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North Korea is a problem that would be easier to care of now, rather than later it seems.
by bamboozled 5y ago
North Korea is a problem that would be easier to care of now, rather than later it seems.
- stonogo 5y agoThis was the government line in the 1950s. There's no draft now, so we'll need folks like you to enlist.
- dahfizz 5y agoConflict with NK almost certainly means conflict with China.
- saagarjha 5y agoTake care of how?
- bamboozled 5y agoProbably doing similar things to what's been done with Russia, more sanctions, more sanctions against supporting nations etc. They're soon to test a nuclear weapon and already play fun games testing missiles and having them land just off the coast of Japan. Not going to be fun once those things are nuclear missiles and en route to Tokyo.
- kettleballroll 5y agoDon't we have these exact types of sanctions already in place i. NK for exactly the reasons you mention?
- bamboozled 5y agoSure, they're not working well enough by the look of it... The people are severely repressed, it's hard to imagine how much North Koreans suffer, look up Yeonmi Park's story. What we seem to do is ignore these maniacs, until it's too late or it's absolutely critical, then they hold us hostage, like Putin.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoThis argument makes no sense. You want to do more of something that isn't working, and your solution to suffering is to make the people poorer.
- berdario 5y agoYeonmi Park claimed that it takes months to go from one place to another, and that they'd have to push trains (!!) https://youtu.be/KK6psAnynUA https://youtu.be/KK6psAnynUA (edit: another old article that points out inconsistencies in Yeonmi Park statements: https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/ https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-p... ... The JRE interview wasn't a fluke) I don't think that you can reasonably treat Yeonmi Park as a reliable witness. North Korea's train network is 4700km long, though it is not perfect... If you want to travel from Pyongyang to Chongjin for example, you're better off flying there https://youtu.be/GpxOsJYobeA https://youtu.be/GpxOsJYobeA
- cjrp 5y agoHow well are those aeroplanes maintained though? Not sure I'd risk it.
- PoignardAzur 5y agoTheir economy is already almost completely dependent on China. It's hard to sanction them more. Sanctions against Russia aren't uniquely effective in a way that sanctions against NK aren't. It's just that the threat of having your economy look like North Korea's is pretty dire.