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:	post by Dankill at 2009-04-02 22:29:56

BobNOMAAMRooney said

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Even when North Korea receives foreign aid (such as in 2005 when it was the second largest recipient of foreign assistance, or the nearly half billion dollars it gets yearly from China) it is not going to the "poor" citizens.

And South Koreans voted in that conservative government because the previous government's appeasement through "Sunshine Policy" only served to enrich the junta in Pyongyang, financially and through propaganda gains. It was always a one way street, with South Korea making concession after concession and pouring billions of dollars into bridges to nowhere while North Korea continued its complete repression of even the most basic human rights and did nothing to remedy the famines brought about by its own failed policies.

Fact.
North Korea is the last insane Stalinist goverment on the planet. You can not trust one thing they say or do because they lie and cheat with everything. They do not give a rats ass about their own people and will do anything humanly possible to keep their grip on power via a cult of personality state that makes 1984 look like Disneyland.
We could do every single thing they demand and they will never change and will still systematicly starve, kill and enslave as many people as they want in order to accomplish whatever lunatic ideas that enter Kim Jong Ill's mind. They operate under the pretense of BLACKMAIL. They amass huge armies, rockets and artillery and threaten to attack and blow up things unless we give them food and money. This food and money is then given to the ruling elite and the military. Even if it's true that the US and South Korean military could beat the North Koreans, no one wants a war to happen because of how much damage would be caused in a short amount of time. It's a suicide pact that the North Koreans know would mean their end, so they'll take as many down with them as possible. Within the first day, Seoul would be trashed by a rain of artillery and surface to surface missles lined up and down the DMZ. The third largest economy in asia would come to a total halt and stock markets around the world would shit the bed. The casualties would be in the hundreds of thousands on both sides in a matter of days, not even counting when the North Korean civilians starve and are forced to fight at gunpoint in human waves like it's the Soviet Union in 1944. Then you'll get to find their gulags that are barely a step above places like Aushwitz.
I don't even think China would get involved in this fight because they barely even trust the North Koreans and don't want to risk being alienated by the West and lose any of the economic and political ground they've gained in the past 20 years.

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