They had many of that stuff.
at least in 1900´s period. Things went downhill during the war its true, but it is nowhere comparable to NK.
Archeologist have rescently found peasent written constitutions and peasent libraries stocked with the works of thinkers such as Rousseou and Voltair which would have been impossible if it where not for Imperial Japan and the Meiji revolution.
TO make such a comparison to NK is mediocre.
edited 12th Jan '13 7:59:18 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.I'm not sure how imperialist North Korea is in attitude, since most of their aggression is centered on South Korea, where it is technically a civil war. And, if they were Imperialist, luckily China and other regional powers would have none of it so they'd have zero friends if they tried anything of the sort that Imperial Japan pulled.
I'm finding their new leader to be unorthodox but with limited media access and lazy journalism I still have no clue what his actual power level is within the country and what the appetite for change is within the NK leadership. I mean, if they were half-way intelligent but still oppressive, they would still want the economic reforms that Kim talks about because it would make their bark have more teeth behind it.
Have you not seen Red Dawn/played Homefront? They are, like, two seconds away from steamrolling over the US!
In all seriousness though, I don't have high hopes for Kim Jong-un being too different. According to the speech he gave in April, he considers "Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism" to be the core of their ideology. Granted, it's quite possible he just didn't want to seem too different so early, so I still have a bit of hope.
boopThe thing about NK, its that is a holocaust, but there arent really any good options to stop it, and the leadership its soo goofy its hard not to laugh at them and referece Home Front repeatedly over and over again.
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.Nazi Germany, though, wasn't content with its own land. It spent a lot of time toppling down other countries.
Another thing with the Holocaust was that it didn't stop with mere concentration camps. It shocked me to learn that there were extermination camps, disguised as ordinary concentration camps and used to kill most arrivees on the spot. I don't see that in North Korea, partly because they don't have many foreigners to begin with.
North Korea is not content with its own land. Almost all strong dictatorships are predatory in nature. North Korea is not strong, however.
If we examine the actions of places like Red China and the USSR in their early days, we see similar predatory moves - Stalin overrunning Ukraine, trying to overrun Poland, gobbling up the Baltic States when everyone was distracted by WWII. Similarly, Red China invaded and subjugated Tibet. They could do this because they were strong. Ditto Hitler. North Korea is just as expansionist and predatory as Mao or Stalin, but unlike Mao and Stalin she doesn't have the chops to back it up.
edited 13th Jan '13 3:05:35 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiActual territorial expansionism through warfare died in 1991 with Saddam's failure to annex Kuwait. This is largely due to how closly connected the international community has become.
Nowadays its far harder to actually gain territory through war. If it wasn't, China would be launching invasions into Central Asia.
edited 13th Jan '13 3:44:36 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Hmmm... if North Korea somehow ended up with the ability to take over other countries I wonder if they would actually do so. Sending common soldiers to occupy a territory would open them out to lots of unhealthy international ideas and ways of living, which would dilute the total control the Kims have had over their subject's thoughts and actions. Maybe if they nuked the territory or had access to legions of loyal robots or mind control they could do so. But that's for another computer game :)
Rational Wiki reckons Juche is definitely racist, and could also be fascist
. Interesting in that unlike most racist tracts, Juche paints the Korean race as wonderful but also weak, and of course therefore in need of a strong leader.
edited 13th Jan '13 5:39:55 AM by betaalpha
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Russia didn't really annex South Ossetia and Abkhazia, instead allowing them to form breakaway states from Georgia. Of course, these nations are essentially Russian puppets, which shows the kind of way annexation will likely commence in future.
You're also forgetting Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan, Mauritania and Morocco's annexation of West Sahara, Ethiopia annexing the Somali Ogaden, Britain annexing Rockall, and India annexing Sikkim and Portugese India.
The re-unification of Germany does not count, as annexation is considered in international law to be expansionist or unequal, whilst re-unification is the preferred term.
edited 13th Jan '13 6:35:12 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiI think that this kind of thing is more to do with Orwell's well-made observation that all cult-based dictatorships are broadly the same as each other and have the same logical conclusion; that is, North Korea's 1984 setup. There isn't an overarching goal other than inventing more reasons for the dictatorship to continue to exist.
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)Afghanistan and Iraq beg to disagree.
There are also many Israeli commentators that lament not having occupied Lebanon.
edited 13th Jan '13 9:28:11 AM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.

Yea. So how is it different from imperial england?
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.