OR SO THE GERMANS WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE

12/12/2012 11:59:34 AM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/12/us-korea-north-rocket-idUSBRE8BB02K20121212

12/12/2012 12:18:27 PM

Not really much left to sanction, and even if we did, they're completely worthless if the Chinese keep undermining the system.

12/12/2012 2:01:15 PM

we could confiscate every VHS in the country

12/12/2012 3:33:47 PM

We should confiscate their rollercoasters. They're pretty much the only things left in the country.

Assuming, of course, that they weren't scrapped to build the rocket.

12/12/2012 6:11:04 PM

confiscate their unicorns

12/13/2012 1:25:38 PM

They probably ate the last one during the previous famine.

12/13/2012 2:07:56 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/28/dennis-rodman-tells-kim-jong-un-have-friend-for-life/?test=latestnews

2/28/2013 5:39:02 PM

2/28/2013 7:49:13 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/29/kim-jong-un-ex-girlfriend-reportedly-executed-by-firing-squad/

8/29/2013 9:56:55 AM

now THAT is a bad breakup

8/30/2013 12:10:20 AM

Damn, he's living out a lot of peoples fantasies

8/30/2013 1:01:48 PM

Or nightmare. Some rumors allege that it was his wife, not him that pushed for his former mistress' execution.

8/30/2013 1:49:16 PM

Rand corporation report about the possible outcomes if NK collapses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24182193

Can't imagine if a crisis like that were to happen how it would affect the rest of the world. As long as no nukes are used, the world should be good, aside from economic effects.

9/25/2013 7:51:35 AM

Haven't read the full RAND report yet, but nothing in the BBC article is particularly new at least in the Korea policy circles. Everyone really hates the current North Korean regime, yet everyone also has nightmares about what happens if it collapses. Again, loose nukes, millions of refugees going into China, Russia and South Korea... it would be a disaster. If the ROK had to go north though, I imagine that the United States and China would probably come to an agreement to keep American forces behind the 38th parallel and let the ROK Army & MC deal with it. Probably would be less of a culture shock anyway for North Koreans as well to at least have Korean speaking soldiers occupying their cities.

9/25/2013 9:58:17 AM

Interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/world/asia/north-korea-forbidden-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t5

10/23/2013 12:39:49 PM

Many of the countryside photos are reminiscent of South Korea from the early 1960s (bad old, pre-industrial days). While the pictures by themselves are harmless, I can understand why they would be touchy of them: people will come along and compare them against the South, and it reinforce just how backwards the North currently is. Still, if they were savvy, they would allow more of these pictures, just to help humanize the North.

10/23/2013 1:54:43 PM

11/4/2013 10:36:25 PM

Quote :

"Haven't read the full RAND report yet, but nothing in the BBC article is particularly new at least in the Korea policy circles. Everyone really hates the current North Korean regime, yet everyone also has nightmares about what happens if it collapses. Again, loose nukes, millions of refugees going into China, Russia and South Korea... it would be a disaster. If the ROK had to go north though, I imagine that the United States and China would probably come to an agreement to keep American forces behind the 38th parallel and let the ROK Army & MC deal with it. Probably would be less of a culture shock anyway for North Koreans as well to at least have Korean speaking soldiers occupying their cities. "

Seems like the strategy might be to foment collapse, secure nuke sites, and pay the price of whatever happens with refugees.

11/4/2013 11:33:39 PM

[Edited on November 4, 2013 at 11:34 PM. Reason : ]

11/4/2013 11:33:39 PM

I just want to say that this old dumbass had it coming to be detained. I think he should be hung out to dry if they are trying to use him as a bargaining chip.

Who the fuck fights a war against a country and then comes back later as a tourist while it remains as one of two countries in the world that utterly despise you?

11/23/2013 10:01:23 AM

This seems kinda big. Kim Jon Un executed his uncle, considered the second most powerful man in North Korea. I heard on the BBC this morning that he was forcibly removed from a meeting, disappeared, and his execution was announced 3 days later.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/13/us-korea-north-idUSBRE9BB19520131213

12/13/2013 9:41:11 AM

I tried to be sad for a second, then realized the asshole that got the bullet probably gave the bullet or sent people to concentration camps 1000x over.

12/13/2013 12:13:16 PM

Some more intersting details

http://news.yahoo.com/leader-39-uncle-rose-no-2-north-korea-155313036.html

Quote :

"A shrewd-looking man who wore tinted glasses, Jang had basked in his special status as the second in power. He displayed boldness at public events where the rest of the top officials sat at attention, applauding with the kind of ennui only displayed by one other man: Kim Jong Un. In its sharply worded character assassination, KCNA castigated Jang for "unwillingly standing up from his seat and half-heartedly clapping" when Kim received an important title. State media portrayed Jang as a power-hungry and ambitious challenger to the throne who resorted to nepotism and favoritism to build his "little kingdom" as he plotted a coup against his nephew."

12/13/2013 12:39:26 PM

Apparently Jang and KJU have been clashing for a while, and the latter has been quietly working behind the scenes to set up elimination of the former. What's shocking by this entire scenario isn't that Jang was purged, these sorts of things are standard politics in North Korea, but that it was an execution and an extremely public one at that. The North tends to just make people disappear, not drag them out in public and shoot them. Clearly KJU has decided to bring both the party and military in line with this one, reminding them all that no one is powerful enough to avoid the firing squad.

We'll see how this plays out.

12/13/2013 3:16:09 PM

http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-fyi/2014/01/06/rodman-returns-to-north-korea-to-visit-nice-guy-kim/

1/6/2014 12:03:45 PM

Anyone else wondering is Dennis Rodman is working for the CIA or State Dept?

1/6/2014 10:20:11 PM

I wouldn't be terribly surprised. An out of work former NBA player suddenly being best friends with a basketball obsessed dictator seems pretty convenient.

1/7/2014 12:30:56 AM

1/7/2014 12:44:44 AM

nah hes too stupid

1/7/2014 8:10:27 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/world/asia/north-korea-dennis-rodman/


jesus what is wrong with this dude?

1/7/2014 1:57:26 PM

he wants attention

hes a has-been thats back on tv

shrug

1/7/2014 2:07:54 PM

he's always been kinda crazy.

1/7/2014 2:18:18 PM

maybe its like befriending the crazy kid at school so he doesnt shoot you one day when he snaps

i recall a story from columbine where the shooters told some kid to leave the school before it began

same principle

1/7/2014 2:54:33 PM

i'm sure he's not as dumb or mis-guided as you all think

1/7/2014 3:04:17 PM

hes probably just enjoying that state sponsored heroin

1/7/2014 3:05:03 PM

Maybe this is old news, but I'm just seeing it for the first time. I'm posting for the article itself, not the comments section, not sure what the comments say, didn't read em.

http://imgur.com/gallery/7A8Aj

Interesting note at the end though, about FDR not bombing the rail lines to the concentration camps. I've never thought about that question.

Are we that afraid of China that we can't do anything? Sure on a world level KJU is a laughing joke, but when it comes to his own people, he's just awful.

1/9/2014 9:35:14 AM

Rodman was just drunk

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/world/asia/north-korea-dennis-rodman-apology/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Quote :

""I embarrassed a lot of people," said Rodman, who traveled to North Korea with other former NBA players for a basketball game against a North Korean team. "I'm very sorry. At this point I should know better than to make political statements. I'm truly sorry." He said the day of the interview had been "very stressful." "Some of my teammates were leaving because of pressure from their families and business associates," he said, adding that his dream of "basketball diplomacy was quickly falling apart." "I had been drinking," he said. "It's not an excuse but by the time the interview happened I was upset. I was overwhelmed.""

1/9/2014 10:20:01 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/27/kim-jong-un-reportedly-executes-blood-relatives-once-powerful-uncle-as-purge/

1/27/2014 10:13:32 AM

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/17/un-warns-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-strongly-worded-/

Quote :

"North Korea forces women to undergo abortions and young mothers to drown their newborn babies, and has starved and executed hundreds of thousands of detainees at secret prison camps — atrocities that the chairman of a U.N. panel that documented the abuses compares to those of Nazi Germany. “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” the U.N. Commission on Inquiry said in a 372-page report released Monday on North Korea’s atrocities. These crimes are ongoing because “the policies, institutions and patterns of impunity that lie at their heart remain in place.”"

First reunions since 2010: http://www.wral.com/koreas-begin-reunions-of-separated-families/13411666/

2/20/2014 12:57:20 PM

Here's another picture of N. Korea from space.

2/25/2014 7:18:19 AM

^ well, that might be the most sustainable country ever... they are not wasting fossil fuels to create an excess of electricity like many countries do, that's to be commended.

2/25/2014 8:18:04 AM

What about all the good things Hitler did?

2/25/2014 10:26:50 AM

^^^ they've got two concentrations of light: one is the capital, the other is the death camp

[Edited on February 25, 2014 at 11:09 AM. Reason : add another note]

2/25/2014 11:09:18 AM

Kim Jong Un, Environmentalist

2/25/2014 11:09:58 AM

If we nuke their capitol, I bet it would glow even brighter. At least for a few years.

2/25/2014 1:00:09 PM

it would also kill hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of innocent people.

2/25/2014 1:08:48 PM

it also wouldn't actually glow

2/25/2014 1:50:50 PM

It was a joke jesuschristyoupeople

2/25/2014 6:07:51 PM

Capitol?

2/25/2014 8:17:52 PM