Completely agree, I always thought that if a solution would ever come to pass then it has to be the Chinese to instigate it, or at least, act the part. No way America will ever succeed without military intervention. If the people caught wind that their leadership were playing ball with the...
God knows :shrug: I think the easy answer is that they want a buffer between their border and the South but like a few people were saying earlier in the thread, their behaviour towards the North over the years is pretty strange. They let an awful lot slide, not least illegal trading over the...
Well, that's no easy definition really, they're a bizarre mashup of some sort of quasi-fascist, dynastic monarchy. In Korean ideology, class is barely mentioned, it's all about being a pure Korean, which is hugely nationalistic and runs it pretty close to fascism, They have marketisation and a...
I'm not even going to touch the other stuff...
But North Korea are not communists. Their iconography might resemble a 'classic' communist state but it starts and ends there.
Can't disagree with that. For a country that is supposed to be holding the north on a leash, they do an awfully good job of making it look the other way round.
North Korea has been "beyond tthat " for a number of years now, where do you draw the line enough is enough? Starving milliins of your own citizens to death, taking an entire company hostage or shelling south Korean civilian territory perhaps? All have happened. The media hypes up these events...