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... for this is something along the lines of: "Hey, if we recognise them as journalists, and give them equal access, maybe they'll regurgitate the same junk we feed the mass media."

Please excuse my cynicism of an organisation (i.e. the CIA) that relies on disinformation, propaganda, and psychological warfare, and uses the mass media and journalists to spread it.

I would sanction the removal of US troops from that part of the world.

• The Yakuza has funnelled money from Japanese gaming parlors to North Korea.
• South Korea has sent money to the North ($500 million from Hyundai alone) as part of their "Sunshine Policy"
• China doesn't want tens of thousands of refugees streaming over the border, so they keep North Korea supplied with food and electricity. China also opposes Germany-style reunification of Korea, since it might mean US troops on the Chinese border.

I would sanction the removal of US troops from that part of the world.

• The Yakuza has funnelled money from Japanese gaming parlors to North Korea.
• South Korea has sent money to the North ($500 million from Hyundai alone) as part of their "Sunshine Policy"
• China doesn't want tens of thousands of refugees streaming over the border, so they keep North Korea supplied with food and electricity. China also opposes Germany-style reunification of Korea, since it might mean US troops on the Chinese border.

Well put.

Incidentally, there is a good manual for terrorists, that everyone should read: Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare. It was written by the CIA for use by the Contras in Nicaragua; it really makes you think who the real terrorists fighting against the US population are.

Scarp Machiavelli, go for the original : http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm

SUN TZU is a great reading when going to the cubicle battle, and you will find lots of insights ...

Or Case IV, They drop there own bomb on the west coast of the US. It is even speculated that the Japanese had actuacly tested a bomb in the pacific prior to us dropping ours on them. They were refining Uranium in what is now N Korea, they had plans for a working bomb, basically everything that was needed. They were actually a whole lot closer to it than the Germans were. So due to use droping ours, we spared the west coast from having one dropped on them. Some info here http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/jp-hung.htm

http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm

Something like a young korean teenager playing Everquest II with a ghost of a dead GI watching over his shoulder with a tear in his eye... oh man I'm choking up..

And people wonder why Koreans hate Americans.

What about an image of a Tank running over two Korean girls on the way to school?

America, the head of the stupid.

More maps of Korea

North Korea is a monster made by her neighbors:

• Hyundai and South Korea gave the North $500 million dollars
• Japanese Pachinko players supported North Korea with their gambling

Accurately estimating the size of a cloud by eye is no easy feat and, as others have already pointed out, non-nuclear weapons can also make mushroom clouds -- either large conventional explosions or smaller explosions that take place inside tubes or silos

South Korea is building a new capital city. Supposedly this is because of overcrowding, but the new capital is farther south... out of artillery range of North Korea.

The explosion supposedly occured near a missile field. It's possible the North Koreans tried to test-fire a missile for their 56th anniversary and it blew up in the silo.

Basically IBM has nailed SCO in a box that they can't get out of.

Perhaps if SCO had studied under Pai Mei they wouldn't be in this situation.

Or read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" - 'Don't start a war you can't win'.

Not to mention Japanese financial support of North Korea in the present day -- by way of pachinko parlors

These techniques have been policy since at least the sixties. Here is a chapter listing from the CIA's manual on 'coercive questioning':

# Restrictions
# The Theory of Coercion
# Arrest
# Detention 86-87
# Deprivation of Sensory Stimuli 87-90
# Threats and Fear 90-92
# Debility 92-93
# Pain 93-95
# Heightened Suggestibility and Hypnosis 95-98
# Narcosis 98-100
# The Detection of Malingering 101-102
# Conclusion 103-104

KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation

Similar methods were also used by the British army in N. Ireland. (The Guineapigs)

So remind me again: who are you going to shoot?

• "... Overly cautious generals kill more of their own men than overly aggressive generals. The best commanders in history are those who've been able to achieve a remarkable balance between caution and audacity while simultaneously inspiring their men to do things that no sane person should be able to do ..."

No. The best commander(s) are those who coerce their enemy into submission without force.

[Sun Tsu - Pt 2. Attack by Strategem]

However, IIRC, USSR did have a cruise missile developed based on MiG-17 - AS-1 "Kennel".

BTW, a minor nitpick - correct spelling is MiG (which is shorthand for Mikhoyan i Gureevitch, two of the designers wgo started the bureau).

-DVK

Naval engagements, sunk ships, and submarines combined with tunneling under the DMZ and the kidnapping of Japanese nationals for "spy training" hardly counts as minor border skirmishes. Yes, the war is still on, but on a very, very low simmer.

As for following agreements, kicking out the IAEA and firing up reactors to make plutonium, and backing out of nonpoliferation treaties hardly counts as a "capability of following agreements they have signed". The leader of NK is a total nutcase, that makes him much more dangerous than Saddam ever was.

What next? Saddam Hussein as a romance novelist?

You definitely should read about what Japanese did to Koreans and other Asians in WWII. It doesn't differ much in it's cruelty from what Nazis did to Jews in Europe. Except that Germans are ashamed of their history, but Japanese keep their war criminals as war heroes.

He still flies coach so it is not about the money -- it is about the power! Not only could he live a life of luxury but so could the next ten generations of Gates!

And what's wrong with that. It's becoming even more true now that the commander-in-chief has authorized CIA to use lethal force and is pouring billions of dollars into the machine the history of which is filled with atrocious acts of terror and morally dubious publications.

Yeah, these are the good guys.