nahh, the netherlands will protect world order

I think they've proven that we are all very similar because at one point in human history almost the whole lot of us died, not because we came from two women.

Some believe that democracy is the inevitable conclusion of an "educated society".

I am not aware of N. Korea as I would like to be.

Does N. Korea allow the live television broadcasts of other nations - like CNN.com?

Does N. Korea block internet transmissions like other nations are?

If they block world opinion they need to go - if they do not - then it's going to be very hard for the US to do anything about - what they started many moons ago - "nuclear deterance".

From my understanding - North Korea is a "dictatorship" ... and the usual "control" method is to block the opinion of the rest of the world - and it's own population.

If this is the case - we need to do something.

If this is not the case - it's going to be much more difficult - but we still need to do something because there is already to many nukes it the world.

Dad@

Actually, they do a great job in brain washing their people. It isn?t like other oppressive nations where their people actually get a clue. They really buy into everything their government says. They believe that on the day Kim Jong-Il was born, there were rainbows in the sky and other supernatural events. They believe all kinds of government propaganda, and of course presently they believe we are responsible for them starving to death?oh and that we?re minutes away from invading them to further our Yankee imperialist goals. No, if we have to go to war with North Korea, we?re screwed. It won?t be a push over like Iraq was. They?ll fight like they are fighting for their god, Kim Jong-Il ?The Great Leader.?

Man that is scarey ...
It's like another Iraq - two decades ago.
I hate this world I am passing on to my son ...
It's so screwed up.

Wow.... I actually agree!! That fuck should be impeached for it too!!

As for Korea, Bush or no Bush they would be wiped off the map. Even Clinton said, that they wouldn't know their country as it now exists. If they make a mistake, there's going to be some angry motherfuckers in this world as they replay the devistation. :2 cents:

Very well said!! :thumbsup

China loves their wild step child shaking up the region, and they are just sitting back and watching how we react. I hope Bush gets a grip on our nation soon, because we don't want 2 million chineese foot soldiers hitting the east coast!

theking:

Stupid ass!!

Once again, you assume a lot King of Denial!! :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

No regime in the world today is more evil than the one in North Korea. It operates a system of slave labor camps that can be compared only to the worst nightmares of Stalin's gulag and the Nazis' places of confinement and death. To make matters worse, North Korea has weapons of mass destruction, with which the dictator Kim Jong Il intimidates his neighbors like a schoolyard bully.

In the face of all this, the international community has treated Kim's government far too generously. More important, it has failed to recognize the vital link between the issues of human rights and nuclear weapons.

The record shows that Kim Jong Il cannot be trusted or bargained with. His nuclear weapons program exists for one purpose: to threaten the international community and thereby blackmail it into providing aid. It is time for South Korea, Japan, the United States and other countries to stop dancing to North Korea's nuclear tunes and pursue a strategy that will bring about real change. That strategy must link future aid to fundamental reform: not just a cessation of the nuclear weapons program but abolition of the concentration camps and of the spectacularly failed collective farms, which are the cause of the widespread starvation.

A new international strategy must be based on what is happening inside North Korea. The country is a giant concentration camp, the world's last totalitarian regime. Without warning, appeal or reason, any North Korean can be sent to a slave labor camp for such "crimes" as reading a foreign newspaper, listening to a foreign broadcast, complaining about the food situation or refusing an arbitrary request from an official. Some 200,000 North Koreans are held in these camps, in horrifying conditions of torture, harsh labor, hunger and summary execution. In the past three decades, several hundred thousand North Koreans have died in the camps.

The existence of the concentration camps is an open secret. The United States and South Korean governments have satellite photographs documenting them in detail. They should show these photographs to the world, present specific evidence of the atrocities and demand that Kim Jong Il close down the camps in a verifiable way -- by opening them to international inspection.

Economically, North Korea is bankrupt, with a classic Stalinist system in need of sweeping reform. During the 1990s, famine killed hundreds of thousands of people.

But instead of learning a lesson from a crisis that drove the country to the brink of collapse, North Korea wasted five years rebuilding its old system with international aid, including extensive, unconditional giveaways by Kim Dae Jung's government in South Korea.

Today international food aid keeps the North Korean army fed and loyal, and the country barely afloat. But the people continue to suffer from hunger and oppression. And Pyongyang resorts to nuclear blackmail to extract even more international aid, while retreating from a very tentative agenda of structural reform and opening-up that the regime saw as a threat to its survival.

Defeating this nuclear blackmail requires a strategy that reaches beyond the nuclear program itself to the fundamental nature of the totalitarian regime. The regime is adept at playing the nationalist card with its nuclear program, propagandizing to its people that the country must have nuclear weapons in order not to be made "America's slaves."

What the North Korean government fears most is that its people will awake from their isolation and ignorance. That is why it imprisons those who listen to foreign broadcasts. Yet more and more are doing so. Despite the regime's cruel suppression, people's desire to know about the world continues to grow.

Kim Jong Il's regime is in an advanced state of decay. Bribery and corruption are rampant. So is organized crime. The regime is so desperately short of resources it cannot even pay and equip its security apparatus properly. More and more North Koreans (in the tens of thousands) have escaped across the border to China. A few, like me, have made their way eventually to South Korea or to other destinations. The regime is sustained only by force, fear and external resources. It is time to deny it that last prop.

The United States should increase radio broadcasting to the North, expose the regime's human rights atrocities and condition economic assistance on a complete closure of the concentration camps and a transparent and direct distribution of food to those North Koreans really in need. If other key states cooperate in these actions, the regime will be faced with a choice of fundamental change or collapse.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Jul11.html

Cheol-Hwan Kang, who writes for the Chosun Ilbo newspaper in Seoul, spent 10 years in a North Korean prison camp, where he and his family were sent when he was 9. He defected to South Korea in 1992. He and two other prison camp survivors will be honored July 16 by the National Endowment for Democracy for their work on behalf of human rights in North Korea.

China has little love for North Korea and are attempting to intervene with the course that North Korea appears to be persuing.

The chinese do not have the capability to project their military forces globally.

:ak47: :ak47: :ak47: destroy communists forever