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China-Japan-Koreas
Korea: First Blood
2012-01-26
Pudgy is distributing free food in an attempt placate an increasingly angry population. Pudgy is even tapping the military food reserves.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
As more North Korea refugees show up south of the DMZ, southerners find their history being reinterpreted. The northerners see leftist South Koreans, who supported the establishment of a communist government in South Korea, as traitors to democracy.
Guess you gotta hit rock-bottom before you see the truth.
Even the elites are suffering as things spiral down the toilet. For example, apartment buildings put up in the last decade in the capital suffered from cheap materials, sloppy work and poor quality control. Now the heating and sanitation systems are failing, making the apartments uninhabitable in the cold weather. There is no money or material available for repairs.
What do you do when you run out of duct tape?
Posted by:Mike Ramsey

#4  Someday the North will cave in with a giant noise and the smell of bark and grass fed flatus ... and every jounalist in the world will be able to say that they predicted it. (Except the ones in North Korea of course.)
Posted by: Super Hose   2012-01-26 17:59  

#3  What do you do when you run out of duct tape?

Well some people would use dung & straw, but the Norkies have eaten all of that.
Posted by: AlanC   2012-01-26 12:57  

#2  For example, apartment buildings put up in the last decade in the capital suffered from cheap materials, sloppy work and poor quality control.

Sounds like southern California.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-01-26 12:50  

#1  He hasn't learned the dictator's paradox, that their only tool is deprivation and brutality, not generosity and kindness. The latter are seen as weakness.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-01-26 12:45  

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