'Act of Aggression' from North Korea sinking South Korean ship

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On 24 May, new reports indicated Kim Jong-Il had ordered the North's forces to be ready for combat a week before.[66]

On 25 May North Korea released a list of measures that it will take in response to South Korea's sanctions. This would be the cutting of all ties and communications, including the closure of the Kaesong industrial complex. They would revert back to a wartime footing in regard to South Korea and disallow any South Korean to enter the territory of North Korea in any way, including by sea or air.

Awesome.

 

[Today]

@El Nino,
You should also take into consideration on information. Whether you viewed it first hand, visually, or audibly. I never been to California, but I know the whether tends to be hotter there than Alaska. Am I incorrect because I've never been there before? Heck, I never been to either of those places.

All in all, I don't like this. I don't like wars. Why do people need to feel superior? Doesn't anyone else ever think about other people in the World?? Think about their feelings and lives...

 

[El Nino]

I believe I am taking information into consideration. I believe I am taking a lot of information into consideration. That's why I disagree with the generalizations made about life in countries that are not the U.S.

On the situation at hand, it has bigger repercussions for the everyday people living in N. Korea than it does for other people in the world. It is unlikely to go to WWIII or nuclear war or whatever else Hollywood likes to throw in your face. But it is potentially a serious setback for N. Korea itself, and to a lesser extent S. Korea as well. The leaders of N. Korea made a mistake, and now they're trapped. They can't own up to that mistake because it would undermine their authority within their own country, but they can't go to war with the world either because they don't have the means to win, and they know it. They don't want to submit to sanctions either because that would further cripple their already ailing economy.

All of this right here, the threatening words, is just posturing. They're trying to muscle their way, if not out of sanctions completely, then at least to a better deal where they won't be hurt as much as they potentially could be.

 

[Pluvia]

I say move to Britain El Nino. It's like the US but post-religious with more equality and much less violence and murders.

 

[황미영]

Whoa, this is pretty insane. If war were to happen, the only thing hope to come out of this is the unification of Korea. And that it becomes similar to how South Korea is. I bet the North Koreans would love that. (Not the death count, of course.)

 

[Mr.Freeman]

Don't most Americans think the same about their own country?

And many that do have never actually set foot outside of their own borders. Yet comments like this one are so prevalent:



Maybe Mr.Freeman has traveled the world, but I meet a lot of people saying the same thing when they haven't.

National Geographic put out an article about the country of Somalia a while ago. Readers were surprised at the level of fortitude and faith that the people living there have in their own countrymen and in their nation, the commitment they have towards building up their communities.

Similarly, many families who were forced to relocate to the U.S. due to war--whether they came from Laos, China or Afghanistan--often dream about going back. Many Americans seem to balk at that notion. "Why do you want to go back to that ****hole? Isn't there a war going on? Isn't the government oppressive?"

It's like when an American reporter went to Haiti after the quake, and he asked his guide, a 12 year old girl, whether she wanted to leave the country. She said, "No. Haiti is a beautiful country."

I don't know why that always seems to be the first words out of an American news reporter's mouth when they interview people in other countries during a crisis (I've seen it more than once). I also don't know what it is about education or media or culture that gives rise to that prevailing idea in the U.S. that America is the shining bedrock of civilization while every other piece of land on terrestrial earth is a seething pool of degeneracy, but even in people who fled their home countries as war refugees and landed in the U.S., even in them there is often a powerful draw to go back to the homeland. It seems that only foreigners are so willing to abandon a place as a "lost cause." But people are often rooted to the places where they were born, to the culture that gave them identity. The daily struggles that they deal with--oppression, brutality, censorship, landmines, car bombs--are just the daily struggles of life itself. In this world, no one is entitled to anything. You play the hand that you are dealt. It's as simple as that.

That's not to mention the other industrialized nations in the world (much of Western Europe, parts of Asia, parts of North Africa, Australia, parts of South America) where the standard of living is also fairly high.

I guess I've should've worded it right.

I've never seen the U.S as a utopia or anything, and most other countries do have it pretty well. I do hear it often (especially from my history teacher) about how well we have it living here, compared to other countries.

 

[Эикельманн [РУС]]

Flying over North Korea as I type this. Question: Do North Korean's allow Russians to visit?