North Korean missile launch

[Weatherman]

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch Sunday that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its long-range missile technology.

Liftoff took place at 11:30 a.m. (0230GMT) Sunday from the coastal Musudan-ri launch pad in northeastern North Korea, the South Korean and U.S. governments said.

Japan immediately called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council.

The multistage rocket flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese broadcaster NHK said, citing its government.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_missile

[Razgovory]

Guess they didn't try to shoot it down after all.

[jimmy olsen]

Guess they didn't try to shoot it down after all.

They were only going to try and shoot it down if it was going to land on Japan.

[Siege]

I think that North Korea needs to be freed.

[Tamas]

I think that North Korea needs to be freed.

No oil - no freedom.


BTW, Dream of Mirrors is an excellent song.

[FunkMonk]

I think that North Korea needs to be freed.

Do you mean its people liberated from the shackles of totalitarianism or freed from the confines of the physical world? 

[Neil]

I think that North Korea needs to be freed.

Do you mean its people liberated from the shackles of totalitarianism or freed from the confines of the physical world? 

The second.  The North Korean people have been psychologically crippled by their government, and will be incapable of functioning as humans after they are freed.  It would make more sense to exterminate them and then have the Japanese recolonize the territory.

[Razgovory]

I think that North Korea needs to be freed.

Do you mean its people liberated from the shackles of totalitarianism or freed from the confines of the physical world? 

Both!

[jimmy olsen]

I think that North Korea needs to be freed.

Do you mean its people liberated from the shackles of totalitarianism or freed from the confines of the physical world? 

The second.  The North Korean people have been psychologically crippled by their government, and will be incapable of functioning as humans after they are freed.  It would make more sense to exterminate them and then have the Japanese recolonize the territory.

The Japanese would have to start having children again if they want to start colonizing anywhere.

[Neil]

I think that North Korea needs to be freed.

Do you mean its people liberated from the shackles of totalitarianism or freed from the confines of the physical world? 

The second.  The North Korean people have been psychologically crippled by their government, and will be incapable of functioning as humans after they are freed.  It would make more sense to exterminate them and then have the Japanese recolonize the territory.

The Japanese would have to start having children again if they want to start colonizing anywhere.

Indeed.  Because it would be impossible for Japanese people to live at a lower density than they do right now.  In fact, those ages when they had a lower population density never happened.

[Habsburg]

 

[jimmy olsen]

 

[Sheilbh]

The second.  The North Korean people have been psychologically crippled by their government, and will be incapable of functioning as humans after they are freed.  It would make more sense to exterminate them and then have the Japanese recolonize the territory.

The psychological crippling thing isn't as true as people think.  I believe it was until the 1990s.  The famine forced some trade in border regions and produced so many refugees and so much contact with China that people aren't anywhere near as isolated as they're commonly thought, or once were.

[Neil]

The psychological crippling thing isn't as true as people think.  I believe it was until the 1990s.  The famine forced some trade in border regions and produced so many refugees and so much contact with China that people aren't anywhere near as isolated as they're commonly thought, or once were.

I read an interesting article in the Atlantic a few years back about how North Koreans had a difficult time adjusting to life in the South, and violence rates are so much higher for them due to their inability to handle conflict in a free society.