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Ongoing purge in North Korea
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Yeah.. very crazy.
CountAntonius
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Netflix aspect ratios strike again!
layzie1989
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The fall of the DPRK will be intensely interesting....unfortunate that it'll probably come with a large loss of life but the fall has to happen eventually, right?
Porcile
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Well....no. but it's hugely interesting because it's the first time any part of the Kim family has ever been made directly and publically accountable for corruption and crimes against the state.
Escape Goat
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Or the Dexter finale.
JordanN
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Unless they literally go bankrupt like the USSR, they're pretty much around forever. Having nuclear weapons also means they can't be replaced by force.
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I've been meaning to read this for ages and the current North Korean purge makes it a particularly timely read. Used copies online are kinda stiff, but thankfully my local library has a copy on hand. Thanks for posting the image!
FnordChan
Escape Goat
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If they do lose control I wonder whos job it is to keep track of all those nukes? Commanders are probably going to be selling them before that though.
lastplayed
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"Will no one rid me of this turbulent uncle?"
This meme will never get old.
ComputerMKII
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http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/artic...m-jong-uns-nephew-france-lays-low-after-jangsNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un's nephew in France lays low after Jang's execution
Screengrab from DongA Ilbo showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's nephew, pictured here in France in August.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s nephew, who is now studying in France, has gone under the radar after the execution of Pyongyang’s No 2 man, reported South Korean media.
On December 14, two days after the high-profile purge of Kim Jong-un's uncle Jang Song-thaek, 19-year-old Kim Han-sol’s name had been removed from the post box in his dormitory at the prestigious Sciences-Po’s Le Havre campus, reported one of South Korea’s major dailies DongA Ilbo.
When a South Korean reporter visited Kim’s dormitory a day earlier, on December 13, his name had still been on the mailbox; the reporter also knocked on Kim’s room but it seemed deserted, said the paper.
Last Friday, the South Korean journalist who visited Kim’s dormitory was questioned by five French police officers after they were notified by students. They asked the reporter if he was from North Korea and verified his passport, residence permit and foreign press pass issued by Paris. Whenever an Asian person comes to campus and asks other students about Kim’s whereabouts, they call the police, the university told the daily.
Kim enrolled as a student at Sciences-Po this August and has since been caught on camera several times by South Korean journalists.
South Korean media speculated that the young man has been laying low for his safety, which was likely at greater risk following Jang’s execution.
The young man’s father Kim Jong-nam is the eldest son of ex-leader Kim Jong-il and the black sheep of North Korea’s ruling family, reportedly living in exile in China and Singapore.
Executed leader Jang Song-thaek and his wife had raised Kim Jong-nam and Jang had supported Kim’s life in exile.
Kim Jong-nam previously lived in Macau but moved after his younger half-brother Kim Jong-un came into power.
North Korea’s state-run paper Rodong Sinmun stated lately that “a person who can point a gun without hesitation to one’s flesh and blood is a true man of principle,” raising concerns over the safety of Kim Jong-nam and his son Han-sol.
Uncle by marriage, i thought his aunt was married to him?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...es-sent-to-gulags-by-North-Korean-regime.html (WHOLE STORY)
Very gruesome situation for many individuals, they are gone.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
What a dark world.
Sharkeisha
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how come nobody is doing anything about the concentration camps in NK? it's not like back in WW2 where people didn't know about that shit...
People are afraid China will be upset. I say fuck what China thinks. They're just as guilty as NK for stopping us from taking action.
I think the cruel truth is just that the western nations aren't as altruistic as they like to think they are.
Who knows if the deathcamps alone would have been enough to start a war with Nazi Germany.
The massacre of civilians was enough for United States in Yugoslavia.
But the thing is that with North Korea there is the question of Seoul and the number of expected civilian casualties if any military action is taken. Also China has a ruthless communist regime, we don't know what they might do because a strong united Korea is not in their interest.
On the contrary, China's not worried about a united Korea as much as the massive influx of North Korean refugees across the border. The status quo is much better than the alternative.
Sharkeisha
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but China has so much land though.
thesoapster
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He would kill the daughter of the country's god? Really? Really...
TacticalFox88
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If Seoul didn't have thousands of pieces of artillery aimed at it, NK would've been invaded a LOOOOOONG time ago.
The question of refugees is obviously the immediate concern but a united and democratic Korea would be a financial powerhouse in the area. It would be an unacceptable situation for China, having a pro-west neighbor with US military bases.
At the moment the international community can't do much but isolate the country financially and technologically. They need to be kept in the dark ages, because their psychotic regime has access to nuclear weapons and any advanced missile delivery systems in their hands is unthinkable.
Watch him just be cleaning out the die hard nationalists to ensure a peaceful unification a few years down the line. I mean, if it wasn't such a serious issue, I think people would understand the subtext of a war threat via fax machine. It was pretty well established during his ascension to supreme leader that Kim Jung-Un's decisions and stances were confined by the party and political environment around him, and that it wouldn't even be out of the question for him to be murdered/executed if he pushed for reunification. But cleaning house under the guise of a dictatorial monster? No ones going to do anything about that.
*crosses fingers* C'mooooooonnnnnnnn RODMAN!
*crosses fingers* C'mooooooonnnnnnnn RODMAN!
kurtrussell
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Rodman's Korea.
Angry Fork
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Well, when you let your daughter sit on Lavrentiy Beria's lap, good parenting is pretty much out the window isn't it?
Wouldn't Korean re-unification plunge South Korea into bankruptcy? Pretty sure the North is stuck in the 1950s. It would cost the South billions to bring it into the 21st century.
Well, when you let your daughter sit on Lavrentiy Beria's lap, good parenting is pretty much out the window isn't it?
I've heard that as she grew older, Stalin said that he refused to let Beria near his daughter. I think when the photo was taken he was either ignorant or in denial of Beria's rapes and murders.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...y-drunk-when-ordering-executions-9022878.html
So uh, the whole purge started because Kim was drunk and upset when someone asked if they should check with Jang first on an order. This whole thing sounds like something I expect from South Park.
So uh, the whole purge started because Kim was drunk and upset when someone asked if they should check with Jang first on an order. This whole thing sounds like something I expect from South Park.
ComputerMKII
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Jesus Christ
Actually, the reunification effort would cost South Korea even more than West Germany did when it reunited with the East. It would pretty much cripple S. Korea economically for the foreseeable future.
bengraven
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This.
NK's military is no joke either. Even if South Korea wasn't being held hostage, a force on force action would be nothing like Iraq. NK has been waiting for shit to pop off for decades.
Nobody in the western world cares enough to potentially go to war with China for this. There is no benefit beyond what, altruism?
vas_a_morir
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Also, according to Yomiuri Newspaper, Rodman didn't meet with Kim this time. But, it seems as though he will go back in January.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20131223-OYT1T00517.htm
For some reason, I doubt this will happen. Shit's getting too real.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20131223-OYT1T00517.htm
For some reason, I doubt this will happen. Shit's getting too real.
Its not even that. SK would be leveled before we could even get halfway there. Those bases in SK are placeholders. Everyone there knows they wouldn't do shit but evacuate if things ever hit the fan. China doesn't come into the equation until much, much later.
we'll go to war for rodman.
If anyone is interested in what goes on in the camps, you should read this (warning, not while eating or during Christmas) http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hea...f&wit_id=4f1e0899533f7680e78d03281fe18baf-2-1
None of the NK stuff sounds as funny after. Even gulags weren't quite this bad.
None of the NK stuff sounds as funny after. Even gulags weren't quite this bad.
SquiddyCracker
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You Are Viewtiful
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So he was drunk when he executed his uncle for being an alcoholic?
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