Thread: North Korean strike timed?

Originally Posted by Hanna

In reality North Korea is just a is a backwards thrid world dictatorship that wants to be left alone

Do the people of N. Korea want to be left alone with that dictatorship? I bet you wouldn't. If the crappy dictator turns the people into animals and doesn't actually plan to turn them back, then I suppose, intervention of the world community is really needed.

Nerms, you're laying a bit thick. We're not that unreasonable.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Do the people of N. Korea want to be left alone with that dictatorship? I bet you wouldn't.

They would. You wouldn't probably believe it, but they ADORE their government (most of them). There is some dissent, of course, but they're told that their lives are miserable because of the South and the Americans and they believe it. It's hard to believe for you, maybe, because you don't know how propaganda brainwashing can affect human minds, but those like me who was born in the USSR times will understand and believe this. In order for N. Korean government to fall you'd need several years of heavy couter-propaganda campaign first. Military assault on North Korea will only strengthen their resolve - they will defend not only their home, but the very core of their ideas about what's right and what's wrong.
Asians do not think individually, but consider themselves as a part of whole, a nation. They have collectivist minds and individual values do not loom very large in their views.