North Korea has me hand wringing.

[shoeless]

Apr 3, 2013 13:31:20 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

Apr 3, 2013 13:30:00 GMT -5 shoeless said:

I like the last look and I like the gray skirt with the pink top (and a different shoe). I don't think either skirt needs to be retired!

i cannot stop laughing

I was hoping to edit it before someone saw!  lol

[luckyval]

Apr 3, 2013 13:32:20 GMT -5 shoeless said:

Apr 3, 2013 13:31:20 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

i cannot stop laughing

I was hoping to edit it before someone saw!  lol

LOL, I thought I was having an out of thread experience

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I agree with what lucyhoneychurch has been saying. North Korea's real motivation for all of this is keeping it's citizens in line. If North Koreans started to think their country isn't all it's cracked up to be, the government would have a serious problem.

I don't watch much mainstream news (aside from NPR) but has there been a lot of fear mongering going on?

[winston]

Apr 3, 2013 13:49:46 GMT -5 @amoosed said:

I agree with what lucyhoneychurch has been saying. North Korea's real motivation for all of this is keeping it's citizens in line. If North Koreans started to think their country isn't all it's cracked up to be, the government would have a serious problem.

I don't watch much mainstream news (aside from NPR) but has there been a lot of fear mongering going on?

The thing is they don't actually have to announce their threats to the world to keep the people in line. They have 100% control of all media in the DPRK so they can tell them anything they want. If all they wanted was for the people to believe that they were on the brink of war (and didn't actually want to follow through) they could tell the people that and be done with it. They'd never know anything different. I think he's putting on this show for the rest of the world with no regard for his own people.

[Jalapeñomel]

Apr 3, 2013 13:17:13 GMT -5 cc said:

Another thing that worries me is that, yes, they have made these same statements before, but were they as close to having a nuclear weapon as they are now?

Yes. 

[snipsnsnails]

While never harmless, this go-round is just for show, imo. Got to continue to amp up the citizens' fear-induced nationalism at all costs.

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Apr 3, 2013 13:31:20 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

Apr 3, 2013 13:30:00 GMT -5 shoeless said:

I like the last look and I like the gray skirt with the pink top (and a different shoe). I don't think either skirt needs to be retired!

i cannot stop laughing

/ded

[flex]

I'm beginning to get concerned. Alaska and Hawaii are well within range.

[joshlyman]

Is it weird that I would go on a tour of NK in a heartbeat? They do very very guided tours for a limited number if tourists, and I think it would be so incredibly interesting/sad/crazy.

[midnightmare81]

Apr 3, 2013 14:37:43 GMT -5 flex said:

I'm beginning to get concerned. Alaska and Hawaii are well within range.

This is making me all that much happier that we are no longer there. Not that I don't worry for those who ARE there, just that I myself am not.

I worry as well since H JUST got out of the military. I am afraid he will be reactivated if shit hits the fan...

[kcr1972]

Things were quiet til Dennis Rodman took his ass over there. Maybe the prez Rodman didn't want to be his friend anymore.

[angelaa73]

put it back shoeless! put it back!

this made my day

[joshlyman]

Apr 3, 2013 22:02:52 GMT -5 kcr1972 said:

Things were quiet til Dennis Rodman took his ass over there. Maybe the prez Rodman didn't want to be his friend anymore.

I bet Rodman dunked on Un. You know that shit pissed him off, being that Un is the best basketball player in all the world.

[sonrisa]

Apr 3, 2013 12:25:50 GMT -5 bcv513 said:

It scares the crap out of me. Didn't they say their nukes could reach Hawaii?

They SAY a lot of things.  I think it's puffery. But puffery can be risky.

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Apr 3, 2013 22:07:00 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

put it back shoeless! put it back!

this made my day

Seriously. I keep coming back in here to laugh about it. 

[Bree Van de Kamp]

I feel for the citizens of NK, because its no secret that the man that they idolize views them as disposable, just as his father had done before.

And if the documentary mentioned by PP is the one I'm thinking it is, that's some heartbreaking shit. Its called "Children of the Secret State" and I fucking bawled throughout the whole damn thing. There are starving, half naked children eating garbage off of the ground while the adults that walk around them either ignore them, threaten them, or take it upon themselves to kick and step on their emaciated bodies. Fuck that place.