N and S Korea

[Gatorubet]

ROK Marines are frikin nuts....

 

[jimotis4heisman]

im not gonna lie, this thread is like the joe pa thread... teetering on the brink imo. every time it pops up my stomach drops and heart races...

 

[jimotis4heisman]

The Koreas, not just the north, have a bad rep for being extremely chauvinistic in both sense of the word. It's male dominated society, and the old generation hold prejudice against other countries in the region. Remember the reason that Americans withheld heavy weapons from the South prior to the Korean war was because the South had vowed to invade the North.

Anyone who thinks reunification is a plausible outcome from the collapse of the North is semi-delusional. No one can afford the start-up costs for building North Korea, not the US, not China or Russia, and certainly not the South. If you liquidate the most valuable asset of the North, their nuclear program, and heaven forbid sell it on the market, what you get in return is still waaaaaay short of what you need to build the North. The US would be the only actor who has a geopolitical interest to see a reunification unfold that way, but it certainly won't have the means to underwrite this project. That's why the so-called leaked secrets regarding China's acquience is absurd: it's simply a moot point.

The best way for reunification would still be a gradual shift of the North that would encompass greater integration of the North into the region economy of Northeast Asia. It's the only way that is affordable to anyone.

its hard to say. i was told in my younger days by an old timer who had visited that is was a gorgeous country. hard to say what it could be capable of and what it someday might be. all that said i really hope the best for the people and that we dont see the 90s era famines again. but in country so isolated by the rulers choice and surrounded by growing econs of the past half century in south korea and china one must wonder...

 

[scooter1369]

Invisible Bus

 

[The KSB]

I'm going to be blunt about this. South Koreans are pussies and cowards, and they had better not be expecting the United States to throw half a million troops into the meat grinder that war will become.

If they want to keep their country the way it is, they're going to need to get out of the gym, put down their video game controllers, quit working on their Fast and the Furious cars and pick up a weapon and defend it. The most that they can count on from us will be a naval blockade and some air support.

That may be the dumbest fucking thing you've ever posted, and that's saying something.

 

[shetuck]

Invisible Bus

Ninja scooters!