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headscratcher4
12th June 2009, 10:33 AM
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iURO8fOyWVOA0ytFlaAGuC9F7R9wD98P84TG0

Apparantly the North Korean propaganda machine has settled on an appropriate title for the young Mr. Kim, heir apparent to the Kingdom of North Korea.

To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, I do not think those words mean what they think they mean...
DC
12th June 2009, 10:36 AM
i doubt we was able to teach proper democracy to Young Dictator Un.
for once i agree with our right wing, we should not let enter everyone.
oldhat
12th June 2009, 10:48 AM
North Korean generals attempt a coup in 3...2...1...
dudalb
12th June 2009, 10:54 AM
Hell, give me "Fearless Leader" from "Rocky and Bullwinker" any time....
headscratcher4
12th June 2009, 11:02 AM
Hell, give me "Fearless Leader" from "Rocky and Bullwinker" any time....


Methinks that "Fearless Leader" is at least one generation more away. As to a coup...not if Kim lives long enough.
oldhat
12th June 2009, 11:06 AM
Methinks that "Fearless Leader" is at least one generation more away. As to a coup...not if Kim lives long enough.

The kid's 26 years old and Kim's third choice. I wouldn't want to be his food taster. ;)

I wouldn't be surprised if a Glorious Pillow of the Great Juche Suffocation Idea is deployed one of these nights in Kim's bedroom.
foxholeatheist
12th June 2009, 11:12 AM
Let's just leave a fan on in his room at night.
headscratcher4
12th June 2009, 11:41 AM
The kid's 26 years old and Kim's third choice. I wouldn't want to be his food taster. ;)

I wouldn't be surprised if a Glorious Pillow of the Great Juche Suffocation Idea is deployed one of these nights in Kim's bedroom.

So true...I wouldn't be surprised, however, if the older brother ("Near Glorious but Clearly Somewhat Flawed and a Little Pudgy Leader"...you know, the one caught trying to get into Japan on a Dominican passport to visit "Disneyworld") is sent on a long "guidence" and inspection tour of re-education camps in distant parts of the country.
BenBurch
12th June 2009, 11:44 AM
Is this the one with the drinking problem?
headscratcher4
12th June 2009, 11:59 AM
Is this the one with the drinking problem?

The question is too broad...he is the youngest of three brothers all with drinking problems who are the son of a man who may have a drinking problem....
Eddie Dane
12th June 2009, 12:34 PM
Is this the one with the drinking problem?

It's nothing compared to the rest of the populations eating problem.
BenBurch
12th June 2009, 12:47 PM
It's nothing compared to the rest of the populations eating problem.

No Doubt.
oldhat
12th June 2009, 12:51 PM
I'm not one who usually goes for the Tom Clancy option with regimes we don't like, but wouldn't it be a hell of a lot easier to whack this guy (Kim) with a sniper team and get the inevitable collapse over with? Before they have nuclear weapons that can actually be launched?
headscratcher4
12th June 2009, 12:56 PM
I'm not one who usually goes for the Tom Clancy option with regimes we don't like, but wouldn't it be a hell of a lot easier to whack this guy (Kim) with a sniper team and get the inevitable collapse over with? Before they have nuclear weapons that can actually be launched?

How? We have little to no information directly from or about the North Koreans. We know they aren't massing troops, etc. from satilites, but the rest of the country is really off limits. How do you propose they infiltrate someone into the country? How do you propose they get a weapon? How do they figure out where Kim or Kim Jr. is at any point? Even the south has problem getting accurate information...
BenBurch
12th June 2009, 01:00 PM
Taking any action like that when there are no current hostilities would be to ensure that hostilities would ensue.
oldhat
12th June 2009, 01:05 PM
How? We have little to know information directly from or about the North Koreans. We know they aren't massing troops, etc. from satilites, but the rest of the country is really off limits. How do you propose they infiltrate someone into the country? How do you propose they get a weapon? How do they figure out where Kim or Kim Jr. is at any point? Even the south has problem getting accurate information...

Start emailing and text messaging the people on his general staff. They are all corrupt and have cell phones. See if we can bribe one of them into turning against Kim by offering guaranteed asylum or a Mercedes or whatever he wants. Use him as a spy.

When we're sure he's going to be at one of his vacation houses, or take a trip on his train, use a submarine and drop off a two man sniper team on the coast. Or parachute them in. Either shoot him or blow up his train, like whoever tried to a few years ago.

It would be easier if he made a trip into China.

Far fetched? Sure.
oldhat
12th June 2009, 01:11 PM
Taking any action like that when there are no current hostilities would be to ensure that hostilities would ensue.

As an armchair strategist, the thing that would give me the most pause is not their nuclear program but all of the artillery they have pointing at Seoul. But they wouldn't be stupid enough to start firing, their country would be destroyed in 5 seconds. Would they?
headscratcher4
12th June 2009, 01:15 PM
As an armchair strategist, the thing that would give me the most pause is not their nuclear program but all of the artillery they have pointing at Seoul. But they wouldn't be stupid enough to start firing, their country would be destroyed in 5 seconds. Would they?



That is why they can be ignored. It is all about continuation of the regime. Real threats to the South or the US would end up in the regime being destroyed, and their not suicidal...so far as can be told. NOTE: for all the bluster of the last couple of weeks, as Sec. Gates recently pointed out...there are no major troop movements or new deployments forward to the DMZ. They're firing rockets for show, but they're not preparing for war -- at least no more than they already are.
RussDill
12th June 2009, 01:52 PM
Let's just leave a fan on in his room at night.

Is that some sort of Korean thing? I've heard that before...
oldhat
12th June 2009, 01:54 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
BenBurch
12th June 2009, 02:03 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

Oh, my. That is nutty.
RussDill
12th June 2009, 02:06 PM
Oh, my. That is nutty.

But a very common belief actually, My in-laws are Korean and they told my wife that. But living in Phoenix, its not really heeded advice. I always figured that in post-war korea, electrical fires were common and it was best to turn off appliances at night.
foxholeatheist
12th June 2009, 02:55 PM
My wife is rational and everything with this one very annoying exception.

I have offered to test this out but not wanting to be widowed she refuses to let me.

Most of my family lives in Korea and all of my in-laws do too. I have tons of friends over there as well but I don't worry about the North attacking the South. I think the opposite is far more likely.
RussDill
12th June 2009, 03:05 PM
My wife is rational and everything with this one very annoying exception.

I have offered to test this out but not wanting to be widowed she refuses to let me.

Most of my family lives in Korea and all of my in-laws do too. I have tons of friends over there as well but I don't worry about the North attacking the South. I think the opposite is far more likely.

I find there are a lot of such "superstitions" in modern Korean culture. Like that cold drinks are bad, etc.