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200 executions at a shooting range with an audience! And here I thought the only open gate to hell was in the Great Lakes region of Africa.

So, the way I read it, this is going to eventually end with a big fight. It could go on forever if we just kept issuing the checks forever. But human nature precludes that. Somebody will...

If you wanted depose a gang leader somehow though, how would you go about it? What might work? What I am getting at is what in gang dynamics might be useful against Kim III?

Maeda: no...

Maeda Toshiie:

Prof. Byers makes the same point in the interview that Kim's slaves don't actually have much envy of the outside world. The propaganda world they live in has taken care of that. ...

I don't think an extended period of time for something to work with the Kim dynasty is a drawback. This has been going on for decades and decades so if something would have an effect in say 5 years,...

That is a very interesting observation. In your experience, how have gang leaders lost their positions?

Slap:

I've been thinking on this and I wonder if there is something else, another type of ring, that can be attacked ala Warden and attacking Kim III as a system...sort of.

According to the...

Slap:

I am always skeptical of airpower enthusiasts claims. They have been making the same claim for going on a century now. Airpower is decisive but it can't do it all every time, everywhere as...

Slap:

If you mean we should try to bump off Kim III, I'm all for it. But I don't think we could if the only option was an air strike. We would have to have information about not only where he...

Slap:

I don't see how North Korea can ever be irrelevant. It is important to South Korea and Korea is important to Japan and therefore it is important to us. The same with Red China. The only...

David:

Here is a link to an interview with Prof. B.R. Myers, the man whose work prompted the XX Committee comment.
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It seems to me that King Kim III's ongoing bluff, if it is a bluff, will have to be called eventually. If it is not, tribute will have to be paid to this king for years and years to come. If and...

Bob Jones:

I have some problems with what you wrote and will go over what I think you have wrong.

Yes, it is true that if people won't give up the insurgents, that is a form of sanctuary. ...

The question I answered was why I thought if there was any insurgency it would aim at a restoration of the Kim dynasty or a facsimile thereof. Your response above did not address my answer. But...

max161:

I agree that the Kim dynasty cannot let up even a little bit. All they have to do is look at what happened when the Reds loosened up a little in Russia and what happened to the Shah. ...

David:

My question had to do with what might happen after the current order disintegrated, if it came to that.

max161:

I have two questions.

First, since some of the high up Kim dynasty people appear to have spent much time abroad being educated including the king himself, what effect does this have on...

I have a general question. Let's say the Kim dynasty fell apart. Russia, Red China and South Korea decided to let the South Koreans handle the problem inside the country and all three decided that...

How hard can you resist when starving? I don't think you give those people much credit for seeing and remembering. They see that they are all pretty skinny. They remember times of starvation. ...

I read a few articles that max161 posted. From these and from doing a little cogitating it seems that the existence of northern Korea is currently and has been for the past 1/2 century about one...

By my reckoning, the early 80s through the mid 90s is about 15 years, not 40. And since it is not now what it was, I figure that one of the reasons it isn't is because it didn't have sanctuary and...

You are right there is no good reason to put any American troops in the northern part of Korea. Who suggested that? That would be a silly thing being as there are so many South Koreans available...

Well Dayuhan, I have to admit, you got me. You are right. Sanctuary and external support aren't absolutely needed to keep and insurgency going at such a low level for 40 years that is might well...

Bob:

I figured I would draw you out with that one.:D

No time now but will reply shortly.

Bill: If a serious resistance movement did arise and neither South Korea, Red China nor Russia supported it, it would have no chance. It would have no sanctuary and no external support. Northern...