re: #399 Dark_Falcon

“This act of not fearing any punishment from Heaven is touching off the towering hatred and wrath of the service personnel and people of the DPRK.”

This sentence is interesting, as it is a reference to the Confucian idea of the “Mandate of Heaven” and presumes the Kim dynasty to have said mandate. Odd in some ways to see a traditional concept such as that from a nation claiming to be Communist.

The fact that the Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese concept is actually not as odd, since it was commonly held until the 19th Century that Korea’s kings held the Mandate of Heaven to rule Korea, though as semi-vassals of China’s emperor.

That was actually one of the arguments used by the Japanese when they conquered Korea - that the Korean monarchs had lost the mandate of heaven as evidenced by the fact that they were _allowed_ to conquer Korea… O_o