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and when Illiopolis, IL blew up nobody mentioned it....
Last week a plastics factory blew, evacuated the town and everything......
It got a blip on CNN's scroll bar.....
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Strange, the Korea disaster was said to have casualty figures in the 3000's, when the news broke. Now, it's what? 120? Not that I'm not relieved as hell, although 120 people is saddening enough, but how could they make such an error in estimation????
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"How could the North Korean government could downplay such a disaster!"
Because that's what all despots do to retain their power.
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It's like China during the SARS-epidemic. Dictatorships are mostly interested in keeping productivity, morale and order at an acceptable level. If something happens, you go out of your way to hide it to keep things rolling like nothing happened and to keep snooping foreigners out. As with both examples, their "ostrich"-method failed, it even cause more harm to be done.
In the documentary I saw about North Korea, the south-korean representatives didn't even want a power change, it would cause so much trouble and instability, though they always gladly accept north-korean refugees fleeing from the concentration camps and torture chambers.
Did you guys know N.K still administers punishment based on the "three generation" principle, the medieval bastards? If a man is charged with political crimes (no.1 prosecution in N.K) for expressing anticommunistic feelings or mismanaged his government job (ie scapegoat), not only will he go to jail, concentration camps and the torture chambers, but his children and future grandchildren, just out of spite. They estimate that about 40% of all people in concentration camps in N.K are innocent "Generation"-prisoners. Men, women and adolescents. As soon as you pass the line of being an adult, you can look forward to life in jail, because of something your grandfather did, or didn't do. Needless to say, the suicide rate is high.
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..and yet, when the US throws NK in with the "Axis of Evil" (and probably the Legion of Doom while we're at it) everyone gasps at the audacity.
They're fuckers and if they didint have their handful(?) of nukes, we'd be in their face right now.
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Like you were in Saddam's face, who by all BushCo accounts also had nukes?
Oooh Siiimon, where aaart thou?
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I still think there ARE WMDs somewhere in Iraq... Saddam couldn't have been in power since 1979 and NOT had some sort of secret bunker somewhere in their vast deserts filled with nasty weapons to offload onto their 'enemies' be it their citizens, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or the US and it's allies.
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quote:Originally posted by Cartman: Like you were in Saddam's face, who by all BushCo accounts also had nukes?
Oooh Siiimon, where aaart thou?
I dont recall anyone ever actually saying saddam had nukes (certainly not me), but that they were afraid he'd get them, given time.
By "we" I dont actually refer to me, personally (as I'm not in control over foreign affiars....yet), and I am including the United Nations that knows all about NK's human rights violations but also does shit about it because KN has the Bomb.
There will be no "coallition of nations" to *ever oppose NK: it's just not a viable target while a true screwball is in charge of nuclear weapons.
Kinda nullifys any power the UN, US, NATO or any Coallition has, once the bad guys have the big stick, we do nothing while people suffer.
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