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- Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:13 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea¡¯s Kippumjo is a means of bringing in foreign currency
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1984
North Korea¡¯s Kippumjo is a means of bringing in foreign currency
<t>If you recall the article ¡°7 Things North Korea is Really Good At,¡± by foreign currency, North Korea is famous for counterfeiting US dollars (supernotes), hacking, smuggling drugs and arms, and organized crimes. North Korea runs a dozen restaurants in Beijing. Apparently there are around a hund...
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 10:36 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: The reason for Japan's movement towards right
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1516
The reason for Japan's movement towards right
<t>I believe the reason Japan is moving towards the extreme right is because of the distorted historical education the leaders of Japan had received. In the past, this unprecedented rightist movement did not exist in Japan. This is because the past generations of Japanese people experienced firsthan...
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:29 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Modern day sex slave, North Korean female soldiers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1734
Modern day sex slave, North Korean female soldiers
<t>According to defectors, North Korean officers use their ranks to require sexual services from their subordinated female soldiers. The female soldiers find it very difficult to refuse because they would disadvantaged when it comes to promotions and salaries. They are often beat by their officers i...
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:36 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea is like a rugby ball
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1159
North Korea is like a rugby ball
<t>The planned high-level inter-Korean talks were called off at the last minute over seemingly minor protocol discord, and I doubt that the recent attempts by the rival Koreas to resume talks will ever succeed. This is because North Korea is very unpredictable. The planned talks were called off at t...
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:40 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Nobody will sympathize Mayor Hashimoto
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1201
Nobody will sympathize Mayor Hashimoto
<t><br/> <br/> Osaka City officials revealed on Monday that a letter from a San Francisco official was sent to keep Hashimoto from visiting the city. It was made known to Hashimoto that San Francisco will not consider his trip official or a courtesy call although it admitted to be in no position of ...
- Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:37 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea calls off talks with South over choice of diplomat
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1005
North Korea calls off talks with South over choice of diplomat
<t>Planned high-level talks between South and North Korea after a nearly six-year hiatus were scrapped after North Korea objected to the diplomatic rank of the South's chief delegate. North Korea's earlier offer for talks came as a surprise after weeks of bombastic threats to obliterate the South an...
- Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:25 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Right-wing Japanese groups have a sense of inferiority against Korea?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1166
Right-wing Japanese groups have a sense of inferiority against Korea?
<t>As Japanese nationalism is fueled by friction with neighbors over territories and World War II legacy issues, hostile demonstrations against the country's Korean residents are gathering steam, raising concerns among political leaders and setting off soul-searching among Japan's largely homogeneou...
- Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:39 pm
- Forum: Political Humor Satire
- Topic: The fall planned
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12658
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:46 pm
- Forum: Political Humor Satire
- Topic: The shitty statement generator
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4281
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:51 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Please Help the North Korean children
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1084
Please Help the North Korean children
<t><br/> <br/> In the wake of the recent repatriation of a group of young North Korean defectors from Laos, South Korean diplomats in overseas missions plan to hold a meeting to discuss follow-up measures and ways to better deal with the sensitive issue. The nine North Koreans, aged between 15 and 2...
- Sun Jun 02, 2013 10:27 pm
- Forum: Political Humor Satire
- Topic: The birdcage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3332
The birdcage
The birds are mean young children of north korea who suffer from starvation and have no parents ,they wanted to escape north korea but kim jong un didn't let them free.
- Thu May 30, 2013 11:36 pm
- Forum: Political Humor Satire
- Topic: Abelion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6195
- Wed May 29, 2013 10:05 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Forcing North Korean refugees back to their country
- Replies: 0
- Views: 838
Forcing North Korean refugees back to their country
<t>The North Korean refugees that were captured in Laos were sent back to North Korea via China. There were 7 young people who left North Korea simply because they were so hungry. There were also 3 adults with them. These people were helped by South Korean missionaries, and were waiting to be adopte...
- Tue May 28, 2013 10:25 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea and China are no longer blood brothers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 836
North Korea and China are no longer blood brothers
<t>North Korea thought China was their closest ally, until now. In the past, China helped out North Korea a great deal, helping them out with the war, and with various support including humanitarian aid and fuel. But North Korea these days are blatantly going against China's wishes by firing off mis...
- Mon May 27, 2013 12:22 am
- Forum: Political Humor Satire
- Topic: Abe with sushi
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6639
- Mon May 27, 2013 12:17 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Get away
- Replies: 0
- Views: 998
- Tue May 21, 2013 10:40 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Yasukuni : Arlington = Abe : Obama
- Replies: 0
- Views: 790
Yasukuni : Arlington = Abe : Obama
<t><br/> <br/> Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe likened the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which houses the remains of Japan's war dead including convicted World War II criminals, with the Arlington National Cemetery in the US. 14 convicted World War II criminals are enshrined in Yasukuni. Suppose the ...
- Sun May 19, 2013 11:31 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Hashimoto¡¯s unacceptable words
- Replies: 1
- Views: 857
Hashimoto¡¯s unacceptable words
<t>Remarks by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on Japan¡¯s wartime military sex slave system have once again raised serious questions about his nationalistic views and his understanding of human rights. Hashimoto claimed that the sex slave system was necessary to maintain discipline in the Imperial Japane...
- Thu May 16, 2013 12:20 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Kenneth Bae begins 15 years hard labour in North Korea
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1137
Kenneth Bae begins 15 years hard labour in North Korea
<t><br/> <br/> Bae, a US citizen of Korean descent, was arrested for attempting to overthrow the state. He entered the ¡°special¡± prison on Tuesday. A statement from North Korea accused Bae of giving anti-Pyongyang lectures in China and having infiltrated about 250 students into the city of Rason, ...
- Tue May 14, 2013 10:36 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea shutdown Kaesong complex because of Chocopies?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 897
North Korea shutdown Kaesong complex because of Chocopies?
<t>Because North Korea shutdown the Kaesong Industrial Complex, South Korean investors lost a lot of money. However, North Korea also received a lot of damages. One of the risks North Korea face now in withdrawing everybody is the 50,000 people who left their jobs two weeks ago are very unhappy. The...
- Mon May 13, 2013 10:47 pm
- Forum: Political Humor Satire
- Topic: Bow
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6894
- Sun May 12, 2013 11:47 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Let¡¯s change North Korea through the Korean Peninsula Trust Process
- Replies: 0
- Views: 775
Let¡¯s change North Korea through the Korean Peninsula Trust Process
<t>South Korean President Park Geun-hye and US President Barack Obama agreed never to tolerate North Korean threats and provocations, stressing that such bad behavior will only deepen Pyongyang's own isolation. Park made the remarks during a joint news conference after her first summit talks with Ob...
- Wed May 08, 2013 3:50 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: PSY parody Devilman
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2118
PSY parody Devilman
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- Wed May 08, 2013 12:16 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: A Conscientious voice in Japan
- Replies: 0
- Views: 757
A Conscientious voice in Japan
<t>Despite Japan¡¯s recent efforts to distort history and deny the sexual slavery of comfort women, there are conscientious voice in Japan opposing these efforts. At a church in the Fukushima prefecture, there is a comfort women statue. This is a replica of the one located in front of the Japanese e...
- Mon May 06, 2013 11:29 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Park Geun Hye visits the US
- Replies: 0
- Views: 882
Park Geun Hye visits the US
<t><br/> <br/> South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Washington on Monday for her first summit with President Barack Obama and a speech before a joint session of Congress. Park flew in from New York, where she held talks with South Korean-born U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and met wit...
- Thu May 02, 2013 11:47 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea, a Prison without Bars
- Replies: 2
- Views: 895
North Korea, a Prison without Bars
<t>In North Korea, the Constitution provides for "freedom of religious belief"; the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is an atheist state. North Korea is officially an atheist state, and government policy continues to interfere with the individual's ability to choose and to manifest his or her r...
- Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:31 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Japan forced comfort women into sexual slavery
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1202
Japan forced comfort women into sexual slavery
<t>Japanese government denies that there is no evidence that Japan is not responsible for the compulsory mobilization of comfort women. However, this is wrong. The United States Office of War Information report of interviews with 20 comfort women in Burma found that the girls were induced by the off...
- Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:43 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Even Japanese media are blasting the Yasukuni visits
- Replies: 0
- Views: 627
Even Japanese media are blasting the Yasukuni visits
<t>The revival of Yasukuni Shrine visits presents a serious diplomatic setback for Tokyo. The costs have been high and the benefits hard to find. More importantly, it reveals the reactive nationalisms afoot in Northeast Asia that are dangerous and unpredictable. The debate over Yasukuni is fraught w...
- Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:38 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Japan is an unconscientious nation
- Replies: 0
- Views: 591
Japan is an unconscientious nation
<t>Japanese war crimes occurred in Korea, China, and other Asian countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during World War II. Some of the incidents have been described as an Asian Holocaust. Most war crimes were committed by military personnel from the Empire of Japan in the l...
- Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:00 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Kim Jong-un, a leader who just went through puberty
- Replies: 1
- Views: 631
Kim Jong-un, a leader who just went through puberty
<t>Le Monde described Kim Jong un as an adolescent who just got through puberty. The defiant behavior of a boy going through puberty naturally solves itself, but Kim Jong-un¡¯s defiance seems to be a never ending disease. If it won¡¯t cure naturally, North Korea needs to consider a surgery for Kim J...
- Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:44 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: We have to save North Koreans
- Replies: 4
- Views: 659
We have to save North Koreans
<t>Communism is a revolutionary socialist movement to create classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production as well as a social, political, and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order. Contrary to North Korea...
- Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:53 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: The protracted comfort women issue
- Replies: 0
- Views: 626
The protracted comfort women issue
<t>The Japanese ambassador to South Korea said that a statue of a young girl erected in front of the embassy in Seoul to commemorate comfort women drafting into service as sex slaves to the Japanese military was ¡°not helping to solve problems in Japanese-South Korean relations.¡± Ambassador Koro Be...
- Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:02 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Kim Jong-un falls victim to mockery
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1903
Kim Jong-un falls victim to mockery
<t><br/> <br/> Kim Jong-un just might be the most famous face on the Internet. He’s a fixture on social media feeds, often depicted as characters like Russell from the animated kid’s movie “Up†and a wrestler named “Kim Jong Un-dertaker.†Thanks to a handful of photoshopped images, I’l...
- Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:32 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: BBC North Korea undercover
- Replies: 0
- Views: 311
BBC North Korea undercover
<t>North Korea Undercover - BBC Panorama - YouTube<br/> <br/> In late March, with a group of students attending the London School of Economics, an undercover BBC journalist named John Sweeney surreptitiously entered North Korea, where he and a cameraman filmed segments for an upcoming documentary. W...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:05 am
- Forum: Political Humor Satire
- Topic: Don't feed him
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7153
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:33 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea’s attempt to pressure the international community
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3221
North Korea’s attempt to pressure the international community
<t>The shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang seems to presage impending war on the Korean peninsula, but North Koreans are living their everyday life. North Korean officials have warned diplomats that they cannot guarantee their safety in the capital. However, visitors this week described the atmosphere in...
- Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:13 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korean army 'split' over Kim Jong-un
- Replies: 0
- Views: 601
North Korean army 'split' over Kim Jong-un
<t>North Korea has issued a catalog of alarming threats against the South and the United States in the past several weeks, sharpening its rhetoric after the U.N. Security Council imposed stricter sanctions for Pyongyang's latest underground nuclear test, which took place it February. North's unnervi...
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:43 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: China expresses regret at North Korea restarting nuclear plant
- Replies: 0
- Views: 654
China expresses regret at North Korea restarting nuclear plant
<t>China's Foreign Ministry expressed regret that North Korea will restart all nuclear facilities, including its shuttered Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Tensions on the peninsula have soared in recent days, with Pyongyang on Friday ordering missile units to standby, hours after nuclear-capable US B-2 st...
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:27 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea Is Not Even Close To Hitting The US With A Nuke
- Replies: 0
- Views: 485
North Korea Is Not Even Close To Hitting The US With A Nuke
<t>As North Korea continues to talk of war against their neighbor to the south, they've also started to threaten the United States, saying that "thermonuclear war" may be on the horizon. Reality, yet again, is not on the side of Pyongyang. The North Koreans still need a few things - a reliable long ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:09 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea is incapable for a full-scale war
- Replies: 4
- Views: 757
North Korea is incapable for a full-scale war
<t>The U.S. Navy is shifting a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific to waters off the Korean peninsula in the wake of ongoing rhetoric from North Korea. The USS McCain is capable of intercepting and destroying a missile, should North Korea decide to fire one off. Still, there is nothing to indica...
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:26 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Do you want to die?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 45
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:52 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: China, tired of North Korea?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 554
China, tired of North Korea?
<t>North Korea, China's longtime ally, has vexed Beijing for years with its rocket launches, nuclear tests, kidnapping of Chinese fishermen and other erratic behavior. Yet, Beijing has run interference at the United Nations to temper punishments against Pyongyang, and has even helped Pyongyang circu...
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:00 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Korea should be compared to NK's new attack
- Replies: 0
- Views: 556
Korea should be compared to NK's new attack
<t><br/> <br/> North Korea has issued it's first combat readiness and raised threat level against South Korea. North Korea also conducts cyber attack on Korean conservative media's homepage continuously. Korea has to prepare solution about NK's cyber attack and enhance their cyber capability to guar...
- Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:08 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: Cyber warfare between the two Koreas
- Replies: 0
- Views: 533
Cyber warfare between the two Koreas
<t>South Korea will push to increase its cyber warfare forces to more than 1,000 to enhance preparedness against an unprovoked attack, as this week's massive hacking highlighted the potential danger of cyber terror by North Korea. It may seem unlikely that impoverished North Korea, with one of the m...
- Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:58 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: N Korean video imagines attack on Washington
- Replies: 5
- Views: 778
N Korean video imagines attack on Washington
<t>North Korea has produced a new propaganda video portraying a simulated attack on the White House and the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. The four-minute video, entitled "Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War", was posted Monday on the YouTube channel of the North Korea¡¯s semi-off...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:51 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea's obstinance will no longer work
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1800
North Korea's obstinance will no longer work
<t>"They bang the spoon on the table and then suddenly they get food aid. Or they get other concessions. And then they come back to the table and negotiate a little bit, and then if they get bored they start- provocative actions again. We've broken that pattern. Now, what we need to see is whether t...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 12:17 am
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea overreacts to ROK-US exercise by surge in air force sorties
- Replies: 3
- Views: 505
North Korea overreacts to ROK-US exercise by surge in air force sorties
<t>North Korean jet fighters have flown an unprecedented number of sorties in recent days in apparent response to a joint ROK-US military exercise. The number of sorties by fighter jets and helicopters peaked at 700 on the day Key Resolve exercise was launched. North Korea spent around $2.7m on air ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:56 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: International Cooperation for Sanctions on North Korea
- Replies: 0
- Views: 401
International Cooperation for Sanctions on North Korea
<t>In order for the sanction on North Korea to be effective, international cooperation is essential, and China needs to take a more active role in making the UN security council resolution effective. Even if the US and the international community imposes sanctions on North Korea, without China, all ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:35 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: North Korea must take responsibility for nullifying armistice
- Replies: 0
- Views: 368
North Korea must take responsibility for nullifying armistice
<t>State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland characterized North Korea's statement on pulling out of the Korean War armistice as dangerous rhetoric, and not action. She called the statement concerning but said its impact was unclear. She claimed the one-sided declaration was insufficient. Unilate...
- Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:57 pm
- Forum: International Politics
- Topic: What is there to gain for North Korea?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 655
What is there to gain for North Korea?
<t>North Korea canceled the armistice agreement that brought a cease-fire to the Korean War, and threatened to destroy South Korea or turn Seoul into a sea of fire. North Korea vowed to cancel any agreements made between the two Koreas starting today, March 11. This date coincides with the date of t...