Kim Jung Un threatens war over an upcoming James Franco and Seth Rogen movie.

[eric82oslo]

Time to take down Kim Jung Un and finish this despotic regime once and for all. North Korean have suffered enough now.

[eric82oslo]

Time to take down Kim Jung Un and finish this despotic regime once and for all. North Korean have suffered enough now.

Yes, let's invade now after he threatens two of America's most talented actors and not after he bombarded that island, sunk that ship, or threatened that nuclear war in 2013 .

The US shouldn't do it on their own of course. Maybe NATO can do it or a joint US operation. The problem is that it should all be kept secret, or else Kim will almost certainly retaliate in advance.

[eric82oslo]

I guess USA would have no problem with some other country making a movie where the heroes had to help assassinate the American president. The truth are that the movie is very bad taste, and comparing to usual North Korean rhetoric, it was more or less what you could expect.

It's not at all bad taste. What's bad taste is North Korea. I guess you approve of terrorizing your own people for decades. In any other country, it would not at all have been acceptable, at the very least not for any longer than a few months or years. Yet since it's North Korea, we seem to have accepted it. What's been going on constantly in North Korea (without the world apparently caring too much) is arguebly the worst thing (very basic human right injustices, no civil liberties, constant brainwashing & living on the brink of death/deadly hunger, as well as the famous work/death camps) the world has seen since World War 2.

[eric82oslo]

I guess USA would have no problem with some other country making a movie where the heroes had to help assassinate the American president. The truth are that the movie is very bad taste, and comparing to usual North Korean rhetoric, it was more or less what you could expect.

It's not at all bad taste. What's bad taste is North Korea. I guess you approve of terrorizing your own people for decades. In any other country, it would not at all have been acceptable, at the very least not for any longer than a few months or years. Yet since it's North Korea, we seem to have accepted it. What's been going on constantly in North Korea (without the world apparently caring too much) is arguebly the worst thing (very basic human right injustices, no civil liberties, constant brainwashing & living on the brink of death/deadly hunger, as well as the famous work/death camps) the world has seen since World War 2.

The North Korean regime are monstrous, but that's no reason to be rude to them. If there live a psychopathic lunatic in the neighbourhood, I don't insult them, I call the cops on them.

And the world police doesn't seem to care about this regime at all.

[eric82oslo]

A great Norwegian poet, who wrote about the rise of the German nazi regime in the 1930ies, wrote a poem containing this famous line: "You must not endure so very well, the unjustice that does not affect yourself."
This summarizes what I feel about the North Korean regime, the real axis of evil.

For the whole poem, in an English translation, see this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1768546

[eric82oslo]

Are you willing to fight the North Korean army yourself Eric? Would you join the Swedish military if they joined in an international mission to fight North Korea? Or do people like my cousin's ex husband and the guy at Miami Subs who I used to work with, who are currently in the military, have to go and fight this war so you can feel better about the world?

Noone would have to fight it on the ground. The believe in ground troops is pretty old-fashioned.
The navy can do the job, with the additional help of drones. It's enough to bomb their central intelligence (presidential palace, military capacity, that sort of things).