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[Oersted]

... Gosh, I was not quite aware of that~ Thank you for the... Confirmation. Still, it's quite difficult to tell, judging by how tough it is to get news from the N of K.

Given how fast the "south korean beauty clones made by plastic surgery"-bullshit has spread, it is quite difficult to get reliable news about Asia in general. "But" yes, North Korea is even harder. Barely anyone has interest to hold up to basic journalistic standards when it comes to them. Clickbait over everything.

 

[dog$]

i find it bizarre that the U.S had to invade the middle east to bring peace and democrac to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, yet hasn't done anything to help the people of North Korea. oh well, maybe someone will discover oil in North Korea and the U.S. will have an excuse to invade.

Are you completely ignorant about the Korean War?

 

[Oersted]

i find it bizarre that the U.S had to invade the middle east to bring peace and democrac to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, yet hasn't done anything to help the people of North Korea. oh well, maybe someone will discover oil in North Korea and the U.S. will have an excuse to invade.

America tried, oh boy, they tried:

Bombing North Korea

The first major U.S. strategic bombing campaign against North Korea, begun in late July 1950, was conceived much along the lines of the major offensives of World War II.[275] On 12 August 1950, the U.S. Air Force dropped 625 tons of bombs on North Korea; two weeks later, the daily tonnage increased to some 800 tons.[276] After the Chinese intervention in November, General MacArthur ordered the increased bombing campaign on North Korea, including incendiary attacks against their arsenals and communications centers and especially against the "Korean end" of all the bridges across the Yalu River.[277] As with the aerial bombing campaigns over Germany and Japan in World War II, the nominal objectives of the U.S. Air Force was to destroy military targets and shatter North Korea's morale. After MacArthur was removed as Supreme Commander in Korea in April 1951, his successors continued this policy and eventually extended it to all of North Korea.[278] U.S. warplanes dropped more napalm and bombs on North Korea than they did during the whole Pacific campaign of World War II.[279]

As a result, almost every substantial building in North Korea was destroyed.[280] The war's highest-ranking American POW, U.S. Major General William F. Dean,[281] reported that most of the North Korean cities and villages he saw were either rubble or snow-covered wastelands.[282][283] U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay commented, "we burned down every town in North Korea and South Korea, too."[284] The devastation of Pyongyang was so complete that bombing was halted as there were no longer any worthy targets.[285]

 

[Dark Octave]

Are you completely ignorant about the Korean War?

That's where old man Hill got his shins blown clean off.

 

[block tower]

Are you completely ignorant about the Korean War?

yes im aware of the Korean War, whats your point?

 

[Forgotten_Taco]

yes im aware of the Korean War, whats your point?

Then you should know china is the reason the US won't do anything about NK it has nothing to do with oil.

 

[Oersted]

yes im aware of the Korean War, whats your point?

Erm, like I pointed out they tried and now China is involved and USA wouldn't risk an open war with China.

 

[block tower]

Then you should no china is the reason the US won't do anything about NK it has nothing to do with oil.

Erm, like I pointed out they tried and now China is involved and USA wouldn't risk an open war with China.

im being sarcastic about the oil part. i realize it's unlikely the U.S. would do something, but i hardly think in the modern age the U.S. would be so brash in how they went about something like a plan of action against North Korea's regime.

 

[dog$]

i find it bizarre that the U.S ... hasn't done anything to help the people of North Korea.

i realize it's unlikely the U.S. would do something

I think you may need to edit or rescind one of your posts.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Why are people confused about fact checking stories from North Korea? Who do we call?

North Korea Bob?

 

[Intheflorsh]

Come on SK, you don't need to make up stories to make Kim Jong-un look bad. He does a fine job of that without anyone's help.

 

[BocoDragon]

Come on SK, you don't need to make up stories to make Kim Jong-un look bad. He does a fine job of that without anyone's help.

I'm not sure about that. He was on the "let's see if he's as bad as his father, waitnsee" list by observers until this incident. Then we all saw this and said "yeah he's an evil scumbag".

Now? I dunno. He did apparently have his uncle killed. Who knows what happened there. But I dunno... now that this story has turned out to be untrue, I don't see him in the top tier of evil thug leaders.

His regime is shitty but it's not of his own making...

 

[Oersted]

I'm not sure about that. He was on the "let's see if he's as bad as his father, waitnsee" list by observers until this incident. Then we all saw this and said "yeah he's an evil scumbag".

Now? I dunno. He did apparently have his uncle killed. Who knows what happened there. But I dunno... now that this story has turned out to be untrue, I don't see him in the top tier of evil thug leaders.

His regime is shitty but it's not of his own making...

Thats, atleast the official, story:

In a rare interview with Sky News, North Korea's ambassador to the U.K. Hyun Hak-bong said that Jang was put on trial and confessed to what he did wrong.

"According to the laws by the criminal court he was sentenced to death. Well he was shot to death," Hyun said.

Hyun added that the country had "pardoned him on several occasions when he made wrongdoings in the past." Jang reportedly "abused his power" by spending too much money and hindering the national economy.

Hyun also said a report by South Korea's state news agency alleging that Kim ordered the execution of his uncle's entire family was "political propaganda by our enemies" and that it was fabricated. The news agency, Yonhap, is known for its anti-North Korean bias.

http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-uns-uncle-was-shot-not-fed-to-a-pack-of-wild-dogs-2014-1

 

[Ecotic]

I thought Dennis Rodman said a week ago that he saw Kim Jong-un's uncle?

 

[Oersted]

I thought Dennis Rodman said a week ago that he saw Kim Jong-un's uncle?

Yeah, he did. Could be possible. Like I said earlier, North Korean officials like to make shit up.

 

[Sub_Level]

The whole Dennis Rodman actually being relevant to this whole debacle thing still hasn't lost any novelty for me.

 

[Oersted]

The whole Dennis Rodman actually being relevant to this whole debacle thing still hasn't lost any novelty for me.

As much as NGOs, journalists and other groups which are actually in North Korea. But those get barely screentime. Dennis Rodman does get it, which says more about the west than North Korea or Rodman.