Lakewood90712
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Time to dust off that "Team America" DVD for holiday movie time.
Luckily they all have plenty to be distraught about, no matter what Kim is in charge.
The UN assembly held a moment of silence to honor this brutish dictator today.
Said they were following protocol.
I thought it was equivalent to pissing on the unmarked mass graves of his countless victims.
Oh, how far people go for the sake of political correctness!
Agreed, especially with the possibility that the new regime may move towards being a bit more open.I think this was an olive branch extended to the NK people and leaders. Not doing it would be like pissing on the heads of NK people and leaders. Not conducive to improving relations with NK or obtaining cooperation.
I don't think it would make a difference with their leaders. Never seemed to make difference before. Not even China seemed able to rein them in.Not conducive to improving relations with NK or obtaining cooperation.
Fixed it for you.Not doing it would be like pissing on the heads of NK [-]people and[/-] leaders.
What the people say is one thing, what they believe is anyone's guess. There's lot of public grieving now over KJI's death. In 1994, when his crazy pappy died, the government conducted surveys afterward to determine who had been seen crying and who had not. No tears = insufficient loyalty to the Great Leader = off to the camp for re-education. No, I'm not kidding. It's nearly impossible to overstate the levels of repression and official paranoia inside NK.
So, we see much grieving today in the wake of KJI's death--everyone wants/needs to be seen by all witnesses as being severely distraught.
I think there is a good chance they are going to slip their traces. I think they are still daft.They're not daft enough (like Hitler was) to have designs on invading anyone else (with the exception of South Korea in the past.) If they play their cards right, they could continue subjecting the population of NK to the same misery they have been for the last 50+ years, for a while longer, sadly.
Not even China seemed able to rein them in.
The only evil people in the world are Americans.
I don't think it would make a difference with their leaders. Never seemed to make difference before. Not even China seemed able to rein them in.
showing your memory still worksAnd in other news, Kim Jong Il is still dead.
I suppose it could happen. But the leadership in NK is interested in staying alive, and that means staying in control. Opening up economically, even to the extent China did, will mandate a level of information flow in and out of the country that the regime cannot allow if it is to survive. This year has made it very clear that the retirement plan for despots isn't a good one, and the level of repression and brutality in NK leaves very little possibility for a soft landing.Maybe Jung Un will reflect back on his time in Switzerland or elsewhere and think about loosening the economic stranglehold their government has on their economy. What if he wants to be the one to bring about economic progress and slowly open their economy?