The North Korea Juche Songun Anti-Imperialist Megathread

[Samozaryadnyastan]

ASB's suggestion was very good, in my opinion. Running the North as a puppet state for a decade or two, trickling SK companies north to utilise cheaper labour (without stooping to exploitation), and moving limited technological advancements north as well.
Within 10-15 years, then surely the reunification would be much less painful than rushing everyone across the DMZ as soon as hostilities cease.

The money able to be obtained from the north's large reserves of natural resources will probably help to integrate the north. @__@

Well, the Chinese want them, so they've got to be worth something.

[Vietnam]

The money able to be obtained from the north's large reserves of natural resources will probably help to integrate the north. @__@

Well, the Chinese want them, so they've got to be worth something.

I'm pretty sure it's worth a lot, actually. China is getting huge bargains from North Korea. It'd be better if they were sold under a reunified Korea. :v

[Samozaryadnyastan]

Well, the Chinese want them, so they've got to be worth something.

I'm pretty sure it's worth a lot, actually. China is getting huge bargains from North Korea. It'd be better if they were sold under a reunified Korea. :v

Well, not for China

[Mkuki]

Any reunification of Korea is going to be an international effort of decades. It's not just a question of the drastic difference in standard of living, it's also that after the last 50 years North and South have pretty much completely separate cultures.

Reunification is essentially going to be South Korea trying to assimilate a culturally alien third world country.

Eh, not as much as you think.

Same language, same holidays (minus like Kim Il-sung's birthday and all that crap), same hatred for the Japanese, same cuisine, same racial nationalism, etc.

I think the complete and total devotion of the North Koreans to the Kim family, especially Kim il-Sung, would trump all of that and more.

I believe this supports my statement.

[Vietnam]

Eh, not as much as you think.

Same language, same holidays (minus like Kim Il-sung's birthday and all that crap), same hatred for the Japanese, same cuisine, same racial nationalism, etc.

I think the complete and total devotion of the North Koreans to the Kim family, especially Kim il-Sung, would trump all of that and more.

I believe this supports my statement.

Huh? And your point is?

I was claiming that the north and south aren't as culturally alien as Myrensis thinks they are.

[Vietnam]

I'm pretty sure it's worth a lot, actually. China is getting huge bargains from North Korea. It'd be better if they were sold under a reunified Korea. :v

Well, not for China

Oh yeah, haha

[Samozaryadnyastan]

Eh, not as much as you think.

Same language, same holidays (minus like Kim Il-sung's birthday and all that crap), same hatred for the Japanese, same cuisine, same racial nationalism, etc.

I think the complete and total devotion of the North Koreans to the Kim family, especially Kim il-Sung, would trump all of that and more.

I believe this supports my statement.

>links to propaganda
>thinks its relevant

[Mkuki]

I think the complete and total devotion of the North Koreans to the Kim family, especially Kim il-Sung, would trump all of that and more.

I believe this supports my statement.

Huh? And your point is?

I was claiming that the north and south aren't as culturally alien as Myrensis thinks they are.

My point is that just because much of the culture is the same doesn't mean that integration would be any easier.

[Inky Noodles]

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/04/world/north-korea-missile-capabilities/
Any of them could be easily shot down.

[New Libertarian States]

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/04/world/north-korea-missile-capabilities/
Any of them could be easily shot down.

Except the last one, but that one hasnt been tested yet(well fully)

[Samozaryadnyastan]

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/04/world/north-korea-missile-capabilities/
Any of them could be easily shot down.

Shooting down ballistic missiles is far from an exact science.

[The God-Realm]

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/04/world/north-korea-missile-capabilities/
Any of them could be easily shot down.

Except the last one, but that one hasnt been tested yet(well fully)

It will be the glory of Korea.

[New Libertarian States]

Except the last one, but that one hasnt been tested yet(well fully)

It will be the glory of Korea.

That title belongs to Kim Jong Un/

[The God-Realm]

It will be the glory of Korea.

That title belongs to Kim Jong Un/

He is the Glorious Double Rainbow Sun of Diamonds, Minecraft and Real Life, of Korea.

[Divair]

Fire in NK has spread to SK
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na ... 33869.html

[Wisconsin9]

Fire in NK has spread to SK
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na ... 33869.html

Now just to wait for KJU to accuse firefighting actions of really being assassins releasing seagulls to shit out miniature bombs onto his head.

[The God-Realm]

Fire in NK has spread to SK
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na ... 33869.html

Obviously ebil commies.

[Grand Britannia]

Fire in NK has spread to SK
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na ... 33869.html

Seems the dear leader has freed some divine wind from deep within his bowels to destroy SK.

[Samozaryadnyastan]

Fire in NK has spread to SK
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na ... 33869.html

Now just to wait for KJU to accuse firefighting actions of really being assassins releasing seagulls to shit out miniature bombs onto his head.

As though they wouldn't.

[Fruition (Ancient)]

Fire in NK has spread to SK
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na ... 33869.html

Seems the dear leader has freed some divine wind from deep within his bowels to destroy SK.

He did say he will destroy Seoul in a "sea of fire".

[Vietnam]

Huh? And your point is?

I was claiming that the north and south aren't as culturally alien as Myrensis thinks they are.

My point is that just because much of the culture is the same doesn't mean that integration would be any easier.

No, I think it really would help.

For example, there'd be little problems with holidays, as they'd be celebrating the same ones, and schedules could be kept roughly similar. Both eat the same cuisine, so we wouldn't see any problems there. Both share a passionate hatred for the Japanese (excluding anime fans obsessed with Japan), and put their differences aside against a common enemy. Both speak the same language, and there would only be little to no problems in vocabulary from the differences developed over the past sixty years. Both have the same traditional clothing, and the same Confucian influences.

If their cultures were different... what would even be the point of reunification?

Not to mention, the allegiance towards Kim Il-sung and such will at most last only a few generations, with each generation having a great decrease in the number of die-hard fans of the Kim dynasty, especially as the extent of North Korean brutality becomes known to them.

[Fruition (Ancient)]

My point is that just because much of the culture is the same doesn't mean that integration would be any easier.

No, I think it really would help.

For example, there'd be little problems with holidays, as they'd be celebrating the same ones, and schedules could be kept roughly similar. Both eat the same cuisine, so we wouldn't see any problems there. Both share a passionate hatred for the Japanese (excluding anime fans obsessed with Japan), and put their differences aside against a common enemy. Both speak the same language, and there would only be little to no problems in vocabulary from the differences developed over the past sixty years. Both have the same traditional clothing, and the same Confucian influences.

If their cultures were different... what would even be the point of reunification?

Not to mention, the allegiance towards Kim Il-sung and such will at most last only a few generations, with each generation having a great decrease in the number of die-hard fans of the Kim dynasty, especially as the extent of North Korean brutality becomes known to them.

How do you know their cultures are different? Prior to the split, their cultures have been the same. That's what matters for both sides as of now. None will succumb to their current ideologies, for sure.

[The Godly Nations]

Seems the dear leader has freed some divine wind from deep within his bowels to destroy SK.

He did say he will destroy Seoul in a "sea of fire".

No, he said 'I will flood the forest of Seoul with the fires of my wind.'

[Fruition (Ancient)]

He did say he will destroy Seoul in a "sea of fire".

No, he said 'I will flood the forest of Seoul with the fires of my wind.'

Yeah, similar quote. I guess, historians interpret the words differently.

[Vietnam]

No, I think it really would help.

For example, there'd be little problems with holidays, as they'd be celebrating the same ones, and schedules could be kept roughly similar. Both eat the same cuisine, so we wouldn't see any problems there. Both share a passionate hatred for the Japanese (excluding anime fans obsessed with Japan), and put their differences aside against a common enemy. Both speak the same language, and there would only be little to no problems in vocabulary from the differences developed over the past sixty years. Both have the same traditional clothing, and the same Confucian influences.

If their cultures were different... what would even be the point of reunification?

Not to mention, the allegiance towards Kim Il-sung and such will at most last only a few generations, with each generation having a great decrease in the number of die-hard fans of the Kim dynasty, especially as the extent of North Korean brutality becomes known to them.

How do you know their cultures are different? Prior to the split, their cultures have been the same. That's what matters for both sides as of now. None will succumb to their current ideologies, for sure.

Huh? I said that their cultures are largely similar.