Snowmass Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Remember the worlds greatest golfer was N Korean- http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=7369649 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 I have a feeling that S. Korea still claims to desire unification as an ideological stance but secretly sees unification as a complete pain in the arse and would prefer, the present status quote. A bit like Ireland, sustaining the Fenian ideology of 'reclaiming Northern Ireland', but behind closed doors, taking one look at the Troubles and saying, 'feck that'. That's basically what it is. Nice theory but they don't see much to gain instead of 25 million people on welfare. It will put a huge strain on their economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 KarmaI really hope their dictator was very upset over this! I doubt most North Koreans are allowed to have internet access without their government knowing about it.I hope he was bidding on something he really wanted on ebay and the site shut down! lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downzy Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 KarmaI really hope their dictator was very upset over this! I doubt most North Koreans are allowed to have internet access without their government knowing about it.I hope he was bidding on something he really wanted on ebay and the site shut down! lolLOL. That would have been classic. Kim Jung Un is about to snipe a sweet deal on a pair of Nike Air Jordans and all of sudden he can't refresh the eBay page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Why don't they just call Comcast?they would just put you on hold until the offices closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 The Night The Lights Went Out In...uh, South Korea! I cant see it catching on myself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 The Night The Lights Went Out In...uh, South Korea! I cant see it catching on myself!North Korea! It says it in the thread title!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Whatever, point being it aint Georgia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 This is what happens when you block Ghostbusters 3D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcat Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 (edited) Kim Jong-un has been pushing some radical (by North Korean standards) reforms. For example peasants are now allowed to have 30% of their crop and it was announced that next year this share will rise up to 60 % (as opposed to the previous years when the state took their entire crop). Heads of industrial enterprises now have the right to assign salaries to their workers and sell some part of their production. The level of political repressions has declined so that they even had to close 3 of 6 existing internment camps for political prisoners (but the repressions in the upper echelons of power are worse than ever). On the other hand there’s a sharp deterioration in relations with the main North Korean sponsor China, so now it seems that Kim Jong-un will be having difficulties with receiving foreign investments. Anyway point being, if reforms are successful, the North Korea may slowly transform into "dictatorship of development" like China or Vietnam. If reforms will fail, and Kim Jong-un will not be able to keep the situation under control, China or South Korea (with the support of the US) will have to interfere. On a side note, why wouldn't Hollywood make a movie about Putin or for example Xi Jinping assassination? Edited December 23, 2014 by netcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downzy Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 North Korea's internet was back down again for an hour today! Perhaps just a coincidence, but Sony is going ahead with a few Christmas day showings of the movie The Interview. Whoever is behind these attacks is starting to make North Korea look a little foolish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 North Korea's internet was back down again for an hour today! Perhaps just a coincidence, but Sony is going ahead with a few Christmas day showings of the movie The Interview. Whoever is behind these attacks is starting to make North Korea look a little foolish. seems like they are still having issues with the internet and are having intermittent connection problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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