You think Kim Jong-Il is bad, wait until his son takes power. Apparently he is just as ruthless and is only in his 20s.
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In his memoir recounting the days he spent as Kim Jong Il's personal chef in Pyongyang, Kenji Fujimoto calls Kim Jong Un, the third son of the North Korea dictator, the "Prince." "When Jong Un shook hands with me," Fujimoto writes, "he stared at me with a vicious look. I cannot forget the look in the Prince's eyes: it's as if he was thinking, 'This guy is a despicable Japanese.'" Jong Un, Fujimoto also writes, is "a chip off the old block, a spitting image of his father in terms of face, body shape and personality."
Its interesting that the rumors are that the sinking of the South Korean Corvette, the refusal for North Korea to engage in meaningfull negotiated discussions around their nuclear weapons and other actions by Kim Jong, have been about him internally getting the army to support his son.
In order for Junior to effectively maintain power once he gets it is to make sure that the army and North Korea's vast internal intelligent organization continue to get the perks that they require.
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Truly, I expected the state media to actually write that DPNK had won the World Cup while censoring any outside nerws sources claiming otherwise.
No doubt they would have, if they hadn't allowed the game to be broadcast live. Kind of hard to deny that you lost after you let your entire country see it happen.
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The North Koreans believe what they are told. My co-worker's family hosted some North Koreans athletes during the winter olympics. They truly believe that they are well off and that westerners are the issue. I was surprised that they were allowed to stay with "host families" to start with...
The North Koreans believe what they are told. My co-worker's family hosted some North Koreans athletes during the winter olympics. They truly believe that they are well off and that westerners are the issue. I was surprised that they were allowed to stay with "host families" to start with...
someday when North Korea joins the world and we find out what has truly happened over there we will be ashamed we did nothing.
What were we supposed to do. The North Korean's have what is equivalent to a gun at the worlds head. they have 12000 artillary and rocket pieces within range of Seoul, within minutes of any hostilities that city is wiped off of the map.
An airstrike would be prudent to remove that artillery, however the most advanced anti-aircraft defense web is in that region.
You can't just give Kim Jung Il what he wants. You send mass food aid in and it goes to the army, you send construction materials in and they'll build more fortifications.
The North Korean government doesn't give a crap about their people starving or dying.
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What were we supposed to do. The North Korean's have what is equivalent to a gun at the worlds head. they have 12000 artillary and rocket pieces within range of Seoul, within minutes of any hostilities that city is wiped off of the map.
An airstrike would be prudent to remove that artillery, however the most advanced anti-aircraft defense web is in that region.
You can't just give Kim Jung Il what he wants. You send mass food aid in and it goes to the army, you send construction materials in and they'll build more fortifications.
The North Korean government doesn't give a crap about their people starving or dying.
Admittedly ignorant here, but doesn't China kind of reluctatantly have Kim's back too?
Last edited by Street Pharmacist; 08-12-2010 at 12:12 AM.
Reason: making it more clear
North Korea hates losing
