Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "The Forty-Minute Korean War 1984" video.

  1. A chad? Isn't that the little rectangle of cardboard only partially punched out of a voting card in Florida by a retiree, which then allows the Republican Party to go to court to have these accounted for in a disputed election?
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  2. Don't you love data compression techniques these days?
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  3. And no-one has gone to Cuba yet.
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  4. The girth of such leaders would make them hard to miss, too.
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  5. Very carefully?
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  6. "The Army Pilots [...] rely on following roads." LOL! That reminded me of the alternative meanings of the terms VFR and IFR: "visually follow roads" and "I follow roads".
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  7.  @louismartinez7040  Yep, they don't allow anyone call Ruth to visit the DMZ whatsoever.
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  8. And the Korean War was never a declared war - instead it was described as a "police action". I guess it's somewhat similar to calling another war happening right now a "special military operation".
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  9. The US had drones back in 76? What kind were they?
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  10. The trouble with defecting for many people is the repercussions enacted on their families who are left behind. These regimes really know how to convince people to keep doing what they're being ordered to do.
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  11. What about their legs? They don't need those ...
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  12.  @theprofiler8531  Sounds like some of these people will be defecting to their own version of North Korea: the History Channel.
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  13.  @madisntit6547  I'm an Antipodean, not a Brit, and I got the "Granada" bit. :)
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  14.  @justinlance4174  And then there's the economic impact of reunification. Look at Germany: the people in the east wanted the same lifestyle as those in the west, but couldn't afford it immediately after reunification, and the overall German economy was impacted for years by the reunification efforts. Between the two Koreas it would be an even worse economic impact.
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  15. Why do you Capitalise every second Or third word in Your comments?
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  16. It has always struck me as weird: why won't dictators let those who don't want to stay to just go? I've heard it's quite often the more educated / skilled who want to leave, and the dictators decide their skills are needed so they keep them inside the country. As for people in capitalist countries leaving, it still takes money to leave to go to what they consider to be a better country. I know of people who've left the USA to come here, and it took them years of saving to buy the air tickets let alone pay for the visa application and processing fees, etc.
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  17. Next up for your viewing enjoyment: "The Return Of The Mark Felton" ...
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  18. When the border eventually falls, unification is going to take a lot of work - much, much more than when Germany re-unified in the 1990s. It's also going to take external funding if the north is not to fall into complete poverty after re-unification.
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  19. "Next time that ball comes into my yard you're not getting it back! Do y'all hear?!?!"
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  20. Did they ever declare war on each other?
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  21. I'm itching to know what the ordinary people in the north really know of the outside world. Is it like the people of the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) who had quite some knowledge of the "The West", or is it worse?
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  22. Or it was hushed up by the US government so the public wouldn't be spooked into petitioning their representatives in Congress to pull US troops out of South Korea?
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  23.  @TemmieContingenC  But before you can do that, you have to wait for the lead (playing the role of the interpreter).
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  24. Quite possibly because the war was never "declared".
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  25. And technically it was a "police action" and not a declared war.
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  26. It ended when the bell rang. "What do you have next? I've got English." "Meh, mine's science. See you tomorrow!"
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  27.  @wbbartlett  North Korea is struggling to feed its people. The additional food required would've been crippling ...
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  28. And if she had the word "obey" in her marriage vows?
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  29. And technically it was never declared, either.
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  30.  @pigmanobvious  Likewise, but it was my grandmother - who'd lived through WW1 and WW2 - who couldn't stand M*A*S*H.
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  31.  @JTA1961  I wish I could remember the name of the author, but it was a history book written about the USA from after the Civil War to just after WW2. One question asked at the end of the book was "How do people feel about wearing the uniform with pride when there are programs like M*A*S*H, McHale's Navy, Rollout, and Hogan's Heroes on TV?"
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  32.  @jimyoung9262  I think the issue with M*A*S*H is it appears to have taken until halfway through its run before it found its moral compass and hence strengthen the message. Its writers and actors claim the show to be anti-war. But, in the earlier series it just seemed to be comedy. It wasn't until around the introduction of characters like Colonel Potter and Major Winchester that it really started to show the stupidity and waste of war.
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  33.  @whoami7721  Someone posted in the comments here that all the crew were lined up and shot. It would be interesting to know what really happened.
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  34. What! He gets partially punched out of a voting card by some retiree in Florida, and then the Republican Party goes to court over him when they dispute the result? Who'd want to be a chad?
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  35. Dear Mrs Ko, I regret to inform you that your dear son died of instantaneous lead poisoning after failing to do his duty to a satisfactory level. Yours faithfully, Dear Leader.
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  36. The NVA were pretty big on collecting their dead and wounded as well. It meant the US BDAs could be quite inaccurate as the only evidence they'd have of casualties was blood trails where someone had been dragged.
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  37. But not the sort of peace the south wants to live under. Reunification occurring soon after the USA pulled out would certainly benefit Dear Leader and his immediate circle, but that's about it.
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  38. Nessun Dorma ...
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  39.  @theprofiler8531  "What do I need another watch for? I've already got one on my arm! And the refrigerator is waiting for me back home, too!"
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  40. A war which was never declared?
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