Posted on 01/27/2014 6:39:15 AM PST by armydawg505
Like Cuomo, he said they were not welcomed in his state...
then he sicced the NK IRS on them
then he killed them
....
familiar pattern by tyrants
Prior to the modern era, depending on how paranoid the king or emperor was and/or the scale of the revolt, challenges to his rule were often met by the extermination of the kin of the challengers to different extents or systematic demotions for aristocrats, including a reduction in status to that of commoner or even slave. Kim is a king in all but name. In a way, it’s understandable. He is operating by medieval rules because his courtiers are quite possibly also operating by medieval rules. Wikipedia is a treasure trove for the amateur historian. If you examine the way in which kings and emperors were routinely used and discarded or killed by court officials, it’s pretty clear that they were right to be paranoid.
I love how in almost every picture there are uniformed people taking notes.
Especially true in Korea, which has a loonnngg history of incredibly vicious court factions fighting it out, with the losers and their families and supporters purged.
I find it extremely odd that western media never mention Korean history and its relevance to present-day North Korea. This regime is much more a revival of Korean precedents thousands of years old than it is of anything that can logically be called communist.
Come on. Hereditary infallible God-Kings, court faction fights, military rule over peasant serfs. What is specifically communist about any of that, other than the rhetoric?
The system is greatly more oppressive than past Korean governments, but that’s due to better modern tools allowing the system to function more efficiently, not anything inherent in the system itself.
Same is true of China, BTW. The present system bears a LOT more relationship to traditional China, with the Party standing in for the mandarins, than it does to anything logically based on Marxism.
The biggest difference is the absence for the last decade or so of anybody to fill the role of the Emperor. The problem with this is that the Emperor played a vital role in traditional Chinese society. Without a vigorous emperor the mandarins and eunuchs tended to become so corrupt they bankrupted the State. The emperor’s main role was to stomp on them every so often to keep them somewhat under control. We may be in the process of seeing what happens in a Chinese society without any emperor to rein in the officials.
They are taking notes precisely so that they can go on wearing those uniforms with all the gold braid & macaroni.
Of course, every word uttered by Dear Leader Riceball is sacred, so they must be captured for posterity.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.