Comments by "" (@krollpeter) on "ABC News" channel.

  1. Every year at harvest time the US and South Korea are holding the military exercises near the North Korean territory. North Korean armed forces that traditionally are helping with the harvesting are being occupied in defence positions. That's the primary reason why the North Koreans are so angry about the US government. Someone must have told you that, I am sure someone must have told you that. Even the simple Chinese people from opposite the border know and understand the anger. Can ABC News and people in Australia ask the friends in the US stop doing this? Or at least moving the exercises to another time? For the sake of world peace, please.
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  2. I do not know what you are thinking about, but there are thousands carriers roaming around freely. The only thing that would somewhat help to delay the catastrophic spread is a complete travel ban worldwide.
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  3. You work in a cheap place and then you wonder why the customers there behave cheap?
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  4. Skyy, if you walk unprotected in a dangerous part of a town then you can expect that something bad could happen. It is the business model of these restaurant to sell your flesh. That one rule: "We are not responsible for the behaviour of our customers" literally tells you everything.
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  5. She is a clever and beautiful looking woman, prettier than most top models. I know it does make it more ethical, but ... life could be worse
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  6. It does not state this anywhere, and why should it? It is the interpretation of the Quran by stoneage senile men. It also does not state women have to encapsulate themselves. What is really written there about female clothing could be easily agreed to by 98 % of the world's population.
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  7. If it is about being "defensive prepared", then tell your presidents and your armed forced to do this a few months earlier or a few months later, but not every year during autumn harvest when this agricultural country needs every hand. That would help 25 million ordinary North Korean people tremendously, and may make them not hating you so much anymore. Defensively prepared, this expression a crime to language. There will be no war, and even if you continue like this there will be no war.
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  8. Exactly, if you work in a dangerous workplace you expect you can be in a dangerous situation. It does not mean you deserve the accident, but you can expect one to happen. I do not fault the girl, but if I was one I simply would not work there. It is the business model to sell you, and that is why you get more money. I also would not follow an invitation of a producer into the hotel room for "discussing the script".
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  9. Now we are meeting, and I guessed from the beginning we are actually not far apart. Nobody should touch anyone inappropriately, neither in a breastaurant nor anywhere. And if you do, learn how to handle them leeches. Unfortunately it is true there are many men who believe they are irresistible, even if they have a bulging tummy, crooked teeth and beer breath.
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  10. I am German, and I know hat cold war means. The comprehension difficulties were not referring to the lack of word understanding. I live in Singapore since 21 years. I have been reading about the Korea war and studying about NK in the last few years. I came to the conclusion that there is propaganda from both sides, from NK and from the US. And sometimes it is hard to tell which is worse.
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  11. I can't know what is common in Hollywod. But I do know I am not going into a hotel room of a guy who opens the door with a bathrobe or nothing on. I would always ask for a meeting in the meeting room, or even with another person present. And I do not think that women should blame men for trying. That is just what men do, and if they don't, then you find them also not normal. But: When a woman says stop it's stop.That's also what many women told me. They don't mind if the guy is straightforward, but leave the matter with dignity if it is a NO. As for the Hooters + Co., I think we leave it at that point. The US is the only country in the world where a mum can not breast feed her baby outside, but restaurants with tits and leeches are ok.
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  12. The main question here is: Were these passengers already all infected before they reached Japan, or are the infections happening after they were quarantined aboard? There is increasing evidence for the latter. The US is doing the right thing.
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  13. North Korea is very mountainous country, with only about 22 % arable land. It's not enough to nourish 22 Million people. Until about 1953 they did several attempts to avoid separation. The US government believed that NK was not able to sustain for long anyway, so why care about reunion? Financial aid or sending rice packets are not suitable to build a sustainable economy. Sometimes I am not sure which side's propaganda is worse.
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  14. @Shrimp Mr. Kim Jong-Un is not an idiot. He also knows that 25 minutes after he starts a war everything in his country will be bare soil in a big hole. Although he can do big damage before that. And if the US starts a war in Asia against that nation, they will never ever need to come back to Asia. There will be no war.
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  15. It is not about farming, nobody said that. It is a about an agricultural country that can not nourish itselve, because only 20 % of the land is farm-able. And another country that does not miss many opportunities to destabilize the situation even more. If you know the background, you start to understand why North Koreans hate the US government. Even though many know their methods are wrong, many incl me do understand it. Every year the same penis showing exercise, just like chimpanzees do. Every year the same exchange of harsh words. This year worse because of the orange Julius Caesar.
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  16. Why do you explain to me what are military exercises for? What would be negative effect on doing this exercises another time? How do you nourish 25 million people if the farm-able land holds resources for 12 - 15 million people? How do you modernize something if you don't have any resources, as well everything you'd need is under embargo? What do YOU do if 80 % of YOUR agriculture is depending on the help of your armed forces, but another country is somehow occupying relevant parts of that manpower when you need it? Can you address any of these questions instead of essentially repeating always the same as was written here already? Extra question: Would it be thinkable for you, that not only North Koreans but you as well have been affected by brainwashing media and tendencial news?
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  17. ... and what do you do? You shoot back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_Oatpi8zA
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  18. This is about spending resources for a successful re-integration, not about what the title says. And then, I am shocked about Mrs. Brown. She looks like 73 not like 53 yo.
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  19. While I agree it is getting enough now, I thought that this one here from ABC is still comparably fair and sensitive. I heard there were a few real leeches from the US around them. It seems the government has taken precautions already.
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  20. I concur
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  21. He is an unpleasant and bullying boss, long known to be not nice to work for at all. Privately he is an annoying, pestering and self-centred personality. He is not able to control his emotions. His "assistants" which were women helped to supply women to him. Some accepted huge bribes to not disclose crimes that happened with their knowledge. Many of the women accepted late night invitations to his hotel room. Often he opened the room door with only a bathrobe on, a towel, or nothing. So many people knew it, and nobody did anything.
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  22. Yep, welcome to the year 1930.
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  23. I see you have comprehensions difficulties.
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  24. Dear USA, if you could re-think your position just a little bit, if after so many years you could overcome the hatred, if you could remember we are all humans with the same wish to live in peace, if you could after so many years be generous and stretch out your hand first and stop the yearly exercises, or at least move to another timing, I am sure you would see a positive result.
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  25. @Mirror, certainly. It is a result of several issues including their own. In opinion it would send a strong signal to the people of North Korea, if the US could reconsider their approach with these exercises. If the North Korean government still reacted hostile we all and more importantly the people in North Korea itself would learn something about realities. But if Mr. Kim reacted positively, even if only silently, it would help the people without the world giving up any relevant position. I believe he is seriously interested to improve the live for the people, unlike his father.
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  26. Traditionally the army, students and pupils. Instead of the silly sentences by the orange Juius Caesar, politically it seems the right moment for showing some thought for the people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/23/north-koreans-fear-more-sanctions-as-drought-pushes-millions-towards-malnutrition http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-cant-feed-all-its-12-million-soldiers-654732
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  27. Your governments brought down your own country with all the resources wasted on wars and supporting the wrong. No more money for your own schools, prisons, hospitals, roads, whatever. 43 millions Americans are living along the poverty line, that is almost double the population of the entire North Korea. Continue another 20 years and you will be the new North Korea. It is also not true what Mr. Trump said in the speech linked in the video I linked above. He is not speaking for the world at all, for no one in Asia anyway. That what you are thinking in is not what happens outside of the US.
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  28. You have a point. But it is still better for you individually to see it from a practical point of view, and find a practical solution.
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  29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQTKu1AdUYU
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  30.  @YeOldeTowneCryer  I repeat: Breastfeeding in public is not ok. Restaurants on basis of breast staring is ok. Was your so with you at hooters?
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  31. Dumb TV
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  32. Like a church.
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  33. So many female teachers reports on Youtube like this. What is wrong with your women, America?
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  34. Those figures have not just increased recently. When I came to the US for the first time, about 20 years ago, I was already shocked about the number of people I met doing drugs.
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  35. One moment . . . she was sentenced for having inappropriate relationships with dependants, nothing else. Her husband and she also participated on group sex, so nothing new except that her choice was wrong.
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  36. And I say to everybody: "If you drive to remote areas it is Important for drivers to download and install offline navigation to their devices, and test that it works. Do not rely on companies whom's goal is pushing advertisements to you."
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  37. Read this first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_North_Korea PS: I believe it is exactly this kind of utter non-sense, that they hate the US government for, not interested to feed his people.
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  38. Even if you do not wish to discuss anymore but this is impossible just let this stand here. It as correct what you write, the North Korean government should spend the money for producing and/or importing food. But the conclusions you and many others do are not right (anymore). Everyone knows that, nobody denies these facts. But: Someone has to make the first step, and now it is the right moment. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu6hxBgK0mk and don't switch off bcs its RT or bcs its Mr. Putin. He is right in this case. It did lead and in the future will lead to nothing, the old cold war rhetoric.
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  39. Don't worry there will be no war. Nobody here wants a war. Asia wants peace. This is not the Middle East. Whatever the orange Julius Caesar is dreaming about does not really matter.
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  40. The 17 yo gets depression for having sex with a woman. He almost did not make it to college. Similar sure applies to the other 4. That's how far we have come. One day he may be able to forgive his parents.
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  41. Diamond that is so in your case. There are many families who are moderate or liberal. There are men who are soemwhere in between, like say "I wish you would not do that but if you have to, all right". There are also men, who say "anything, as long as you are happy". But you know it's not so in so many other cases.
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