North Korea
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u went there b4?
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i noe there are tour groups to Pyongyang.. part of some tour packages though
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Originally posted by Rednano:
u went there b4?
Yes. Chartered flight. For the Arirang festival.
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Originally posted by Alan Lee:
I don't think the torch relay means that much. I remember that Singapore was very supportive of the Chinese government's crackdown on tibet.
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Originally posted by Alan Lee:
I don't think the torch relay means that much. I remember that Singapore was very supportive of the Chinese government's crackdown on tibet.
will the chinese buy that wayang?
MIWs are just trying to por lan por only...saying thingsthat are music to their ears. i believe the torch relay tells us whether the chinese view us in
a positive on or a negative one? most recently didn't hillary clinton made visits to various
SEA countries? y she nv visit SG. once again that tells alot about how obama
government views singapore.
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Originally posted by Babelfish:
North Korea won exist for another 50 years.. Sooner or later ROK will invade DPRK in full force.. Or that the DPRK will crumble itself and ROK simply march into Pyongyang.
North Korea is very weak in actual fact.. they are just trying to give the impression that they are strong by conducting nuclear tests.
PRC wun sit idle and do nothing. and we will have PLA in seoul if they try human wave on the koreans...
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Originally posted by Alan Lee:
That communist country has 1 million soldiers and missiles that can attack as far as Japan. Don't you think it is strong? I always think the only chance to overthrow that regime lies in the anger of its own people (especially its own army).
DPRK though almost have the strength of PLA and is fourth largest army in the world but
it's equipments are obsolete. they might have acquired newer technologies from china or
its allies but it's military technological advancement is still slow cos her allies weren't as tecnologically
advanced as the USA, unless russia helps DPRK in full capacity.
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Is force the only way to unify a divided nation?
There ought to be something common among the Koreans themselves....ignite it and let whatever that binds them to grow
And no interference from foreign powers at the same time.......
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N.Korea elections seen as clue
SEOUL - NORTH Koreans voted on Sunday in elections for a new parliament which analysts say could lay the groundwork for a transition of power in the impoverished communist state, news agencies reported.
Elections for the rubber-stamp parliament did not take place in 2008 after its five-year term expired amid fevered speculation about the state of health of reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency and China's Xinhua both quoted state media in the North as confirming the scheduled start of voting.
Officials in Seoul and Washington say Mr Kim has made a good recovery from his stroke in August last year and is still in control of his country.
The 67-year-old is standing for election in a military constituency in the vote for the 12th Supreme People's Assembly, the North's state media reported earlier.
Mr Kim inherited power from his father, Kim Il-Sung, in the communist world's only dynastic succession. But it is unclear whether he wants one of his three sons to succeed him - and if so, which one.
Yonhap has said, quoting unnamed sources, that Mr Kim has named his third and youngest son, Jong-Un, as his successor and that the 25-year-old is running in the election.
The outcome of the election is not in doubt - candidates are picked by the government or ruling party, and only one stands in each district.
The incoming assembly will re-elect Mr Kim as chairman of the National Defence Commission, which oversees the 1.1 million-strong military and is the North's most powerful organ.
A new parliament is also often the prelude to a cabinet reshuffle. In the previous polls in 2003, state media boasted of a 99.9 per cent voter turnout and 100 percent support for every candidate. -- AFP