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mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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There's like a 666% chance that North Korea would nuke North Korea right off the map if the US tried invading, just to be like "gently caress you, everyone who survives this."

Good? No way Jose. But there's something to be said for the chutzpah it would take.

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mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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redneck nazgul posted:

how does the DPRK feel about bisexuals

lol, no one there has enough nutrition or just plain will to live to care about sex. "forced to make more" is the one true form of Juche sexuality.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Fast Luck posted:

What my post presupposes is... maybe they don't?

If we're talking old school kings, well, those guys lived pretty bad compared to contemporary kings or even a guy in a trailer park. No salt, drafty rear end castle, no Netflix, smells. I mean, no.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Psycho Society posted:

Real WMDs be scary, yo

North Korea's a lose lose proposition. Like, on one hand if we invaded they definitely would go full super villain and try blowing the whole country up while the remaining generals and Kims fly away in a giant rocket powered steel Kim Jong-un head and on the other, if we actually liberated North Korea we'd have another bummer holocaust situation on our hands and there's only a 50/50 that we could manage the narrative so that the thing people paid the most attention to was how heroic we were, and not all the skeleton cannibal dwarves.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Azathoth posted:

I would argue that, at this point, all the U.S. and China realistically want is for there not to be a disorderly collapse of the government because that would cause a massive refugee crisis as a significant portion of the population flees either across the Yalu into China or across the DMZ into South Korea.

About the best resolution that we can hope for at this point is some kind of a palace coup where a bunch of high-ranking generals manage to seize power with a big enough portion of the military under its control to avoid civil war, after which they cozy up to China (and to a lesser degree the South) to help them begin a decades long modernization process.

I don't have much hope of that actually happening, but ... well, I can hope.

The military being slightly less evil than the Kims is really their only hope, yeah. There's no way in hell the military would put real Socialism in place, but even Chinese style authoritarian capitalism has gotta be better than the failing state cult they have now. It's not happening though. Collapse and more horror is all they have ahead of them and it sucks.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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blugu64 posted:

Yes it would suck if people thought poorly of us for stopping a "bummer holocaust situation"

I talked about a giant steel Kim head and cannibal dwarves in that same post. Maybe give me the benefit of the doubt and assume I'm being sardonic on purpose.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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When I initially imagineered the Kim head it appeared to me like the Zardoz head, but instead of guns, Little Debbie wrappers and empty courvoisier bottles pour from the mouth.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Juche must be friendship, because that poo poo is magic.

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Kill em all and let God sort em out

Kill god and war in the shadow of his corpse, I say.

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