North Korea

August · Jan 17, 2018

Well sooner or later it will be the real thing and no ones going to take any notice.

CasualBystander · Jan 17, 2018

August said:
Well sooner or later it will be the real thing and no ones going to take any notice.

The briiliant flash of the nuclear detonation, the prompt radiation, and the heat/blast wave are a little hard to ignore.

I'll bet someone notices.

Toroid · Jan 17, 2018

North & South Korea will march together in the winter Olympics.
North and South Korean Teams to March as One at Olympics

HONG KONG — North and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to have their athletes march together under one flag at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month and to field a joint women’s ice hockey team, the most dramatic gesture of reconciliation between the two nations in a decade.

Seoul has said in the past that it hoped such a move could contribute to a political thaw after years of high tensions over the North’s nuclear and missile tests.

The Games will begin on Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the women’s ice-hockey squad will be the first combined Korean team for the Olympics, and the first unified team since their athletes played together for an international table-tennis championship and a youth soccer tournament in 1991.

The two countries’ delegations will march at the opening ceremony behind a “unified Korea” flag that shows an undivided Korean Peninsula, negotiators from both sides said in a joint news release after talks at the border village of Panmunjom. The North will send 230 supporters to the Games, and negotiators agreed that supporters of both Koreas would root together for athletes from both countries.

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The prospect of North and South Koreans cheering together could help President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, who has been pushing for dialogue and reconciliation with the North, even as President Trump has threatened the North with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” should it put the security of Americans and their allies at risk.

The two countries also agreed on Wednesday that their skiing teams would train together in the Masikryong ski resort in North Korea. The resort, a showpiece project of the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, was opened in 2013.

South Korean officials said on Wednesday that the North’s delegation would include at least 550 people, including about 150 to the Paralympic Games in March. But the joint news statement said that the final number would be determined in Switzerland on Saturday, when the International Olympic Committee is to bring together North and South Korean officials. The plan is for the North’s athletes to enter the South over a land border on Feb. 1.

August · Jan 21, 2018

Latest Goss on Kims ex girlfriend.

Meet Hyon Song-wol, North Korea's 'Spice Girl' whose execution was greatly exaggerated

August · Jan 25, 2018

North Korea sends rare announcement to all Koreans, calls for unification

CasualBystander · Jan 25, 2018

August said:
North Korea sends rare announcement to all Koreans, calls for unification

Got to give Kim style points for wearing a fedora.

nivek · Jan 25, 2018

August said:
North Korea sends rare announcement to all Koreans, calls for unification

The million dollar question though, does Kim desire to be dictator over a reunited Korea?...

Caeldeth · Jan 25, 2018

nivek said:
The million dollar question though, does Kim desire to be dictator over a reunited Korea?...

We will see. But I can say this is a positive step forward.

SOUL-DRIFTER · Jan 25, 2018

Makes me wonder if perhaps China gave Kim some serious warnings he couldn't ignore. Thus, the change in him...

Dundee · Jan 26, 2018

My guess is that his advisors have told him he can't beat the US with might.
However a unified Korea would seriously undermine the co-operation between the Us and Sth Korea.
A unified Nth and Sth Korea with a major Nth Korean influence would seriously put a fly in the ointment for the US.
The question is, can he compromise his Iron fist enough to make it happen. The Nth and Sth are worlds apart.

August · Jan 26, 2018

Looks like it all over for the confrontation at least for the time being anyways I really do think Kim wants his fuel lines reconnected cold winter over there.