‘Doubt that. Doubt that very much. “
And that is based on what?
“What I see happening is every North Korean soldier go running for the nearest foreign embassy, Western, Asian , East European, anywhere they can get to trying to get out.”
About 15 years ago a NK sub had engine trouble and beached in SK. The commander lined up 10 of his men on the beach and shot them. Then he shot himself. The two remaining men went on a rampage killing farmers until the SK army found and killed them.
They did this because any NK that defects is condemning his entire family to the death camps. Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, infants and anyone else associated with the individual is sent to a camp. The women are often raped to death. Children are used for experiments. Few manage to survive the camps.
Close, but not quite accurate :-) You're talking about the Kangnung (Gangneung) submarine infiltration in '96.
See: http://rokdrop.com/2009/01/14/nk-spy-submarine-incident-in-gangneung/.
I had a front row seat ;-)
Based on what? Based on starving people desperate to get out of a rapidly failing police state that’s what I base it on. That and the understanding of the history of communism. The real truth the Russians always hid about any confrontation with the West would have been the slaughter of their soldiers by East Germans and Poles. The Russians knew damn well the Germans and Poles weren’t going to die for them. Strutting legions of soldiers looking tough on the parade ground in front of their leader is nothing new. We’ve seen them come and go. Kim-jungs boys that are likely to fight will die. More will try to just survive somehow or try and flee. If The Dear Leader is dumb enough to send his army across the border the potential scale of the sure disaster will likely put an end to him and his regime. It’s tough to get starving, brutalized men to fight and die for the man and the regime that have left them so bereft.