Posted on 03/15/2008 3:49:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Funny map. But there’s nothing “sound” about North Korea.
Kim Jong il should know he is living on borrowed time. He will be removed one way or another.
sounds more like issues over sharing
BOY Chia Pet be roaney this time LOLOLOL!
The Norks have a well established history of foreign involvement. They were the Sovs go to guys for cadre to train any and all anti-western terror/guerrilla groups from the PI to the Middle East.
The Norks did a fair job of playing the Sovs against the PDRChinese but the Norks were truly owned and operated by the Sovs and the Chinese gave up on them long ago. When “the wall” came down, the Norks were a huge looser in funding but they still tend to dance to the Russian shot callers.
Most recently, for example, Nork involvement with Syrian CBR and rocket development attempts.
That is exactly what I thought upon reading this article. The end may be near. In Kim’s case, he raised this beast called N. Korean military in order to shore up his regime which was shaken badly by catastrophic famine. Now that it has grown too big, he wants to cut it down to size. It may not work as he intended.
I can think of two backdrops: (1) N. Korean system and society are showing symptoms of an organization at its last leg of life. Things are falling apart. N. Korean regime has been frantically trying to reassert control with various measures. It all boils down to ban people from being engaged in private business, escaping N. Korea, communicating via cellphones, and bringing in stuffs from outside. Kim Jong-il wants to put Genie back to a bottle. It is not going well. His regime has been slowly falling apart, but its pace picked up lately. (2) His ailment is worse than media reported, and succession process is not progressing smoothly. Powerful factions are evenly matched up, hampering easy resolution. The stakes are really high, and there is also almost certain chance of foreign intervention if things go wrong during this power struggle. So Kim Jong-il needs to forestall any potential dangers such as his military meddling in. However, it can invite another danger such as alienating military for good.
He is in no win situation, so to speak.
Everybody including U.S., S. Korea, and China put up business-as-usual facade now, but somehow I find it deceiving, in light of sudden media exposure given to potential contingency plan for N. Korea's breakup.
Agreed.
What's KoreaCom for Schutzstaffel?
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Won’t be long before he will need a double-secret police to protect him from the secret police. But they do have free health care!
LOL, you’re going to confuse the Liberal lurkers with that map.
Thank you. I didn’t know ANY of that and appreciate your detailed answer.
Kim Jong Il: Now you see, the changing of the worrd is inevitabre!
Lisa: I'm sorry, it's what?
Kim Jong Il: Inevit, inevitabre.
Lisa: One more time.
Kim Jong Il: [shouts] Inevitabre! Things are inevitabrey going to change! Goddamnit, open your fucking ears!
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