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2010-03-25 China-Japan-Koreas

Resistance against N. Korean regime taking root, survey suggests

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Posted by Steve White 2010-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 At some point people become more angry than afraid ...

That may be true, Doctor Steve, but 60 years of hell...pretty bad, and incredibly tragic. Only a relative few deserve punishment like that.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-03-25 00:28|| 2010-03-25 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not sure I read that right, how did Steve even remotely suggest they deserved the punishment?

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-03-25 02:37|| 2010-03-25 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 They will need guns and ammo.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-25 03:02|| 2010-03-25 03:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe we should retool for the WW2 "Liberator" pistol, a super cheap two shot (At the same time) .45 pistol, airdropped behind enemy (German that time) Lines with picture diretions of how to get a brand new Schmesser.(Kill a Nazi and take his.)
Spell check is not running this late? sorry

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-03-25 04:49|| 2010-03-25 04:49|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the lesson of the old Soviet Bloc was that regimes collapse when they try to liberalize a bit.

Which was perhaps the point of the currency 'reform' to stop the small amount of liberalization that was occuring.

Posted by phil_b 2010-03-25 05:57|| 2010-03-25 05:57|| Front Page Top

#6 As long as the 50% include the army and the police, the regime should be alright

Posted by Bernardz 2010-03-25 11:48|| 2010-03-25 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 By a relative few I meant the leaders and political commissar types.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-03-25 11:49|| 2010-03-25 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Every totalitarian police state is brittle. Often incredibly strong, but ultimately brittle. Once the collapse starts, it's gone like [snaps fingers] that. Remember how quickly East Germany went under? Remember Caucesecu?--he went from ruler of all he surveyed to guest of honor at a firing squad in mere days.

Posted by Mike 2010-03-25 13:48|| 2010-03-25 13:48|| Front Page Top

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