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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Because, as you said, it is new. And this could have political implications.

[Owlbread]

I read lots of stories once about rumoured European/white POWs from the Korean War that stayed in North Korea until they died. Escaped prisoners telling stories of seeing old European men working by themselves, tilling the ground and such. I always thought they were nonsense though. Joe Dreznok is still out there but he's a defector, and his liver is "full of fat" as he says so he probably won't last long.

[DWC]

I've always wondered why the rest of the world has even tolerated North Korea's existence. Haven't they always been a belligerent psychopathic rouge nation especially since after the Korean war?

I'm not sure why the US has militarily intervened in rather benign countries on dubious pretenses for decades, but has done nothing about a much more relevant threat to peace. So they invade Iraq on some suspision of having chemical weapons and here is North Korea actually possessing and building nuclear weapons, gearing up for the apocalypse while at the same time the US is anxious to find reason to intervene in Syria. What the fuck?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You are not quite understanding the history. North Korea as a rogue nation only began after the Soviet-Sino Split and intensified after the fall of the Soviet Union. Before that they weren't much better or worse than the USSR or PRC. North Korea and South Korea had approximately the same GDP until 1970.

For the most part, China took North Korea with it during the Soviet-Sino Split, one of only a few nations to end up in the Chinese alliance. The US began having positive relations with the PRC soon afterwards. This made North Korea all but off-limits to international activity.

[Owlbread]

You are not quite understanding the history. North Korea as a rogue nation only began after the Soviet-Sino Split and intensified after the fall of the Soviet Union. Before that they weren't much better or worse than the USSR or PRC. North Korea and South Korea had approximately the same GDP until 1970.

For the most part, China took North Korea with it during the Soviet-Sino Split, one of only a few nations to end up in the Chinese alliance. The US began having positive relations with the PRC soon afterwards. This made North Korea all but off-limits to international activity.

Some even say that in the 70s, people looked at the suffering of the South Koreans and at the relative prosperity of the North (with their health care system, education, job security etc) and thought that Communism might even have been working better than Capitalism. That was of course due to, primarily, aid from the Chinese and Soviets. Now most of the North Korean electrical grid is a rusted spiderweb of useless cables and water doesn't even come out of the taps.

[MonkeyHead]

I've always wondered why the rest of the world has even tolerated North Korea's existence. Haven't they always been a belligerent psychopathic rouge nation especially since after the Korean war?

I'm not sure why the US has militarily intervened in rather benign countries on dubious pretenses for decades, but has done nothing about a much more relevant threat to peace. So they invade Iraq on some suspision of having chemical weapons and here is North Korea actually possessing and building nuclear weapons, gearing up for the apocalypse while at the same time the US is anxious to find reason to intervene in Syria. What the fuck?

That, and Iraq/Afghanistan did not have one of the worlds major powers as a signifigant backer. Regarding NK, the US does not want to piss off China.

[Haspen]

Also, Arabian countries have oil, while NK, not really

[stabbymcstabstab]

NK actually has quite a bit of oil and a few natural resources, its really the only reason China tolerates them.

[Owlbread]

That, and Iraq/Afghanistan did not have one of the worlds major powers as a signifigant backer. Regarding NK, the US does not want to piss off China.

Iraq lost that after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the distancing between the UK and Iraq following the Iraqi/Iranian war.

[Tellemurius]

NK actually has quite a bit of oil and a few natural resources, its really the only reason China tolerates them.

yet they send coal to them and have their trains stolen

[Felius]

The general consensus is that China tolerates North Korea because it wants a buffer state from South Korea, as the latter might as well be an American puppet state.

[misko27]

Iraq, it should be noted, HAD chemical weapons, and used them at least in 3 separate instances, including against a popular uprising. It was the idea of those same guys having Nuclear weapons that lead to them. Also remembrance of 911 didn't help.


AS for NK, it's thought China themselves would intervene if they ever thought they would actually use them. Think of it like this: China gains little from a global Apocalypse.

[Sirus]

Who would gain ANYTHING from a global apocalypse?

[Tellemurius]

Who would gain ANYTHING from a global apocalypse?

crabs people
mole men
roaches
twinkie boy
atom man

[misko27]

Probably that one crazy guy with a really big bunker.


Also the The people who make water purifiers. Many gold nuts. Somewhere, a biker gang with radiation proof suits have been waiting for this moment.