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North Korea names Kims successor

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BBC World News said:
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il has designated his youngest son to be the country's next leader, according to reports in South Korean media.

Two newspapers and an opposition lawmaker said South Korea's spy agency had briefed legislators on the move.

North Korean officials were reportedly told to support Kim Jong-un after the North's 25 May nuclear test.

There has been much speculation over who would follow Mr Kim, who is thought to have suffered a stroke last year.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea 'names Kim's successor'

The reports in the Hankook Ilbo and Dong-a Ilbo newspapers quoted unnamed members of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee briefed by the National Intelligence Service, although the spy agency refused to confirm the reports.
 
Oh goody. Another kook. And this one is an alcoholic.
 
And the worlds second Communist monarchy continues unabated.

Actually the country is ruled by the Workers' Party of Korea, not a Communist Party, and its guiding ideology is Juche, not Marxism-Leninism.
 
This is the kinda of guy the U.S. can deal with. He is an avid partier and loves the ladies from what I have heard. Corrupt, entitled kids are the kinda people we like to work with best, for they can be bought.
 
This is the kinda of guy the U.S. can deal with. He is an avid partier and loves the ladies from what I have heard. Corrupt, entitled kids are the kinda people we like to work with best, for they can be bought.

That's exactly what I was thinking. From my quick research on him he seems to want to be socially accepted but provided money and power. He may be easily manipulated. He doesn't seem to have the unwavering resentment and god complex his father holds.
 
You are right, he wants to be a West Coast playa!!! We will see, perhaps his father will indoctrinate him before it his time to rule.
 
And flagrantly inaccurate, as most tend to be. Capitalism is itself dependent on economic planning.

To a certain extent, yes. Communisms are flawed, Vietnam knows this, Eastern Europe and Russia knows this, China will eventually know this. The American democracy has lasted for years, ever since the founding of its consitution all those years ago. Its outlasted all those crappy communisms out there. Why? Because a free market is the way forward for economic growth and opportunity. Im not going to live and work in a communism as a doctor if a friggin bin man is earning the same damn wages as me. As they say, say no to BS, say no to communism.
 
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To a certain extent, yes. Communisms are flawed, Vietnam knows this, Eastern Europe and Russia knows this, China will eventually know this. The American democracy has lasted for years, ever since the founding of its consitution all those years ago. Its outlasted all those crappy communisms out there. Why? Because a free market is the way forward for economic growth and opportunity.

So you prefer the combination of inaccurate reference to state capitalism as "communism" and American capitalism as a "free market"? Not an especiallz pleasant sight, I have to say.
 
Im not going to live and work in a communism as a doctor if a friggin bin man is earning the same damn wages as me. As they say, say no to BS, say no to communism.

And at the last minute, you decided to throw in typically economically ignorant remark to the effect that you believe that socialism and communism involve absolutely equal compensation criteria in all cases.
 
So you prefer the combination of inaccurate reference to state capitalism as "communism" and American capitalism as a "free market"? Not an especiallz pleasant sight, I have to say.

Well if the two are so similar become a capitalist :lol:
 
And at the last minute, you decided to throw in typically economically ignorant remark to the effect that you believe that socialism and communism involve absolutely equal compensation criteria in all cases.

I didnt say this was always the case. Doesnt change the fact communisms are BS...ask East Germans or Russia.
 
I didnt say this was always the case. Doesnt change the fact communisms are BS...ask East Germans or Russia.

Yeah...and that's a repetition of your inaccurate reference to state capitalism. Worse, you refer to this state capitalism as "communism," an even more atrocious economic fallacy than the typical inaccurate reference to socialism.
 
I'm an anarchist. Hence, you'll have to conduct a bit more study to learn how to accurately apply your talking points. :2wave:

:rofl

That would explain your barbaric view on policy reform for age restrictions on sex :doh
 
Oh, what's so great about political "efficiency"?
 
:rofl

That would explain your barbaric view on policy reform for age restrictions on sex :doh

No, it wouldn't, inasmuch as you perceive my approach as permitting aggression. If I believed such, I would be a consistent anarchist and support public prohibition of such aggression. The fact that I don't should illustrate to you that the analysis that I have conducted is separate from anarchism. But you don't seem to be engaging in much serious analysis in this thread, to be honest. :2wave:
 
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