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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea really is that bad
2012-11-27
It's not easy to talk to people about North Korea. The story is so awful, and so static, what more is there to do, or even to say? This speech by Adrian Hong, a strategic consultant who also co-founded a U.S.-based NGO that assists North Korean escapees, starts with that question. His 10-minute speech, which you can view here, makes a powerful case for the moral urgency of the long-running North Korean crisis.

Everybody involved with North Korea knows what's happening. There's no illusion as to how bad the regime is. The illusion is in the sense that we can't solve it, that we think that this is an inevitable crisis that cannot be fixed or that we have no right or ability to do anything about it. I think that North Korea is not just an issue for human rights. This place is almost this black hole for modern civilization.

Of course the PRC & Russia have no responsibility here.
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#5  Also from WORLD NEWS > [Chosun Ilbo] KOREAN CONTINENTAL SHELF CLOSER TO JAPAN THAN THOUGHT.

Related to similar news from the other day.

The bad news for the ROK is that mainland China is also claiming the former's UW "continental shelf" as China's own.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-11-27 22:11  

#4  ION NEWS KERALA > KIM JONG-UN WARNS "REBELLIOUS ELEMENTS" AGZ CREATING UNREST IN NORTH KOREA.

versus

* WORLD NEWS > US IS SENDING ANOTHER AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO PATROL OFF THE COAST OF IRAN.

Taken collectively, I would say that the arse of of the USS "GEORGE WASHINGTON" CVN/CVBG may once again be in the target sights of the DPRK
[PLA?].

The DPRK has times made it clear that they would prefer to go down in a violent = mutually destructive manner iff a de facto state collapse occurred - READ, BETTER TO DIE ATTACKING THE ROK, USFK, USFJ + UNCOM, ETC. THAN SEE CHINA + PLA TAKE OVER NORTH KOREA.

In such a scenario, the only remnant of ancient KOGURYO/KORYE will be the ROK.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-11-27 22:07  

#3  Chinese source of #2
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-11-27 15:59  

#2   Sexiest Man Alive
Posted by: Skidmark   2012-11-27 13:02  

#1  Apparently, the Chicoms and Roosians hold it up as a model of socialist power.
Posted by: Bobby   2012-11-27 12:16  

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