Mr Lee Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 Will North Koreas paranoia start WWIII or are they on the money and is the US preparing to attack? :th_thsmilies-29057: N. Korea Vows to Protect Itself Amid U.S. 'Nuclear War' Gameshttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508587,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Old55 Posted March 11, 2009 Forum Support Posted March 11, 2009 The North could cause some problems if they were o shoot down a 747 or something like that. I don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markham Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 Will North Koreas paranoia start WWIII or are they on the money and is the US preparing to attack? :th_thsmilies-29057: N. Korea Vows to Protect Itself Amid U.S. 'Nuclear War' Gameshttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508587,00.html This is "willy-waving" on both sides. Somehow I rather doubt America could afford, or want, another war right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terp Posted March 12, 2009 Posted March 12, 2009 N. Korea Vows To Protect Itself Amid U.s. 'nuclear War' Games...How in the world did you come up with this title? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_shor Posted March 12, 2009 Posted March 12, 2009 Those guys are a bunch of nuts. The only reason they are still in power is the Japanese and South Koreans keep proping them up with food shipments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnrxx99 Posted March 12, 2009 Posted March 12, 2009 Bit like drunk, stop giving it beer and it will soon shut up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markham Posted March 12, 2009 Posted March 12, 2009 Those guys are a bunch of nuts. The only reason they are still in power is the Japanese and South Koreans keep proping them up with food shipments.It's not just those two countries but the international community, often in the guise of the International Red Cross or a UN agency such as UNICEF.I remember being a junior Deck Officer on a ship that was chartered to the UN/IRC in the early 1970s. We loaded bags of maize, rice, vegetable oil and powdered milk (the latter from Europe's "Milk Lake") in Europe and then sailed around the Cape to Singapore (for fuel and provisions) and then on to North Korea. Our ship was met 25 miles out by a Pilot and a contingent of armed soldiers, immigration and customs officials. All the ship's radios and electronic navigational aids were switched-off and sealed and all personal radios and cameras were seized and locked away. We were then escorted to a deep water anchorage, still some 20 miles from land. There were approximately 50 other ships already anchored from a variety of countries.Every day all the ships anchored would be "entertained" by passing gunboats with huge loudspeakers playing North Korean and Chinese music punctuated with revolutionary messages extolling the virtues of communism - at least that's what I think since none of us understood one word! Once a week the "agent" would come on board and offer to sell us "fresh" provisions at hugely inflated prices. Normally we declined but did, once, buy milk and vegetables: neither were fresh or wholesome and immediately condemned.Every two or three days, a ship would leave port and a anchored ship would replace it alongside. After some six months, it finally became our turn to weigh anchor and enter the port. Once alongside, soldiers placed loudspeakers all over the ship and the music and messages from the Great Leader were played at maximum volume non-stop, 24 hours a day. It had taken European stevedores four ten-hour days to load the ship but the Koreans took ten 24-hour days to discharge. Much of the cargo was loaded onto fairly new army trucks, the rest was loaded into railway wagons.We finally set sail almost seven months after arriving at anchorage and our shipping company - who'd had no contact with us in all that time - ordered us to proceed (slowly) to Yokohama and await orders. On arrival in Yokohama, on Christmas Eve, we were delighted to find that a replacement crew had arrived and that we were all flown back to the UK for just over four months' paid leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnrxx99 Posted March 12, 2009 Posted March 12, 2009 (edited) Perhaps Mark that goes a long way to explain why these bloody regimes last so long. The leaders try to kill the people but UNHCR try to save them.Logically, if you want regime change you blockade and shoot those who try to run the boarders. Unforunately it seems it's the likes of BP, Shell and Exon who lead the run with the arms dealers closely behind. Oh look, there's Mr Cheney!Let's face it, the last thing we need on this planet is more people. Evenyually people rise up and take out the leaders, unless they are given hope by well wishers seeking an OBE or Congressional gong. Don't mean that personally but I gave up on aid a long time ago, in fact it's worse than corruption - at least you know the guy's a crook. Edited March 12, 2009 by johnrxx99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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