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Regardless of how unhappy Beijing may be with things Pyongyang does, North Korea is of such obvious strategic importance to China that they are unlikely to ever waver in their support of the regime or even try to hide it.
Anything happens to North Korea and all those starving people flood into China. I think that’s why China supports North Korea.
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Anything happens to North Korea and all those starving people flood into China. I think that’s why China supports North Korea.
How did they manage to brain control millions of people like that? I mean it’s so ludicrous to an outsider.
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Anything happens to North Korea and all those starving people flood into China. I think that’s why China supports North Korea.
How did they manage to brain control millions of people like that? I mean it’s so ludicrous to an outsider.
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Regardless of how unhappy Beijing may be with things Pyongyang does, North Korea is of such obvious strategic importance to China that they are unlikely to ever waver in their support of the regime or even try to hide it.
Anything happens to North Korea and all those starving people flood into China. I think that’s why China supports North Korea.
This is interesting due to the tying of DPRK and PRC. It seems hard to say how much coordination there is between the two, but whatever it is, it appears to be greater than zero. While not necessarily surprising, I wonder if this public attribution will make it harder for the PRC to deny involvement with both the DPRK's efforts and their own.
I don't think Chinese support for NK has ever been a secret anymore than the the US support for South Korea has. And it's in China's backyardd so they've got way more of an excuse. And if you think that doesn't matter, look at the Monroe Doctrine [1]. Taken further, the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis should really be called the Turkey Missile Crisis. The US (through NATO) placed Jupiter nuclear MRBMs in Turkey, only…
This paints it as tit for tat, but to advert invasion the Cubans asked for the missiles over a year later than the missiles were placed in Turkey. The resolution combined these separate issues.
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Anything happens to North Korea and all those starving people flood into China. I think that’s why China supports North Korea.
How did they manage to brain control millions of people like that? I mean it’s so ludicrous to an outsider.
The lack of serious offramps to reunification, along with not as huge a delta in quality of life between north and south for a long time (aid from other countries sure helps!), allowed the DPRK to establish itself as its own nation.
Now there is the surveillance state apparatus allowing the DPRK to exist in its current form in perpetuity. And even if tomorrow they showed up and said "let's unify Korea", South Korea (even ignoring all the ideological reasons it might not want to) would likely be unwilling to absorb an extremely poor country and pay for it (see the painful experience of Germany's unification).
There is probably no off ramp that exists unless people are willing to let the elite walk away clean from the situation in one way or another, and it seems hard to imagine such a future.
And if you are a north korean elite and you are allowed to travel to northern china, you will see a place where things are running more smoothly, but you're still going to see places with massive amounts of internal controls and restrictions. So who's offering the upside to some regime change here?
This is interesting due to the tying of DPRK and PRC. It seems hard to say how much coordination there is between the two, but whatever it is, it appears to be greater than zero. While not necessarily surprising, I wonder if this public attribution will make it harder for the PRC to deny involvement with both the DPRK's efforts and their own.
Regardless of how unhappy Beijing may be with things Pyongyang does, North Korea is of such obvious strategic importance to China that they are unlikely to ever waver in their support of the regime or even try to hide it.
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one time i ran nmap against my dev box at facebook. i was definitely worried someone was going to give me a stern talking to.
I use nmap routinely at work to see what’s on a subnet, has anything new appeared, or where it should not be.
I've departed early at least twice over this. Draconian IT serves nobody. Been doing this long enough I deliberately poke any new employer; see what's in store.
Nobody cares, though. EDR appliances sell without careful administration. The industry will outlive us all.
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Not really, so long as you don't use it for anything 'bad'. i.e. if you're just running against your local network, who's gonna report it?
Surely then it's the 'use', not the 'possession' that's a criminal offence? Or is it still a criminal offence to possess it, but you're fine as long as no one finds out? Because that doesn't stop it being a criminal offence.
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
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My basic understanding is that a 'dual use' tool is moreso based on intent; using the same analogy as when this came up on HN over a decade ago [0], a good kitchen knife can be at least as dangerous as a lot of explicitly 'banned' knives but because it has a non-illegal use it doesn't fall into the same category as, say, a DDOS tool. And AFAIK there hasn't (yet) been a case where NMAP has gotten someone in Germany in…
This might be akin to lockpicks in the United States. Not illegal in and of themselves, but if you are possessing them with intent, it's a different matter.