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To: TobagoJack who wrote (135741)	9/28/2017 2:54:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By Elroy Jetson Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218131

Thank you for those thoughts on North Korea, and onlookers such as China, USA, South Korea, Japan. They are superficial though interesting nonetheless. Glib came to mind, but I did check the dictionary to see if glib is the right word. Sort of, in parts. Facile came to mind too. Dictionary says that's also applicable but not quite enough. Simplistic is similar and fits well. Hmm. Are the North Korean emotions dinkum? They write yes, with the underlying concern being "who is going to look after our country and our livelihoods now?" It's more the emotional state of Stockholm Syndrome sufferers. Their emotions seem genuine and for many of them they are real enough with real and justifiable concerns such as Saddam's palace guards would have felt albeit with constant grave fear of the grave. But the Stockholm Syndrome emotions would be worn lightly for most and would be more in the nature of East German emotional attachment to the glories of the Stasi. Even in Japan where the emperor was more reasonably a deity when the USA showed them who was boss with the world's first nuclear war following a gathering powerful regular military onslaught to the gates of the mainland, Japanese quickly found their emotions did not attach too strongly to Tojo en.wikipedia.org and the murderous military marauders. One of my mother's cousins was in the occupation force and married a lovely Japanese lady who obviously didn't see him as the enemy. My mother's brother never forgave the Japanese for their hideous barbarity. One of their cousins died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japan, I guess not from being over-fed. Similarly, Hitler turned out to be not such an emotional necessity when reality had dawned with Stalin's troops rearranging the furniture across Germany. Similarly Stalin the Beloved was more despised and feared than loved. I'm safely back behind New Zealand's giant moat after another northern summer in Lovely London which this time included a visit to Berlin. That's the first time I have been to Berlin which I was keen to see as the intersection of east and west Germany and converted reasonably recently from North Korean style to South Korean ways. I attended a wedding of a Berliner who remembers well the time of The Wall. He married one of our nieces. He apparently bears no animosity to her family who defeated Germany in WWII. Nor do I to Germans who caused my great grandmother to flee the Franco Prussian war from Alsace, through the siege of Paris and out to NZ with 3 little daughters. When North Korea is taken over by South Korea, the process will be comparable. East Berlin and Berlin in general are enjoying huge economic growth, but there's a bit of lost soul about the place with hedonism, family, friends and international links replacing the Stasi and glories of the state. When visiting Beijing in 2003, I observed what I guess is paralleled in North Korea. The state enforcers acted their part but their hearts were not in it, though I noticed quite a lot of them were true believers [many in plain clothes but conspicuous to me all the same and obviously wiling kung fu killers]. The Made in China rulers are more civilized than Kim the Fatter. They are engineers and pragmatic rather than hedonistic megalomaniacs who enjoy fear in their fellows though they are completely comfortable with totalitarian power and wield it enthusiastically. It's amusing to watch the Made in China conventions with people sitting ramrod straight just as Saddam's cabinet room did, with their hands up on the table conspicuously obedient. The fun thing about the so-called "Free World" and especially Trump's political process is that Trump's quite happy to have T-Rex Tillerson saying the opposite to Big Don and there's no consequence to Rex. That's not how they roll in North Korea, or China. That keeps Kim the Fatter guessing. T-Rex off to China shortly. axios.com That will keep Kim guessing. I guess that however Kim the Fatter guesses, he's not going to be long for this world. North Koreans are going to have to get over their Stockholm Syndrome emotions and certainly the survivors will do so. I hope they are nearly all survivors and buy lots of amazing Qualcomm devices. I see Sir James Dyson is designing his own electric car because nobody is doing it right. theguardian.com Elon Musk did the same but is years ahead, albeit without the essential 7SSS system to enable little 100 kg batteries making cars lighter, cheaper and higher performance with lower operating costs and no mucking around for half an hour at recharge points. Qualcomm chips will be essential components of such cars and Halo will enable wireless charging at home, at supermarkets and elsewhere where vehicles are parked for a while. North Koreans will love it. Mqurice