If there's one place you don't want to be caught wandering around right now, it's the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea. Especially since South Korean military hardware manufacturer DoDAMM used the recent Korea Robot World 2010 expo to display its new Super aEgis 2, an…
You're not allowed to talk about North Korea, at all, in any context or capacity, until you go read this book.
Like, you - specifically you - are forbidden from ever talking about the DPRK again, until you go read about what happened during the Korean war in this book. Every time you decide you want to say something about North Korea, I want you to ignore all those smirking news anchors and smug headlines telling you stories about unicorns, haircuts, and concentration camps and remember that you have to go read the book.
It's not a super long book. The link I provided is free. Go read it. Until you do, anything you say here about Korea is going to be laughed at, by all of us.
Please do, and if you have questions come and ask us, everyone here will be glad to provide you with all the context or clarification you need. But I don't think you'll need it, it's not a particularly complex book.
i have a grasp on the history already but i wanted to check it out cause it looked like it would go more in depth. i just finished chapter one and wanted to say that this is a very good book so far. the writing is so easy to digest.
You're not allowed to talk about North Korea, at all, in any context or capacity, until you go read this book.
Like, you - specifically you - are forbidden from ever talking about the DPRK again, until you go read about what happened during the Korean war in this book. Every time you decide you want to say something about North Korea, I want you to ignore all those smirking news anchors and smug headlines telling you stories about unicorns, haircuts, and concentration camps and remember that you have to go read the book.
It's not a super long book. The link I provided is free. Go read it. Until you do, anything you say here about Korea is going to be laughed at, by all of us.
I'll check it out
Please do, and if you have questions come and ask us, everyone here will be glad to provide you with all the context or clarification you need. But I don't think you'll need it, it's not a particularly complex book.
You can alternatively listen to season three of Blowback, which covers the Korean War.
i have a grasp on the history already but i wanted to check it out cause it looked like it would go more in depth. i just finished chapter one and wanted to say that this is a very good book so far. the writing is so easy to digest.
thanks for sharing, i hope more people read it.
I recommend it to anyone who's able to recognize they're obviously being denied a preposterous degree of context and information about Korea.