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NK Army Minister Executed by Mortar

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AyashiKaibutsu said:
Eh? This guys no Stalin and Stalin's purges didn't end up causing failure (came close a couple of times (like WW2)). It's probably weakening his state, but it's a bit early to call it imminent failure.
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Purging the officer corps did effectively allow the invasion to succeed and narrowly avoiding defeat hinged more upon outside factors -particularly the delay caused by having to intervene in the Balkans.

It seems that the NK purges are more factional and in any case there is an aristocracy of few famiries.
 
My guess is that Kim Jung UN is not the real force in the North Korean purges. As its far more likely that after the death of Kim Jung Il, there was an attempted military coup still in the recruitment stage when it was discovered by another faction of the N. Korean military casting their lot with Kim Jung UN.

But just a guess and nothing more.
 
Always gets me.

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Udgnim said:
well that senior leadership certainly regrets not attempting a coup
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This is a play from the Dictatorship 101 handbook. Come to power and get rid of anyone who is in an immediate position to threaten your power. Saddam did the same thing... called a bunch of higher ups in for a meeting after he established himself as leader then led them out one by one to be shot.
 
Doppel said:
This is an interesting idea. Do I understand it right? You are saying maybe he really still could be a half way decent guy but if he tries to be the old guard will say heck no, so he needs to remove them first and things like mortaring them to death (psycho alert) is the only ways that he can then be the great guy we all know he can be?
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You sound, um, somewhat less than fully on board with destrekor's interesting idea . . .

Zeze said:
Always gets me.

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LMAO! Thanks - I am SO stealing that!

BladeVenom said:
Socialized medicine, abortions, anti-Christian, gun control, and no greedy capitalists. It's a left wingers paradise.
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Well - maybe in theory. As long as the mortar shells fall on the right people.
 
sdifox said:
Lulz, you think South Korea wants unification? They have their own debt problem, they don't need the bottomless pit that is North Korea.
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I think they do, for a lot of reasons, some nationalistic, some practical.

Germans wanted a united Germany, and Vietnamese wanted a united Vietnam.

A united Korea would spend a helluva lot less on the military, and they'd be able to politely insist that foreign troops in the South leave forthwith...

Little Kim is just consolidating power, because if he doesn't, somebody else will, and he'll be the one executed... There's no such thing as a "loyal" opposition in a totalitarian state. It's all or nothing.
 
Jhhnn said:
I think they do, for a lot of reasons, some nationalistic, some practical.

Germans wanted a united Germany, and Vietnamese wanted a united Vietnam.

A united Korea would spend a helluva lot less on the military, and they'd be able to politely insist that foreign troops in the South leave forthwith...

Little Kim is just consolidating power, because if he doesn't, somebody else will, and he'll be the one executed... There's no such thing as a "loyal" opposition in a totalitarian state. It's all or nothing.
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Don't know if you were in SK, but the people I knew would rather bulldoze
NK over than be forced to deal with unification. What they said is that they want the crazies out more than anything. They weren't willing to compromise their economy.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
Don't know if you were in SK, but the people I knew would rather bulldoze
NK over than be forced to deal with unification. What they said is that they want the crazies out more than anything. They weren't willing to compromise their economy.
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Well, reunification is a cabinet level position in the ROK govt-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Unification

I suspect that if the Kim faction weren't running the DPRK that they'd have become one country long ago, despite the challenges.
 
brianmanahan said:
what do you suppose would happen if that dude died before he had any kids? would there be any hope for NK?

my guess is that everyone under him would vie for the top in a bloody war. if it got bad enough, the UN would eventually step in and try to set things straight there.

but i dont give that much of a chance of happening. pretty sure that in 50 years, NK will still be the joke that it is now. a modern country run like its in the freakin dark ages.
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The UN would be incapable of doing anything!!!

You forgot to mention China.

China would not let the Un go into NK!!
 
Intervening in the 1950's was understandable but NK is prolly more trouble than it's worth to China these days. More concerning might be the loss of it as a buffer -i.e. sharing a border with "SK".
 
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