off the national bourgeoisie in Korea, Japan, and ethnic Chinese in Taiwan with goodies and immigration rights so they can all be lined up like ducks in a row to use against the USSR and PRC. It's not called the USSR anymore. 
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Two things can both be bad. Just because two things are both bad doesn't make them equally bad. Conversely, just because two things aren't equally bad doesn't stop them from both being bad. I'm not sure why these propositions are still difficult for some people to grasp.
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May 1, 2018 02:31
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Grapplejack posted:Which poster is that, exactly? Probably Some Guy TT.
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May 2, 2018 06:10
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Some Guy TT posted:That's part of what makes all these attacks on Trumps for not sticking it to Kim Jong-eun on human rights so weird. That's never actually been important as far as our own interests are concerned. https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1006607433781972993 Though I'll admit the issue is mostly symbolic, and although the symbolism is telling, it's telling us something about Trump we already knew.
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quote:Fumbling to take a bite of kimchi, I was struggling to get a grip on my slippery metal chopsticks – and, it seemed, on the Korean language. Hilarious stuff. Debate & Discussion › Korea Thread: Fumbling to take a bite of kimchi Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Jul 6, 2018 00:54
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Some Guy TT posted:You think our political system works in a rational way? Most days I'm surprised the whole thing hasn't fallen apart already. Russians aren't occidental either. 
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Jul 9, 2018 03:38
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Willo567 posted:Not if Trump decides to listen to Lindsey Graham, who still believes military action is viable Lol, avatar/post combo. Graham is a bad person, but unlike Trump, he's smarter than that.
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WaPo story on the embassy attack. Expert consensus seems to be that the CIA was not involved, but it's implied that Kim Jong Nam's son was (or am I just reading between the lines too much there?): https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.c9037686de60
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OhFunny posted:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/north-korea-rejects-pompeo-from-nuclear-dialogue-kcna-idUSKCN1RU0NU I wonder whether Kim doesn't realize that Trump hasn't been paying attention. One of the DPRK's disses of Trump a while back was that he "pretends to be an idiot," which is funny but implies a serious misunderstanding; does Kim realize that Trump actually is an idiot?
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Apr 18, 2019 14:48
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Pfft we carpet bombed Europe and those guys love us. Doesn't internal NK propaganda actually downplay the carpet bombing (because it makes Kim il-Sung look weak) in favor of made-up, sneakier atrocities?
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Sep 12, 2019 03:05
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Raenir Salazar posted:Fishmech basically just exists to willfully misinterpret posts to mean something entirely different then what was the intent. And no amount of attempting to clarify your meaning will ever get a good faith argument out of fishmech, just put him on your ignore list. Fishmech just reminded everybody a few posts ago that she's female... Edit: I just realized that you wouldn't have seen that, because she's presumably on your ignore list. Lol.
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Party Plane Jones posted:mmkay reading this and what I can see the logic of it if a statute of limitations is thought of as primarily an evidentiary safeguard, i.e., policymakers might worry about the unreliability of witnesses 15 years after the fact, and worry that finders of fact might not sufficiently understand this unreliability. Obviously when cold cases started being solved with DNA evidence, it became obvious that a statute of limitations on murder was a terrible idea, but I can understand why it might have seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Sep 22, 2019 15:53
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:What does containment even mean in this context? North Korea has zero ambitions for expansion. In theory they want to expand into South Korea, I guess. But I assume Willo means stopping them from shooting missiles at other countries, not stopping them from literally annexing other countries.
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Dec 10, 2019 15:31
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boredsatellite posted:People in Korea loathe China these days, especially due to their attitude to Korea. Its been strained for a drat long time, such as when China started coopting ancient Korean history as their own. Do you have any articles about this? From the Ancient History thread in A/T I got the impression it was more often the reverse (e.g., Korean nationalists downplaying historical Chinese cultural influence on Korea). China has its own brand of nationalist pseudohistory, of course, but I didn’t realize ancient Korea played much of a role in it.
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boredsatellite posted:Articles are mostly in Korean so I guess this wiki page will have to do Thanks!
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Kim Kyong-hui is back: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51257178
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:North Korea close to finishing facility for firing nukes that can reach US Lol, New York Post. The actual CSIS report at https://beyondparallel.csis.org/sil-li-ballistic-missile-support-facility/ doesn't explicitly draw the "for firing nukes that can hit US" conclusion, although it does make it sound like a plausible possibility.
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May 8, 2020 02:33
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mystes posted:Cool, we haven't had dumb rumors about North Korea since (checks notes) two days ago. There's more where that came from: https://nypost.com/2020/05/07/kim-jong-un-was-once-filmed-talking-to-possible-body-doubles/
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exmachina posted:I don't think so, he gave a will to his daughter and cancelled his schedule before walking into woods and turning off his phone That makes it sound like a suicide.
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