Methinks we should have nuked the Chinese in the Korean war to ensure they didn't push the UN back to the 38th parallel.

What.

China was why the Korean war was lost I think was generally his point...

and it's generally true.  The US and allies lost Korea because they were in essense fighting a land war with China.

Though i'm pretty sure he was also joking.

It's fascinating how Christianity became so successful in Korea (to the point that Asian religions like Buddhism has been persecuted in South Korea).

I don't understand how it managed to get to North Korea though... I wonder what methods South Korea used to get so many converts.

I can see why North Korean officials are so afraid and upset about Christianity though, since it's not only connected to the US, but also South Korea, and how they want to maintain the people's belief that their leader is some divine figure.

Fucked up world =/ And I enjoy the comfort of only reading about these things online then see them first hand. I wonder if people in first world nations are only getting soft, or if people in these horrible places are having their minds broken by the world's horrors.

Christianity is just an inherently successful religion for some reason.  There are a lot of countries where christanity was riding a huge wave of covnersion before it was shut down by the government.

Like Japan, China, etc.

As long as we're throwing blame around, isn't that how it went? (Admittedly, he almost won us the war before he did that.)

Or so I've heard. 

I know how Japan, like in the 1700-1800's banned Christianity (stomp on a picture of Christ and all), but I don't think the government... especially when America was occupying Japan and was trying to Americanize it after WWII, shut down Christianity... again that's why I thought it was fascinating that despite the failure in Japan (no, Western weddings and Christmas doesn't count as Christianity making leaps into Japan), it succeeded in South Korea.

I think Christianity does so well because of the catchy tunes. Any successful religion has them.

I think it's just the marketability and beautiful aesthetics that made it catchy in some places XD (Wedding dresses, Western Weddings, etc).

It failed in Japan because it was already shut down earlier on.

Back when it first came around it was ridiculiously popular. 

Then it got shut down... but those christians didn't go away.  They formed there own christian like religion... it wasn't quite as popular as it was a combination of local religions into a christian LIKE religion... but it was similar.

So when christianity came back... it was seen as like that religion which was generally less successful.