Comments on: ‘Welcome to North Korea’ http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/ Korea... in Blog Format Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: SomeguyinKorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121607 SomeguyinKorea Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:07:54 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121607 There's still the possibility that North Korea will end with a Romanian-style regime change. I'm sure North Korea has studied that angle from top to bottom, though. My guess is that they are aiming for a Syrian-style succession where the old-guard pulls the strings from behind closed doors. There’s still the possibility that North Korea will end with a Romanian-style regime change. I’m sure North Korea has studied that angle from top to bottom, though.

My guess is that they are aiming for a Syrian-style succession where the old-guard pulls the strings from behind closed doors.

]]> By: Jens-Olaf http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121537 Jens-Olaf Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:22:46 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121537 There is so much thinking about how unification can be achieved when the process has started. Germany is mentioned as bad example from the Korean expert. But you had to deal with people and many of East Germans wanted the Deutschmark. So it was undermining the eastern economy already and monthly the people were moving to the West before the unification happened. Take the family issue in Korea, when they will have the tiniest chance they will try to meet. For me the anarchical element is underestimated once their is the slightest chance of real exchange. Travelling, money transfers, whatsoever. There is so much thinking about how unification can be achieved when the process has started. Germany is mentioned as bad example from the Korean expert. But you had to deal with people and many of East Germans wanted the Deutschmark. So it was undermining the eastern economy already and monthly the people were moving to the West before the unification happened.
Take the family issue in Korea, when they will have the tiniest chance they will try to meet. For me the anarchical element is underestimated once their is the slightest chance of real exchange. Travelling, money transfers, whatsoever.

]]> By: SomeguyinKorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121361 SomeguyinKorea Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:52:27 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121361 I always wonder when I see one of these things if the movie maker realizes or cares at all that his or her guide will probably be sent to a re-education camp for having failed to have instilled upon him or her the spirit of the Juche ideology. I always wonder when I see one of these things if the movie maker realizes or cares at all that his or her guide will probably be sent to a re-education camp for having failed to have instilled upon him or her the spirit of the Juche ideology.

]]> By: frogmouth http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121352 frogmouth Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:31:16 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121352 About seven years ago, on a cloudy winter night I took my cheap shortwave radio on my veranda. The reception was really crappy so I touched the antennae to the metal rail and heard this song on North Korean radio…Listen to this song. http://blog.empas.com/sun7845/read.html?a=17621871&c=1512994 It was kinda creepy and cool and the same time… About seven years ago, on a cloudy winter night I took my cheap shortwave radio on my veranda. The reception was really crappy so I touched the antennae to the metal rail and heard this song on North Korean radio…Listen to this song.

http://blog.empas.com/sun7845/.....;c=1512994

It was kinda creepy and cool and the same time…

]]> By: Bradley http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121321 Bradley Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:56:59 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121321 "If you've got an hour to waste, give it a watch." More like "if you've got an hour to learn, give it a watch." “If you’ve got an hour to waste, give it a watch.”

More like “if you’ve got an hour to learn, give it a watch.”

]]> By: Robert Koehler http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121317 Robert Koehler Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:50:31 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121317 Yeah, it did lend itself to fun comments. Thanks for the head's up, though. Yeah, it did lend itself to fun comments.

Thanks for the head’s up, though.

]]> By: Billy http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121316 Billy Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:49:29 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121316 Nice correction, but I liked it the first way better.... Nice correction, but I liked it the first way better….

]]> By: Billy http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121315 Billy Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:43:48 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/welcome-to-north-korea/#comment-121315 A Dutch video about North Korea that makes you doubt love? Shouldn't it be called, "Kim Jong Il stole my heart", "Your warm regard feelings brings glorious harvest to the People's land of freedom", or something along those lines? A Dutch video about North Korea that makes you doubt love?

Shouldn’t it be called, “Kim Jong Il stole my heart”, “Your warm regard feelings brings glorious harvest to the People’s land of freedom”, or something along those lines?

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