GLOBAL PULSE: North Korea Flip Flops (2/05/2009)

(February 5, 2009) Having to contend with a new U.S. administration and a newly unsympathetic South Korea, Kim Jong Il's North Korea is running hot and cold - offering friendship and denuclearization one day, threatening war and hurling insults the next. Are they confused, crazy, or just using a strategy that's worked before?

SOURCES: KBS, South Korea; RT, Russia; Press TV, Iran; New Tang Dynasty TV, U.S.; Fox News, U.S.; BBC, U.K.; Korean Central Broadcasting, North Korea; CCTV, China; The Economist, U.S.; Time Magazine, U.S.

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[kloratis]

Fox News sucks

[XxPhoenixHarpyexX2]

pussy

[IceSurfbumb]

Vaporize that fat little fat piece of fat little fat fuck!!

[15Sebastiannn]

@Hairysteed lol... what..

[Gregman420]

NK would lose against ROK because the second the North Korean troops got across the border, they would drop their guns and kiss the ground.

[TheHoomaikai]

If Kim was as crazy as everyone says, WWIII would have started long ago. He is no different from any other despot willing to do what ever it takes to keep power and wealth. He knows without the absolute support of China his military cannot win.

[Hairysteed]

-ROK has the most to lose in a war - offensive or defensive. Their capital is within north's artillery range and NK might use nukes as a last resort weapon. A war - even a victorious one - would turn south Korea - one of the region's leading economies - into ruins!

NK on the other hand can't be bombed to stone age because they're already there!

[Hairysteed]

@EasternMerchant Several reasons:

-China has trade and diplomatic relations to both countries. ROK invading DPRK would risk the Chinese to intervene on DPRK's side. If DPRK were to invade south the Chinese would be more reluctant to join the war and might even cut ties to DPRK.

-Although capable of defending herselv, ROK doesn't have the capability to mount a successful invasion of DPRK without US help, and China is certainly not going to let US forces come to their border!

[EasternMerchant]

@renzoasity not if we give them a chance for surrender before each wave of attack. That would be the most humane way to deal with it. Eventually the population of NK will see the light and realize it will be better to embrace South Korea than to fight it.

[EasternMerchant]

@Hairysteed if that is the case, then what are they waiting for?!?!?! the South should get it over it so that everyone in Korea will be under one flag and enjoy true democracy!

[juanlozanoism]

China and its brutal criminal friend...KIM JONG IL!!!

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