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Originally Posted by Aktungbby
You guys are overlooking the similarity of WWI to the North Korean situation...not WWII. Prior to WWI the Royal Navy seized three German mail boats in the winter of 1899–1900 off East Africa without any explanation or legitimization. Three German ships, the Bundesrath, Herzog and General bound for a neutral port were forced into port and searched for any Boer war-materiel, with negative results. This provoked a diplomatic crisis between the German Kaiserreich and Great Britain. The vessel were released but the lesson sank in: The German leadership felt severely disrespected by the British policy, and as a consequence, feelings of being inadequately recognized erupted in German society. As a result, the German leadership embarked on a new naval act, The First Fleet act of 1897 and second more ambitious act of 1900; which in turn intensified the naval antagonism between the German Empire and Great Britain in the years to come-culminating in 1914 and Jutland. North Korea is similarly disrespected and is substituting nuclear ballistic missiles for dreadnoughts. Substitute the megalomaniac Kaiser for 'fat boy' of N. Korea and the nationalist ego issues are remarkably similar. N. Korea is obeying Von C's rule: "Whenver possible, increase firepower"....
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Thanks this was interesting, i know about the seizing of other german ships by England prior to WW1 (and other civilian ones in neutral harbours during WW1), but not those mentioned above.
But I do not agree with the "megalomanic Kaiser", especially in comparison with King Leopold from Belgium, other princes, kings, or the ambitions of the British Empire..
and William 2nd was much more reasonable than Kim
