Thus spoke Dear Leader:
If the south Korean puppet forces show any sign of the slightest provocation, political, military and economic, against the DPRK, backed by the U.S. imperialists, we will immediately react to them by the just tactics of wiping out one by one, eliminate all rubbish of the nation from the Korean Peninsula and build on it rich and powerful reunified Korea where all Koreans enjoy prosperity.This dear leader guy sounds like a nice fellow, does he?
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Why doesn't he promise the "Mother of All Battles" too? The last man to bluster like this ended up on the end of a hangman's rope. TR said "talk softly and carry a big stick". This is the prescription of the wise and strong. Kim is neither, so he tries to bluff.
Indeed. Such bluster might be a sign that he is feeling weak on the domestic front. But who knows, really.
From what I read, it looks like the US has had SK under our nuclear umbrella for a long time, pretty explicitly. So apparently, we would toast NK if it nuked SK -- and I guess(?) that China would more or less tolerate our doing so. Otherwise I assume they would have notified us to the contrary. And as for Russia, I don't see why they would care.
This commercial mocking Dear Leader was apparently made in China some years ago. It is pure art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cPb45tzgdQ
What a nightmare, Ivan.
Some things just stick in one's mind. Whoever made this was touched with genius, calling to mind all the horrors of Stalinism. There is a famous passage from the Gulag Archipelago that captures
the life of lies that the Soviets had to live everyday in the Stalin era.
At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). … For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the stormy applause, rising to an ovation, continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who really adored Stalin.
However, who would dare to be the first to stop? … After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who would quit first! And in the obscure, small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on – six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn’t stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly – but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them?
The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter…
Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved!
The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel. That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him:
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
This Indian commercial on the other hand is hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdesIbwOYAA
A taste of what the applause was like here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggiMnDEbjbc
The clip is only for a couple of minutes and yet it seems endless.
Finally (by '44) Stalin himself got sick of it. A electric gong (like a fire alarm) was installed and after an appropriate interval the bell would be rung and this was the signal for the applause to stop - everyone could safely stop without fear of being purged (for this reason). I'd have to guess that Stalin had control of the button or would make some signal since who else would dare push the button?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fik2-kgOgng
K
K its wierd that there are plenty of morons and would be Stalinists out there as evinced by the comments on the youtube threads. I have long since given up on such people, and have come to the conclusion that in any given population between 3-5% would have no problem running the gas ovens or the gulags.
3-5%?
At least.
No problem at all, you could almost certainly get 10%.
Anon.
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