Out of Pod Experience

All evidence seems to point to "that brainwashed." However all evidence also seems to come from government approved sources, so who knows?

Cry...or die

It's kind of funny to look at how far the apple falls from the tree.

Kim Il Sung: Carved a nation out of the mud, fought the US supported South to a standstill.

Kim Jong Il: Amassed a massive Hollywood movie collection upon the backs of his people, connoisseur of fine wines and platform shoes.

I imagine Kim Jong Un will be a Michael Jackson fanatic and collect Andy Warhol soup cans.

If the cameras are on you you're suppose to put on a show... Great leader maybe dead but his rules and influence wont go away for awhile. Note that everyone is crying in the same manner...looks almost rehearsed. That's because they're all acting.

Doubtful. A war would end the good times that the NK elite (including the generals) have been enjoying. The NK leadership needs a boogeyman (aka SK and the US) to help justify their grip on society.

It would not surprise me if this were all acting... such things are common place in dictatorships like the N. Korean one. One thing is certain though, Kim's dead. Now what happens?

And the Generals would have to be REALLY nuts to get actually aggressive with S. Korea. There just isn't any actual sense in it. Unless you're crazy. Then it might make perfect sense.

I think things will stay as is. A political hot-pot.

North Korea has NO civil liberties
in north korea you are taught that Kim or w/e the leaders are are Gods and that north korea is the greatest country in the world
North Korea has one of the largest armies in the world, too bad all the money going into that could be saving the starving citizens.
if you try to leave the country you are killed

it's illegal to take video or pictures while in the country unless you get permission
there is a documentry where a doctor goes and cures simple disease in NK, when everyone is healed all the people go up to a church alter thing and say thank you to their great leader.

we shouldn't have went to war with iraq... we should have liberated North Korea i only hope that the death of their leader will give
+ some media attention so people want to help
+ a chance for a new leadership to take place
unfortunately he has a son, who will most likely continue the crap that happens but he is too young, so there will be a few years of hope.

A better outcome: pull all US assets back to CONUS and if they want to be idiots, let them destroy each other.

China has one very real fear, and that is that the U.S. will reprimand them in some way for aiding N. Korea directly, so they WILL NOT get involved in the war. They may send weapons or something, but to be completely honest the war will end so quickly it wouldn't be meaningful.

Why is China scared? Well, our military grandstanding (ohai nuclear submarines that surfaced a few miles from our shorelines, you weren't supposed to be there) and over all military power would pretty much ensure that China would not come out of a war on top. This is why they have been tying our economy to theirs over the past thirty-forty years, and why they have been developing principally defensive weapons (like the super-fast anti-carrier rockets, America is really the only country with a significant naval force that acts as an extension of power rather than a defensive barrier). In other words, a war with China would be too costly for us, but then, so was Iraq and Afghanistan and Americans really aren't known for their ability to refrain from pointless wars.

The war would go something like this: North Korea begins massive artillery barrage of US and SK positions, and on Seoul. Forty minutes later, the entire area of SK within range of the NK artillery is a no mans land. Commence movement of American carrier groups, endless bombing to hell of every NK position, possible use of a NK nuke following a complete abandonment by their allies, and then a swift and brutal end to what remains of the NK military. The now reunified Korean state is in complete and utter shambles, and a very, very slow rebuilding process begins. China now dominates the East-Asian economic sphere.


Japan will definitely enter the war, China will not (as much as they like allies, they aren't complete raging idiots either, SK and Japan are far too important as allies for us to sit idly by, and China hates that whole "not profiting" thing).
Oh, and China would not involve its Nuclear arsenal and Hillary Clinton would personally **** any general who even mentioned thinking about using ICBMs against NK, because of its proximity to two very large nuclear capable states. You can't accurately predict where an ICBM is going until its in its final stages, which is usually too late. Use of more conventional means of dropping the bomb might happen, but its still unlikely. It would, however, be the first major conflict between two nuclear armed states, which is a terrifying prospect. For evidence regarding Clinton's anger with army generals, I point to a time when some idiot mentioned re-purposing ICBMs as long-range cruise missiles. The facepalm was visible from space.

Well, we could use another M*A*S*H series.