Posted on 11/04/2006 3:18:20 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea is one freak event away from regime-change. The system is too far gone to prolong its survival.
How saddd Tiger Tiger this is Stalint state to the core
YIKES
SO Maybe another train explosion Tiger???
North Korea would collapse in weeks if the Chinese opened their borders for refugees, allowing them right of passage to South Korea.
This is how Hungary made East Germany instantly collapse.
"Why?" Marty asked rhetorically.
They make a nice garnish for a tree bark and grass salad?
They almost got him.
Oh, and BTW, gave away the store.
Yeah I remember that I was online when that story first broke and all the Freepers were asking DID they get Chia PET LOL!
There's a long, excellent article in the current issue of The Atlantic about the DPNK and its eventual collapse. Turns out most analysts (the real ones that work for the feds and devote their life to this stuff, not the talking heads on TV) think Kim-Jong Il isn't much to worry about at all, because he's actually quite rational and not particularly interested in much more than maintaining his own lifestyle and causing enough annoyance to keep his name in the Western papers. What they're worried about is some sort of localized meltdown in some North Korean town which then spreads. Internal spying is so all-pervasive that the command-and-control structure revolves entirely around paranoia; thus if the sh*t ever hits the fan over there, it's going to be every local military commander for himself. When you think your death warrant's already been written because you've lost control of your own town, you're going to gather up whatever troops and ammo you've got and try to save yourself. Take several thousand other men in the same situation - some with crude nukes, if it takes long enough for this to happen - and the results won't be pretty.
(It doesn't help that at least some of these local generals will be brainwashed enough to just attempt to invade the South themselves in the name of the Dear Leader once things start to break apart.)
I have been hearing so much about how the Chinese are afraid of all the refugees. That makes me laugh.
Probably every person who "understands" China's position on this thinks we should open our borders to anyone who wants to come here.
China is having labor shortage problems (at least for people willing to work for slave labor wages). The North Koreans would welcome the opportunity.
I.e., slavery.
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