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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Kim's tyrannical rule can not withstand open borders, free speech, TV, and radio.
    They don't even have an adequate electrical grid, bigdog.... and you are right about them being in the dark in every aspect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rune View Post
    Citation required.
    For a theory and a question? No wonder you flunked out of engineering school.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    perhaps he will realize he could be popular not by coercion but because his people got such things as electricity and food under his administration.........
    I just think his history of human rights violations is too great to overcome. Once his people learn the truth about him, they will turn against him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    A United Korea may be too optimistic of an outcome to consider. Then again, who knows? As little as a year ago who could have guessed there would be a summit in Singapore where there topic would be discussed? A year ago, Trump had us on the verge of a nuclear war with NK—or so it was said.

    It would certainly change the geopolitical landscape, particularly in Asia.

    What else would change?
    I don't see reunification. I see the British model, where Kim is a near powerless King overseeing a democratic government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    They don't even have an adequate electrical grid, bigdog.... and you are right about them being in the dark in every aspect.
    I think everyone has seen those nighttime satellite photos, ... showing the near total absence of an electrical grid in Socialist NK.

    It was TV that triggered the final collapse of East Germany. Specifically, a smuggled video of a huge protest march in East Berlin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    For a theory and a question? No wonder you flunked out of engineering school.
    I haven't seen any evidence of his "theory".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    I think everyone has seen those nighttime satellite photos, ... showing the near total absence of an electrical grid in Socialist NK.

    It was TV that triggered the final collapse of East Germany. Specifically, a smuggled video of a huge protest march in East Berlin.
    I suspect the Chinese will give him asylum when the time comes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    Can't you read?
    Can you prove your statement?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    I just think his history of human rights violations is too great to overcome. Once his people learn the truth about him, they will turn against him.
    Yes.. very astute of you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    I suspect the Chinese will give him asylum when the time comes.
    In a bizarre and ironic twist, Kim could become the George Washington of Noko ... by "courageously" surrendering all his power to the people, and "retiring" to a life of luxury in China.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    I think everyone has seen those nighttime satellite photos, ... showing the near total absence of an electrical grid in Socialist NK.

    It was TV that triggered the final collapse of East Germany. Specifically, a smuggled video of a huge protest march in East Berlin.
    Its shocking, isn't it? The NK people have been kept in the dark for generations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    I have never known anyone that consistently loves to piss into your cornflakes like you.
    Your opinion. I've never known anyone who is so angry as to go out of his way to groan posts solely because you don't understand the topic.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    In a bizarre and ironic twist, Kim could become the George Washington of Noko ... by "courageously" surrendering all his power to the people, and "retiring" to a life of luxury in China.
    That assumes Kim will EVER allow NK to join the 20th century (while everyone else is in the 21st) w/respect to modern technology/information.

    He's living in luxury now. Why give up control of his family dynasty?
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    I just think his history of human rights violations is too great to overcome. Once his people learn the truth about him, they will turn against him.
    could be. or he could be seen as a liberator from the family regime.
    He's a young man. If he's smart he has to realize the tide of history is against the Hermit Kingdom as it is now

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    That assumes Kim will EVER allow NK to join the 20th century (while everyone else is in the 21st) w/respect to modern technology/information.

    He's living in luxury now. Why give up control of his family dynasty?


    Because his reign can not withstand the scrutiny of foreign inspectors, with or without diplomatic immunity, being given free access to all of North Korea. ... and the impact of the information they leak or smuggle to Kim's subjects. And the information foreign inspectors leak to the outside world about the conditions there.

    We are all speculating. It's just my opinion. I'm an optimist.
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