Comments on The human machinery of North Korean fantasy

Wow. The comments on that Times article are true moonbattery. They could have been written in North Korea's Ministry of Truth and Silly Walks.


Posted by Mark at April 27, 2008 02:49 AM

Its about £1500 for a week "holiday" in North Korea.

I'm actually very tempted... just to see the crazy with my own eyes.


Posted by The last toryboy at April 27, 2008 03:44 AM

That's not an academic--it's Paul Koontz, a VC with Foundation Capital in Silicon Valley. He just happened to be teaching a semester of business at Beijing U.


Posted by Chris at April 27, 2008 05:05 AM
North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel.

I wonder what a couple of 1000-lb laser- or GPS-guided bombs directed just above the tunnel mouth would do to that complex. Turn it into a giant mausoleum for all its personnel, that is!


Posted by Frederick Davies at April 27, 2008 12:36 PM

Frederick is right. Does Comrade Kim not appreciate that a major aspect of US military development in recent years has been on bunker busting.

These sorts of people never seem to learn the fundamental lesson that the way to protect your airforce on the ground is dispersal. Comrade Kim, just rent Tora Tora Tora or have a chat to a 6-day war veteran of the Egytian airforce.

Anyway, I somehow suspect the Nork airforce is hardly worth protecting. I mean it's gonna be a bunch of clapped-out MiGs isn't it?

Perhaps it flatters their vanity to see all their little fighter jets all in a row.


Posted by Nick M at April 27, 2008 01:26 PM
I wonder what a couple of 1000-lb laser- or GPS-guided bombs directed just above the tunnel mouth would do to that complex.

I think a Fuel/Air bomb(Link) would be better suited to create chaos within that type of facility.


Posted by FlaK at April 28, 2008 03:11 AM

Vast amounts of hard work and precision from intelligent people - made totally pointless by the basic principles on which the whole thing is based.

It moves me more to sadness than to laughter - although I understand that some of these people (perhaps even the lady traffic cop) have been brainwashed into believing in socialism (i.e. they are not just acting out of fear) and would gladly eat my heart and drink my blood.


Posted by Paul Marks at April 28, 2008 05:38 PM
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