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2003-05-13 Korea

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Posted by Steve White 2003-05-13 01:05 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Aren't intentional blinding lasers banned by some convention or other?

Posted by someone 2003-05-13 01:48:19|| 2003-05-13 01:48:19|| Front Page Top

#2 People are starving in NKOr and there are reliable reports of mass suicides in some towns where the people are killing themselves rather than face a wasting away to nothingness...yet Kimmie has money for high-tech weapons...disgusting.

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-05-13 02:38:39|| 2003-05-13 02:38:39|| Front Page Top

#3 A good little arms race could be a good strategy. Get the N. Koreans to try and spend what little they have to improve their lasers and other high tech weapons. Up the ante. Build counter measures. Force them to adapt and adjust. As McLeod mentions, they do not have the resources for this but they can't stop themselves. Their only concern is deterring an American invasion. When the money is gone, the country will finally collapse.

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-05-13 03:36:58|| 2003-05-13 03:36:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to make a more serious effort to interdict their heroin trafficking.

Posted by Dishman 2003-05-13 05:26:17|| 2003-05-13 05:26:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Insanity incarnate.
If it weren't for the fact that 95% of the population has absolutely no clue what a joke their leader is and what a disaster their country is, then it would be simple: tell the S.K.'s to forget howling at the moon at the graves of their dead N.K. relatives and turn that place into a smokin' hole.

May end up there, anyway. Kim Jong Il is, without a doubt, the looniest toon to come along since Khadaffi Duck himself... and that is truly saying something.

Posted by PD 2003-05-13 05:30:37|| 2003-05-13 05:30:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Good idea, Tokyo Taro.

PD. I think the populace knows their leader is bad news for them, in the same way that the Iraqis knew Saddam was bad for them. However, both leaders have similar control apparati, so the people are coping in similar ways: Conform outwardly, cope and hope inwardly.

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-13 07:11:28|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-13 07:11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Tokyo Taro's right on target. Let the North Koreans spend themselves to collapse. However, Ptah, I think PD might be correct; North Korea's population is isolated from the world in ways Iraq's never was. I'm pretty certain the population knows how bad the situation is; the problem is that they may not understand why that is. North Korea is virtually a nation of shock victims; the average North Korean's ability to comprehend his environment is probably quite low at this point (of course, I usually feel the same way about South Korean university students). They are probably more likely to blame the US for their woes than their own government - North Korean propaganda really plays to feelings of victimization, a theme that resonates strongly on both sides of the DMZ. I don't see a revolution happening any time soon, although I could be wrong (and frequently am). The state may need to be pushed slightly in order for it to collapse.

Posted by The Marmot 2003-05-13 07:52:12|| [marmotshole.blogspot.com] 2003-05-13 07:52:12|| Front Page Top

#8 What does Tom Clancy think of all of this? He had a jetliner crashing into the capitol building during the State of the Union address and blinding laser guns in, I think, "Debt of Honor".

Posted by Michael 2003-05-13 14:49:13|| 2003-05-13 14:49:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Ghaddafi was (and is) sane enough to get the message. I don't think Kimmie would react quite the same way if we bombed the French Embassy in Pyongyang.

Posted by Dishman 2003-05-13 14:53:39|| 2003-05-13 14:53:39|| Front Page Top

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