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However, American leaders were suspicious of the people's committees forming all over the peninsula, and suspected that without American intervention, the whole peninsula would elect to come under Communist government and Soviet influence. Soviet forces arrived in Korea first, but occupied only the northern half, stopping at the 38th parallel, per the agreement with the United States.
On August 10, 1945 two young officers – Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel – were assigned to define an American occupation zone. Working at extremely short notice and completely unprepared, they used a National Geographic map to decide on the 38th parallel. They chose it because it divided the country approximately in half but would leave the capital Seoul under American control. No experts on Korea were consulted. The two men were unaware that forty years previous, Japan and Russia had discussed sharing Korea along the same parallel. Rusk later said that had he known, he "almost surely" would have chosen a different line.[7] Regardless, the decision was hastily written into General Order No. 1 for the administration of postwar Japan.
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Originally posted by WanderingThe3rd
reply to post by Spacespider
are you ******* kidding me? you think we're free?
everyone and ayone talking about NK and how they arn't free and such bad guys need to get their head examined, do you even know where you live?
Originally posted by PutAQuarterIn
Originally posted by WanderingThe3rd
reply to post by Spacespider
are you ******* kidding me? you think we're free?
everyone and ayone talking about NK and how they arn't free and such bad guys need to get their head examined, do you even know where you live?
Wow.
I'll agree we aren't as free as we should be, I can still voice an opinion, I can still talk to people from or visit other countries. I can eat until I'm full. My government doesn't require I give them hundreds of kilograms of my own feces or else. Our prisoners don't have to eat rats, and we don't imprison 3 generations of whole families because one person of that bloodline did something (which can be as simple as trying to leave) .the list goes on. We might not have the freedom we should, but NK is there to make us appreciate the things we can do.
are you ******* kidding me? you think we're free?
Originally posted by knowledgedesired
reply to post by SheldonCooper
Hopefully none of his superiors see this video because in a country like that him and his family could all end up at some slave labor camp.
Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by stirling
Oh my goodness!
I hope they all load their guns this way!
Who is their firearms instructor? Larry, Curly, or Moe? Ynuck, ynuck, ynuck...
Almost have to feel sorry for them.
If the fighting actually happens, chances are, they'll never see what actually kills them, whether it's a bomb or cruise missile.
Can you imagine?, you're a soldier told all your life about the evil imperialists, and how great your leader is, but you've been bombed for days and days, never even seeing your enemy, running out of food, fuel, and ammo.... Man, that would be demoralizing as hell.
Originally posted by antar
reply to post by Spacespider
Just watched the video, it makes me wonder why on earth the big push for gun control when these guys are wolves at the unsecured borders. If an invasion were to happen, we would want every man woman and child to be armed and at ready. of the few brave men and women I know, these poor guys do dont stand a chance on our soil. They seem to be running on fear and propaganda.
Originally posted by generik
i wonder how accurate the translation is?
actually i found it rather amusing. just how brainwashed are they? happy people?, i guess even starving people can be happy. but don't they realize the aggressors in all of this is THEM? but heck i guess they only see the crap that their government spews forth.
i also love the guy on the end who's gun does nothing, in fact his top mount drum clip seems to wobble when he moves the gun. so either the weapon is crappy or his training is crappy, either which doesn't bode well for them.
as for the "backpack" nukes mentioned. if they have something like that they would not only be rather big but heavy and i would think rather obvious to everyone.
Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by stirling
Oh my goodness!
I hope they all load their guns this way!
Who is their firearms instructor? Larry, Curly, or Moe? Ynuck, ynuck, ynuck...