Going loco down in NoKo
What's with the missile over Japan??
Any of you brains available for comment? I am hoping we all ignore him until he goes away (I understand this may not be realpolitik). |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
I guess it's like Trump. If he's out of the headlines for a couple of days he'll do anything he needs to in order to get attention....
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Re: Going loco down in NoKo
We literally need a James Bond. That's all. He's been killing these Dr Evil type villains for donkeys. Send him in, shag some birds, cruise in an Aston and pop the crazy dude before armageddon.
Maybe I should volunteer. I've got most of the requirements ticked... |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 12326685)
We literally need a James Bond. That's all. He's been killing these Dr Evil type villains for donkeys. Send him in, shag some birds, cruise in an Aston and pop the crazy dude before armageddon.
Maybe I should volunteer. I've got most of the requirements ticked... |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Wonderwoman could lend a hand too (snigger)
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Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by TheShed
(Post 12326873)
Do you want to borrow my Jag? It’s a cheap Aston but he won’t know the difference and can’t even check on the Interweb.
I need a bit of time to get a new tux made though.
Originally Posted by al dente
(Post 12326930)
Wonderwoman could lend a hand too (snigger)
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Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by al dente
(Post 12326534)
What's with the missile over Japan??
Any of you brains available for comment? I am hoping we all ignore him until he goes away (I understand this may not be realpolitik). The Japanese govt, on the other hand, sent out text messages to all its citizens warning of a missile attack. There's got to be some way to monetise this... |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 12326685)
We literally need a James Bond. That's all. He's been killing these Dr Evil type villains for donkeys. Send him in, shag some birds, cruise in an Aston and pop the crazy dude before armageddon.
Maybe I should volunteer. I've got most of the requirements ticked... |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
(Post 12330754)
Er, he didn't do so well when he surfed into North Korea on those ludicrous CGI waves. Mind you it was Pierce Brosnan after all - AND he had to endure a Madonna cameo....
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Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Bahtatboy
(Post 12327442)
When South Korea gets worried, that's when we should. So we don't need to yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...lear-test-site |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Autonomy
(Post 12330764)
I think they may be getting a least a little jittery of not full on worried...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...lear-test-site |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
NK isn't suicidal. On the contrary, it's doing what it's doing in order to ensure its survival.
China is reluctant to curb what they're doing because they're terrified of complete regime collapse and millions of refugees flooding over the border. Similarly, South Korea absolutely does not want to be saddled with the primary logistical/financial/cultural responsibility for reunification if the DPRK collapses. It's one of the most brutal examples of Realpolitik there is: as bizarre as it sounds, the status quo actually suits all the key participants (South Korea, China, Russia, Japan, the US) better than any plausible alternative. The nuclear factor is a potential wild card, but it doesn't really change the underlying dynamics - or rather, it just makes it even more likely that Seoul will be utterly obliterated if anyone takes aggressive military action against NK. So the stalemate continues. And this is of course what the Kim regime wants, and why it's survived decades longer than any of the totalitarian states run by Kim Il Sung's chums. The Kim regime - any Kim - isn't remotely "insane" or "irrational", merely ruthlessly focused on ensuring its survival by maintaining a situation whereby its enemies cannot do anything that won't have devastating consequences outside North Korea. |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Eeyore
(Post 12331233)
NK isn't suicidal. On the contrary, it's doing what it's doing in order to ensure its survival.
China is reluctant to curb what they're doing because they're terrified of complete regime collapse and millions of refugees flooding over the border. Similarly, South Korea absolutely does not want to be saddled with the primary logistical/financial/cultural responsibility for reunification if the DPRK collapses. It's one of the most brutal examples of Realpolitik there is: as bizarre as it sounds, the status quo actually suits all the key participants (South Korea, China, Russia, Japan, the US) better than any plausible alternative. The nuclear factor is a potential wild card, but it doesn't really change the underlying dynamics - or rather, it just makes it even more likely that Seoul will be utterly obliterated if anyone takes aggressive military action against NK. So the stalemate continues. And this is of course what the Kim regime wants, and why it's survived decades longer than any of the totalitarian states run by Kim Il Sung's chums. The Kim regime - any Kim - isn't remotely "insane" or "irrational", merely ruthlessly focused on ensuring its survival by maintaining a situation whereby its enemies cannot do anything that won't have devastating consequences outside North Korea. |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Millhouse
(Post 12331346)
Spot on. The only major factor being though is that for this strategy to work you always have to keep raising the bar, and the bar now is somewhere near the top.
Can't you just continue to run a secretive, totalitarian state without threatening the rest of the world? I mean, poking the US via Guam is surely not intelligent or really needed? The Yanks et al are probably going to leave you be. There's no benefit to upsetting the apple cart, there's no reason to fire missiles over Japan or test 'hydrogen bombs' if the region and world don't give a shit about you anyway....surely? |
Re: Going loco down in NoKo
Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 12331355)
Do you?
Can't you just continue to run a secretive, totalitarian state without threatening the rest of the world? I mean, poking the US via Guam is surely not intelligent or really needed? The Yanks et al are probably going to leave you be. There's no benefit to upsetting the apple cart, there's no reason to fire missiles over Japan or test 'hydrogen bombs' if the region and world don't give a shit about you anyway....surely? |
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