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[MaximumZero]

As an Iron Monkey myself, I disagree.

Iron Monkey is a good name for a band

It was a fun popcorn Wire Fu film.

[uber pye]

2016 has to end eventually right? Please?

No. This is our world now. We saw the last offramp and went past it going 40 over.

I'm not ever going to make a 2012 joke again. They're all 2016.

4 years off for the end of the world? that's pretty good accuracy for a ancient society.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

I say moderate left because both left and right in korea are much more to the right than the US :v

Wait what. I thought the US leaned to the right... but if Korea is to the US as the US is to the Civilized World (), then... is it Arch-Conservative heaven?

[Flying Dice]

I say moderate left because both left and right in korea are much more to the right than the US :v

Wait what. I thought the US leaned to the right... but if Korea is to the US as the US is to the Civilized World (), then... is it Arch-Conservative heaven?

South Korea was under an anticommunist military junta from '61-'63, and was an authoritarian nominal presidential republic after that until Great Leader was assassinated in '79. The successor state was another military junta, essentially, which held power until '87. You're talking close to thirty years of military rule and a strong history of anticommunism intermingled with that, so it's not particularly surprising. At least, that's my amateur understanding of post-WWII S. Korean history.

The U.S. is only right-leaning by Western European standards. And barely, at that.

[misko27]

I say moderate left because both left and right in korea are much more to the right than the US :v

Wait what. I thought the US leaned to the right... but if Korea is to the US as the US is to the Civilized World (), then... is it Arch-Conservative heaven?

It was literally a military dictatorship for a long time. One of the reasons North Korea today looks so incompetent is because South Korea isn't, but when it wasn't North Korea very often successfully undermined (sometimes literally, fucking tunnels) the South Korean state. President Park's father (also named President Park because naming conventions) was a dictator who was assassinated by the North Koreans.  South Korea as a whole has come very far in relatively little time and is a wise reminder that democratization and economic growth do a lot more to trivialize your enemies than mere military might and paranoia.

[redwallzyl]

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/30/503884102/for-autocrats-in-need-of-statues-north-korea-is-no-longer-an-option

apparently North Korea was the main supplier of statues dictators and they have just been banned from it. lol

[MagmaMcFry]

Lookie there, we got a new title!

[Cyroth]

apparently North Korea was the main supplier of statues dictators and they have just been banned from it. lol

So best Korea was making millions by exporting ☼Bronze Statue☼ to dictators around the globe...
That is actually kinda awesome, in a weird kind of way.

[martinuzz]

Kim Yong Urist

[Strife26]

They're shorter than the average world population, reclusive, possessed of strange cultural norms, denial of reality, and with a fondness for earthworks.

I mean, just look at how awesome the infiltration tunnels are, especially with the claim that they're totally coal mines.

North Korea: closest thing around to a dwarven fortress.

[Baffler]

They're shorter than the average world population, reclusive, possessed of strange cultural norms, denial of reality, and with a fondness for earthworks.

I mean, just look at how awesome the infiltration tunnels are, especially with the claim that they're totally coal mines.

North Korea: closest thing around to a dwarven fortress.

That also explains the state of North Korean technology. They're stuck in the Fortress Mode Time Bubble, so it can take the better part of a day to do something as simple as getting something to eat...

[Egan_BW]

Or maybe it's just the Standard Medieval Fantasy Technology Stasis.

[Ghazkull]

So all those stories of unicorns and the kims being able to do magic were not lies but north korea actually is located in a good biome (aka Joyous Wilds)?

[wierd]

Naw, the deployment of their nuke tests will turn it sinister soon enough.

[Cyroth]

So, it is actually Dorf Korea, and we have only been getting the name wrong all these years?