[quote=Magic Magnum]
All I saw was a new program claiming he's having issues 'walking'. Odd's are there's something far more serious at play, but I wouldn't get excited about him dying quite yet.But if he does die and North Korea enters a power play, it might be smart to Annex/Free the nation from dictator rule. Join them up with South Korea again and just have a free Korea overall like the South has been enjoying for a while now.
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Those who defected from North Korea to live in South Korea are usually pushed into specific neighbourhoods and apartment buildings. The people are generally smaller and very easy to differentiate. There is a stigma, unspoken separation, and generally, North Koreans are not see as the same. They are to be avoided. There are literally television shows made solely to humanize North Korean refugees in the country. If you think brainwashing is only in North Korea, or that unification is simply erasing borders, you may be surprised what decades of undervaluing and demonizing does to the mind and a people. It's not a simple solution.

[quote=Wayne]Either way, I'm convinced that even if WW3 isn't going to happen, then something that'll dwarf 9/11 will, and that it's right on the horizon. The next 10 years look very gloomy for me. Only goes to show me how Murphy's law could very well be perfectly applied to politics, and how history seems doomed to repeat itself no matter how much humanity tries to change it.[/quote]

You mean for Americans? Because there have been dozens of genocides, terrorist attacks, and civilian deaths all around the world that I would say dwarf our 9/11 by far. Where our worst memory in recent history struck in a matter of less than half a hour, killing a thousands of civilians, the wars they led to have caused more civilian deaths over a decade -- meaning unlike us who now fear for safety from one event, there are children who grew up fearing air-strikes and sieges indiscriminately killing their families or them. I'd say that dwarfs 9/11 by far.