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World's worst airline: N. Korean carrier hopes to expand
The world's worst airline is expanding--if it can get its website to work. North Korea's Air Koryo is reportedly planning to expand to Southeast Asia and Europe despite international sanctions against the communist state. (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Laughingstock of the civilized world, not only the airline but the whole country. A lasting picture that stays in my mind is one posted here a month or 2 back of all the generals with all the medals hanging. Enough brass there to keep a plane on the ground and to my knowledge, only the one war, er, conflict, in the early 50's. Tell me pride and status don't play into their culture. They may be glorious in the eyes of those below them but they are a bunch of blustering buffoons in mine.
It was a war. You might try asking anyone who fought there. Too bad you can't ask anyone who died if it was just a conflict. Incidentally, the war never ended. There was only an armistice and both sides are still officially at war. If you don't think it's ongoing, ask the family of the American soldier who was murdered by axe-wielding North Koreans at the "truce village".
It's very generous of you to call the country a "laughingstock" and "a bunch of blustering buffoons" when that only applies to a handful of their elite. The vast majority of their people are starving, but I guess facts would get in the way of you mocking them.
As for military uniforms, have you seen a Russian general in his full dress uniform? Or an American general in his? Not many square inches of unadorned fabric visible in either case.
It's very generous of you to call the country a "laughingstock" and "a bunch of blustering buffoons" when that only applies to a handful of their elite. The vast majority of their people are starving, but I guess facts would get in the way of you mocking them.
As for military uniforms, have you seen a Russian general in his full dress uniform? Or an American general in his? Not many square inches of unadorned fabric visible in either case.
My Dad was a Korean Veteran and I spent my time in South Korea, so I know full well that it was a war. I believe that myself and other vets cringe each time our fabulous government or anybody calls it a conflict. I believe if you will reread my comment, I did not demean the whole country, ONLY THE GENERALS. While the dress uniforms of the Russian or US Generals may be somewhat flashy, they are in most cases earned and not obviously fabricated as those fools are.
I guess I did use WHOLE COUNTRY in my post and to the people of North Korea I must apologize, but nothing to all the blustering buffoons in their power and glory trappings pretending that all is Ok, when there is opulence inside the gate and starvation outside. All back to the culture though, plus communism vs democracy. Been there, Done that, Seen that, it ain't pretty. People act like robots in a lot of places.
The public face of the country is not the whole country. Your comments are valid for the public facade. The starvation never gets the press that the glitter at the top does.
Amazing how many countries have fools for leaders. Lol
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I don't even have to check those out.
In the summer of 1950 (June 25) after north Korea sent soldiers south, President Truman's response was called a "police action," not war or conflict. He acted without congressional approval, thereby skirting the law. Only congress can declare war. We should never have gone there. But we had to stop those dirty communists. Remember Joe McCarthy?