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North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test
viyh writes "North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Monday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a ruling party official as saying.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake was recorded by the USGS in North Korea.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has called an emergency meeting of cabinet ministers over the test, Yonhap said."
I wish more people recognized this. It's like listening to people who were young during the cold war era talking about stupid commies, and how communism doesn't work... if they were so stupid and if their system doesn't work, how come your entire generation dedicated the entirety of their lives to destroying them and never succeeded?
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In the Bush era, I suppose I would have really worried about this and even posted on slashdot that this proves how dumb liberals are at reading the intentions of dictators....
but, electoral disasters have a way of clarifying political ideas and I have to ask, why is the USA even bothering to defend North Korea? Since half of South Korea hates the USA and the other half riots at the prospect of having more open trade on their side, one has to ask, why is the USA in Korea at all? Right away, if North Korea and South Korea destroyed each other, it would be better for American car companies. We wouldn't have as many Hyundais and Kias running around the USA.
At some point, the USA needs to let go of trying to run the world. There's no gain in it for America, and the world doesn't want to be run anyway.
So North Korea gets the bomb. I don't care. Neither should you. The USA can build a missile defense system based on Aegis that can stop some ballistic missiles, and anyway has a pretty good retaliatory capability.
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"cappies" ?
It looks like the above thread was about goverments, not economics. Capitalism is the Economy of the Demacracy. If I were a black market runner in Communist China guess what, I'm engaging in Capitalism... I'm selling a product at a profit. I guess, you could make the argument that communism is the economy of Socialism... Where everone is equal, some just more than others... But the government dictactes how the efforts of one's work will be doled out to you and controll of the major industries and banks.
Oh... I'm sorry, I think I'm describing Presidents Obama's plan... My mistake... I'm SURE he isn't pushing Socialism!
$%*(% Blind idiots!
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
I know exactly what they need to do to "attract U.S. military attention" - convert to Islam. They'll get all the "right" sort of attention then. Finding an oil field or two might also help... :-)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
North Korea is actually playing a dangerous game with China now. They might even loose there support because of there nuke test(s).
However, there are 50% chance of war anyway. There is a good chance that North-Korea is going to attack South Korea when there current crazy leader dies.
The current status provides no good for South Korea in terms of solutions regarding North Korea.