Utter and complete bullshit propaganda

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-04-28 04:39pm

Then the reason Kim hasn't got a chance in defeating the US is because he hasn't any blessed silver bullets for his army.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-04-28 04:51pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: Wait ... you mean US soldiers don't drink the blood of North Koreans?
You only drink your enemy's blood to absorb his power, and given the half starved state of the North Korean army that's hardly worthwhile.

I thought that only worked if you ate their hearts?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-28 05:19pm

neoolong wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: Wait ... you mean US soldiers don't drink the blood of North Koreans?
You only drink your enemy's blood to absorb his power, and given the half starved state of the North Korean army that's hardly worthwhile.
I thought that only worked if you ate their hearts?

you have to eat their brains as well.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-04-28 05:37pm

Crown wrote:I stopped reading after the first paragraph ... why hasn't their been a coup in this shithole already? This guy is ripe for one.

It's a country of dirt poor brainwashed people. If the brainwashing and indoctrination doesn't keep them from rebelling, the constant struggle to just survive will keep it off their minds. Also, NK has an army of about a million soldiers, so even if a few starving peasants decided to attempt an overthrow of the government they wouldn't get too far.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2004-04-28 10:44pm

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Am I the only one who is amused by this?

I was amused.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-04-29 12:08am

You guys are missing the point. Yes, the NK people are downtroden and brainwashed, but what about the military and political elite? How hard would it be to kill him, announce that he died of natural causes (heart attack/stroke thake you pick) and another one of them rise up to assume his position?

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-04-29 12:33am

Crown wrote:You guys are missing the point. Yes, the NK people are downtroden and brainwashed, but what about the military and political elite? How hard would it be to kill him, announce that he died of natural causes (heart attack/stroke thake you pick) and another one of them rise up to assume his position?

KJI is very picky about choosing who gets to be his inner circle, and those that do are the ones who Kim feels are the least likely to try and overthrow him. Despite this, KJI's inner circle are selfish pigs just like him, so a North Korea under any of them will not be any better than it is now.

Besides, none of these higher-ups could hope to depose KJI without support from at least part of the North Korean military, which happens to have it's ranks filled with grunts that are brainwashed to follow the Great Leader's every whim. That, coupled with KJI's paranoid security measures and secret police, and it would be exceptionally difficult for one or some of them to plot against him without being discovered.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-04-29 12:42am

Kim-Jong Il could be killed, but only if his assassin was close to him and was willing to die himself. That second part is really going to drop the number of willing candidates.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-04-29 12:50am

Darth Wong wrote:That second part is really going to drop the number of willing candidates.

...to practically zero, I'd wager. The only reason someone close to Kim would have to kill him is if they wanted to seize power themselves.

Unless you are counting his bodyguards as well...

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-29 12:52am

Or someone with a very strong ideological belief that he believes is worth dying for (or will repay him in another way). Islamofundies come to mind as an example of such.

I don't think the Dear Leader has to worry much about them though.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-04-29 07:17pm

I'd be horrified or something, but this really doesn't rise above the NK evilness background count.

Crown wrote:I stopped reading after the first paragraph ... why hasn't their been a coup in this shithole already? This guy is ripe for one.

Its possible, if you're willing to sacrifice enough, to prevent coups with almost complete certainty. It means being so willing to kill officials and officers, to promote loyalty over competence to an absurd degree, to prune all the flexability out of the system, but its possible.

The only way for it to stop if for someone really stupide to come into power at the top, or for an outside force to act. Historically, I'd say that the vast majority of regimes like this would have been easily conquered by their neighbors. Recently wars of conquest seem to have lost their polarity, and though this has huge benifits, it has its few disadvantages as well.