• Few weeks ago my Korean language and history Professor said something interesting during his lesson: He thinks North Korea dictatorship is possible because an after-war scenario would see Korea re-unified and in the sovereign of South Korea. Now let’s see what happens after the charismatic leader died.
    I think China will try to annex North Korea without a war.

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    @Noll:

    Few weeks ago my Korean language and history Professor said something interesting during his lesson: He thinks North Korea dictatorship is possible because an after-war scenario would see Korea re-unified and in the sovereign of South Korea. Now let’s see what happens after the charismatic leader died.
    I think China will try to annex North Korea without a war.

    Without getting into politics I can say that would probably not happen.

    China probably won’t try to annex Korea for historic and cultural reasons of which getting American money would be a huge contributing factor.  North and South Korea would also, likewise, not engage in hostilities so long as we keep shovelling money into their pockets.

    The problem, as I see it, is that the Bank of the United States of America is close to defaulting and without our incentive to stay peaceful, there might be fundamental redistribution of power.  Just from a socio-economic viewpoint, not that I’m a socialogist or economics professor - I can balance a checkbook and that’s better than 90% of the high school graduates these days, but that’s about as far as I can go!


  • It’s for historic reason that I think China will try to annex North Korea. They always tried to do it, and they did it many times in the past.

    Korea was always in an unlucky position. Between China, Manchuria and Japan!

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    But of course.  No, I would.  You’re not a bad person.  There are bad people, but you are not a bad person.

    HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW?  This is the internet isn’t it? For as far as you’re concerned I could be building some kind of maniacal contraption to take over the world by force!  I could ‘be’ Kim Jong Il’s son, the heavenly child.

    And are you saying Harry Truman, or the pilot of the Enola Gay were evil because they dropped the bomb!  Proposterous! LOL.

    What about Gas attacks in WWI?  Are those Evil?  Charles Manson isn’t Evil?


  • Well according to the video game “Homefront,” Kim Jong Il’s son takes over most of Asia and invades the US.


  • @Dylan:

    Well according to the video game “Homefront,” Kim Jong Il’s son takes over most of Asia and invades the US.

    And then Japan fields Giant Enormous Robots of Doom and conquers the world.


  • @Gargantua:

    But of course.  No, I would.  You’re not a bad person.  There are bad people, but you are not a bad person.

    HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW?  This is the internet isn’t it? For as far as you’re concerned I could be building some kind of maniacal contraption to take over the world by force!  I could ‘be’ Kim Jong Il’s son, the heavenly child.

    And are you saying Harry Truman, or the pilot of the Enola Gay were evil because they dropped the bomb!  Proposterous! LOL.

    What about Gas attacks in WWI?  Are those Evil?  Charles Manson isn’t Evil?

    The thing is, everyone thinks they’re on the right side.

    maybe some perverted exceptions aside.


  • @special:

    @Gargantua:

    But of course.  No, I would.  You’re not a bad person.  There are bad people, but you are not a bad person.

    HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW?  This is the internet isn’t it? For as far as you’re concerned I could be building some kind of maniacal contraption to take over the world by force!  I could ‘be’ Kim Jong Il’s son, the heavenly child.

    And are you saying Harry Truman, or the pilot of the Enola Gay were evil because they dropped the bomb!  Proposterous! LOL.

    What about Gas attacks in WWI?  Are those Evil?  Charles Manson isn’t Evil?

    The thing is, everyone thinks they’re on the right side.

    maybe some perverted exceptions aside.

    Finally someone is wise here!

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    maybe some perverted exceptions aside

    Blushes


  • @Noll:

    Few weeks ago my Korean language and history Professor said something interesting during his lesson: He thinks North Korea dictatorship is possible because an after-war scenario would see Korea re-unified and in the sovereign of South Korea. Now let’s see what happens after the charismatic leader died.
    I think China will try to annex North Korea without a war.

    China would not do that.  That would be like us taking over Etheopia.  Ya, we could do - but why would we?  North Korea brings nothing to the table, on the contrary China would have to build that country.  And while China’s economy is doing great, thier people still live in squalor (but still 1000x better than North Koreans - pretty bad when a step up is living is getting to China’s level).


  • China has been running north Korea for years.  they are all communists.


  • No more than we run Mexico.  Just because their economy is dependant on China doesn’t mean China runs it.  (we get the better end out of that comparison - at least Mexico has oil).


  • @Vance:

    China has been running north Korea for years.  they are all communists.

    No they’re not.
    Neither as all Americans are republicans, or they all are Democrats.


  • China’s a capitalist dictatorship.


  • America is a capitalist dictatorship.


  • And so East meets West, beautiful isn’t it? ;)

    Funfact edit: Christopher Hitchens (recently RIP) called North Korea the only “necrocracy” in the world, a country governed by a dead leader (Kim Il Sung)


  • @Vance:

    America is a capitalist dictatorship.

    wtf…


  • @Dylan:

    @Vance:

    America is a capitalist dictatorship.

    wtf…

    just someone who can never admit when they are wrong, but give’em a break is canadian A


  • I think the US is a Capitolist Oligarchy moving toward a Socialist Oligarchy very quickly.


  • @morrel:

    @Dylan:

    @Vance:

    America is a capitalist dictatorship.

    wtf…

    just someone who can never admit when they are wrong, but give’em a break is canadian A

    facepalm

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