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On August 20 2014 23:45 ahswtini wrote:
What would China do if it decided to topple the regime? Assimilate it into China? Make it some kind of SAR, or hand it over to the South?

On August 20 2014 23:56 rice_devOurer wrote:

probably hand it over to the south.

China has enough problems dealing with tibet and xinjiang. Why would they want more?

On August 21 2014 00:15 Gesh wrote:


I doubt that, because they will have a US ally in their backyard and they do not want this.

On August 21 2014 00:26 rice_devOurer wrote:

aren't taiwan, japan, and south korea already close enough to be "in their backyard"?

On August 20 2014 21:38 Taf the Ghost wrote:
The little detail lately is the 500ish mile range Missile. Doesn't sound like a huge issue for China-North Korea, but that puts Beijing within Missile range of NK. Something to keep in mind.

On August 20 2014 23:54 FFW_Rude wrote:


Oh i don't think so. Lots of countries would sends team, or take ground offensive, Talk things through with diplomacy or something.
I don't think the Chinese would bother with that. They don't care what people think of them and would get radical action (and they would be right).

Of course this is just IMO and not trustworthy :p

North Korean detainees Kenneth Bae, Matthew Miller and Jeffrey Fowle plead for US intervention in CNN interview

A group of Americans being held in North Korea have used a television interview from Pyongyang to plead for the US government to intervene.

The three US citizens are either convicted or facing trial in North Korea. Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Fowle have given interviews to US network CNN to explain their plight. The three men said they were being treated humanely but asked the US government to get more actively involved in helping resolve their situation.

"I've been asking the American government to act upon getting me released here," Mr Bae said. "I do believe that a special envoy needs to come in order to resolve the situation I am in right now."

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Mr Miller, 24, who was arrested in April after he reportedly ripped up his visa at immigration and demanded asylum, pleaded for help from the US government.

"My situation is very urgent, that very soon I am going to trial, and I would directly be sent to prison," he said.

All three men said they signed statements admitting their guilt, CNN reported.

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CNN reporter Will Ripley said officials told the crew that each interview would be conducted separately, would last five minutes and would address limited topics, including any message the men might have for their families or the US government.

It was not clear to what extent the detained Americans were speaking freely, although they all had similar messages and Mr Ripley said that the rooms where the interviews were conducted were full of North Koreans watching.

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Matthew Todd Miller:

"My situation is very urgent, that very soon I am going to trial, and I would directly be sent to prison," he said.

North Korea Test Fires Short-Range Missiles In Sea Of Japan

North Korea claims to have successfully test-fired three short-range missiles with a range of slightly over 100 miles.

Fired from the testing base in Wonsan on the east coast, the projectiles flew 130 miles before falling harmlessly into the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military told the New York Times.

South Korean officials said the action by its Communist neighbor tested whether the new missile exceeded the range of North Korea's KN-2 missile; they believed the same missile was test-fired by the North Koreans last month and on Monday as well.

North Korea said it successfully tested a newly developed tactical missile after test firing five-such missiles last month.

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US man gets six years hard labour in N Korea

North Korea has sentenced one of three detained Americans to six years of hard labour, a statement carried by state media said.

In the statement issued following a trial on Sunday, Pyongyang said Matthew Miller committed "hostile acts" as a tourist in the isolated country.

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North Korea has yet to announce a trial date for fellow US citizen Jeffrey Fowle, 56, from Miamisburg, Ohio, who was arrested in May this year for leaving a bible under the toilet of a sailor's club in the eastern port city of Chongjin.

A third American, Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, is serving out a 15-year sentence for alleged "hostile acts".

On September 14 2014 19:21 Deleuze wrote:


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Poor guy.

On September 14 2014 23:18 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:

Matthew Miller can only blame himself

On September 07 2014 23:51 KwarK wrote:
In fairness we only have NK's word that he did that. Also a life of slave labour isn't really a fair punishment for being really, really dumb once.

On September 16 2014 13:46 crazyweasel wrote:
poor guy, he's been asking to get retrieved yet american who visit such countries are blacklisted by their own government..

On September 16 2014 13:46 crazyweasel wrote:
anyways, do you guys still believe NK does alarming things (besides starving its own people) ? i mean they're no real threat to anyone even if their new missile can reach china, they would'nt launch it against the only country that provides them everything they have.

On September 16 2014 13:46 crazyweasel wrote:
when this thread started, people where talking about nuclear war and shit. nothing happened of course. If we were to name the actual threatning(to worldwide peace) countries, those who have invaded countries recently, we would list Russia, Usa and Israel. I don't know who we should be worried about really...

On September 16 2014 14:08 sgtnoobkilla wrote:

How exactly is that blacklisting? No government is responsible for saving you from your own stupidity.

The U.S. State Department issues many warnings prior to Americans travelling to NK. If that's not enough, the 7 other Americans who have been detained in the past should have already given you a clue about these kinds of incidents happening to people to travel there despite being warned.


No real threat to the South that they want to turn into a "sea of fire" or reunify under their control through force of arms?

I guess those peace-democratic-self-sufficient-loving North Koreans must be holding hands and singing kumbaya at the DMZ against the evil Yanks and their puppet Southerner slaves!


Apples and oranges.

Neither of those countries (well...maybe not Israel if things got desperate enough for them) would ever actually use their nuclear arsenal to blow up their neighbours. That doesn't make what they're doing right of course, but everything else is just chest thumping at the international level.

On September 16 2014 23:01 crazyweasel wrote:


"How exactly is that blacklisting? No government is responsible for saving you from your own stupidity."
people who travel to certain places such as NK or Cuba are then blacklisted in every airport in USA. they will never ever go in and out without being thouroughly interrogated and searched. that is being blacklisted.

my point was just to put things in perspective, to be critical of our occidental governments whose dirtybusiness is hidden under the mat while we are in awe seeing NK's agressive stance.