[identity profile] malasadas.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
What are the odds that this gets a LOT worse by the traditional spring time offensive season when a young general's fancy turns to invasion?

Brief timeline:

North Korea is accused of torpedoing a South Korean warship.

South Korea fires at North Korean fishing boats crossing the maritime border North Korea refuses to recognize.

North Korea is revealed to have highly modern facilities for nuclear material enrichment.

Not to mention, North Korea is facing the challenge of passing along the regime to a third generation of the Kim family.

North Korea is known for rattling its sabre and demanding to have attention paid to it when it is being ignored, but this is looking like a very different than recent years -- South Korea really has to retaliate...and half of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area within artillery range of the DMZ.

So a question -- is North Korea suicidal or are they betting that this behavior can get them some more winter grain shipments?

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Date: 23/11/10 17:10 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] harry-beast.livejournal.com
North Korea's eventual intention is to conquer and enslave South Korea. For the moment, however, I think that they are just throwing a tantrum to collect more blackmail from the rest of the world.

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Date: 23/11/10 18:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rasilio.livejournal.com
Yes and my eventual intention is to have a 3some with Scarlett Johanson and Jessica Alba any I have a hell of a lot more chance of realizing my intentions that NK does.

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Date: 23/11/10 18:54 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
Scarlett Johansson is overrated.

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Date: 23/11/10 22:32 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com
Except Jessica Alba has herpes.

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