North Korea -- Kim Jong ILgonzo_gibbieAugust 1 2006, 23:23:42 UTC
THe way I understand it -- N.Korea has been playing this game of political blackmail with the U.S. for several years. They keep making saber rattling threats, and we keep caving in to them, giving them humanitarian aid = $$$. Basically, Kim Jong IL has been holding his civilian population hostage, by spending every DIME he has on weapons, and then using political extortion techniques to get the U.S. to write a BIG, fat check to subsidize food, medicine, hospitals, and schools.
Sooooooo... It's not so much that our country is afraid N. Korea will try to launch their missles at us -- it's more that Kim Jong IL is CRAZY -- and he could very well drag us into WWIII, as the surrounding countries (Russia, China, Japan) divide up by taking sides in the conflict. N. Korea has as a goal the desire to reunite Korea by trying to conquer S. Korea.
Kim Jong IL also tries to justify spending all his country's available cash on weaponry, due to his perceived constant threat of invasion or attack by the U.S. Whether or not that is a valid belief depends upon one's politics, I suppose... SURE -- we have recently invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq, and we've bombed the shit outta many more countries.
Sooooooo... It's not so much that our country is afraid N. Korea will try to launch their missles at us -- it's more that Kim Jong IL is CRAZY -- and he could very well drag us into WWIII, as the surrounding countries (Russia, China, Japan) divide up by taking sides in the conflict. N. Korea has as a goal the desire to reunite Korea by trying to conquer S. Korea.
Kim Jong IL also tries to justify spending all his country's available cash on weaponry, due to his perceived constant threat of invasion or attack by the U.S. Whether or not that is a valid belief depends upon one's politics, I suppose... SURE -- we have recently invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq, and we've bombed the shit outta many more countries.
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