North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe Says

Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by maxerickson on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:19PM (#15120584)

I've wondered if the best strategy might be to flood them with material goods. Just an absolute torrent of everything they could want.

Or maybe do insane things like put really nice billion dollar ships offshore and blow them up once a month.

Somehow demonstrate the asymmetry to a larger portion of the population.

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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by matt4077 on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:24PM (#15120628)

I think this is quite an interesting idea, although there are probably endless reasons why it couldn't work in practice.

It reminds me of the advice to start arguing with others in your group if you're mugged, or to start singing, or anything similarly absurd.

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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by hintss on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @01:13PM (#15125832)

and then they tell their population that you're giving them the material goods because they defeated you in a war, and that they blew up that ship.

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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by maxerickson on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @01:46PM (#15126136)

Not one ship, dozens of them, month after month after month.

But that was mostly a silly suggestion, the idea is to try to think of a way to make the idea that things are better elsewhere more available to the broader population. No idea if it is possible, but I think trying to do that might be more humane than ever harsher economic sanctions.

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