North Korea to make 'important announcement'

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With those psychos, it could be anything. Maybe the Great Leader stubbed his toe. Maybe they'll invade SK. Maybe they'll launch their 5000 secret nuclear missiles from the hollowed out volcanoes. Hard to tell, but this country certainly has the format of Bond villainy.

National Geographic did an interesting documentary on them btw - search for it on your favorite .torrent site. I especially like the ending... which also demostrates why it's probably a bad idea to invade the place and get it over with.

http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=65538

I posted that a while back. I suspect he may have now died.

It's possible that Kim Jong-Il has died.

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Or they have a new, fiendish plan to bring down SK: unification. I mean, German unification was hard but that would probably devastate both countries.

I hope he's dead.

Well, if he's dead--and I think that's more likely than not to be the news--that's definitely good news in the long run, but the short run could be even more chaotic than usual for North Korea. I don't know what kind of plans Japan, South Korea, and China have for dealing with a dead Dear Leader, but I hope they're good ones, and I hope whichever factions end up struggling for power in North Korea are open to them.

I cant help but wonder. If he's dead, who's gonna inherit his porn stash?

The army is the only "faction" in North Korea. I suppose whoever controls that will get to say what happens next.

With any luck, North Korea will embrace capitalism, and make toys with lead paint and candy containing melamine.

No, they're making a new movie called "Weekend at Kim's place." It's about dragging around a dead guy whose name is not Bernie.

The worry is that with Dear Leader dead, no one has control over the military and the military leadership will break into factions. Given the status of North Korea as a cult-of-personality state, I'd put the odds of that at awfully close to 100%.

Doesn't that guy have a son or brother thats poised to suceed him after death?

To the extent that you believe Wikipedia and its cited sources, there is no clear line of succession.

I suspect that Dear Leader may sleep with da fishes now.

Probably means his son will take over and become the new 'Dear Leader'.

Or maybe they'll rise up and blood will run in the streets. Either way, I doubt much is gonna change much in the world unless they suddenly get friendly with the south, reunify, and we can pull out completely militarily. Which would be awesome- none of my buds who ever served in Korea have anything good to say about it as a duty station.

Not a chance of anything remotely resembling a popular uprising.

If you need a good laugh, read their 'news'. This is the official news agency of the country.

He's dead. They are going to read his will to the public. "I leave to the people South Korea"

North Korea then invades the South.

We'll see...

Maybe he won't be ronery any more

DEAD!....DEAD!!.....DEAD!!!!...

Yeah, the North is always trying to invade the South somewhere.

I bet North Korea is going to endorse Obama.


Man, that'd be awkward.

We still haven't left Germany. Why would we leave Korea?

That's okay. Whatever crisis may ensue, Obama will be the man to sort it all out, with a nice cuppa.

If you'd watched SNL in the past, you'd know that Obama already has a foolproof plan for dealing with North Korea.



He's gonna play the race card.

Yeah, black folks are always whuppin' some Korean ass in Watts. Been known to loot and burn their shops down.

Have you got a specific time period that you try to stick to for occupying territory in another country?

I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact we took them off of the terrorist list recently.

I think a policy marked in centuries makes sense. So in the two cases you cited, perhaps two or three. No reason to be acting precipitously.