North Korea

[luutzu]

The problem is, you can't un-invent an invention. It's widely known, and anybody with the necessary means can repeat the manufacture, regardless of his level of insanity.
The Greeks wrote a legend around that knowledge: Once Pandora's box was opened and her "gifts" were out, nobody was able to catch them all and stuff them back in again.

Couldn't we get Superman to collect it all, put it in a net then flung it into the Sun?

Good point about Pandora's Box. I've heard of the myth but never really thought about how it applies. The moral and stuff.

Good thing all the states with nukes are responsible world citizens not at all pushing their weight around like no one can touch them... oh wait.

 

[luutzu]

Indeed. It might have been hard to work it out in the first place but the means is widely enough known now that anyone with heavy manufacturing capability and access to raw materials could get themselves some nukes if they really wanted to. And there's enough deposits of uranium in the ground, and enough of the stuff around above ground, that cutting off the supply of materials won't stop them either. Sad but that's how it is.

Can't be that easy though right? Not with nukes that does a proper mushroom cloud. I mean I understand that any state with manufacturing capability can create themselves some form of WMD, but a nuke takes a special kind of crazy talent and money.

 

[luutzu]

Very true. A few nukes on missiles in the NT or on our subs wouldn't go astray for us either.

They might go astray on us though SirR.

Just finished watching that netflix Command and Control doco. One of their Triton II [?] nuke got a literal nut bounced into its fuel tank and soon enough the bunker blew its top. Luckily the warhead landed safely, without its electronics melted in some random way that could have triggered a blast that'd wipe out a fair chunk of a couple of states.

There's been some 1,500 "broken arrow" since WW2. That's code for oopsy, our nuke almost blew up on us.

I guess it does make you appreciate life a bit more.

 

[Wysiwyg]

"Our nuclear capacity is our guarantee of protecting our national sovereignty. It allows us to build peace, prosperity and power as well as the happiness of the people." Kim Jung Un.

So there we see the propaganda. The one path forward. That could change instantly if someone is willing to bust the melon to avert even greater suffering.

 

[Tisme]

I was wondering how South Korea will prevent the inflow of meth from state owned drug factories in N Korea when border restrictions are relaxed.

 

[waterbottle]

North Korea ‘Sending Out SOS’ as It Admits Unnamed Disease Has Spread to 350,000 People

Experts told VICE World News the outbreak is very likely COVID, with fears of “mass death” as the virus ravages the country’s unvaccinated and malnourished population.

www.vice.com

Hmmm, low on fuel, low on food, and now exposed to a contagious disease. Will this be the downfall of north korea?

 

[noirua]

US Treasury Report: North Korea and Scammers Using DeFi to Launder Dirty Money – Regulation Incoming?

The US Treasury has revealed that North Korean hackers and scammers exploit decentralized finance (DeFi) loopholes to launder money and hide criminal activity.

cryptonews.com

 

[mullokintyre]

In one of those , "it could only happen at the UN", it seems that North Korea has been appointed to the executive board of the WHO.
From MSN News

The recent addition of North Korea to the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board has reignited criticism of the global agency.

Last week, the WHO, led by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that 10 of its members would be granted the ability to designate a person to the organization's executive board. North Korea, a known United States adversary, was among the list of new board members.

Other countries joining the executive board are Australia, Barbados, Cameroon, Comoros, Lesotho, Qatar, Switzerland, Togo and Ukraine.

The announcement is the latest development to yield U.S. criticism for the WHO, which has faced ongoing scrutiny following its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The complaints reached a breaking point in 2020, when then-President Donald Trump moved to withdraw the United States from the organization, a lengthy process that requires a year's notice.

I am sure it will be fine, North Korea has completely eliminated COVID, so perhaps its a wise choice.
Mick

 

[wayneL]

Just reading this thread, this is what our resident Marxists would like life to be like in Australia, apparently.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

This book is getting noticed

North Korea’s deadly little sister

In the Hermit Kingdom every person except her dictator brother bows down to Kim Yo-jong.

www.afr.com

 

[noirua]

 

[Dona Ferentes]

 

[Dona Ferentes]

I don't care if it's true or fake ... but

Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, shares that a reliable source claims North Korean soldiers in Russia are experiencing unfettered internet access for the first time and are consuming large amounts of pornography.

 

[mullokintyre]

I don't care if it's true or fake ... but

Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, shares that a reliable source claims North Korean soldiers in Russia are experiencing unfettered internet access for the first time and are consuming large amounts of pornography.

As Billy Connoly once said, "God gave men enough blood in thier bodies to run their dick or their brain, but not enough to run both at the same time".
mick