> Un to take over
[Heavy] "not big surprise"
edited 18th Dec '11 8:48:53 PM by GlennMagusHarvey
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^^^ So NK is like a gravely shoe.
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"We have to be very worried because whenever there is domestic instability North Korea likes to find an external situation to divert the attention away from that - including indulging in provocation."
That's a bit frightening.
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...Huh. This feels...strange. I mean, I can't even comprehend it.
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As a Korean, what are your thoughts on this? Joy? Uncertainty?
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Well ... fuck ... I really hope this doesn't change our port calls, because I was looking forward to going to Thailand, and I don't really want to get diverted up to do a patrol around Korea.
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Its sad that the totalitarian control is so powerful there that people are mourning a man who has almost singlehandedly made their lives living hell...
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From here.
Note that the mourning for Kim Il-Sung in 1994 was largely genuine—the old man was practically hero-worshipped, particularly as North Korea did pretty well economically all the way up through the 1980s. This isn't the case with Kimmie Junior, where everyone remembers the famine of the 1990s.
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As for talk about a reingition of the Korean War on the last page, I think I heard somewhere North Korea has some elite troops which could enter Seoul pretty fast, but NK's actual military couldn't stand a prolonged war.
Just my two cents.
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I wonder if instead there will be a military coup
I repeat what Penny said earlier in the thread:
North Korea cannot win a war against anyone, but they would unleash hell on earth before dying.
edited 18th Dec '11 9:29:06 PM by FuschlatzOReilly
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I actually doubt that (the bit about Seoul getting flattened, not the bit about the peninsula being a shambles). Despite the rumours the majority of North Korean equipment cannot hit Seoul from the DMZ. There's maybe a hundred 170mm Koksan guns that can reach that far, but the moment each of them fire they'll be subject to counterattack by aerial bombing and South Korean/US artillery. There are also plenty of Scud ballistic missile knockoffs, but I find it more likely that they'd be armed at military targets instead of Seoul. Hardly enough to qualify as "wiped off the face of the planet" unless the North decides to escalate to nuclear weapons.
edited 18th Dec '11 9:39:22 PM by SabresEdge
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Seems like the surrounding countries are calling emergency alerts. South Korea did, as did Japan.
(The news doesn't know if Un is 27 or 28)
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I wonder what China is doing, and how long it will take for the rest of the world to find out.
I'm somewhat confused as to what their relations with North Korea are currently.
I have just woken up and discovered this on the BBC.
I... do not know how to respond. A tyrant has died... one of the questions that is going to emerge probelly is; how will his son's rule be like?
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They don't especially want it to exist anymore, but they know they can't just give up on it either so they reluctantly continue to support it.
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Actually, the more pressing question is "who will rule next?" in general. His son does not have the support he did when coming to power and is in a much more precarious position.
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Just when you think 2011 is done giving us plenty of unexpected news, it throws us a curve ball within its final 2 weeks and gives us this.
What a year, folks. What a year.
edited 18th Dec '11 11:14:26 PM by MalagasyParrot
I woke up to this after a nap and saw this thread.
On another note, I was tempted to put his death in the And There Was Much Rejoicing article but that would be too much of a Flame Bait there.
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His son apparently "not ready" to take over.
I'm...Fairly happy about this...
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You shouldn't be; North Korea needs all the stability it can get.
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I thought it was interesting. Apparently the entire country is in mourning right now.