Have you watched “Friends of Kim”, a documentary about the KFA’s trip to North Korea? I just watched this on Youtube and thought it was pretty awesome, if not only because anything I can get from the inside of the country, I’ll take. Have you compiled a list of documentaries or shows and movies about the DPRK? I’ve seen a bunch but apparently am missing some too.
The day after .
woman sais:
” China and the United states will never get in bed with each other after this!’
man sais:
” You dont know the ways of China or America by now?”
.
In 20 years that joke may actually be more than likely be considered funny by the global United States of the U.S.A-P.R.C, populace.
Again with the China/US merger jokes, oi vay, please forgive me.
Looks like the ROK is either blinking repeatedly or they have already started the PSYOPs war albeit with a feint:
“There is absolutely no possibility of a full-scale war on the Korean peninsula,” President Lee Myung-bak told a group of businesspeople in Singapore. The meeting was closed to the media, and the comments were posted by Lee’s spokesman, Park Sun-kyu, on the presidential website.
“But occasionally, there has been locally peace-threatening behavior” from North Korea, Lee said, adding that “we will strongly suppress it.” He did not elaborate.
It was the first time since the ship sinking that Lee has categorically ruled out war with North Korea. The North, however, has warned that any move to punish it over the sinking could led to war.
Lee’s comments were aimed at assuaging prospective investors. “Don’t worry about a war, invest,” he was quoted as telling the businesspeople. The two Koreas technically remain in a state of war because their three-year conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.”
Looks like the ROK economy is the top national security priority in South Korea.
Sometimes I wonder if South Korea actually enjoys being punked by the Juche cult over and over again while the DPRK has 13,000 missiles and rockets trained on them at all times. I guess this can will get kicked down the road until the DPRK collapses without much pressure from the ROK. Its only a matter of time, but my gosh, the millions who suffer in unimaginable bondage in the meantime are a forceful argument against soft-landing gradualism….
Joel Brinkley in the San Francisco Chronicle has an article today talking about how China’s persistent efforts to undermine international agreements on North Korea make things difficult for us followers of the Church of Joshua Stanton and make notions like Mr Erickson’s up above untenable:
Over the last several years, China has given North Korean government officials jewels and precious stones worth $4 million, perfume and cosmetics worth $4.7 million, furs valued at $3.8 million as well as alcohol and tobacco products worth $44 million, all in direct violation of a 2006 United Nations Security Council sanction that China voted to approve. …
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spent much of the last 10 days urging a reluctant China to condemn the naval attack. But that’s a hollow exercise. China did criticize North Korea after its first nuclear-weapons test, in 2006. What did that accomplish? China shipped 20 percent more caviar to Kim Jong il the next year, and North Korea tested another nuclear weapon in 2009.
It’s a good article, but they go off the rails in the end, suggesting that the solution for a “stable and calm” North Korea is for China to “administer the country for an interim period.” Sort of like the interim division of Korea at 38°N, I s’pose.
Kushibo is right on many fronts in terms of wanting to here a valid reason for Han-China and Anglo/saxon America to finally lose the egg roll -/- cheeseburger wrap and finally merge as a dual superpower to an extent. Kushibo is also right in his analogy of an owner of a valuable vehicle giving it away to a vagrant who may in time or may night give the seller a bus ride.
I’m a bit peeved at what happened to my comment at the site Stephen Erickson linked to. First my comment took nearly 48 hours to be approved, but it was eventually approved in its entirety, a slightly altered version of which is at the bottom of my comment three comments up.
But then my comment was truncated and edited down to something that, while it contains a kernel of part of what I said — the core of why I think Pax Americana is important in Northeast Asia — it removed entirely my apt criticisms of the underlying assumptions Mr Erickson was making.
What gives? The most pertinent part of my comment was removed, and the rest was rendered in words that were not my own (e.g., calling a “highly effective deterrent” a “good deterrent”).
Have you watched “Friends of Kim”, a documentary about the KFA’s trip to North Korea? I just watched this on Youtube and thought it was pretty awesome, if not only because anything I can get from the inside of the country, I’ll take. Have you compiled a list of documentaries or shows and movies about the DPRK? I’ve seen a bunch but apparently am missing some too.
The day after .
woman sais:
” China and the United states will never get in bed with each other after this!’
man sais:
” You dont know the ways of China or America by now?”
.
In 20 years that joke may actually be more than likely be considered funny by the global United States of the U.S.A-P.R.C, populace.
Again with the China/US merger jokes, oi vay, please forgive me.
Looks like the ROK is either blinking repeatedly or they have already started the PSYOPs war albeit with a feint:
“There is absolutely no possibility of a full-scale war on the Korean peninsula,” President Lee Myung-bak told a group of businesspeople in Singapore. The meeting was closed to the media, and the comments were posted by Lee’s spokesman, Park Sun-kyu, on the presidential website.
Looks like the ROK economy is the top national security priority in South Korea.
Sometimes I wonder if South Korea actually enjoys being punked by the Juche cult over and over again while the DPRK has 13,000 missiles and rockets trained on them at all times. I guess this can will get kicked down the road until the DPRK collapses without much pressure from the ROK. Its only a matter of time, but my gosh, the millions who suffer in unimaginable bondage in the meantime are a forceful argument against soft-landing gradualism….
For the sake of peace in Korea, China and the US should hop into bed together. Now is the time for a deal. Read: http://www.centermovement.org/topics-issues/high-time-for-a-deal-with-the-chinese-on-korea/
Joel Brinkley in the San Francisco Chronicle has an article today talking about how China’s persistent efforts to undermine international agreements on North Korea make things difficult for us followers of the Church of Joshua Stanton and make notions like Mr Erickson’s up above untenable:
It’s a good article, but they go off the rails in the end, suggesting that the solution for a “stable and calm” North Korea is for China to “administer the country for an interim period.” Sort of like the interim division of Korea at 38°N, I s’pose.
Obviously, I felt a need to fisk that ridiculous notion.
This seems to be a new article by Barbara Demick but I couldn’t find it on the LA Times website:
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/05/2801266/sinking-of-ship-provides-welcome.html
Kushibo is right on many fronts in terms of wanting to here a valid reason for Han-China and Anglo/saxon America to finally lose the egg roll -/- cheeseburger wrap and finally merge as a dual superpower to an extent. Kushibo is also right in his analogy of an owner of a valuable vehicle giving it away to a vagrant who may in time or may night give the seller a bus ride.
I’m a bit peeved at what happened to my comment at the site Stephen Erickson linked to. First my comment took nearly 48 hours to be approved, but it was eventually approved in its entirety, a slightly altered version of which is at the bottom of my comment three comments up.
But then my comment was truncated and edited down to something that, while it contains a kernel of part of what I said — the core of why I think Pax Americana is important in Northeast Asia — it removed entirely my apt criticisms of the underlying assumptions Mr Erickson was making.
What gives? The most pertinent part of my comment was removed, and the rest was rendered in words that were not my own (e.g., calling a “highly effective deterrent” a “good deterrent”).
Bad form, I say.