South Korea Says It May Shoot Down North Korean Rocket

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Originally Posted by ClydeCoulter

Where would North Korea be today if we had traded with them and had good diplomacy with them instead of isolation and threats?
If you threaten a paranoid person they will see their stance justified (somewhat rightly so), you embolded the leaders and their propaganda has more effect.

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Problem is the North Koreans, for most of their history, have rejected trading with the West. They know what has happened to China and realize it would be the beginning of the end.

Here is a URL to explore it if you want to know more...
http://www.donparrish.com/NorthKorea.html#Overview

Don gave an interesting "trip report" to the DuPage Libertarians. It went deeper than his
URL examines. This URL is very thorough though!

The city is planned so (and escorts make sure) you won't see the any slums. Mil/gov
personnel seem to be doing OK, but there are many others who are very poor: Oxen
plow fields ...so they can eat grass, etc. Other web sites had revealing pictures that
gave that part of the story, but those links at the bottom no longer work (for me).

SK seems to be doing much better than NK. (Good parts of China are much nicer than
most American cities, but they have some very bad areas / poor too. Does it matter
at all? It sure seems to promote the advantages of "Free Trade"!)

Seems like another side show act, created by tyrants, to keep the masses pliable or
in outright fear of an attack.

I don't know what to believe. "Team America" and the MSM present yet another spin
or two on NK. Glad I'm in USA, not there. If the SHTF here, maybe I'll have to learn to
eat grass too ...even though I don't know how to operate an Oxen pulled plow.

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Originally Posted by ClydeCoulter

Where would North Korea be today if we had traded with them and had good diplomacy with them instead of isolation and threats?
If you threaten a paranoid person they will see their stance justified (somewhat rightly so), you embolded the leaders and their propaganda has more effect.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche