Schmidt, Daughter Talk About North Korea Trip

Eric Schmidt attracted headlines when he visited North Korea, but until now he has said little about the trip. Today he broke his silence with a Google+ post. He says in part: "As the world becomes increasingly connected, the North Korean decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world and their economic growth. It will make it harder for them to catch up economically. We made that alternative very, very clear. Once the internet starts in any country, citizens in that country can certainly build on top of it, but the government has to do one thing: open up the Internet first. They have to make it possible for people to use the Internet, which the government of North Korea has not yet done. It is their choice now, and in my view, it’s time for them to start, or they will remain behind." His daughter had some interesting things to say as well, "The best description we could come up with: it's like The Truman Show, at country scale."

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What Eric Schmidt should have done

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Start organizing militia on both side of the border (China and South Korea) and plan for an coordinated invasion. A couple billion dollars should do.

Hire all those people with violent gun crime history in the USA to be the frontier foot soldiers. Push them across the border a.k.a. Normandy style.

Setting up a convoy on South Korea should be easy. Setting up another in China may require bribery of local officials.

Annexing North Korea should not require any legitimate U.S. troops, they are so easy to fight.