Buy US beef ? Ha ! It pretty much the only option available where I live in the US and even I wouldn't touch that crap.
What? North Korea has the largest standing army in the world. Is this true? Why are the world stock markets not crashing? I want to buy shares/stocks at rock bottom prices (dirt cheap). I will be rich. and I thought North Korea is useless for me.
From Wikipedia: Kim Jong-il is the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea. The Korean People's Army (KPA) is the name for the collective armed personnel of the North Korean military. The army has four branches: Ground Force, Naval Force, Air Force, and the Artillery Guidance Bureau. According to the U.S. Department of State, North Korea has the fifth-largest army in the world, at an estimated 1.21 million armed personnel, with about 20% of men aged 17â54 in the regular armed forces.[83] North Korea has the highest percentage of military personnel per capita of any nation in the world, with approximately 1 enlisted soldier for every 25 citizens.[84] Military strategy is designed for insertion of agents and sabotage behind enemy lines in wartime,[83] with much of the KPA's forces deployed along the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone. The Korean People's Army operates a very large amount of equipment, including 4,060 tanks, 2,500 APCs, 17,900 artillery pieces (incl. mortars), 11,000 air defence guns in the Ground force; at least 915 vessels in the Navy and 1,748 aircraft in the Air Force, of which 388 are fighters [85] as well as some 10,000 MANPADS and anti-tank guided missiles.[86] The equipment is a mixture of World War II vintage vehicles and small arms, widely proliferated Cold War technology, and more modern Soviet weapons. According to official North Korean media, planned military expenditures for 2010 are 15.8% of GDP.[87] North Korea has nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs and has been subject to United Nations Security Council resolutions 1695 of July 2006, 1718 of October 2006, and 1874 of June 2009, for carrying out both missile and nuclear tests. North Korea probably has fissile material for up to 9 nuclear weapons,[88] and has the capability to deploy nuclear warheads on intermediate-range ballistic missiles.[89]
Thanks sculptor66, I thought North Korea has only nuclear weapons and no other weapons. But North Korea is isolated from the world. What is their economy/business? How did they acquire all these big weapons?
all it takes is a little damage to the 15 largest economy to simulate other countries to pick up the slack, china,us. ,europe, japan= would all benefit from a korean war . all except the koreans!!!!
I posted in other forum that "when North Korea shoots down 10 or 20 USA figther planes, that will be something new" and somebody replied to me "you are having wild imaginations". By the way "I am born to be wild"
Not to worry We'll just send over one of our former presidents with some gold to beg Kim to release any captives/body parts and pledge to never threaten NK again.
Better yet we will promise to provide them with more nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel if they promise to stop making us look bad till the current president's term is up. Wasn't that clinton's original agreement when he GAVE them their nuclear program???
man...if i was you-i would stay away from discussing anything like politics to geography...specially on public form..and certainly stop trading... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban