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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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 Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:29 am Post subject: Kim Jong-il�s Suicide Watch |
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Kim Jong-il�s Suicide Watch
By B. R. MYERS
Published: October 12, 2006
NY Times
Seoul, South Korea
HOURS after Monday�s nuclear test, President Bush issued a stern warning to North Korea � but only against the passing of nuclear technology to other states or non-state entities. The president�s declaration thus reflected a confident consensus in Washington that while Kim Jong-il may try selling his nukes, he would never dream of using them himself. Why not? The explanation was given by a former national security adviser, Donald Gregg, on Monday: �Don�t panic. Kim Jong-il�s objective is survival ... not suicide.�
The same soothing logic could be applied to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, but of course it won�t be. These long-term diagnoses of Mr. Kim�s psyche are a roundabout way of saying that because he is not a fundamentalist Muslim, he is unlikely to do anything really crazy.
This sort of cultural profiling, however, can get us into real danger. Japan�s emperor during World War II, Hirohito, was neither religious nor suicidal, and he led his nation into a war that no rational leader could have hoped to win. The point is relevant, because although journalists persist in calling North Korea a Stalinist state, its worldview is far closer to that of fascist Japan. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/opinion/12myers.html
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Atassi
Joined: 14 Feb 2006
Location: 평택
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Not to mention the fact that Kim Jong Il is viewed in North Korea as a diety. Who knows what mental issues he has. How can anyone predict that he's definitely not suicidal. Who knows...
Maybe Hirohito's power over his people caused him not to care |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| I hope someone from NK come to their senses and shoot the basturd like he (KJI) did his father KIS and get it all over with. It's gonna happen sooner or later, if the international community get their asses together and put enough pressure on. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| Atassi wrote: |
| Not to mention the fact that Kim Jong Il is viewed in North Korea as a diety..... |
For a diety he's rather tubby. |
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peony
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| deity... |
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Atassi
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:57 am Post subject: |
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 my apologeis |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| Atassi wrote: |
| Not to mention the fact that Kim Jong Il is viewed in North Korea as a diety..... |
For a diety he's rather tubby. |
So's Buddha. |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:07 am Post subject: |
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I'm starting to get confused here ...
So when there's absolutely no evidence that there are WMD in Iraq, Bush invades anyway and then blasts the UN for being passive and incompetant.
But then when there's conclusive evidence that KJI has nukes. Bush goes to the UN to push for sanctions ...  |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| gypsyfish wrote: |
| Wangja wrote: |
| Atassi wrote: |
| Not to mention the fact that Kim Jong Il is viewed in North Korea as a diety..... |
For a diety he's rather tubby. |
So's Buddha. |
Indeed, but he's a deity not a diety. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| gypsyfish wrote: |
| Wangja wrote: |
| Atassi wrote: |
| Not to mention the fact that Kim Jong Il is viewed in North Korea as a diety..... |
For a diety he's rather tubby. |
So's Buddha. |
Indeed, but he's a deity not a diety. |
He should get a bit more diety though, don't you think  |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| Or he needs to go on a diety. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| gypsyfish wrote: |
| Or he needs to go on a diety. |
(that was my joke, I took the word diet and added a "y" to make it an adjective, albeit one that doesn't exist) |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| gypsyfish wrote: |
| Or he needs to go on a diety. |
(that was my joke, I took the word diet and added a "y" to make it an adjective, albeit one that doesn't exist) |
I figured that but I'd never heard of 'get a bit more diety'.
Great minds and all that! |
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