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[Real Reality]

Two Koreas exchange fire along DMZ
Border guards of the two Koreas briefly exchanged fire Monday but there was no report of South Korean casualties, military officials said Tuesday.
Yonhap News (August 1, 2006)
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060801/630000000020060801085415E0.html

[Captain Corea]

What happened to brotherly love?

Something is seriously wrong in this country when young men are putting their lives on the line but the administration is shutting them up about incidents like this (note:2002).

[Jeju Rocks]

A total of eight shots were fired according to Yahoo news

[canuckistan]

There's a lot more stuff that goes down regularly along the DMZ than ever hits the papers.

[Ya-ta Boy]

The Norks are punishing the South for the little backbone they displayed by suspending rice/fertilizer shipments because of the missile tests last month.

[Benicio]

When it comes to small arms fire, they trade shots all the time. I've been told by service personnel that it happens a lot, but rarely makes the news.

[Benbby]

The South Korean gov't seems to have a see no evil do nothing "strategy" regarding North Korea. But stopping shipments of fertilizer did show a little backbone. NK could be reeling due to the heavy rains, the US crackdown on their counterfeiting, and sanctions. Eventually the NK regime will fall because they can't run a country and adapt to the change in the world around them. The sooner NK falls the better.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[The Hierophant]

[blaseblasphemener]

The billion dollar question is actually, what will happen to the sex industry when there is a flood of cheap hookers from the north streaming in, or when southerns flock to the north to have at the cheap Koreans. The South Koreans won't know what to do with themselves. Plus, they'll be able to get a nice, obedient, starved wife, who is use to un-questionably following the dear leaders orders, and will now transfer that to a South Korean husband. Women in South Korea will retaliate by acting even more subserviant, and women's rights generally will be set back 50 years, which will put them roughly back to the time of Moses. Anyone else care to speculate on the day of tong-il?

[SeniorEnglish]

Perhaps,
1. North Korea will become industrialized at a record pace. Koreans products will become dirt cheap, like China's.
2. A new found sense of Nationalism is flourish throughout the land.
3. The U.S. will systematically dismantle the military, to prevent it from becoming a super power.
4. The need for English teachers will increase 2 fold.
5. Numerous resort towns will be created in the mountains overlooking China.
6. Japan will be very angry when Korea becomes Asia's lead goose.
7. 10 years after, China becomes Asia's new lead goose. 1 year later, the world's #1 superpower.

Just speculating.

[Dev]

[Benbby]

Dev, funny. There is no doubt that Japan is the land of the cute and small for a reason and they are much unlike Koreans/Chinese in plenty of ways.
Japan has a cultural and technological niche no one can take away. You walk into a The Face Shop in Seoul and they ignore you, in Osaka they hover around you, all half dozen female clerks saying "Sumi-san Sumi-san" and you feeling like spending hundreds of dollars on junk. Cute or what?

The regime in NK might want to take others down with them but they might also be paid off to evaporate safely. I think NK is on the ropes, the economy is feeble, people are hungry, and the politics are totally static. A recipe for future problems. With the missile tests, the US and Japan can bear down on NK and cause new problems, most financial for them.