https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/world/asia/north-south-korea-olympics.html
North and South Korea will march together at the Olympics (!)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
wow... that's never happened since the war, right?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
Folks in the pub today thought it was a ridiculous idea, but I couldn't get a reason why...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
north and south talks are a good thing folks
reunification, though an admirable and great idea, is less likely to happen
but anything that will subdue tension and promote camaraderie between the two koreas is always a good thing
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
maybe a north korean athlete will do something so athletically impressive that both countries will just put all their differences aside and agree to unite in their honor
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-american-scientist-whos-seen-north-korea-nuclear-secrets/
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
^ This is exactly the kind of reporting that every American needs to see x100. It portrays DPRK's nuke program in the correct frame of reference, as a rational deterrent to attack and a blue-chip insurance policy against getting Saddamed by the USA. Next step is to get someone talking about how to prevent DPRK from selling its nuclear technology, by giving it an easier path to respectability and inclusion by the global community.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
Also I’d like more Americans to see the point he makes about how stereotypical thinking might be informing a lot of the underestimation of NK’s capabilities.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
this did happen at the OS in 2006 Turin as well....
― Ludo, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
This is unsettling, to put it mildly. Victor Cha is quite conservative, but apparently Trump is demanding someone who is genuinely nuts. https://t.co/0bplSQuVmC pic.twitter.com/9KrYqTNb1C— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 30, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
Apparently Cha was asked if he would be ready to help manage evacuations of American citizens in South Korea and expressed reservations about a strike.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
so we gonna lose seoul tokyo and LA and set off a massive humanitarian crisis on the peninsula or what
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
the bigger humanitarian crisis is going on in china and hardly any news site in the west is talking about it
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
what do you mean? (there are a lot of things you might mean by that)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
this belongs in a china thread but since you asked
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-120000-muslim-uighurs-held-in-chinese-re-education-camps-report
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
uighurs?
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
yeah, the uighur situation has been fucked up for a loooooong time
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
when i briefly lived in shanghai i saw a crowd of people surrounding a uighur man who was on his knees, accusing him of stealing something. it was fucking awful
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
unfortunately uighurs don't have the correct religion for people in the western world to care about them
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
anyway yeah, wrong thread for this
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Also China has a lot of money.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
What the fuck—had no idea about the situation with the Uighurs and I read the news for 18 hours per day.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
American news?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
it has a long, long sad history. it's not covered here.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
the thing about north korea is that sure its gov't isn't helping more than half of that country's population (due to other, more developed countries cutting off economic ties with them) but sanctions make helping the people who need help way worse
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-28/nail-clippers,-shovels-banned-under-north-korean-sanctions/9367858
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
more on sanctions
http://imperialmilitarywatch.com/read.php?my_data=70299
The findings of another, larger study "utilizing time-series, cross-national data for the period 1981—2000" suggested that "economic sanctions worsen government respect for physical integrity rights, including freedom from disappearances, extra-judicial killings, torture, and political imprisonment." The study concludes that "economic coercion remains a counterproductive policy tool, even when sanctions are specifically imposed with the goal of improving human rights."
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
That's always the argument against economic sanctions, back to South Africa and beyond. (xp)
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
Hankyroeh: "Matthew Pottinger was reported as saying in a recent closed-door meeting with US experts on Korean Peninsula issues that a limited strike on the North 'might help in the midterm elections.'"https://t.co/zm8QrkfRrD— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) February 2, 2018
― 龜, Friday, 2 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
*gulp*
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 February 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
tremendous
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
Cool election strategy, I guess votes don't really matter if we are all dead.
― Moodles, Saturday, 3 February 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/kim-jong-uns-sister-arrives-in-south-korea-for-winter-olympics
First member of the Kim family to visit S.Korea since the war.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 9 February 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link
Incredibly awkward to snub her at the pre-ceremony dinner, only to sit next to her at the ceremony
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 February 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Well, she is a woman who is not his wife...
― nickn, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
omg, you're right
was pence's wife with him? i mean, i think you're joking, but that's real, and...
jfc
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Was joking, but who knows?
― nickn, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
oh wait, pence's rule is that he can't have dinner with a woman alone without his wife being present as well. and there were other people at this dinner table to protect pence from the temptation of sex with the sister of kim jong-un. ok, we're all good here, eveything is normal
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
i bet they still fucked though
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
i think we’d all fuck mike pence given the chance
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
this deserves either to be posted in its own thread or in a better thread than this but i don't know the better option so here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG-ivV-ps50
― papa poutine (∞), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
S Korea's Munhwa Ilbo reports Seoul and Pyongyang plan to announce an end to the military conflict between the two countries at the inter-Korean summit, citing an unidentified diplomatic security official https://t.co/R1c56pCvTh— Joseph Kim (@josungkim) April 17, 2018
― gbx, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 05:01 (six years ago) link
Wow
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
i mean this is just some random tweet, idk how reliable it is
― gbx, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 05:17 (six years ago) link
It's about time, nobody wins in the current situation.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 05:23 (six years ago) link
It's a lovely thought. I await confirmation.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 05:50 (six years ago) link
I want to believe, there have been some signs lately that something like this could happen.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 06:27 (six years ago) link
Good for Korea, but I'm sure Pyongyang would demand U.S. base closures. Less good for stated U.S. policy (at least under Obama) of pivoting to the Pacific/China.
― Zhoug speaks to you, his chosen ones (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Are we witnessing the rise of the new East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
https://msh-1984.wikispaces.com/file/view/world1984.gif/305533582/704x352/world1984.gif
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
trump's done it again lads, credit where credit's due
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link