They were at that time a Sino/Russian proxy, and it was the start of the Cold War. The south was a US proxy. Conflict was inevitable, and 'who shot first' arguments are interesting but it's all so wrapped up in ideology that it at this point can have no bearing on present issues.
There's nothing to argue about: North Korea invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.
And this fact is highly relevant to South Korea, as well as North Korea's other neighbours.
Unless you're an old fart at an American Legion reminiscing, it's pretty irrelevant.
It's not quite that simple. A treaty entered into by the US carries the force of US law. An incoming administration can't just decide not to honour it.
Now imagine what this place would be like if a hostile foreign power leveled every American city in an illegal war that America had started, and since the 90's had been conducting the world's largest war games each and every year to practice for another invasion by the US.
TFTFY.
(Please don't make excuses for North Korea; they're the ones who tried to unify the peninsula by conquest, remember?)
Even North Korea has other mountains it can dig under.
As I've said elsewhere, I attribute Kim's behaviour change very largely to the little surprise (to him, it seems) he received in Beijing when the Chinese informed him that they do not consider themselves obliged in the slightest to follow merrily along into a WWIII started by NK.
To put it less kindly, he's had his leash jerked but hard, and found out it's not nearly as long as he'd imagined it to be.
By your reasoning, Kazakhstan should also revert to Arabic script.
And your complaint about Turkish letters having diacritics and/or different sounds than they do in other languages is just silly. Exactly the same things are true of any other language using the Latin alphabet.
Huh? Spanish and English both employ the Latin alphabet.
The Kazakhs are a Turkic people who traditionally used the Arabic writing system. Cyrillic writing was imposed on their very non-Slavic language only relatively recently (ca 1940 IIRC).
Really? Interesting...as I understand it, the Cultural Revolution was basically an expulsion of anything Western...I'm surprised they wanted to convert to a Latin alphabet.
Your understanding is not entirely incorrect. The Cultural Revolution was not anti-Western as much as it was anti-capitalist and especially anti-traditionalist.
Only thing I can think of that comes close is simplification of written Chinese under Mao, but even that wasn't as radical as this. (During the Cultural Revolution, the leftists wanted to switch to a Latin alphabet, but even Mao couldn't make that happen.)
No, it did not. This is merely a trick to make it feasible to discount public health data in making public health decisions that might put a damper on profit.
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There's also being an accessory to an escape from prison. Even if the escape attempt fails, that's still a crime, no?
So you're ready to stick up for what you think is right only when nobody disagrees with you?
I see from your posting history you're capable of much better than that.
This is a bit more informative.
They were at that time a Sino/Russian proxy, and it was the start of the Cold War. The south was a US proxy. Conflict was inevitable, and 'who shot first' arguments are interesting but it's all so wrapped up in ideology that it at this point can have no bearing on present issues.
There's nothing to argue about: North Korea invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.
And this fact is highly relevant to South Korea, as well as North Korea's other neighbours.
Unless you're an old fart at an American Legion reminiscing, it's pretty irrelevant.
KFGY.
They've likely been set back decades.
No, they haven't been. Really, they've not.
- South Korea is offering a hand of friendship. This isn't usual, contrary to popular belief.
Actually it's very usual.
- We've pretty much faxed a picture of Jim Mattis to Pyongyang.
Huh? Did he switch chairs with Pompeo while I wasn't looking?
- We have China's balls in a vise...
Now you're a comedian.
- Kim Jong-un was never the heir apparent for North Korea in the first place.
It might not have been apparent to you.
You're already 5 for 5, I'll leave the rest alone.
It's not quite that simple. A treaty entered into by the US carries the force of US law. An incoming administration can't just decide not to honour it.
The North Koreans would begin any offensive action after 30 minutes after levelling Seoul.
Now imagine what this place would be like if a hostile foreign power leveled every American city in an illegal war that America had started, and since the 90's had been conducting the world's largest war games each and every year to practice for another invasion by the US.
TFTFY.
(Please don't make excuses for North Korea; they're the ones who tried to unify the peninsula by conquest, remember?)
Even North Korea has other mountains it can dig under.
As I've said elsewhere, I attribute Kim's behaviour change very largely to the little surprise (to him, it seems) he received in Beijing when the Chinese informed him that they do not consider themselves obliged in the slightest to follow merrily along into a WWIII started by NK.
To put it less kindly, he's had his leash jerked but hard, and found out it's not nearly as long as he'd imagined it to be.
Western things had already been expelled.
Yeah, especially Western political philosophy.
The Red Guards were basically Antifa with government backing.
Please stick with the facts, and quit trying to shove your nutjob politics into everything. Thanks.
IMAP/Thunderbird here. Web-based mail is so very Eternal September.
Actual writers know that, in Standard English, the gender-neutral third-person singular possessive is his.
In VietNam's case, they had some prompting from the French.
By your reasoning, Kazakhstan should also revert to Arabic script.
And your complaint about Turkish letters having diacritics and/or different sounds than they do in other languages is just silly. Exactly the same things are true of any other language using the Latin alphabet.
Kazakh was written in Arabic script for a thousand years prior to Soviet times. Try again.
Huh? Spanish and English both employ the Latin alphabet.
The Kazakhs are a Turkic people who traditionally used the Arabic writing system. Cyrillic writing was imposed on their very non-Slavic language only relatively recently (ca 1940 IIRC).
Really? Interesting...as I understand it, the Cultural Revolution was basically an expulsion of anything Western...I'm surprised they wanted to convert to a Latin alphabet.
Your understanding is not entirely incorrect. The Cultural Revolution was not anti-Western as much as it was anti-capitalist and especially anti-traditionalist.
Only thing I can think of that comes close is simplification of written Chinese under Mao, but even that wasn't as radical as this. (During the Cultural Revolution, the leftists wanted to switch to a Latin alphabet, but even Mao couldn't make that happen.)
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A valiant attempt but still identifiably not the real deal.
No, it did not. This is merely a trick to make it feasible to discount public health data in making public health decisions that might put a damper on profit.
It's OK, folks--Kohath's merely asking a question.
Cite some of them. Please, go right ahead.