I can't imagine that South Korea's government (to say nothing of the 25M+ in the Seoul area) are on board with this kind of brinksmanship.
I shook Ron Paul's hand... so I assume he is real.
With regards to #2, the populace has been indoctrinated and brainwashed and made so dependent on the system, it's difficult to get there. After all, the suggestion of taking our federal budget back to 2014 levels is considered "draconian" and heartless"
your 3rd party rhetoric is novel. At least it was in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigasus_(politics)
actually this had more standing than a dissatisfied Republican that couldn't beat the party machine so chose to stand outside and throw stones
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
I'd be highly concerned if I lived in Seoul or Tokyo right now.
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Hawk (04-14-2017)
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"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
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We had dialogue with N Korea until the last time we had a wannabe "war time " President.
Next we had an Axis of Evil and for all intent and purposes not much has changed
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
it's weird to think that North Korea and the USA are both led by inept man childs still trying to out prove which one deserves their daddys love more
what a pathetic time for our country to have this guy as our "leader"
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57Brave (04-14-2017)
Don't forget that the (conservative) President of South Korea is sitting in a jail in central Seoul right now. The country is holding a snap election early next month, and the once highly favored liberal candidate, Moon Jae-in, has been forced to do a 360 on his North Korea policy because of all of this. Back in December he said his first trip if elected President would be to North Korea (his parents escaped from there) and is generally fairly anti-US interference on the peninsula. His numbers in the polls have absolutely cratered recently though (like within the past week) and he's been forced to take up hardline support for things like THAAD (hugely controversial in Korea and China) to compete with the moderate candidate, Ahn Cheol-soo (who is literally Korea's John McAfee without the crazy). Ahn is pro-America presence, pro-THAAD.
I think Ahn, who is more or less the populist candidate, will win, but whatever happens this weekend could potentially define South Korea's relationship with the United States for the foreseeable future ... one way or the other.
In the interim, (South) Korea is being run by a loathed lame duck administration and a Prime Minister who was previously a figurehead.
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