# The Vice Guide to North Korea: Welcome to the Land That Time Forgot

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 23, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vice-guide-to-north-korea-welcome-to-the-land-that-time-forgot/442427 "2008-03-23T12:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vice-guide-to-north-korea-welcome-to-the-land-that-time-forgot/442427/21 "2008-03-24T22:51:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Chimera]  
It isn’t about ground troops, but AIR FORCE.  
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Bingo!

The US threat (in regards a conventional war) is our ability to achieve total air dominance. While the Chinese air force is pretty big, and has decent aircraft, we are bigger, and better.

I remember seeing news articles during the NATO bombing campaign in Serbia. People were saying that our planes were going to be getting knocked out of the sky by the top tier former Soviet Air Defenses.

This did not happen.

Our ability to make it impossible for the Peoples Army to move men, food, and ammo to the front is what scares China (and should, as it’s exactly what we would do).

As things sit, China can use North Korea as a buffer and a bullet sponge while they get their act together. Unified US friendly Korea puts our gear right up on the Yalu river, and they don’t want that.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vice-guide-to-north-korea-welcome-to-the-land-that-time-forgot/442427/22 "2008-03-25T02:22:43Z")

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Now that we can search again I found these Pulgasari links

> **[Pulgasari (North Korean Rubber Monster Movie)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=380087)**
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> For those of you who haven’t heard the tale, back in the late 1970s Kim Il Jong, an insatiable movie fiend, kidnapped South Korea’s best movie director, brought him to the North and told him to make a Godzilla-like movie. I managed to find a copy...

> **[What was that movie in last night's daily show?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=316340)**
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> Last night Lewis Black showed clips from what looked like a cheesy Asian movie, purportly made on behalf of Kim Jong Ill. This I somewhat doubt, but the movie looks like it could be cheesy fun at some late night fun fest. Anyone know what it is and...

[What was that movie in last night's daily show? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=316340) (well, only post number 4)

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