>>145388

That is an angle that hadn't occurred to me… but it somewhat fits.

I doubt it would actually work out as well as NK has for them given how dependent NK is on charity to not die…

But damned if that would stop them from leaping in with both feet.

The Asian cultures also respond to and think about authority differently. Though Gen Urobuchi's works would have you believe there is some manner of full on libertarian revolution going on in Japan… particularly after watching Psychopass… holy crap. That should be a mandatory Political Science watch and debate.

Anyway…

If viewed from the idea of it being a testbed for future government models… such as the "Agenda 2030" type stuff… NK is hauntingly on point and devoid of people.

They have the whole "electric conservation" thing down pat.

>>148625

Yeah… I saw that article mirrored on ZH a few days ago… and laughed.

Whoever wrote it has no idea what goes into fighting a war.

We have B-1s and, possibly, B-2s out of Guam (they like to keep the B-2s hopping and they don't have many facilities outside of Whiteman to be able to properly house them).

North Korea is a small country. The size of Illinois. To say we can establish air superiority is an understatement. With the first combat sortie off of one of the carriers, we have air superiority. South Korea supplements with their F-15s.

A pair of B-1s could completely ravage the entire nation's infrastructure - even in the absence of carrier wing support. The B-1 was designed to deliver nuclear ordnance at supersonic speeds (or near those) using an automatic terrain following radar system.

In less than an hour, we could hit every major target with JDAM and JSOW combinations. Supplementing with TLAMs and strikes from the carriers and South Korea….

It's… actually kind of sick how powerless North Korea is if we actually decide to do something.

North Korea doesn't have the resources to mount a counter-attack or land invasion. They could get cute with their subs and maybe hit a carrier (unlikely to sink - would need multiple hits and we still have good damage control training) - but their best bet is to sink some merchant ships to flip us the bird before we mop those up.

Their greatest threat is telling all of their people that South Korea has food and hand them a gun … but they have no real logistical means to maneuver forces. They can basically leverage a refugee crisis.

And that is if South Korea's ATACMS doesn't out a hand grenade in every square meter over their heads.

Nukes don't even enter the picture. We took that launch pad out with the "surprise!" Announcement. They don't have second-strike capability.

I know I sound like an oo-rah, here… but … I have been to the border. I saw little 4'9" NK soldiers bopping around over there. I've researched what capacities they have… it's… ridiculous. The entire fiasco over there is ridiculous.

I saw someone with some Oz references from Q. I'll supplement my own questions to help re-frame the reference.

Who is the Wizard of Oz?

What is the Yellow Brick Road?

How much is an ounce of Gold?

Per the Coinage Act… how much is an ounce of gold?

Where does the Yellow Brick Road lead?

>>148530

Following up on this from a geopolitical standpoint…

During the Korean War, the Chinese were actively supporting North Korea. The front line occasionally pushed into Chinese territory.

In a classic imperial sense - we had control of the whole peninsula before we decided to hand North Korea back their half (more or less). It was a decision that didn't entirely make sense to me, and seemed completely contrary to our policy goals at the time.

The assumption is that China took them back under their wing and that has continued to this day…

But let's assume the rest of the world still sees North Korea as U.S. territory. We just never signed a peace treaty with it.

This explains the complete nonsense of our force presence in South Korea. We have intel analysts, and even the guys on the ground know that North Korea is waaaaay in over their heads if shooting breaks out.

But… let's say that gold from the fed and fort knox is in North Korea. It seems somewhat illogical to put it there - and it is purely a piggy-back off of earlier comments about federal reserve printing presses…

In either case, this explains the lack of action against NK by China - who is more or less being told to placate a territory they lost control of 70 years ago. We have a sizeable contingent force there and have South Korea spun up, too.

So… let's say China were to try and invade North Korea and put an end to the charade. They could… but the whole of North Korea is basically a no-mans-land where air forces and artillery can mulch them up. Perhaps this was even the real starting motivation/theory. Keep a puppet bogeyman state between the communists using human-wave tactics, and the capitalists.

This may have later morphed into the relationship we see today.

Which has some interesting implications for Vietnam - or how that idea didn't translate.

The reason for the increased armament of NK would then be because of the rise of Russia and China back to the global military stage. The cabal doesn't want anyone peeking behind the curtain, and Kim doesn't exactly want to be the curtain when it's being set on fire.

So, the dog and pony show to get an increased presence in SK, with perhaps a little comfort-plutonium to make Kim feel like he can do something to ward off attackers.

The pieces all fit… but is it a face in the clouds or a true pattern?

>>153774

Federal reserve notes, bitcoin… North Korea is sure suspected of messing with currencies, a lot… Must be pretty skilled, too… a country with Apple-IIs linked together in a small corporate intranet are committing high stakes heists of modern cryptocurrencies.

. . . . . . A thought occurred. Random brainstorm, here. Team America… who is the villain? No… who is really the villain? FAG. Translate to the current scene… who runs the muslim terrorists? Who runs North Korea… who really runs North Korea? Who is wrapped up with defending terrorists?

Not saying it was anything more than satire… but… I think someone on the writing team was doing some research.