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Kim Jong UN warned by U.N. for 'Crimes against humanity'

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Original post by Drewski
Arthur Conan Doyle had evidence of fairies, too...


Anyway, gob off, this is about North Korea.


Lets talk about Korea then. As I was saying, Kim Jong Un is a shining example of a great leader, and how a country and society should be.
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Original post by Umar1
If only they had oil or any other sought after resource.

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Not much of a market in the west for sweet and sour Labrador...
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Original post by thebeautywithin
Lets talk about Korea then. As I was saying, Kim Jong Un is a shining example of a great leader, and how a country and society should be.



then how bout you go move there?

I love people who gripe about some situation and don't act. Typical hypocrite and I might add quite a sick person you are if you support murdering babies and prison camps.
Original post by silverbolt
of course it isnt - how much stuff gets made and shipped out of china, plus its on its way to becoming a super power. The UN doesnt like sending bullying letters to people who can actually fight back effectively.

North Korea is a nice easy little target.

But dont worry as soon as we find oil we will invade to "liberate the people"


lmao, you seem to be serious.

Poor little North Korea, being bullied by the big bad UN. Such a victim.
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Original post by ModernScholar
*Insert typical comment stating how immoral the non-Communist state of North Korea is while lauding the benefits of "democracy" here*



If you hate democracy so much, I'll repeat again, how about moving to a non-democratic state?
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Original post by thebeautywithin
Lets talk about Korea then. As I was saying, Kim Jong Un is a shining example of a great leader, and how a country and society should be.

A country where its people are in poverty and have no idea what's going on around them? The leader has done a great job..
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Original post by thebeautywithin
Lets talk about Korea then. As I was saying, Kim Jong Un is a shining example of a great leader, and how a country and society should be.


Is he, though? Ever met the guy? Ever even read an interview with him?
All we hear about is pointless competitions (South Korea hosts the next Winter Olympics, so North Korea has to build a ski resort... priorities?) or how the country lags behind (ever seen an aerial picture of North Korea at night? Google it), or just rips off other country's ideas and inventions.

The state media is as ridiculous a hyperbole for them as our media is against them. Is there such a thing as a rational unbiased view? No, because no-one's allowed in.

The guy himself might be alright. If we ignore every report we ever hear about him. But we'd never know because we have no way in.

And if you think a country should be like that, why are you here, online? Surely you appreciate and want the finer, quieter things in life like no internet?
Original post by silverbolt
of course it isnt - how much stuff gets made and shipped out of china, plus its on its way to becoming a super power. The UN doesnt like sending bullying letters to people who can actually fight back effectively.

North Korea is a nice easy little target.

But dont worry as soon as we find oil we will invade to "liberate the people"


And Chinese exports are decreasing in response to a contracting purchase market for manufactured goods and a necessity to transform to a consumer market. Which, by in large, is a very difficult task as there is a hugely dense population in China with a multitude of demographic restrictions and an extremely pragmatic economic transition model which may not even work. It may lead to fracturing of the Communist Party, it may lead to a democratization process, who knows? But it is, in my opinion, a bit far-fetched to assume they are on the road to a superpower. They are a great power but a superpower is something else.

Also, can you elaborate on your "war for oil" argument? That is reeking of bull**** from here.
Original post by johnh1983
If you hate democracy so much, I'll repeat again, how about moving to a non-democratic state?


I don't have the choice of moving to a truly democratic area as none exist. Representative democracy is an oligarchy in disguise. The Iron Law of Oligarchy comes to mind. I am critical of representative democracy, "democracy" as I called it above.
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Original post by ModernScholar
I don't have the choice of moving to a truly democratic area as none exist. Representative democracy is an oligarchy in disguise. The Iron Law of Oligarchy comes to mind. I am critical of representative democracy, "democracy" as I called it above.


You know what I meant.

Go to N. Korea if you fancy Kim Jong Un so much. I'm sure he'll be glad to put you in a prison camp.


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Original post by johnh1983
You know what I meant.

Go to N. Korea if you fancy Kim Jong Un so much. I'm sure he'll be glad to put you in a prison camp.


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I don't think you have a clue about what I've been saying. I'm critical of North Korea, of people's incorrect labels of its system (it is not Communist) and of our representative democracy which is really an oligarchy. Direct democracy is far more democratic than what we use in the west.
Original post by thebeautywithin
Lets talk about Korea then. As I was saying, Kim Jong Un is a shining example of a great leader, and how a country and society should be.


You feel so free to express your views. You do realise in a place like North Korea you are not allowed such freedoms? And that you might have been drowned as a baby instead?

No country or system is perfect, but if you feel the need to murder babies, you're going very wrong somewhere.
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Original post by ModernScholar
I don't think you have a clue about what I've been saying. I'm critical of North Korea, of people's incorrect labels of its system (it is not Communist) and of our representative democracy which is really an oligarchy. Direct democracy is far more democratic than what we use in the west.


Who said N Korea was communist it's under a dictatorship that's among the worst of its kind.

Utopia presently doesn't exist and as far as I know it never has and historically, communism and Marxism fails miserably in every implementation ever conceived.

Also, If you think I don't know anything about communism look at where I live and tell me how many people you think I've spoken with who have experienced how awful it is first hand. Communism is fine in concept and not great at all in implementation.


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Back on topic, whilst we need to stop all the human rights abuse in North Korea, how can we stop it? If we use force, they have a considerable army, and possibly nuclear weapons, and sanctioning them just makes it worse for the population.
Original post by andrew2209
Back on topic, whilst we need to stop all the human rights abuse in North Korea, how can we stop it? If we use force, they have a considerable army, and possibly nuclear weapons, and sanctioning them just makes it worse for the population.


I sincerely feel that the 'nuclear weapons' that North Korea has are just ex-soviet bubblegum machines strapped to a couple of explosives.
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Original post by SHallowvale
I sincerely feel that the 'nuclear weapons' that North Korea has are just ex-soviet bubblegum machines strapped to a couple of explosives.


They have "capability" in the form of a weapon with zero mobility. They can nuke themselves and S. Korea/China essentially. So basically, you're right :tongue:


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Original post by johnh1983
Who said N Korea was communist it's under a dictatorship that's among the worst of its kind.

Utopia presently doesn't exist and as far as I know it never has and historically, communism and Marxism fails miserably in every implementation ever conceived.

Also, If you think I don't know anything about communism look at where I live and tell me how many people you think I've spoken with who have experienced how awful it is first hand. Communism is fine in concept and not great at all in implementation.


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Thank you for confirming that you know nothing about Communism. No one has experienced the implementation of communism, only the warped and horribly distorted attempts at transitioning to a communist society. Leninism, Marxist-Leninism, Trotskyism, Stalinism or anything else which branched off of Lenin's re-conceptualisation of Marx's thinking was guaranteed to fail almost immediately after the 1917 February revolution in Russia, seeing as the October Revolution was carried out without the people of Russia in mind, organised around an authoritarian and centralised means of control which threw out everything that was fought for in the February Revolution.

Additionally your statement that Marxism has failed in implementing such and such is nonsense because Marxism does not exist to implement but to analyse and critique, merely recommending social change via a different set of ideas, namely ideologies under the category of Communism (the movement). It is a socio-economic and political world view, not a revolutionary socialist movement.

Furthermore, Utopias cannot exist as they are imaginary, idealised and perfect goals. A communist society on the other hand, while being purely theoretical and based on certain historical modes of living, acts as a goal that is possibly obtainable given the right circumstances. Utopias cannot exist as the right circumstances are impossible for them, as they require perfection. Good luck finding perfection in a world that has an infinite number of spanners to throw in the works.
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Original post by ModernScholar
Thank you for confirming that you know nothing about Communism. No one has experienced the implementation of communism, only the warped and horribly distorted attempts at transitioning to a communist society. Leninism, Marxist-Leninism, Trotskyism, Stalinism or anything else which branched off of Lenin's re-conceptualisation of Marx's thinking was guaranteed to fail almost immediately after the 1917 February revolution in Russia, seeing as the October Revolution was carried out without the people of Russia in mind, organised around an authoritarian and centralised means of control which threw out everything that was fought for in the February Revolution.

Additionally your statement that Marxism has failed in implementing such and such is nonsense because Marxism does not exist to implement but to analyse and critique, merely recommending social change via a different set of ideas, namely ideologies under the category of Communism (the movement). It is a socio-economic and political world view, not a revolutionary socialist movement.

Furthermore, Utopias cannot exist as they are imaginary, idealised and perfect goals. A communist society on the other hand, while being purely theoretical and based on certain historical modes of living, acts as a goal that is possibly obtainable given the right circumstances. Utopias cannot exist as the right circumstances are impossible for them, as they require perfection. Good luck finding perfection in a world that has an infinite number of spanners to throw in the works.


No, you're wrong. Castro is a communist and Therefore Cuba has been under a communist regime. I full we'll realize what utopia is. The whole point of me mentioning it was you seem to think it is possible to implement and it only can be in some fantasy land you have in your head. Communism puts far too much power in the hands of far too few along with stunting monetary growth or any kind of economic prosperity. It's you who seems to think it can. I'm bored with this at this point and would like to return to the original topic.


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Original post by havefunallday
Time for democracy. Also, China needs democracy. China's actually horrendously bad when it comes to human rights but it's not as publicised.



Who are you to decide what is best for another country? You want the UK "democracy" with 2 parties that win and do not represent the views of the people in either case.
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Original post by johnh1983
No, you're wrong. Castro is a communist and Therefore Cuba has been under a communist regime. I full we'll realize what utopia is. The whole point of me mentioning it was you seem to think it is possible to implement and it only can be in some fantasy land you have in your head. Communism puts far too much power in the hands of far too few along with stunting monetary growth or any kind of economic prosperity. It's you who seems to think it can. I'm bored with this at this point and would like to return to the original topic.


Communism is a state of being, given definition you can't really be 'under a communist regime'.

Original post by ModernScholar
Utopias cannot exist as they are imaginary, idealised and perfect goals.


Noting how you pluralise utopia lets say you can get ideological utopias so for instance a communist or capitalist utopia. These ism are all purist, but there's nothing to say utopias are. Maybe it's arguable then that whatever the circumstances are isn't that a form of utopia? Instead of being 'perfect goal', maybe its so pervasive that it's meaningless.

I'm just rambling but I'd like to see that sort of theoretical argument extended haha :smile:.

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