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2003-05-01 Korea

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-05-01 06:37 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The DPRK is a big gangster unit now - look around the 'net and see: the armed forces are run like fiefdoms, and finance themsleves with illicit drug trade, and illegal weapons exports. They are not so much a military government under Kim as they are a quasi-cult, police-state and drug-cartel rolled into one.

It makes me wonder - such setups are uncommonly brittle. Few, if any, lateral communications and operations are allowed across command boundaries at any level, excpet the highest. Could taking down the C3I and the top layer of command shatter the DPRK into a lot of ineffective paralized parts?

Wanna bet that's being studied in DC right now?

Posted by OldSpook 2003-05-01 12:05:17|| 2003-05-01 12:05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Shit, Frank! Was it cement or was it heroin? Did anyone check?

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-01 12:29:43|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-01 12:29:43|| Front Page Top

#3 What I like about North Korea is the way it inspires. It says to paranoid schizophrenics all over the world, "See, you too can grow up to be president."

Posted by Joe 2003-05-01 13:05:45|| 2003-05-01 13:05:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Puts a new slant on the "Juche Idea" doesn't it? They're a bunch of "Juche Heads". No Juche for you!!!

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-01 14:12:32|| 2003-05-01 14:12:32|| Front Page Top

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