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Originally Posted by stevo
North Korea is a cultist government that is isolated from the world.....
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Funny you should post that comment, stevo, because it seems to be an increasingly apt description of the government of another nation, as well....
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i dont see this as much more than theater--the talks between nk and the 6 countries who want them to stop developing missles are stalled and the tests are apparently being seen as a kind of "PAY ATTENTION TO ME" move. you can read a fairly sane interpretation in the guardian here:
the situation:
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/arti...813147,00.html
an interpretation:
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/arti...813187,00.html
the macau factor is quite interesting and, as seems usual with the american press, it does not figure as an issue here. too complicated maybe.
the danger here is that both nk and the bush administration seem more than willing to use hysteria over potential military adventures to prop themselves up internationally and domestically. so there are two kinda irrational clowns in a pissing match involving nuclear weapons.
i think the idea of american military action against nk a kind of pipe dream for the right. but it does fit into a dimension of the right's history of military interventions involving such dynamos as grenada and panama.
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Tick....tick....tick....
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDEUR=X&t=5y
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdint.htm
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Looks to me like two bullies who squandered a disproportionate share of their respective national wealth, with both now faced with failed, bankrupt economic futures, resorting to the only desperate methods they have left to shore up their dire situations:
....propaganda driven nationalism.....and posturing with the fruits of their malinvestments...the military hardware that they chose to purchase and brandish, at the expense of their respective economic futures.
It seems like a race to determine which country's population and leadership is more blinded by it's own bullshit propaganda and nationalistic zeal. I don't take lightly; my own decision to lump NK and the USA together. I see them both though, as "dead men walking"; because economically, that is the category that both find themselves in, today. The leadership in both countries, disturbingly....seems to be employing the same strategies in response to their economic crises...both as concealment and as avoidance mechanisms.....posturing with, and wildly waving around the guns that hastened their bankruptcies.