She’s powerful and dominant, possibly deadly.
I need a stiff drink.
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Matter of circumstances. She’d probably be a nice, normal girl who likes to shop, meet her friends for coffee, and binge-watch Netflix if she was born to some anonymous family in the South.
Possibly, although the same could be said about her porky half-brother. The thing is none of them have achieved paranoid, sociopathic dictator status. They’ve had it handed to them on a plate through birth. At least Hitler, Mussolini et al were meritocratic.
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IT.IS.HER.TURN.
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Late socialism on the high seas:
Competition, you say?
Teh Grauniad connects the dots in its own peculiar way, deliberately not asking why there are food shortages in North Korea.
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Yeah, I covered that in this thread last week when the news came out
Not good
Should ameliorate the food shortage.
By which I mean they won’t have to feed their pets anymore.
Time for a death watch?
Those dastardly Americans.
This has been tried before, in a previous cold war. Whether it works depends a great deal on who’s POTUS at the time.
May 25, 2018: Days ahead of their first meeting in Singapore, Trump tweets out a letter he sent to Kim canceling the summit. The cancellation came after a senior North Korean official called U.S. Vice President Mike Pence a “political dummy.”
June 2, 2018: After Trump changed course and agreed to hold the summit, senior North Korean leader Kim Yong Chol meets Trump at the White House, handing him an oversized envelope containing a letter from Kim. The contents of the letter remain unknown.
June 12, 2018: Trump and Kim meet in Singapore, where they sign a brief statement agreeing to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
July 23, 2018: A month after their Singapore meeting, Trump tweets out a letter from Kim hailing “epochal progress” achieved in talks.
August 2, 2018: In a tweet, Trump thanks Kim for sending another “nice letter,” while noting North Korea has begun the process of returning the remains of U.S. soldiers who fought in the 1950s Korean War.
February 27-28, 2019: Trump and Kim meet for a second time in Hanoi, Vietnam. But Trump walks away after rejecting Kim’s offer to dismantle some of his nuclear facilities in exchange for sanctions relief.
June 11, 2019: Trump says he received another “beautiful,” “very personal” and “very warm” letter from Kim.
June 23, 2019: North Korea’s state news agency says Kim received a letter from Trump. The report promises Kim will “seriously contemplate” its “excellent content," but does not elaborate.
June 30, 2019: Trump and Kim meet briefly at the de-militarized zone separating the two Koreas. The impromptu meeting comes a day after Trump suggested in a tweet that the two meet while Trump was visiting neighboring South Korea.
August 10, 2019: Trump says Kim wrote him a letter apologizing for recent short-range missile tests. He also said Kim would like to meet and start negotiations as soon as the joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises finish.
October 5, 2019: U.S. and North Korean negotiators hold working-level talks in Stockholm, Sweden, but the North storms out just hours after the meetings began, saying they were “greatly disappointed” with what they described as U.S. inflexibility.
January 10, 2020: Trump delivers a happy birthday message to Kim, who turned 36 years old. The letter was reportedly delivered by South Korean officials, though Pyongyang later says it received the message directly.
March 22, 2020: North Korean state media say Trump wrote Kim to offer “anti-epidemic” help, amid coronavirus worries. Trump also said he “was impressed by the efforts made by the Chairman to defend his people,” the North says.
April 18, 2020: Trump says he recently received another “nice note” from Kim, but does not elaborate.
April 19, 2020: North Korea’s foreign ministry refutes Trump’s claim that Kim had sent him a “nice note.”
So much drama. He seems healthy, though.
Glad to see those Trump summits worked so well.
Interesting article- it says that S.Korea has developed such a conventional advantage over the North that it can counter N Korean nukes- significantly, without U.S. backing (though it still relies on American signal intelligence).
This complicates matters- South Korea doesn’t have to rely on the U.S., but North Korea can’t simply agree to denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula- it would give the South too much of an advantage. OTOH no S. Korean politician could agree to giving up arms in the face of the North’s aggression.
“dozens of orphan children rushed out to the Chonnae Area Coal-mining Complex to fulfil their oath to repay even just a millionth of the love the party showed”.
Well, bless their little hearts.
This is just absurd.
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Easy to forget that nothing has changed in North Korea. Might be even worse than before.
Didn’t know that they stopped sending defectors back to N. K. because of Covid. Apparently that has changed. Shame on the CCP. They could easily send them to S. K., it’s Korea, what’s the difference? When it comes to Taiwan, they always say it’s one China. Why not apply the same logic to Korea? Horrible and inhumane.
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Keep being drawn to content about North Korea.
What a brave woman.
The absurdity and hopelessness of the whole situation is so heart wrenching.
I keep an eye on her channel, cause she seems to have sources on the ground. [Well could all be bogus, no one knows for sure. But let’s pretend for a moment that she’s trustworthy.]
Now she’s suggesting that the people in North Korea are so desperate that they are acquiring weapons on the black market (sold by equally desperate soldiers?). And that there could be some fighting back/revolution brewing.
I think anything major happening in North Korea will have huge impacts on East Asia, including Taiwan. Not sure what the best possible scenario would be. How loyal are the military and the upper classes and how much do they fear a revolution? How much strength do the people have to rise up? How would China react? How would South Korea be affected.
While I wish that the North Korean could free themselves from oppression, I fear that this could turn into a disaster of unseen proportions.
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