![]() 02/10/2018 at 09:48 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Li’l Fat Kim has his own jet. He used it to fly Kim Yo Jong, his sister, to Pyongyang for the Olympics.
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I’m sure he’s the best pilot ever, too.
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Small. Don Jon Un, his blonde american cousin would not be impressed.
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No, that would be Donald Trump.
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I think Trump doesn’t even read the security briefings.
He just hates this guy because he has achieved everything Trump ever wanted.
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How many North Koreans are starving and have worms in their bellies so L’il Fat Kim can have his own jet?
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His airplane is much bigger and actually works!
I’d like to see those two play a round of golf together. 18 holes. Let’s see who can lie and cheat the best!
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We’ve got our own and we have a lot more private jets.
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Considering its a soviet rellic, I can’t think the number is as high as the one for our 787 stupid buy... or other things the Jongs spend resources on...
Kim has really ridiculous ways of making people suffer, but if I were to be pointing fingers at what causes the most suffering, it’d be at China (DT pronunciation Chay-Nah) for not respecting the sanctions against North Korea.
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Holy crap, his personal aircraft is an il-62? I can dig that!
But...what is he flying in that cockpit pic? That’s not the cockpit of an il-62.
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An-148-100B
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/heres-kim-jong-un-pretending-to-fly-a-plane-for-some-re-1676870658
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Well, the sanctions not only contribute to the lack of food, they also increase the population’s reliance on the Kims. Sanctions usually serve to bolster despoic leaders. See Sadaam as an example.
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I don’t think he hates him at all. Remember, Trump was buddies with Gaddafi, wishes Sadaam was still in power and seems pretty fond of Putin. These are his boys.
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Yeah, sanctions do hurt everyone... But that’s the thing.... EVERYONE is hurt, even the Kims.
But by China ignoring the sanctions they give money to state enterprises that bolster this particular despoic leader. In the end the people get nothing either way. If China respected the sanctions, an uprising againts the Jongs could happen much more easily because they wouldn’t have the resources to stop it anymore.
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Unlike the North Korean government, the American government doesn’t have complete control over food distribution.
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His idols. Or even a run-of-the-mill Russian oligarch.
And he’s so jealous of Elon Musk he could spit.
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He hates Elon Musk, too, or else he would’ve called him and congratulated him last week.
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I’d like to see them seated together in Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster on their way to Mars.
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We soon will because Amazon.
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China doesn’t want us camped at their side door, I suspect.
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You can be killed for stating that observation.
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Sadly, the person who made that video had to be killed because the video made Kim look fat.
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Well, no... but there must be a better solution than to prop up an unstable regime that has everyone worried sick....
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You would know better than I, Sir. You would know better than I. Personally, I don’t see how having that nation next to China can be to China’s advantage, but I’m pretty clueless.
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The sanctions don’t hurt the Kims. They’ve been hoarding wealth for almost seventy years. There is no chance of a popular uprising in NK. A coup, maybe, but no way they’ll have a revolution. I could see them going the Burmese route where they pretend everything has changed in order to attract investments.
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I guess we all are clueless. China is very scary and threatens the world order of not being censored and actually having human rights. North Korea maybe keeps the American border a bit further away (plus, North Korea and China are supposedly communist, so they have similar ideologies). The fear is furthered by the fact that China doesn’t really speak out about its crazy actions.
My country wants to create an alliance with China because Mr. Trump pulled out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (maybe Pence was afraid of the first part); yeah, globalization is bad in many ways, but the TPP would’ve reduced China’s influence in many developing countries in Southern Asia and Latin America.
But who am I to judge what an unstable lunatic decides?
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Or Trump, either, for that matter?
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I’d make popcorn and watch that live feed
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But then what’s the solution? Removing sanctions will only make them stronger (the Kims) and could facilitate a Burmese route as you say, nevermind propping up their cybercrime and espionage capabilities.
I guess that a military intervention would’ve been a great idea if it wasn’t for Seoul being so close to the border and within reach of chemical and nuclear weapons from that psychopathic madman.
Us (rest of the world) using nukes first wouldn’t be great either, because either way a bigger humanitarian crisis would ensure.
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Oh, I can’t wait for the second season of the american reality show that the whitehouse became. With John Kelly in trouble due to his abusive friend, he might be fired and that will kick start the really crazy.
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I really don’t think there is a good solution now. You have an entrenched, dictorial regime with nukes and a subservient society. The Kims are here to stay. The cost to get rid of them would not justify the death and destruction it would cause.
The US policy of containment during the Cold War was a disasterous failure with long reaching consequences. Now that NK has nukes there’s not much you can do other than helping to create an environment where they won’t use them.
Despite the rhetoric, the NK nuke program is a defensive measure. They developed them to keep the US from invading. Now that they’ve achieved that we need to work within the reality of that situation. It seems that South Korea realizes this, but many Americans need a boogey man in order to find purpose in life.
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But we have one.
I concur with your reading of the situation. Kim has won.
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Who needs complete control? It’s not a lack of institutional control that’s the issue. Between jails/schools/military, snap/wic and all the agricultural subsidies imagine thinking that control is the issue.
It’s will.
Probably a similar story in NK. I’d wager we have a bit better supply however.
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I mean North Korea does have the Americans beat on political will. Dictatorships are pretty good at will.