...and the K-Pop band BaBoom's latest song "Our Electrons Together" has just been exposed as a remake of "Let's Fulfill the Great General's Directions in Shellfish Farming!" from 1982...it's almost like the North won the war after all.
...and the K-Pop band BaBoom's latest song "Our Electrons Together" has just been exposed as a remake of "Let's Fulfill the Great General's Directions in Shellfish Farming!" from 1982...it's almost like the North won the war after all.
What do people think about the supposed links between Moscow and the Nationalists in Korea? Russia has ever-increasing economic interests in the peninsula since the war (plus the use of a port) - if they were able to get a fully-allied government in Korea, it'd be quite a coup.
I think the rumour gained traction when China declared its plans of "strategic rollback" for the massive investment plans in northern Korea in coordination with the ROK. Of course, China was struck quite hard with the recession and infrastructural construction was the least that was on its mind. But this "Moscowgate scandal" has made both China and the US anxious while cooling relations with Korea; so for the short term it did bring more investments. But we'll have to see what ramifications it'll bring up later.
I'm sure Russia are trying to establish links but if they think they can control the Korean Ultra-Nationalists they are sorely mistaken. They essentially blame "Sino-Russian Marxism" for everything that was wrong with the DPRK, thus removing all blame from Koreans for what happened in the North, which is just a small part of their wider belief that everything wrong with Korea is due to non-Korean infulence.
Or the song writers in south korea's K-pop industry are just as lazy as their american, russian, german, british, japanese, and australian counter parts.
Maybe, if just one or two songs were exposed. But how do you explain the North Korean themed nightclubs in Seoul, the chic North Korean style restaurants, and the popularity of North Korean posters and statues? It's like how Ostalgie took over Berlin in the 2000s.
For what I know they're much more in terms of satire and catharsis than anything. Note, for one, that many of the "carpets" in those Juche-themed flags are often North Korean flags that were previously used by the north; the restaurants, on the other hand, are much more visited by refugees than actual ROK citizens.
Unfortunately, a sizable portion of the North has been taken in by the Unification Church.
America might have been in a better global position if the war hadn't happened. The financial crisis, Japan moving away and forming the nucleus of its own regional power bloc (still friendly to the US, but less influenced), Russia's growth in power, and now Iraq and Russia intervening in the conflict in Syria... OK, you can't blame Saddam, after those lunatics invaded Iraq it was inevitable that he'd try taking the fight to them, but it's looking increasingly like there'll be an Iraq-Syria axis with Russia as a patron figure. America's still the world superpower, but their influence has been slowly decreasing since the war in Korea.
On the other hand, that could mean that the Kims remained in power. And while the war was terrible and the aftermath uncertain, the people of North Korea are genuinely better off without those monsters there anymore.
I know Rusbear might kick me for this,
Yeah, I still get mad whenever I hear people saying we should have left the South Koreans to their fate. I know Rusbear might kick me for this, but I legitimately think the Kims were worse than the Nazis. The destruction of abomination of Juche is worth pretty much anything.