Thread: North Korea shelling populated South Korean Island

Originally Posted by Sailor

It is really difficult to see any logic in the actions of North Korea. Looks like the last socialistic state of the world tries to dig blood of its own nose.
However i think it will settle down as has happened so many times before.

Sometimes small crises tend to escalate but i do not think it will happen this time. If i does, then it is soon no fun for all of us.

I'm sorry for those who have to suffer for the ideas of few lunatics.

Not so difficult....NK has a food shortage....start a war...people die....less food needed plus the chance of conquering some new territory which can provide food.

Pretty simple (if insane) if you think about it.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Not so difficult....NK has a food shortage....start a war...people die....less food needed plus the chance of conquering some new territory which can provide food.

Pretty simple (if insane) if you think about it.

That is a horrible picture you are painting here. Of course you might be right, but there are many factors that speak against it.

One thing, imho, is almost sure. If Kim-Jong-Il (or his successor) is about take his country into full-time war, it will also mean the ending of his rule. Way or another. Sooner or later. In the end his country would be ruined and destroyed, probably occupied with western and/or Chinese troops that getting back to old regime would be impossible. Kim-Jong-Whoever knows this. He might be lunatic but who's to say he is stupid or suicidal?

Remember that it is almost impossible for us in the west to get any reliable and objective information on Absurdistan (eh i meant North Korea).

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Not so difficult....NK has a food shortage....start a war...people die....less food needed plus the chance of conquering some new territory which can provide food.

Pretty simple (if insane) if you think about it.

I don't think so.
First of all, Kim Jong Il doesn't care about the peasants, nor is he feeding them. And the food that he is eating is going to be his, no matter what.
Second, conquering territory is out of the question. There is no way that SK is going to give up even a centimeter of land, and the US will not allow SK to faail.

It's a cat's cradle. A stalemate. The only question is whether Kim Jong Il is world-weary enough to commit national and literal suicide by doing something terribly disproportionate.

It's a high-stakes betting game, and nobody should move. Insane leaders complicate that.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I don't think so.
First of all, Kim Jong Il doesn't care about the peasants, nor is he feeding them. And the food that he is eating is going to be his, no matter what.
Second, conquering territory is out of the question. There is no way that SK is going to give up even a centimeter of land, and the US will not allow SK to faail.

Oh I never said he cared. But hungry (and dying) people cause problems.

And I never said he could actually conquer anything.....he might think so though.

Looking at the Korean problem is they North Korea just want something. The million man army I'd like to see that because I don't believe it.
I read there have been estimates of up to 3 million children have died of starvation in North Korea if this is true then if things did kick off in a big way how many North Koreans would be willing to lay down their lives for their Dear Leader? I suspect there'll be a few nutters but the rest are normal people who will accept that anything is better then what they have now.

The north Korean peole have to suffer for the actions of its leaders. Lets hope that they do not have to suffer for much longer.

"One way or another, we'll get this @#$%ing World War going, and then those stupid serfs will quit whining about how we had to take their homes to buy back those fraudulent mortgage-backed securities." -- Official White Horse Souse.
Sorry, but South Korea has admitted they fired the first shots to provoke this crisis, goaded by the USA which is desperate for a new war to distract the public from the old wars, and the imploding fraudulent mortgage-backed security buy-back that is even now impoverishing America.