Sadly North Korea (which is basically closed off to outside news sources thus allowing their people to know only what they want them to know) has once again accused the US of preparing an invasion. This time they say we're at a final stage of the preparations. Their reasoning? We're reliquishing control of an outpost to the South Koreans and letting them guard their own country. Go figure.
Read the story at Yahoo!
This sounds like North Korea is again trying to beg the US for money, because God knows, we don't need to invade them, they're killing themselves! They have no money, no food. Their army is the best fed group in the entire country and they're surviving off insect infested rice and water! This country is worse off than the USSR was in its waning days, making me wonder how they have survived this long!
I'd say that North Korea was really the ones preparing for invasion and they were setting it up to look like the US invaded them if they lost, however, they have to now full well that in their present condition they haven't the resources to fight a battle with the South Korean military which is only half the size of North Korea's! (North Korea has the 5th largest standing army in the world by the way.)
If it wasn't so tragic it would be halarious. North Korea would be better off to just surrender their country to the south and save themselves the trouble of annihilation should a war actually come. But really, we don't need to invade them. We've already destroyed them economically. That's the beautiful thing about communism, it so easy to destroy a communist country through economics because theya re sucha closed society where invidiualism is discouraged, it is hard for someone to fulfill voids in the economy. In capitalism, voids are like a vacuum and someone is always fighting to fill it. If a capitalism society needed to, it could survive with little to no outside production.
Ahhh....the wonders of Paranoia. Apparently and sadly, it can strike anyone at any given time. Beware!
Posted by: mrs. muddy at April 25, 2004 10:20 AMIt has nothing to do with paranoia. They know we are not going attack. They are just pulling things out of their @$$ to distract their citizens from the fact that they are starving to death.
Posted by: skywalker at April 25, 2004 12:21 PMIt has nothing to do with paranoia. They know we are not going attack. They are just pulling things out of their @$$ to distract their citizens from the fact that they are starving to death.
Posted by: skywalker at April 25, 2004 12:22 PMOk, Ok. You have a good point. Obviously, "paranoia" isn't the proper word to use (maybe I was just refering to me? anyway....)
"They are just pulling things out of their @$$ to distract their citizens from the fact that they are starving to death."
Yeah...I definatly believe that one. Don't know if you (or anyone else) has ever watched, "Children of the Secret State" on - I believe - the Discovery channel. I caught it about a month or so ago......didn't surprise me how bad things are over there but still, it *completely* sickend me and just broke my heart.
Well I bet we actually do have a plan for invasion. There are military think tanks that do exactly that. Hell I bet the have a invasion plan for Ohio.....
Posted by: cwilli at April 25, 2004 07:59 PMI'm also sure we HAVE a plan. I'm just saying we're not preparing for the actual atack...the notion that we are is pretty much absurd.
Posted by: skywalker at April 25, 2004 08:58 PM"Hell I bet the have a invasion plan for Ohio....."
I thought we were *already* invaded or maybe you missed it. It was called the hillbilly/redneck invasion. In some areas....they took no prisoners.:-/
Posted by: mrs. muddy at April 25, 2004 09:17 PM