Captain Korea?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456012/

ye thats it..thanks rdxkgb

Thats what I thought. I remember seeing “the tallest man” and he was in N Korea!!

Why should he be able to break the Trading with the Enemy Act when they were going to let him live and work in their country? Anyway it was the North Koreans who got mad and stopped him from playing in the NBA.

‘Trading with the Enemy Act’! Is that what they call it? I’m sure some very rational and level-headed group of people came up to that. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

‘Trading with the Enemy Act’! Is that what they call it? I’m sure some very rational and level-headed group of people came up with that. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

What name would you come up with for a law that prohibits trading with the enemy?

Note sure RDX862, assuming that is your real name and you’re not a robot. But as Muhammad Ali famously said ‘no Vietnamese ever called me a nigger’.

The Vietnamese and Americans have friendly relations now even though the Vietnam war ended 20 years after the Korean war. The responsibility for this continued conflict rests solely on the North Koreans. Relations were headed for normalization only for North Korea to conduct a second nuclear test, holding two American journalists hostage, and sinking a South Korean naval ship.

Could it be, that the reason why Vietnam now has ‘friendly relations’ with the USA (according to our robot friend at any rate) is down to the fact that they heroically resisted foreign invasion, defending their country’s sovereignty and territory against murderous and barbaric assaults from outsiders who still have not given up their deadly designs upon the world? If that is the case, then can we fault the Korean people for believing that they must do the same?

Just on technical point RDX862, which no doubt will appeal to a robotic mind like yours: It is not correct to say that ” the Vietnam war ended 20 years after the Korean war”. This is because the Korean War never ended. It is still ongoing, to this very day.

It scarcely needs saying that the Korean people would have put their differences aside long ago, and reached an accommodation with each other, were it not for the interference of foreign powers whose role in this dispute is little more than that of meddlers and trouble-makers. Certainly if the USA was serious about de-escalating tension and hostilities on the Korean peninsula the little matter of letting a guy play basketball would hardly need to assume such proportions. Is this what they consider ‘trading with the enemy’?

Unless of course certain parties have no interest in reaching a peaceful accommodation. It might be that these forces are eyeing the Korean peninsula as a strategic asset for the launching of future strikes against the PR of China. If that were ever to happen then the whole world must fear for the likely outcome. As I said previously, it would be funny were it not all so sad … and potentially dangerous.

I don’t think they are too worried about the rest of the world, in a country with 500k people imprisoned in a concentration camp if you are expected to behave a certain way you will!

Have to agree Lisa, all that crying and not one bloody tear.

To clarify, the mourner is, or at least seems to be, in the absence of, the always possible North Korean photoshop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri_Myung_Hun

Of course, he could be a PyongYang citizen who actually got fed,, as an experiment, but there you go.

It was the North that invaded the South. Thankfully the Americans and others came to their aid and the South is today prosperous while in the North starving people are forced to eat grass.

you should get your facts straight sunshine 1st
“In 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed on the surrender of Japanese forces in Korea and Soviet troops occupied north of the 38th parallel, while U.S. troops took surrender south of it. This decision by allied armies soon became the basis for the division of Korea by the two superpowers, exacerbated by their inability to agree on the terms of Korean independence. The two Cold War rivals then established governments sympathetic to their own ideologies, leading to Korea’s current division into two political entities: North Korea and South Korea. ”
The North Koreans with support of their fellow south brothers wanted to Unite the country but were blitzed by the Americans and their capitalist idealogy..a fast buck is better than a strong nation…. we see it again in Iraq today. Imperialist America.

You make very emotive comments about the American motivations and yet assume the best possible motives for the North Korean invasion. Motivations apart, it is a demonstrable fact that North Korea invaded South Korea, which appealled for US aid. The US was allied to South Korea at the time. Any nation in that circumstance would at least have considered helping their ally.

If you have that much animosity to the Americans for their role in Korea, why not reserve some ire for the Australians (who were part of the UN contingent), the Russians (who supplied and aided the North Korean invasion for ideological reasons), the Chinese (who launched a counter-invasion stopping a potential reunification under the South) and the Japanese (whose empire-building in the region had led to a partition in the first place).

History is complex. If you want to be angry, spread it around.

What facts do I not have straight? The North invaded the South and the Americans and UN responded and fought alongside the South Korean Army. I am sure the South Koreans are really torn up that the North did not liberate them from the evil Americans.

good reply david.. i’m reading up on the history as i type here. I’m learning about some of the history of Korea through some books i got on Tae Kwon Do.. from its founders and what they had to go through to survive and to keep the Martial Art alive. Its fascinating. Yes Japan acted terribly to the Korean people. As for the Americans well it looks like i was partially wrong in my above statement. They did blitz NK terribly though with chemical bombs , killing thousands of innocent people. I watched a documentary last night indside of NK about 2 young gymanists and there families prepaing for the Mass Games. Absolutely amazing spectacle i have ever seen. It is really amazing what millions of people together can achieve. Such a wonderful and beautiful occurance. And not an advertisemnet in sight.

Absolute balderdash.. Grieving N.Koreans are just puppets manipulated by that famous family.. Cirque du Seouleil.. In answer to that strange plea for privacy in their grief from one D. ConchCondom.. It will be a revelation of the worst kind when we see eventually how the people have been repressed to such an incredible degree… Millions are starving and there is little or no medical care.. Grieve for them not the Monster and his clan who have succumbed to such a low Evil…

Isn’t that massive spectacle just another advert to tell the people for whom North Korea is a massive prison how happy they are and how well they are governed. The happiest nation in the world. Happy happy happy

you should look at it all the same..its amazing. you should look up the documentary too.. it was made by the bbc in 2004..they had complete access over what they filmed and how they edited it. there is a joy and strenght in the people that us westernized folk have lost for good.

While it’s true that NK invaded SK, America had quite a lot of self-interest in its involvement in the war (it wanted military bases close to Russia and China). The troops sent were effectively American troops were UN uniforms.

Yea the Russians and Chinese had no self-interest. The Americans are solely responsible because they needed bases to compliment all their bases right next store in Japan and their other bases in Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, and Singapore.