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    Default Going it alone or taking joint efforts?

    Uncle Sam once went camping with his four friends -- a Korean, a Japanese, a Chinese and a Russian -- on a Korean mountain. As his Korean friend had fallen ill on the way, Uncle Sam handed a cooking pot with the ingredients to his Chinese friend who was a Korean food expert. The Chinese, however, rejected his request. Pushing back the cooking pot to Uncle Sam, he said that making Korean broth was not his responsibility but required joint efforts from all sides. Uncle Sam quoted a proverb in response: "Too many cooks spoil the broth."

    While both men wasted much valuable time pushing the cooking pot to each other, the ghost of Uncle Sam's great-grandfather appeared suddenly in the dim moonlight. "What variant of Taiji are you guys practising with a cooking pot? My dear great-grandson, the more you exhaust yourself with such an unnecessary exercise, the more I feel our good old days are over. You may get an inkling of what to do next after listening to my story."

    Taking a short pause, the apparition continued: "A long time ago during a mountain trekking trip with my two friends in Japan, we arrived at a small hut. As the door was not locked, we pushed open the door but found nobody inside. As we were very hungry, we went at once into the kitchen to look for something that could keep us trekking on our stomachs. I found some ingredients for making Japanese broth, but alas, it was too little for my big stomach. Without requesting help from others, I wasted no time making dashi and kept it all for myself, just giving a few drops to my Chinese friend. My Russian friend got none, but he was crafty enough to pocket four dried baby anchovies quietly while I was attending to the broth."

    Casting a glance at the Chinese and the Russian who were cowering in a corner, the spectre broke into laughter and and faded away gradually into the thin air.

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    Rather than beating around the bush with inscrutable fairy tales, why don't you just come out and say what's on your mind?

    What do you think the solution to the Korean problem is?

    Don't you think it would be a LOT better for everyone concerned if China simply reigned in their insane puppet next door before a very serious military solution is unleashed? Threatening to nuke other countries is not acceptable and it won't be allowed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Rather than beating around the bush with inscrutable fairy tales, why don't you just come out and say what's on your mind?
    Truth is bitter to the ears especially those of dumb totalitarian rulers.

    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    What do you think the solution to the Korean problem is?
    From what I have observed all these years there is ONE and ONLY ONE peaceful solution which I think is what the North Korean regime really wants:

    "The US must withdraw from Asia so as to let the North Korean regime finish its unfinished business of the 1950 North Korean War to unite the whole Korean Peninsula under the banner of the Kim Dynasty using nuclear blackmail."

    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Don't you think it would be a LOT better for everyone concerned if China simply reigned in their insane puppet next door before a very serious military solution is unleashed? Threatening to nuke other countries is not acceptable and it won't be allowed.
    Sunzi says: "War is deception." Following the example of his late father, Fatboy Kim is just feigning insane. North Korea has never been a so-called puppet of China, otherwise it would have implemented the same economic reforms as it giant neighbour.

    China has simply lost control of the North Korean regime. If it really tries to rein in the rogue regime, Fatboy Kim could fire a few nuclear missiles across the Sino-Korean border. If a "very serious military solution" is unleashed by the US, China could end up as the main loser and unfortunate victim of the crossfire. With the exception of the dumb Chinese rulers, Fatboy Kim and his late father should be well aware of such an ironical outcome.

    http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...e-Mountain-(4)

    http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...e-Mountain-(3)

    http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...e-Mountain-(2)
    Last edited by reedak; 08-31-2017 at 02:58 PM.

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