Comments | valkyriekaren: Questions from the floor

valkyriekaren

Questions from the floor

Nov 23, 2010 13:46

So, most importantly, what are we thinking of the new Human League single, then? I like it - it sounds just like old Human League. Actually when I first heard it played on the radio yesterday, I assumed it was old, and just a B-side or album track that I didn't know, and wondered aloud why it didn't get played more in clubs as it was pretty good!

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chickenfeet2003 November 23 2010, 14:10:21 UTC

China won't "weigh in on their side" but won't do much to restrain them either. China is scared stiff of an economic collapse in N.Korea triggering a flood of refugees and would rather risk having a bunch of crazies in Pyongyang than risk the domestic unrest a massive influx of Koreans would likely cause.

swisstone November 23 2010, 14:34:43 UTC

Secondly, how worried do we need to be about North Korea at the moment?

It's starting to look like the South Koreans fired first, as part of a joint US-Korean exercise (which North Korea had condemned), close to the Korean border, but they claim not actually across the border. North Korea then (massively over-)reacted to that (it's not implausible that some shells landed off target). The whole thing is a gigantic willy-waving exercise on both sides, but it is looking like it was the South Koreans that got their willy out first.

Night people, go people, go speed racer go! greylock November 23 2010, 14:36:20 UTC

Really? That is the new Human League? It's pretty *bleh*. I mean, they sound good and all, but, no.

Secondly, how worried do we need to be about North Korea at the moment
Not. China will not back NK, NK has fuck all in the way of weapons, and apparently this has happened before. If I were in South Korea I would be more worried, but even then MAD assures we're all okay.

Re: Night people, go people, go speed racer go! greylock November 23 2010, 14:43:30 UTC

And, I'm sorry, Phil looks like he's off to his office job.

lovingboth November 23 2010, 19:04:58 UTC

I think their peak was the wonderful Dare and it's been downhill since then, with only a few smaller peaks on the way down (some of the remixes of their 1990s stuff).

You know you want to bomb the neighbours. They're just mad enough to do it. China does not want millions of Koreans crossing its borders. North Korea has learnt that the madder they are, the more people appease them. I wonder how full the CIA files on US attempts to assassinate the Dear Leader are.