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PHd Student Uses Google Maps To Uncover N. Korea Secrets
- Shamiq 17y agoDo y'all consider this a ballsy move by the creator (and collaborators), or are there enough people working on this project that anonymity and risk of persecution are very low?
- javert 17y agoThe world is not safe with this brutal, cash-strapped country building nuclear weapons (and imprisoning its own people in concentration camps). Too bad the cowardly U.S. government does not do anything but "negotiate".
- cglee 17y agoWhy is it up to the US government (only)?
- javert 17y agoI didn't say other countries weren't also being cowardly.
- cellis 17y agoWhere were you the past 8 years? Just curious.
- javert 17y agoIn the U.S. Why do you ask?
- ashleyw 17y agoThere's been a little war in Iraq. A war which practically nobody wants. Why the hell would anyone start another? Plus Kim Jong-il (and the military leaders) would have to be clinically insane to even dare launch a nuclear weapon at another country. US/UK/France/China/Russia have enough nukes to flatten the rest of the world...it'd be suicide!
- javert 17y agoThe war in Iraq ended years ago. What we've been doing is /occupying/ - in this case, a self-sacrificial and utterly terrible action.
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- TriinT 17y agoToo bad the cowardly U.S. government does not do anything but "negotiate". Grab an M-16 and go get 'em! Easier said than done, right?
- mariana 17y ago"Never get involved in a land war in Asia"
- TriinT 17y ago"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- javert 17y agoGulf War? Civil War (from the Union side)? Lots of US wars have been straightforward and successful. And an attack on NK would not even qualify as a "war".
- TriinT 17y agoTo show how committed you are, why don't you volunteer for that attack!? If you talk the talk, you must be willing to walk the walk...
- javert 17y agoActually, my current employment does relate to maintaining U.S. air superiority, though I'm a civillian computer science guy. I would enjoy being a military pilot, and if I were, I'd volunteer for this mission.
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- maggie 17y agoI'm pretty disappointed by the votes down on all of javert's comments on these posts. Political opinion is welcome on this site in other threads, this just seems to be suppression of an unpopular point of view. It's also disingenuous to ask the poster questions about their POV and vote them down at the same time. If the questions are more than rhetorical (and if they're only rhetorical, then that's a waste of a post), then you should be willing to listen to the answers. If you'd like HN to be a place w/o political discussions at all, then vote down the OP and the link--not the comments that follow.
- Goladus 17y agoThe problem is that North Korea has thousands of conventional artillery placements along their southern border. I'm not sure there are any viable attack strategies that don't include Seoul being mostly destroyed.
- lincolnq 17y agoThe first-person narrative linked at the bottom of the article is really worth a read : http://www.gadling.com/2007/12/06/infiltrating-north-korea-part-1/ http://www.gadling.com/2007/12/06/infiltrating-north-korea-p...
- ArturSoler 17y agoI guess this student is not going to travel to North Korea again, at least with this name.
- jasonkester 17y agoJust because you're paranoid... This sort of validates their point, doesn't it? They let one guy in to look around, and next thing you know he's back in the US, annotating satellite maps in his spare time. Looking at it from their point of view, the rest of the world really is out to get them.