The fear of North Korea
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Re: The fear of North Korea
Most of that footage was from Eastern Europe as far as I could tell.
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Cool. Thanks for that.FBM wrote:OK, as far as I can tell, this is half-spoof, half real. It reads and sounds like it's propaganda, but it's not talking only about the US. It's talking about the West in general, about how much poverty and hardship there is, etc, even in the capital cities. Again, that's as far as I could tell from reading the text early on and what bits I could catch between the "translator's" talking. And yes, it's funny as shit.JacksSmirkingRevenge wrote:I can't make up my mind about it.
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Re: The fear of North Korea
A lot of it had that look didn't it?rEvolutionist wrote:Most of that footage was from Eastern Europe as far as I could tell.
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Game on !! Threatening to blow the US out of the water and military alert. They've gone and pushed da button now... 
http://news.sky.com/story/1069789/north ... targets-us
North Korea has put its military on a 'battle-ready' status with strategic rocket units ordered to prepare for possible strikes against the US mainland, Hawaii and Guam according to the country's state media.
"The Korea People's Army top command declares that all artillery troops including strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units are to be placed under class-A combat readiness," the Korean Central News Agency said.
The announcement came as images were released showing a new round of military exercises by the isolated state.
The still photographs show what appears to be sea-borne assault using hovercraft and an artillery drill using multiple rocket launchers.
North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is pictured visiting troops and watching the exercise from a vantage point above the unidentified beach on the country's east coast.
The photographs, released by KCNA, are accompanied by language which matches weeks of rhetoric.
According to the news agency, Kim Jong Un "stressed the need to destroy and wipe away any enemy who lands on their coast through strong firepower and ordered the soldiers of the heroic Korean People's Army to display their mettle in the great war against the enemies".
"Crazy like wild wolves threatened with fire, send all of them to the bottom of the sea," Kim is quoted as saying.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1069789/north ... targets-us
North Korea has put its military on a 'battle-ready' status with strategic rocket units ordered to prepare for possible strikes against the US mainland, Hawaii and Guam according to the country's state media.
"The Korea People's Army top command declares that all artillery troops including strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units are to be placed under class-A combat readiness," the Korean Central News Agency said.
The announcement came as images were released showing a new round of military exercises by the isolated state.
The still photographs show what appears to be sea-borne assault using hovercraft and an artillery drill using multiple rocket launchers.
North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is pictured visiting troops and watching the exercise from a vantage point above the unidentified beach on the country's east coast.
The photographs, released by KCNA, are accompanied by language which matches weeks of rhetoric.
According to the news agency, Kim Jong Un "stressed the need to destroy and wipe away any enemy who lands on their coast through strong firepower and ordered the soldiers of the heroic Korean People's Army to display their mettle in the great war against the enemies".
"Crazy like wild wolves threatened with fire, send all of them to the bottom of the sea," Kim is quoted as saying.
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Re: The fear of North Korea
It made the local papers, too. Ratcheting the rhetoric up one more notch, I see.
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Re: The fear of North Korea
As far as I can see NK employ the 'constant war' strategy that one sees in the book 1984 as a means in part to unify its population. It is a shame that the other players don't trump this game by slightly more intelligent strategies. For example ridicule might be worth a shot.
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Too much of the rational modifier in that Rum. This is more akin to the old guy up in the hills taking the occasional pot shot at passers by. You know one day he'll lose it big time but you hope not today. Yet a day must come when NK makes the papers big time with a high bodycount and death by cop. Yep. It's gotta be.
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Ratz is doing its best, Rum...Rum wrote:As far as I can see NK employ the 'constant war' strategy that one sees in the book 1984 as a means in part to unify its population. It is a shame that the other players don't trump this game by slightly more intelligent strategies. For example ridicule might be worth a shot.
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Who's going to see the ridicule, though? I think that when NK said that they were scrapping the armistice, SK and the US should've requested a tri-lateral (or maybe China should be in there) meeting to sign a document formally ending it, then loaded up the DMZ and both coasts with arms, ready to re-start the war. NK doesn't have the fuel to maintain a constant state of real battle readiness. It would 'Reagan' them. Deplete their resources to the point that they collapsed internally.
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Or to the point of screaming madness where they push the nuclear button, a kind or oriental Gotterdamerrung moment...FBM wrote:Who's going to see the ridicule, though? I think that when NK said that they were scrapping the armistice, SK and the US should've requested a tri-lateral (or maybe China should be in there) meeting to sign a document formally ending it, then loaded up the DMZ and both coasts with arms, ready to re-start the war. NK doesn't have the fuel to maintain a constant state of real battle readiness. It would 'Reagan' them. Deplete their resources to the point that they collapsed internally.
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I have a feeling that the day that the fat boy gives the order to do something really stupid like fire a nuke is the day one of his generals puts a bullet in him
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Maybe. But it's not impossible for the craziness to go collective...Azathoth wrote:I have a feeling that the day that the fat boy gives the order to do something really stupid like fire a nuke is the day one of his generals puts a bullet in him
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I don't think they've got the tech to lob one yet. Maybe a speedy resolution now would prevent them from being around to develop that tech in the future.JimC wrote:Or to the point of screaming madness where they push the nuclear button, a kind or oriental Gotterdamerrung moment...FBM wrote:Who's going to see the ridicule, though? I think that when NK said that they were scrapping the armistice, SK and the US should've requested a tri-lateral (or maybe China should be in there) meeting to sign a document formally ending it, then loaded up the DMZ and both coasts with arms, ready to re-start the war. NK doesn't have the fuel to maintain a constant state of real battle readiness. It would 'Reagan' them. Deplete their resources to the point that they collapsed internally.
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The feeling I get is that his generals are chomping at the bit. It's the Party that's trying to keep the brakes on.JimC wrote:Maybe. But it's not impossible for the craziness to go collective...Azathoth wrote:I have a feeling that the day that the fat boy gives the order to do something really stupid like fire a nuke is the day one of his generals puts a bullet in him
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Re: The fear of North Korea
I think a better idea would be to convince China that there may be a nuclear war near their southern border. Panic China enough, they'll take care of NK for usFBM wrote:Who's going to see the ridicule, though? I think that when NK said that they were scrapping the armistice, SK and the US should've requested a tri-lateral (or maybe China should be in there) meeting to sign a document formally ending it, then loaded up the DMZ and both coasts with arms, ready to re-start the war. NK doesn't have the fuel to maintain a constant state of real battle readiness. It would 'Reagan' them. Deplete their resources to the point that they collapsed internally.
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