The reason NK is proposing talks is because it is after something....NK wants the border, known as the Northern Limit Line, redrawn farther south.

Right, but they know also "going over the limit" will cost some, which they can not afford either politically or militarily.

You mean like a credit card? :hmmm:

Something like this,
 

though this is about rice and noodles, which is their "limit" :O:

If even rice and noodles... I had a link to that video Mr. Stevens posted some months ago. A documentary of NK by some folks who went there and toured around under heavy guard. Totally bizarre place. They were treated to food at several locations, and the narrator/guy-in-front-of-the-camera could only describe it as "fried matter", apparently with no taste to it. Running a search to find it again, I'll have to link it in here.


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Here it is! :D http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=161638

NK,sucks
 

I read it, and the despotic leadership is really :down:

Yeah, it sounds like a completely twisted place. So glad to be over here than be stuffing grass in my face to keep from starving to death (compliments of that stumpy little power freak).

The great thing is that Kim Jong-il makes such a great butt-end for jokes. :yeah:

Not that I have any Kim Jong-il jokes, of course. :hmmm::doh:

something like this maybe,
 

Something like that. :DL Or the way he was portrayed in Team America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_9QhRzJEs

Movie star,
 

:haha:

Most ordinary people can be easily tempted with power and they say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,

To be honest who here who doesn't want his own sovereign island or land mass with population? and who doesn't like money I mean billions of dollars worth of money, unlimited supply of sex and control over large number of people?

Come on I'm sure we each had dreamed of those things just that we're not lucky enough to get them.



And now imagine that now you're above any man made law wouldn't that embolden you? And under such condition what would you do? Ask yourself this.

As said by Abraham Lincoln once, "If you want to know a man give him power" and let me add to that if you want to know a man absolutely give him absolute power.:O:

Now if you can imagine yourself unchanged by those condition you must be lying. . .or you've seen better. Ask yourself are you what you are now because of conditions imposed on you or choice? I'd certainly hope the latter. But if the latter you're either a thoroughly corrupt person or a saint. For me I'm neither because I'm just as fallible as most folks.

I have full respect for your words,
 

and may well put me into the current situation for several reasons, and this is a complex scenario that unfortunately affects the civilian population in the highest degree,I have not visited Korea for many years now, but there was a time when it was the will and power, it is still there and I hope it will be able to achieve more.

I'm not saying despotic rulers and tyrants are justifiable because they are not and can not.

Men should live under rule of law and no one to be exempted or granted privilege to abuse it lest his place is in the zoo.

I'm just saying that since most men are fallible it's understandable that some rulers when given absolute power become despotic and tyrannical.

Understandable why these rulers become what they were or are but certainly not justifiable.

If only they were willing to open their economy they could reap a boon from China's rising economy by becoming low cost mass production center even for China's domestic market and may be able to gain substantial money from growing middle income Chinese tourists provided they build the necessary tourism infrastructure. After all they've got some astoundingly beautiful natural scenery there thanks to their many mountain ranges.

Big Korean soldiers :D. Pretty intimidating I must say :DL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXKN...re=grec_browse

A lot of Japanese are getting like that now too. After the Wars Japan and Korea had a shift in the types of food the common person was able to eat (partly the massive US Aid, and partly the economic prosperity of the two nations), meats other than fish became more common. The increase in protean and over all balanced nutrition caused height changes.

Funny now is the American diet is so bad we are shrinking.

Yea I'm aware of the Japanese getting taller now I mean much taller than their stumpy predecessors. I think it's most obviously seen in their national soccer team.

As a man like me, very easy to blend in some consistent transformation of people I am no longer an 6.3 feet :03:

and becoming too fat to be drafted in alarming numbers.

Hopefully now we will be invaded and conquered by a country that can impose a working government. :03:

Like Mexico?:O: