North Korea vows nuclear retaliation for USA-SO.KO. military drills

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Rath said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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I know Stalin died for a stroke and most probably left to die (but back then doctors could have done very little anyway) and what's curious, lower classes mourned him sincerely until his crimes were fully revealed. OTOH North Koreans are almost starving to death and I'm quite sure they wouldn't mind if somebody accelerated Kim's departure.

1) You think it's the ordinary N.Korean that matters in this? It's the establishment and especially the army.  They won't simply relinquish power because Il is dead.

Moderate ayatollahs aren't stupid, and seeing the integralist ones killed while they were spared, they'd be quite quick to understand that the wind has changed.

2) If somebody went and shot all the conservatives in the senate of the USA do you think the liberals would say 'Oh what a lovely chance to get a progressive agenda through!'? Same situation basically.

BTW using Austrian rifles, besides their superior quality, is also to avoid a possible direct link to USA. Anyway, it would be better to outsource operations to Mossad, integralists couldn't by any means hate Israel more than now...   

3) It wouldn't matter who did it, the shit-storm would be similiar.

1) Italians were mostly fascist, although the majority quite lukewarm. Defeats, deaths and hunger made a lot of them change their mind even before Mussolini's death. And in NK hunger is even worse than in Italy at WWII times. Commoners, particularly ueducated lower classes, can be brainwashed, but their bellies will always be stronger when it's empty.

2) and 3) Some American conservatives may be a bunch of narrow minded bigots, but they haven't established a theocracy disguised as an elective democracy that actually has its powers subordinated to religious authorities approval. So there's no need to shoot them, and it would be pointless anyway as their successors would reflect the electors' will like they did. Ayatollahs OTOH aren't the elected part of Iran's power, and anyway local support of moderate forces would be needed for a conspiracy so wide, most probably including, although not directly involving them, the moderate ayatollahs themselves. When Khomeini overthrew the Shah he was still allied with moderate and democrat Iranians, then he seized the power and got rid of their leaders, also using false accusations of corruption, a typical tactic bigots and moralists use to stir common people's hostility towards their opponents. There are a lot of Iranians waiting for revenge and for the true democracy they wanted instead of the Shah. Overthrowing a quite progressive, although despotic and nepotist, monarch to replace him with a bloodthirsty bigot tyrant wasn't a big deal and it wasn't by any means what many Iranians wanted. And shit must happen sometimes, in Iran and NK it will surely happen sooner or later, so better make it happen before it furtherly grows.