Best Korea fires mortars at Worst Korea - Developing Story

[Polyethylene]

North Koreans will have an explosive Christmas.

[chunkymonkey]

[QUOTE=the-dutch-guy;26468106]Let's keep it that way, the Korean people deserve to be reunified without more bloodshed. We don't need another Korean war.[/QUOTE]

You must be quite optimist if you believe they'll ever reunify peacefully.

[the-dutch-guy]

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;26472209]You must be quite optimist if you believe they'll ever reunify peacefully.[/QUOTE]

I do realise that they won't reunify peacefully, Kim Jung-Il probably wants a war so he can show how mighty and powerful his army is. And the North Koreans have already been exposed to propaganda for decades. For example there is a museum in North Korea full of presents given by people around the world, here they are taught that everyone admires their leader and wants to pay their respects to him. It'll probably take another war for the north to fall. I just hope they do reunify peacefully.

[Regulas021]

This post is pretty late to the party, but I figure it might offer some interesting insight into the mindset that leads to these engagements and why Western predictions are usually so far off.

I was discussing the conflict with a friend of mine who lived in South Korea for a large portion of his life as a kid. Out of his first 15 years, about 10 of them were spent there, on and off, moving between Seoul and Oklahoma. He is about 30 now, and visits whenever he can.

In his words, Koreans are masters of "saber rattling", meaning they will bring engagements to the very brink of war with threats and provocative actions. Politically as well as socially, they usually fear humiliation over anything else. That's why when North Korea comes to the bargaining table with the South and the US, they usually announce new efforts in their nuclear arms program or instigate border conflicts first.

This way, they aren't coming to the table asking for help, they're coming to the table willing to back down in exchange for help. It's sort of the two toughest kids on the playground, but on an international stage.

[Second-gear-of-]

The guy who created Hyundai was from North Korea. He fled to the south in his teens, and was a major player in trying to Reunify them through peaceful means.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ju-yung[/url]

[johanan]

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