tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post1886134077464688806..comments2024-03-28T09:38:52.661-04:00Comments on thwap's schoolyard: F-35's, Outside Consultants, and Capitalismthwaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-903799230943029402023-01-17T17:58:41.533-05:002023-01-17T17:58:41.533-05:00PLG,
I recall hearing that SK's right-wing pr...PLG,<br /><br />I recall hearing that SK's right-wing president is disgusted with Joe Biden. So I think there's little chance of any joint actions there. That might have something to do with it.<br /><br />I read recently that the reason NK has a nuclear weapons program is because the joint US-SK military exercises (which could always become an actual attack) always took place around the harvest time when NK's troops were needed in the fields. Which meant that the military exercises would contribute to national hunger. So NK opted for a nuclear deterrent over a conventional one.<br /><br />Which isn't to praise the management of the NK economy or anything. Just something I hadn't heard about before this year.<br /><br />Meanwhile the sanctions don't seem to have let up and people are starving to death.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-61119731537313452212023-01-17T13:02:46.261-05:002023-01-17T13:02:46.261-05:00Say, this is only tangentially related, but it jus...Say, this is only tangentially related, but it just occurred to me that North Korea must have switched off its dangerousness at some point a couple years ago. Like, for a long time the media was constantly telling us how totally dangerous North Korea was and how vitally important it was that the US do whatever counterproductive thing it was doing about that and so on.<br /><br />And then they just disappeared. Nobody's mentioned NK in the news for ages. Obviously it couldn't be that NK was never particularly dangerous to anyone and the news and US politicians were just being totally cynical the whole time, so it must be that Kim Jong Un at some point flipped the dangerous switch to "off" and NK instantly stopped being newsworthy. I wonder if he'll ever flip the switch back to "on" again.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.com