North Korean purges continue. Klling latest with mortar execution.

[Nosi]

All dictatorships? Because some have been downright peaceful although not just and fair.

It all depends, if your leadership is Dependant on one person, your country will be known for the personality of the person. If you have a peaceful, just and fair individual, you will have a peaceful, just and fair solo leadership of your local. If your leader is paranoid, megalomaniac, narcissistic personality, you are going to have a problem. North Korea has had leaders with this third trait leading the country.

 

[Darth Rotor]

A drone attack presents two problems.

One, North Korea has an extensive and well tested (on human subjects) chemical arsenal that they would launch at South Korea and the Americans guarding the Korean boarder if they get fissed enough, and a drone attack would roast their backsides nicely. Those chemical weapons could reach Japan and other countries in the Asian sphere.

Two, chemical bombs can hide in cargo containers in cargo ships. They can be designed to blow up once they reach the dock, forgoing the search.

Nosi, you need to keep up with current events.

The Americans haven't been "guarding the border" for quite a few years.

See Donald Rumsfeld and our change of posture in South Korea, over five years ago.

 

[HoverBoarder]

It all depends, if your leadership is Dependant on one person, your country will be known for the personality of the person. If you have a peaceful, just and fair individual, you will have a peaceful, just and fair solo leadership of your local. If your leader is paranoid, megalomaniac, narcissistic personality, you are going to have a problem. North Korea has had leaders with this third trait leading the country.

Yeah, that's always the problem with dictators.

It all depends on who you get, and they don't usually state wanting to be a megalomaniac mass murderer as part of their traits when they first take power.

 

[SezMe]

The Americans haven't been "guarding the border" for quite a few years.

Maybe so but we have about 28,500 troops in South Korea. If we're looking at chemical weapons, they count whether they're on the border or not.

 

[Nosi]

Maybe so but we have about 28,500 troops in South Korea. If we're looking at chemical weapons, they count whether they're on the border or not.

It is not if. It is definite that the North Koreans will go chemical because they've tested extensively in the concentration camps. It is an easy weapon to fling over the boarder and hide in cargo ships to send wherever they see fit.

 

[Darth Rotor]

Maybe so but we have about 28,500 troops in South Korea. If we're looking at chemical weapons, they count whether they're on the border or not.

You aren't addressing what I told Nosi. There certainly are Americans in Korea, and we maintain some alliance commitments to them. The most critical risk in that country is the conventional tube artillery and the border positions. Battle of the First Salvo. The second critical risk is infiltration and well orchestrated in the tactical and theater rear. Chem is an issue, certainly, but that isn't what I remarked about.

The Chem threat remains as it has always been. My familiarity with the Korea Op Plan is a few years old, so I'll not comment further.

 

[mikeyx]

emp over the capitol, send in the chinese, and problem solved. Every member of that government on the wall.

 

[Darth Rotor]

emp over the capitol, send in the chinese, and problem solved. Every member of that government on the wall.

Which government: North or South? I presume North, but may have missed a clue there.

 

[mikeyx]

Which government: North or South? I presume North, but may have missed a clue there.

yes the north, all power in a narrow avenue, emp it, shut it down and outsource thye invasion to those on the border with the most to lose with neighbors like that. we put out a half assed diplomatic portest over the ""Invasion"" but in the end everyboy's more or less happy.

 

[angrysoba]

yes the north, all power in a narrow avenue, emp it, shut it down and outsource thye invasion to those on the border with the most to lose with neighbors like that. we put out a half assed diplomatic portest over the ""Invasion"" but in the end everyboy's more or less happy.

Got to wonder what exactly would get shut down with an emp (I take it you mean electromagnetic pulse).

 

[SezMe]

yes the north, all power in a narrow avenue, emp it, shut it down and outsource thye invasion to those on the border with the most to lose with neighbors like that.

And who would that be? NK has two neighbors. China wants NK as a beholden client state to buffer itself from a unified Korea. South Korea has neither the military nor the desire to invade NK. Sure, they want reunification, but not through conquest.

Your plan needs to take a geographic lesson first.

 

[HoverBoarder]

emp over the capitol, send in the chinese, and problem solved. Every member of that government on the wall.

China has no interest in doing that, but they are definitely worried about the economic impact of the flood of scarred and destitute N. Koreans fleeing into their country.

An easier solution would be to just tie their aid towards economic and other reforms in N. Korea that improve the lives of the N. Korean people, and thereby reduce the numbers of refugees and the improve the economic and educational capabilities of those who do cross over.


Sending in Chinese advisors to increase the worker education training while increasing the number of economic development zones would be a lot easier to increase the self sustainability of the N. Korean regime and reduce the burden on China than sending in the military.

 

[HoverBoarder]

Another sign that China is unlikely to do anything positve for North Korea:


They could have published a story on this:

UN committee condemns North Korea over widespread rights abuses

North Korean U.N. envoy Kim Song told the committee that the resolution represented “interference in our internal affairs” and constituted “an act of the state political terrorism.”

Kim also denied that there were any rights violations in North Korea.

“Human rights violations as mentioned in the draft resolution cannot exist, and not only in legal and institutional terms, but also in reality in our country,” he said. “Independent rights of our people are most valued.”


The resolution voiced “very serious concern at the persistence of continuing reports of systematic, widespread and grave violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea).”

It said such violations included torture, the existence of prison camps and limitations on the freedom of movement of North Korean citizens, including the punishment of those who attempt to travel abroad.

Earlier this month U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea Marzuki Darusman reiterated his concerns about rights violations in the reclusive country. He said that North Korean prison camps held between 150,000 and 200,000 prisoners.


A delegate of China told the committee that it opposes resolutions on individual nations’ human rights records and urged United Nations members to “pay more attention to difficulties and challenges facing the DPRK (North Korea)” and focus on humanitarian aid.

The Chinese delegate also urged “certain countries” not to submit such resolutions in future.

Instead, they published a story on this:

China's Party Paper Falls for Onion Joke About Kim

The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" — not realizing it is satire.

The People's Daily on Tuesday ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline "North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012."

Quoting the Onion's spoof report, the Chinese newspaper wrote: "''With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true."

"Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile," the People's Daily cited the Onion as saying.

 

[rjh01]

The Internet has lots of pages laughing at the story. Yet it has not been pulled. Here is the page everyone is laughing at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/8035568.html.

 

[trustbutverify]

It was a tight race right down to the end, with Kim edging out Chavez.

 

[rjh01]

The Internet has lots of pages laughing at the story. Yet it has not been pulled. Here is the page everyone is laughing at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/8035568.html.

They have just pulled this page. It now gives an error even from Google.