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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Yeah, makes it sound like KJI instigated all these really amazing reforms. Gee, he really helps society a lot. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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Some interesting quotes:
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One of the 5,000-year-old aspirations of the Korean people is to acquire powerful national defenses equipped with long-range deep-strike capabilities of hitting the enemy's heartland and turning it into a sea of fire, instead of letting Korea become a war theater. For the first time in Korean history, Kim Jong-il has fulfilled this historic aspiration as he has put the Korean Peninsula under North Korea's own nuclear umbrella, neutralizing the US nuclear umbrella.
In other words, North Korea under Kim has emerged as a de jure nuclear-weapons state with deep-strike capabilities, making it totally unnecessary to seek written US security assurances. The risk of war has begun to disappear from the Korea Peninsula as Kim is now one click away from torching the skyscrapers of New York and other cities in the metropolitan USA or Tokyo into scenes of towering conflagrations. Dangun Wanggeom, Jumong, Yon Kyesomun, Ulchi Mundok and Li Sun-sin would be delighted at the great feat of Kim Jong-il. Any new war involving Korea is certain to be waged mainly on the US mainland or Japan |
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The DPRK established diplomatic relations with Italy in January 2000, restored ties with Australia that May, restarted negotiations with Japan on establishing diplomatic relations in August, had General Cho Myong-rok sign the DPRK-US Joint Communique in October, saw US secretary of state Madeleine Albright visiting Pyongyang, established full diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium in January 2001, Canada and Spain that February, Germany, Luxembourg, Greece, Brazil and New Zealand in March, Kuwait in April, Bahrain and the European Union in May, Turkey in June 2001 and Ireland in December 2003. The DPRK has a permanent delegation in Paris.
The DPRK has full diplomatic relations with Canada to the north of the US and with Mexico to its south. Those who refuse to have relations with the DPRK are only the US and Japan. |
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| The June 13-15, 2000, Pyongyang summit that ended with the June 15 Pyongyang Declaration was an obvious product of the military-first policy |
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kotakji
Joined: 23 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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"the DPRK is now a de jure nuclear-weapons state, the fourth-most-powerful after the United States, Russia and China. "
Wow Im guessing oh just about every other nuclear state would have something to say about that. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| Oops. I posted this on the wrong forum. It's supposed to be on Current Affairs. |
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