North Korea: 2012-2016

[carl]

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.

[JMA]

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.

How has this sub-human regime been allowed to remain in existence?

First Truman was not up to the confrontation with China over Korea then Chinese support has allowed the regime to survive up to today.

I suggest that when the regime eventually implodes that China and the US pony up $1trillion each to rebuild a destroyed nation.

[davidbfpo]

JMA asked:

How has this sub-human regime been allowed to remain in existence?

The North Korean regime has survived partly due to external, now mainly Chinese support; historically the USSR provided some support and at the time of the Korean War 'Uncle Joe' was at the helm. Only after Gorbachev took power IIRC did Russia effectively turn away.

The real reason for survival has been the apparent strength of its military and ruthlessness. Plus the uncertainty over having WMD. South Korea has only been a powerful economy in the last thirty years, with democracy arriving late.

How will the world, let alone the neighbours, react to a regime change? Personally I don't think outsiders will have much impact. Anyone who emerges as the new leader is very unlikely to be different. Sadly.

[AdamG]

9/10 for Creativity.

A North Korean official has been executed with a flame-thrower, South Korean media has reported, amid a crackdown on loyalists of Kim Jong-un's purged uncle.

As many as 11 senior party officials with close ties to Jang Song-taek have apparently recently been executed or sent to political prison camps

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-thrower.html

[JMA]

Clearly neither China nor South Korea/US want more instability.

But... it is the enslaved people of North Korea who deserve freedom.

The welfare of the North Korean people should come first... not the concerns of the powers that created the problem in the first place.

JMA asked:

The North Korean regime has survived partly due to external, now mainly Chinese support; historically the USSR provided some support and at the time of the Korean War 'Uncle Joe' was at the helm. Only after Gorbachev took power IIRC did Russia effectively turn away.

The real reason for survival has been the apparent strength of its military and ruthlessness. Plus the uncertainty over having WMD. South Korea has only been a powerful economy in the last thirty years, with democracy arriving late.

How will the world, let alone the neighbours, react to a regime change? Personally I don't think outsiders will have much impact. Anyone who emerges as the new leader is very unlikely to be different. Sadly.