RE: N.Korea: US student cries & admits to being "severe criminal" during...
I honestly wouldn't put anything past this regime. Those of us growing up in the West can't really wrap our minds around just how programmed the people in that country are.
They are raised from infancy to believe that we--the US--is responsible for all the evils of the world. They blame us for literally everything. The whole system encourages militancy, fanaticism, and racist bigotry. That's another thing that's a big, dirty secret about Korea. They view foreigners as inferior, including the Chinese and Japanese.
They are pure fanatics. Read about the DMZ "Axe Murder" incident in the mid 1970s. You can find it on You Tube. I visited the DMZ once as part of a tour from Seoul in the mid 1990s. That's when you realize this is no joke.
The country produces nothing of any value. It can't compete on the world stage. So what they do is commit crimes: literally. No other government in the world does this. None. The government actually helps rob banks (electronically), commit insurance fraud on a massive scale, deal drugs, counterfeit currency, and kidnap innocent people to use as language teachers.
Honestly I wish we had never gotten involved in that miserable war in 1950. We should have let those bastards all fight it out among themselves. But in those days, our government assumed that all communist nations were acting in concert, and all were controlled by Moscow. We now know that wasn't true.
And we're stuck there now. And the thing is: what the hell do we get out of South Korea? Nothing. In fact, we're bankrupting our own country, and impoverishing our own middle class, to make those people rich. South Korea likes to play the role of victim ("Oh, poor me, we're victims of Japan's colonialism"), but they have one of the highest living standards in the world.
It's a bloody sham. Those pricks all deserve each other. We should just pull out of all these places and let these dorks pay for their own defense. Then they'll find out it's not so easy when you have to spend 25% of your budget on defense.
President Carter tried to get out of Korea in the 1970s but he was basically blackmailed into staying. Our country is stuck in places like Germany and Korea for no reason other than to play the games of empire.
I don't trust either one of them. Neither North nor South Korea. They're cats of the same stripe that deserve each other. South Korea would stab us in the back in a heartbeat. When we were trying to negotiate an armistice to end the war in 1953, South Korean president Rhee deliberately opened up all the POW camps to release the North Korean prisoners. That was his way of trying to torpedo the armistice negotiations. He stabbed us in the back. I suspect that if we ever tried to leave now, they would pull something similar.
Xenophon said:
I honestly wouldn't put anything past this regime. Those of us growing up in the West can't really wrap our minds around just how programmed the people in that country are.
They are raised from infancy to believe that we--the US--is responsible for all the evils of the world. They blame us for literally everything. The whole system encourages militancy, fanaticism, and racist bigotry. That's another thing that's a big, dirty secret about Korea. They view foreigners as inferior, including the Chinese and Japanese.
They are pure fanatics. Read about the DMZ "Axe Murder" incident in the mid 1970s. You can find it on You Tube. I visited the DMZ once as part of a tour from Seoul in the mid 1990s. That's when you realize this is no joke.
The country produces nothing of any value. It can't compete on the world stage. So what they do is commit crimes: literally. No other government in the world does this. None. The government actually helps rob banks (electronically), commit insurance fraud on a massive scale, deal drugs, counterfeit currency, and kidnap innocent people to use as language teachers.
Honestly I wish we had never gotten involved in that miserable war in 1950. We should have let those bastards all fight it out among themselves. But in those days, our government assumed that all communist nations were acting in concert, and all were controlled by Moscow. We now know that wasn't true.
And we're stuck there now. And the thing is: what the hell do we get out of South Korea? Nothing. In fact, we're bankrupting our own country, and impoverishing our own middle class, to make those people rich. South Korea likes to play the role of victim ("Oh, poor me, we're victims of Japan's colonialism"), but they have one of the highest living standards in the world.
It's a bloody sham. Those pricks all deserve each other. We should just pull out of all these places and let these dorks pay for their own defense. Then they'll find out it's not so easy when you have to spend 25% of your budget on defense.
President Carter tried to get out of Korea in the 1970s but he was basically blackmailed into staying. Our country is stuck in places like Germany and Korea for no reason other than to play the games of empire.
I don't trust either one of them. Neither North nor South Korea. They're cats of the same stripe that deserve each other. South Korea would stab us in the back in a heartbeat. When we were trying to negotiate an armistice to end the war in 1953, South Korean president Rhee deliberately opened up all the POW camps to release the North Korean prisoners. That was his way of trying to torpedo the armistice negotiations. He stabbed us in the back. I suspect that if we ever tried to leave now, they would pull something similar.
