ROK Drop Open Thread – March 20, 2016

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MTB Rider
MTB Rider
8 years ago

There is little chance of the DPRK bicycle paths connecting with the Four Rivers Path anytime soon, but I came across this article earlier today:

https://www.nknews.org/2016/03/north-koreas-bike-path/

Looking at some of the pics, I think I would need the MTB over the road bike, to avoid battering myself to death on the roads.

One thing I noticed is that the Pyongjin Bicycle Company is a joint business between the DPRK and China. How long until the North seizes the factory?

There might be a market for those bikes in the South once the North collapses.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
8 years ago

Jameston T. Hazelbower’s lax treatment of sexual assault cases. All you MoFo’s in the military ought to be sent home to your mother’s basements for the sake of justice and children ❗ 😈 👿

MTB Rider
8 years ago

Random Babble from Bonehead. Took a lot longer than usual to make bail. Or were you serving 60 days for whatever paint fume induced foolishness you got yourself into this time?

Who the hell is Jamiston Hazelbower? You used to grumble if people didn’t include links to obvious stuff, and now you’re posting about some random person with no follow up? The fumes are burning more and more of your brain away…

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
8 years ago

Alright…..who said his name 3 times?

And we were doing so good.

setnaffa
setnaffa
8 years ago

tbone should try to get professional help. All addictions can be treated.

MTB Rider
8 years ago

And the North has another hostage, er, spy and political usurper.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-discloses-holding-another-us-detainee-072412289.html

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American detained in North Korea said he had spied against the country and asked for forgiveness at a media presentation Friday, nine days after a U.S. tourist was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion.

Kim Tong Chol told a press conference in Pyongyang that he had collaborated with and spied for South Korean intelligence authorities in a plot to bring down the North’s leadership and tried to spread religious ideas among North Koreans

Anyone with any sense knows the North only lets in missionaries to feed the orphans so they don’t have to, and to have a handy hostage to trade like a Pokémon card later.

What do you think Fatty Kim will get for the two he’s holding now? Seems to me that President Park isn’t in a trading mood these days. Good. I thought we were at Showtime when the North sank the Cheonan. I mean, a warship from one country sinks a warship from another country, and that’s not an Act of War? As a “Measured Response,” the South should have at least bombed the submarine pens the North launched from.

JoeC
JoeC
8 years ago

Military Times poll of the U.S. military on the presidential candidates.

The breakdown of the services is interesting. The ground combat predominant services prefer Trump. The non-ground combat predominant services prefer Sanders. On the Democrat’s side, Sanders outpolls Clinton among all the services and more than doubles her poll numbers in 3 of the 4 services.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
8 years ago

“Good. I thought we were at Showtime when the North sank the Cheonan. I mean, a warship from one country sinks a warship from another country, and that’s not an Act of War?”

That assumes South Korea really believes “the North sank the Cheonan”.

MTB Rider
8 years ago

OK, now I’m curious. I was in Korea when the Cheonan went down, saw the wreckage, and although the U.S. Navy hasn’t fired a torpedo in anger since WWII, that was my job from 84-04. I’ve seen torpedo damage, and that looks like torpedo bubble jet damage to me.

Yet you have never agreed, even when folks here who had access to the classified sections of the JIG’s report. Why not?

I’ve seen a few sites explaining why it wasn’t a torpedo, but it is flooded with mathematical formulae designed to push non-math majors away, or accusations of “Had to Shut this down because it was Too Political.”

I hate to say it, but so what? If The Powers That Be want a war, they get their war. Doesn’t matter how many times you scream for the sheeple to wake up on YouTube, it’s going to happen, and all your conspiracy theory “proof” is ignored.

So, the Powers That Be sink a ship, find torpedo components nearby, kill 46 sailors, and they DON’T go to war because a random someone on the Internet said “Hoax!”? Hmm… Not buying it.

But I am curious as to why you think so, since you’ve proven to be a logical thinker. Why go to all the effort to “frame” North Korea, then not follow through? Proof, or lack thereof, didn’t keep us out of Iraq.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
8 years ago

As you pointed out… since this is as close to an act of war as one can imagine, why was South Korea’s response…

…pretty much nothing?

Consider the intent was not to frame North Korea…

…but to plausibly divert attention away from a more disruptive truth.

..and that is all I really ever want to say about this ever again.

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