Bang Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Didn't they just lose a submarine? ~Sunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSkins0721 Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Didn't they just lose a submarine? ~Sunk LMAO! Yeah, they did! But it was only a 2 man sub. Who the **** builds a 2 man sub in 2016? I always thought NK was stuck in the 1950s. But it seems more like the 1850s. Hell, Jefferson Davis had a 7-8 man sub! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Make's me think they're using surplus Japanese single man subs from WWII ala Gilligan's Island: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 (edited) https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/709948014438293504 BREAKING: North Korea sentences U.S. student Otto Frederick Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor after confessing to 'hostile act' - AFP11:42 PM Edited March 16, 2016 by visionary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-idUSKCN0WJ30V?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews North Korea fires ballistic missile into sea: Yonhap North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Friday off its east coast and it flew about 800 km (500 miles) into the sea, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. The launch comes amid heightened tension on the Korean peninsula with the North remaining defiant in the face of the latest U.N. Security Council resolution adopted earlier in the month in response to a nuclear test conducted in January. Edited March 17, 2016 by visionary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Breaking: Sea declares war on North Korea. President Poseiden to hold press conference. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passepartout Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Really do not know why the UN does not want to yank out that leader of North Korea. He is a wacko! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB452 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/709948014438293504 ...that guy stealing the sign should have said he was getting it as a souvenir for Dennis Rodman, then they would have let him go..... Oh well, I guess we will need to send Rodman over to get him......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornaSkinsFan83 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Really do not know why the UN does not want to yank out that leader of North Korea. He is a wacko! How would you propose that they do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I wasn't sure if I should include this in campaign thread or here but decided on this one. I'd really like to US to start leaning harder on China to control NK. Include it as part of a trade deal or something. But it needs to be made clear that China needs to yank this dogs chain. Everyone knows NK would completely crumble if China wasn't propping them up. So really I blame China for allowing this to continue. I'd like to see NK become a major part of the next presidential debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 What leverage do we have with China? China is currently in the business of expanding their influence in the region, not diminishing it. There is no way that China wants a democratic and free Korean Peninsula bordering it directly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 What leverage do we have with China? China is currently in the business of expanding their influence in the region, not diminishing it. There is no way that China wants a democratic and free Korean Peninsula bordering it directly Nor do they want US troops on their border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Nor do they want US troops on their border. I wonder if we would stay if Korea United. I guess we did in Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I wonder if we would stay if Korea United. I guess we did in Germany Absolutely we would. Just like Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Absolutely we would. Just like Japan. The host country I think would ultimately determine it. Things are different nowadays. No permanent bases in Iraq or Afghanistan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 The host country I think would ultimately determine it. Things are different nowadays. No permanent bases in Iraq or Afghanistan Oh, definitely the host country would determine it. And the Koreans would invite us to stay forever, because they are terrified of China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornaSkinsFan83 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 You know we assume South Korea wants a unified Korea. I'm not sure that's true anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 You know we assume South Korea wants a unified Korea. I'm not sure that's true anymore. I think you might be more right than anyone really acknowledges, and it is an interesting point All of the family relations have or are in the process of dying off. They already speak with two very different accents and vernaculars. We've seen directly how shunned NK defectors are in the south, they're like lepers. And why would South Korea want to bankroll 50 million welfare cases overnight? Then again it would be a cheap labor infusion to fund the South Korean economic machine, so you can bet the business elite would want it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornaSkinsFan83 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I think there was an article very early in this thread that talked about the troubles West Germany had when the Wall fell, taking on the dysfunctional East. And it talked about how that pales in comparison to the mess that is North Korea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 What leverage do we have with China? China is currently in the business of expanding their influence in the region, not diminishing it. There is no way that China wants a democratic and free Korean Peninsula bordering it directly I'm not talking about having China support a democratic NK or anything. Let them put in another dictator if that's what is needed. But just get them to keep NK in check. They can still be a communist **** hole, just a slightly less crazy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/712756911318384641 UN rights council sets up group to study how to pursue accountability for crimes against humanity committed by North Korea - Reuters5:44 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 You know we assume South Korea wants a unified Korea. I'm not sure that's true anymore. You may be right, but I suspect they want unification more than they want to be nuked by the insane family cult running NK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornaSkinsFan83 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 You may be right, but I suspect they want unification more than they want to be nuked by the insane family cult running NK. Well I'm sure. But would they want reunification or a sane NK that was in China's pocket? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Every time I see that show "Two Broke Girls" the owner of the diner that they work in, Hahn, I think about Kim Jong Un. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Well I'm sure. But would they want reunification or a sane NK that was in China's pocket? Agreed. But China can't make that happen without invading. North Korea is basically a giant religious cult. There is no way for China to remove Kim and install a normal government (even a normal communist government) without a massive amount of upheaval and probably a war, a war in which the cult leader has a handful of nukes. Dandong is a major Chinese port with a couple of million people, right there on the NK border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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