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[Guardian G.I.]

Am I the only one around here who knows that there are a lot of variants of AK assault rifles?
Besides AK-47 (which has always been called AK in the Soviet and Russian armies) there are also AKM (the improved version of the original AK, developed in the 1950s), AK-74 (revamped and improved AKM, using 5.45×39mm cartridges), AKS-74U (the carbine version of AK-74), AK-101 (modified export variant of AK-74 using NATO 5.56×45mm rounds), AK-107 (modified derivative of AK-101) and the newest AK-12 (still in development).

GGI -- yours was one of the best avatars on Bay12; why'd you change it?  Just for variety? 

What avatar are you talking about: "Stalin in headphones", "Rainbow Stalin" or the ones I had before?
Note: I use rotating avatar service from signavatar.com

[Tellemurius]

Don't forget my favorite the AEK-971

[MetalSlimeHunt]

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Supply lines, people. A starving man can't fight using a gun that ran out of bullets days ago and badly needs to be cleaned.

An AK-47 never really needs to be cleaned which is why it's been the most popular assault rifle in the world since ... 1947.  I concede the points about bullets and owlbread, tho'.   

AK-47s are robust, but not invincible. I'm sure there's the potential for problems, especially with the consideration that of all the badly maintained terrible AK clones, Best Korea's Type 58s are probably the worst maintained and the worst quality.

I'd say Kalashnikov is spinning in his grave, but a quick check reveals that he is somehow not dead.

[Guardian G.I.]

I'd say Kalashnikov is spinning in his grave, but a quick check reveals that he is somehow not dead.

He's currently undergoing treatment in a hospital.
Despite the old age, he has never quit working at the Izmash factory up until recently. I hope he'll recover.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'd say Kalashnikov is spinning in his grave, but a quick check reveals that he is somehow not dead.

He's currently undergoing treatment in a hospital.
Despite the old age, he has never quit working at the Izmash factory up until recently. I hope he'll recover.

Given that he's 93 and looks like he's 65, I certainly wouldn't count him out just yet.

[jimboo]

Am I the only one around here who knows that there are a lot of variants of AK assault rifles?

Probably not, no.

GGI -- yours was one of the best avatars on Bay12; why'd you change it?  Just for variety? 

What avatar are you talking about: "Stalin in headphones", "Rainbow Stalin" or the ones I had before?

The one you're using now.  Again.  [edit: headphones, I'm guessing]

Note: I use rotating avatar service from signavatar.com

Cool.  Thanks for the tip.  A rotating Bastet head might be a bit too Linda Blair-y but still, thanks.

[Just Some Guy]

Crackdowns on homeless children,and North Korea violates sanctions again.

[Owlbread]

In North Korea they call those homeless children "wandering swallows". You can watch them on youtube dying of starvation, curled up in agony.

If you read those articles carefully they also show that the North Korean sphere of influence over the defectors has grown quite substantially, given that Laos has repatriated nine former wandering swallows that managed to escape there. Southeast Asia was traditionally the safest route for defectors to go through besides Mongolia, now they may need to think quite carefully.

[Fniff]

Dear fucking God, North Korea.

[Skyrunner]

Sigh. Must be the nukes. I don't think Laos was an especially powerful nation, so I'd imagine it didn't want to take SK's side justin case NK goes crazy.

[Scoops Novel]

Thread title creator: honestly? You're giving me this, for that?

In North Korea they call those homeless children "wandering swallows". You can watch them on youtube dying of starvation, curled up in agony.

If you read those articles carefully they also show that the North Korean sphere of influence over the defectors has grown quite substantially, given that Laos has repatriated nine former wandering swallows that managed to escape there. Southeast Asia was traditionally the safest route for defectors to go through besides Mongolia, now they may need to think quite carefully.

I'm certain you do a hell of a lot for them, or those like them. Change the thread title, it can be jokey if you like, mock me if you like, but bloody change it.

[Guardian G.I.]

In North Korea they call those homeless children "wandering swallows". You can watch them on youtube dying of starvation, curled up in agony.

You mean this footage?

While looking through Andrei Lankov's blog, I've found an interesting report about the establishment of agreements between China and North Korea concerning repatriation of refugees..

[Loud Whispers]

In North Korea they call those homeless children "wandering swallows". You can watch them on youtube dying of starvation, curled up in agony.

You mean this footage?

How on Earth do they survive Winter?

...I guess they don't.

[Owlbread]

If you guys are going to call North Koreans unbelievable psychopaths for that you should listen to that army officer that defected who claims to have been a commander in a concentration camp. He says he oversaw human experimentation that involved gassing women and children, among other terrible things. Whether or not he's lying remains to be seen.

You mean this footage?

Yeah, that's one of them, though I distinctly remember seeing one of shabbily dressed kids walking around with no visible parents and a kid lying on the ground bent double, his face all twisted up. Nobody giving a damn. During the famine people just used to step over corpses because they were so traumatised.

I have found one version of the video, though someone put an irritating soundtrack to it and gave it a really stupid title, my advice is to just mute it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOM-iLDa-BQ

I believe it was taken by a group of activists within the country I heard about in a documentary. They smuggled a video camera into the DPRK and put it in a brown bag with a hole in it. They would then carry it around, filming what they saw. They'd smuggle the videos across the border.

Sigh. Must be the nukes. I don't think Laos was an especially powerful nation, so I'd imagine it didn't want to take SK's side justin case NK goes crazy.

I think Laos and Cambodia traditionally had quite good relationships with North Korea anyway. Cambodia's king used to get on very well with Kim Il-sung. There's quite a few South Korean Christian groups operating in Cambodia nowadays helping out defectors.

A lot of the videos that used to be on youtube have been taken down. I had to find the video of the starving girl on liveleak:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1dd_1364601643&comments=1

[Tellemurius]

Laos is xenophobic, they don't want outsiders in their country, they have their own problems with cleansing out the Hmong from the mountains and really don't give a damn to anyone else tell their parent country to take them back.