Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Dave Chance]

(View from 2:50)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ElG1l4SEHM&feature=relmfu

[catman]

No doubt they would be celebrating a similar invasion today.

[matthews_world]

Check out the movie "Taegukki"

[young_clinton]

I think you missed the part further down where they execute the women and children of the Koreans that worked for the Americans.

[catman]

[Dave Chance]

[young_clinton]

[Hokie21]

[fermentation]

[jvalmer]

Don't forget a lot of Seoulites hiked it south to Daegu and Busan, which were essentially untouched during the war. And a lot of them were North Koreans who came south in the 5 year period between the end of WWII and the Korean War. They knew how NK would treat anyone who made money.

I wonder if I were starving and had no resource to go south to Busan, would I take free food handouts from NK soldiers? Or just starve? Makes NK look superficially good, until the food supply ends.

Also, it just astounds me the number of pro-NKers on this forum.

[NohopeSeriously]

[Dave Chance]

[catman]

So why did North Korea turn out to be far worse than the South?

[Dave Chance]

Trade sanctions and the constant threat of nuclear attack might have something to do with it-

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB322/index.htm

The National Security Archive obtained the documents posted today through multiple Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests to the U.S. government. They are part of a major new collection consisting of almost 1,700 documents, The United States and the Two Koreas, 1969-2000, which the Archive is publishing through ProQuest, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korea War on June 25th, 1950.

Key points illustrated by these documents include:

The development of a nuclear contingency plan, codenamed FREEDOM DROP that called for �pre-coordinated options for the selective use of tactical nuclear weapons against North Korea�� The available options included limited attacks on North Korean command centers, airfields, and naval bases with atomic weapons ranging from .2 to 10 kilotons, delivered by air or Honest John/Sergeant missiles, as well as at the upper end an attack with 10 to 70 kiloton weapons geared to take out North Korea�s air power and diminish the country�s overall military capability. Depending on the size of the attack, the estimated �friendly losses� would be �Less than 10 percent,� and civilian deaths would range from �approximately 100 to several thousand."

Generally those countries who don't buy into US capitalism and oblige US interests (i.e. allow them to set up sweat shop factories to produce cheap goods or sign trade agreements that allow major coporations to have their way) are marginalized in the international community, while those who play ball are placed on a pedestal, though its citizens may not be able to speak their minds or have many options beyond becoming a drone in a consumer-obsessed economic system fueled by vapid pop music and plastic surgery-enhanced models pitching goods in ads plastered around the city, which has led us to-

A new study from researchers at Jay W. Forrester's institute at MIT says that the world could suffer from "global economic collapse" and "precipitous population decline" if people continue to consume the world's resources at the current pace.

Smithsonian Magazine writes that Australian physicist Graham Turner says "the world is on track for disaster" and that current evidence coincides with a famous, and in some quarters, infamous, academic report from 1972 entitled, "The Limits to Growth."

Produced for a group called The Club of Rome, the study's researchers created a computing model to forecast different scenarios based on the current models of population growth and global resource consumption. The study also took into account different levels of agricultural productivity, birth control and environmental protection efforts. Twelve million copies of the report were produced and distributed in 37 different languages.

Most of the computer scenarios found population and economic growth continuing at a steady rate until about 2030. But without "drastic measures for environmental protection," the scenarios predict the likelihood of a population and economic crash.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/next-great-depression-mit-researchers-predict-global-economic-190352944.html?ref=type:read,user:pIfxo4gvN-8I3d6Oup6TAFP2fhc&fb_action_ids=10150717383903490&fb_action_types=news.reads&fb_source=other_multiline&code=AQAk8pKde1-CiycwOt2F7Wjm5k9bvEfyH-9nAIy5Eyt8uf89cZyCbiKnAtxyD_vmyMVX4Erb0t81JeOrVQwwRqL1X2hJPx3S2tvYZ7zjHIfQHf3Sxxt2Df04OqHuYe9RVfros3QHC8sFQAPKY4FKIgjs49HxUqnAvfNuNldPH_87Q7pzy1gDH1vFjdXyeDVhpg0#_=_

[catman]

North Korea has not bee food self-sufficient since the Soviet Union collapsed. There is no embargo. They border an economic superpower but still rely on food aid.

So what is your excuse for the approxiamtely 200,000 North Koreans in forced labor camps?