First International Joke of 2013

[Jimbuna]

I'm not sure many will feel he is being truthful and sincere or convincing for that matter....they say a leopard never changes its spots.


The North Korean leader has delivered a new year's message on state TV, the first such broadcast for 19 years.
Kim Jong-un, in power since 2011, spoke of the need to improve the economy and also to reunify the Koreas, warning that confrontation only led to war.

Kim Jong-un said 2013 would be a year of creations and changes, calling for a "radical turnabout" that would transform the impoverished, isolated state into an "economic giant" and raise living standards.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20880301

[Platapus]

Change will come slow in the DPRK. Unfortunately in such countries the status quo is the status quo. The older guys are dying off. I hope that KJU will be able to make some more changes than KJI had.

[AVGWarhawk]

One never knows. Yes, the older thoughts and ideals are dying with the men that possess them. Something new emerges with the young. Perhaps a dream or fantasy but all the same a different path and train of thought. Each leader has their own aspirations.

[Jimbuna]

Well here's hoping all the outcomes are of a positive and peaceful nature.

[Skybird]

Some days ago I read a report about him that indicated that he is even more brutal and murderous than his father and grandfather ave been. To imagine that he may bring change in a positive way because the ideas of his forefathers died with them, currently I do not waste one second for.

He also has the whole rats tail of privileged and corrupted military elites in his neck.

I read the whole speech apparently very different, to me it is a threat, not a sign of hope. When talks about reuniting the Koreans and bringing change, I only ask myself: bringing change at what direction: towards the North - or towards the south. Are the Koreas to be united on basis off the Southern model - or is it meant to be the North swallowing the South, "nothernizing" it that way?

I am quite certain I know the answer already.

This "news" thus is a non-news to me. It is pure propaganda. Bad things do not just leave all by themselves. Evil people don't just leave either.

[Jimbuna]

You could well be right Sky and I have suspicions you may well be but I also feel he should be given a chance first...heaven knows, the world gave his predecessors plenty.

[AVGWarhawk]

Time will tell Sky. He could be the "only child" that has a mean streak. Possibly uglier than his father's. Perhaps it is posturing for military. :hmmm:

[Herr-Berbunch]

KJU wanted to 'reunify the Koreas', too. They don't mean it like we'd mean it. :nope: