Mr Khan said:
He's brilliant enough to have outlived the Soviet Union by 20 years, with no sign of slowing down or internal degredation (though the problem of preference falsification means that outside observers will never be able to percieve how dissatisfied they are until it all comes crashing down)
Honestly i would *love* to have the opportunity to study with their Foreign Ministry or whatever equivalent they have. They've played a brilliant game for a pariah state with no committed allies, no economic recourse, and a population that's half-starved all the time. There's an underlying genuis there that belies the stupidity that you often see in their actions. By any estimation, they should've been conquered by South Korea by now, or at least been forced to become a Chinese or Russian puppet state for the purposes of protection, but they haven't. |
It's partly a testament to their foreign policy (i.e. ignore all other countries, and occasionally point out that you have a nuke or two) and partly due to the fact that nobody really gives a crap about North Korea. If only it had oil; the US would have invaded a decade ago.
EDIT: Actually, firing a nuke at South Korea would be pretty good grounds for an invasion. But then the evil Godless Communists haven't been the enemy for 21 years now.
Hell, without the UN and its ridiculous five year reports and seventeen billion stages of moral condemnation and light sanctions, Kim Jong-Il would be hanging in Texas and Korea would be unified under a capitalist government. But that's illegal, so whatever.
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