Quote: Original post by Prinz Eugn

Quote: Original post by Krokhin
Nobody speak about direct influence.NK leaders look at situation in Iraq,Iran and trying to keep power.North Korea has a poor nature resources.What can they do in such case? To sell food and buy other things/goods abroad.They use agriculture for industrialisation (read-militarisation),under NK conditions it means the permanent famine.

Uuum... I'm pretty sure the opposite is true- NK relies on foreign food aid, but they have a lot of mineral resources- NK's pretty mountainous.

Afaik,in NK mountains there are copper,gold and silver deposits,but they are not so reach in order to be a foundation of national economy.There are small deposits of bituminous coal,but there are no gas,oil and large rivers.Ore enreachment requires a large amount of energy,in case of poor ore simply no sense to transport it somewhere.I don't think that they do big money there.
And the most important is the lack of fertilizers deposits,i.e basics of modern farming is absent.It causes poor and unstable harvests,poor harvests causes a famine,and so on...

Quote: Original post by LessBread
When I was very little, my grandfather had a flock of sheep. I guess about 20 or 30, I don't remember exactly (we're talking 1971 or so). He would pasture them in his neighbor's field next door to the farm. In the spring, the young rams would get to testing themselves on a handful of fig trees that grew in the field, trying to batter them down at full speed. My grandfather took that as a sign that it was time for a slaughter. He used to hang the bloody ram heads on nails hammered into the wall of the back kitchen. They used to scare the hell out of me, severed rams heads hanging there with curled horns and empty eye sockets.

Heh,I understand you.Sometimes I had to help to castrate and slaught pigs...

[Edited by - Krokhin on May 8, 2009 6:22:06 AM]

Whether or not cloud seeding was used as a weapon is irrelevant it was only one point and I at no point claimed to be infalliable and anyone that does with notable except of God is a liar.

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By their (SK) own admission they use cloud seeding, in my opinion such activities like this are morally suspect, you can not claim ownership of the weather system and therefore the right to manipulate it.

I did see the conspiracy theory around somewhere a few years ago but can not find now and really can't be arsed looking.

And as a side point people have accepted more suspect information from our governments with even less evidence to back it up; but yet you chose to lambast me and not your glorious leaders.

It was only one point and does not invalidate the argument I was making. In MY opinion the west has no right to stamp their suspect moral outlook on other people no matter how reprensible that other party maybe in their or your eyes. Self determination my friends not US lead determination, I neither grave for democracy or capitalism so frankly there is nothing on offer that I would chose to champion.