From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 16:07:08 MDT
Just for the record, according to the CIA world fact book,
the North Korean "Military expenditures percent of GDP"
were 31%
Contrast this with the U.S. (3.2%), the U.K. (2.3%) or
AU (2%).
So I would like to ask people on the list -- "Just what part
of the North Korean perspective isn't clear to you?"
You can argue that the NK GDP (Gross Domestinc Product) is so
low that the military expenditures are "inflated". But can
you argue an order of magnitude of difference?
This gets back to the discussion of *when* you see a "Hitler"
arising and what one does about that.
So what I would ask is "how many sacrificed lives does one
allow before one says that is "too much" from an extropic
perspective?"
Or in other terms -- "How far does one let North Korea
(with a large population of "programmed" drones) go?"
And this is not too different from related questions
I might pose about other countries.
Robert
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