• North Korea Enlists German Help to Prepare Economic Opening
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I'm guessing this what all the purging of military staff was about? People getting in the way of progress?
[QUOTE=Lost Darkness;39106656]If they didn't bombard that island, defy the ban on ballistic missile tests, or keep political prisoners/kidnapped unfortunates in inhumane conditions then I would believe N. Korea was trying to do something better for themselves. Until such a time the whole 'Go N.Korea, whey better future' shit seems a little ridiculous.[/QUOTE] One step at a time. Political prisoners could be free already as far as we're concerned, we don't know shit about NK. And the ban on ballistic missile tests is bullshit anyway
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;39106761]One step at a time. Political prisoners could be free already as far as we're concerned, we don't know shit about NK. And the ban on ballistic missile tests is bullshit anyway[/QUOTE] But would the economy be the right thing to fix first when North Korea has the worst human rights record of any nation on earth?
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;39106923]But would the economy be the right thing to fix first when North Korea has the worst human rights record of any nation on earth?[/QUOTE] Many don't know,but Equatorial Guinea has worse human rights(they are less dictatorial tho)
Guys slow down on the NK love, this is still a country where criticising the government will get you thrown in a gulag.
[QUOTE=IPK;39106952]Many don't know,but Equatorial Guinea has worse human rights(they are less dictatorial tho)[/QUOTE] Well, maybe it was wrong of me to say "worst", but the atrocities committed by the North Korean government is well documented, so my point still stands. If Kim Jong-il had actually cared about the rights of his people, releasing political prisoners isn't the only thing that he would have done. Fixing the human rights situation would include disbanding the State Security Department (the secret police), prosecuting the people responsible for it, closing down all the concentration camps, and by doing this, he would pretty much be required to aknowledge that the camps existed. These kinds of things is not something that would go unnoticed by the rest of the world, and the fact that North Korea continues to isolate itself from foreign media and refuses to give us any information makes it unlikely that the human rights situation will change. That is enough reason to believe that Kim Jong-un is no better than his father and does not deserve to be cheered on for anything.
[QUOTE=CatFodder;39107085]Guys slow down on the NK love, this is still a country where criticising the government will get you thrown in a gulag.[/QUOTE] Yeah but it's going in the right direction.
Might as well repost from another thread [QUOTE=proch;39055841]Maybe he isn't following his fathers footsteps after all. Maybe his younger mind is less closed minded about the western countries, and wants korea to be more modern. It would be great, really. It would make sense, too. He studied in Switzerland, which would make him less subjective about the western nations. He'd try to turn Korea into a modern country step by step, maybe taking even decades, because if he'd suddenly start to change everything at once, his life would most likely be at danger.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;39106923]But would the economy be the right thing to fix first when North Korea has the worst human rights record of any nation on earth?[/QUOTE] It doesn't matter in which order everything happens as long as North Korea actually becomes a proper country
Un is probably a little bit more ignorant to NK's past so he's quite a bit more lenient. Kim Jong Un for Kim Jong Uno
Let's be honest. A leap in Politics is quite risky. We should simply hope he'll take small steps and not go twice the amount backwards.
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