re: Could North Korea be quietly undergoing a coup? -updated

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what is the average North Korean going to do for work in a unified Korea?

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Serious, clark?

At the very least they can participate in construction and the service industry that will likely emerge. A lot of the profits will go South, but still.. Comparative advantage would help North Koreans the most since they're already on the bottom anyway.

Not sure if it'll help average South Koreans. I imagine to some extent the sudden influx of laborers will undercut and push wages down.

North Korea is there because China didn't want to be surrounded by enemies at their borders. What makes anyone think that this rationale has changed. China is the dog at the gate that has kept the South and US from removing this wart from the rear end of the world.

Sounds like it... Didn't read the story, but I know that CNN had a story saying it was the number 2 and 3 that made the rushed trip down to SK for talks.


The original rumor was the Kim had hurt his foot and was out of action for a few weeks and his cousin or whomever was acting in his place, but that is looking more and more like bullshite. I wonder where the little prince is, if he is even still alive

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I would not be surprised if Kim was dead

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I don't know... I think him being locked in a dark prison cell and then these leaders negotiating and opening up the country to the South, then putting Kim on trial for crimes against his people would be outstanding for the country.

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. I am curious to see the depths of their forced labor camps and human rights violations. It's been going on for 60 years. It has to be worse than what happened in nazi Germany or in Vietnam after the U.S. pullout.

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I agree. I really hope these labor camps are fully exposed in my lifetime and those people freed. I have a feeling the world will be stunned.

I hope the prince is still alive. The people think that his family are gods. What they need to see is him put on trial and then executed. That's about the only way they'll believe it. They'll always have the fear that he'll return if he just disappears.

you mean from one insane-Kim to the next? Does it matter?

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Actually that's the sign that there is nothing wrong in Pyongyang,

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yea ho hum, our leader is "sick" and we're just going to go down to SK for the frick of it. All just a coincidence

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If they had as much oil to offer as the Mideast, I'm sure America would be involved. What they do is no different than the Dictators in the Mideast, no oil, no care..

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no there is this little tricky thing called a cease-fire that China is also involved in. If we had supported SK in one of the many opportunities in the last few years to go to war with NK, we don't know what China would do.