The Glade 4.0

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Man, those Americans suck.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think they copied those from the ones in china about the japs...

/sarcasm

Why would we bother, just carpet bomb them to smithereens and let the South Koreans access a whole bunch of new farmland. Its not like they have anything we want.

/sarcasm off

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I think they're supposed to depict the Korean War. Hence the vintage uniforms.

I suppose it's also possible that ole' Kim still thinks we wear that OD green uniform and that the 7th Infantry Division (the patch depicted on the soldiers in those pictures) is still around though.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

But then they'd have to let their people know other governments own big deadly weapons... ~!!!

They gotta keep up the appearances that they are the toughest ya know.. even with a bad toupe.

Oh, they do. That's the explaination for why they need such a huge Army.. the constant threat from the South.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Threat, not enough to big weapons to flatten their whole country though. They are taking a leaf out of 1984, constant threat, never enough power on the other side to actually completely win.

Of course they are. They conveniently avoid mentioning that the South could pretty much squash them like a bug even without U.S. assistance. If it weren't for the fact that Seoul is within artillery range of the DMZ we'd probably be hard-pressed to stop them invading the North.

North Korea's military would be in real danger of starving to death from the rigors of combat. Even their MiG-29 pilots only get 950 calories a day and that;s only during cycles of "intense" training.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That does explain why I can't clothes to fit me in communist countries... hmm... maybe it's a good place to go for a diet

Of course it is! They'll even tell you on state-sponsored TV that 3 meals a day is excessive and 2 is much healthier!!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Not if you gobble short bread cookies for those two hehe...

Imo someone needs to threaten them with bombs for drawing such art!

okay i'm really bored and ti's almost lunch time >.<

You're not likely to find a lot of shortbread cookies there



That's being taken care of.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I get that in one meal here! Hell, one burger even!

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Holy shitsnacks!

yeah but you're prob also about a foot taller than them =P

Go... um... Communism?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

mmm calories

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Holy shitsnacks!

I'm sure they dont have an obesity problem =P

Just the high council and glorious leader.

Ever see a picture of Kim Jong Il? He doesn't maintain that on a 950 calorie a day diet.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Yes, yes I have:
(spoiler-ed for retinal preservation)

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

He's...
to sexy for his shirt
to sexy for his shirt
so sexy it hurts

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

You noticed, eh?

I should point out that 950 calories a day is living large over there; the pilots only get 850 a day when not training. Like I pointed out before this even applies to their MiG-29 pilots (the country has only about 40 MiG-29s and these are used to protect Pyongyang) which is their only modern fighter (unless you count the Su-25, which is really an attack aircraft like an A-10, not a fighter, and even then it's not spring chicken).

The rest of their Air Force ranges from recently obsolete (MiG-23) to **** ancient (MiG-17). The Wikipedia page shows strong signs of being written by wanktards, since it refers to the MiG-23 as still being "on par with modern fighters" when "properly maintained and flown by experiencd pilots", an assertion that might hold true if it were also flown against modern aricraft with inexperienced pilots, poor maintenance, or limited availability of missiles. Worse, it refers to the MiG-17 as a "serious threat in a dogfight" based on agility and high-powered guns, right after acknowledging that it is slow and lacks radar, which makes one wonder why anyone would need to dogfight it in the first place.

The MiG-29 does seem to have the R-77 (AA-12) missile available to it, which could be quite dangerous; it's generally comparable to the AIM-120 AMRAAM, but without any sort of AWACS aircraft or even modern SAM search radars the MiG-29 would need to use its own radar to search for targets, or search visually, thereby either giving away its position farther away than it can detect enemies or else eliminating the range advantage of the R-77.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Man... I love North Korea.

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The Dude abides.

I'm seeing avatar

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Charles Mackay

That's all Koreans need. They don't need 2,000 calories a day like adults.