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South Korea To Restart Propaganda Loudspeakers Along Border
jones_supa writes: South Korea has said that it will resume anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts this week along the heavily fortified border with North Korea in retaliation of Pyongyang's claimed hydrogen bomb test. The broadcasts will resume at noon on Friday, told Cho Tae-yong, deputy chief of the presidential office of national security. Cho added that South Korean troops maintain combat readiness and will sternly retaliate against North Korea if Pyongyang follows with a provocation. In August, South resumed the broadcasts for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for the North's land-mine attack that maimed two South Korean soldiers. The two sides later held days of intensive high-level talks and produced a deal in which South agreed to stop propaganda broadcasts unless an abnormal situation occurs. Which now did.
south korea: things have been peaceful lately, lets turn off those loudspeakers. im sure the residents near the border would like a good nights sleep and the electric bill is getting a little out of hand... ...Get Psy on the phone. Ask his producer what its going to cost to get a chipmunk christmas remix of Gangnam Style at every border outpost by tomorrow morning.
DPRK: AT LAST! we have, under our glorious leaders infallable guidance, finally created and detonated a HYDROGEN BOMB. cower before the might of our glorious nuclear harbinger of the wests final demise!
south korea:
DPRK: the glory of allmighty leader cannot be denied! his wisdom and purity will cleanse the west in a fiery blaze of enlightenment and retribution for the...
south korea: pick up a copy of whatever Biebers got out this year while you're at it...
Good people go to bed earlier.
south korea: a chipmunk christmas remix of Gangnam Style at every border outpost by tomorrow morning.
Might constitute a war crime (torture, superfluous injury, unnecessary suffering), as technically they're still at war.
south korea: pick up a copy of whatever Biebers got out this year while you're at it...
Yeah, definitely a war crime...
No, it's exactly the correct response. This is a classic pattern of saber-rattling and threatening by North Korea. It's not about an actual threat to use nukes - which, by the way, they already had. South Korea can't afford to not respond in some way, so what do they do? Something that really pisses the North Koreans off, but without risking pushing things into actual shooting - which happens very often along the border between the two. Yes, it's entirely about saving face. No, nobody expects it will actually change anything. Obama is pretty much doing what every president has done, which is maintaining US military forces in Japan and South Korea, and promising to defend them against any aggression from North Korea.
But perhaps you think an active military response would be better? George W. Bush didn't seem to think so, even after North Korea blew past his "red line" on uranium enrichment and actually built the first of those bombs. Bottom line is, even the Bush administration didn't want a war in Korea, because it would be insanely bloody - and that's a best case scenario, nevermind that it was that way BEFORE North Korea had nukes. There just happens to be a major city of about 10 million South Koreans lying within artillery range of the border (where there just happens to be lots of artillery for that very reason).
My wife was telling me about a story she read regarding a North Korean defector who fled across the border to China and then eventually made it to the West. The thing that convinced him he needed to leave? A soldier from the other side of the DMZ accidentally dropped nail clippers and didn't care enough to come back and get them later. When he realized that something as "incredible" as nail clippers were basically worthless to the other side's soldiers, he knew he had been lied to about how things were outside of his country.
Take it with the requisite grain of salt, but it's an interesting anecdote, nonetheless.
Comrades of the Soviet Union, there is no need for this senseless bloodshed between our nations.
The German people are not your enemy.
If you surrender, you will be treated well.
You will be given plenty of good, hot food and warm clothing, and if wounded, proper medical treatment.
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It's strange if you think their priority is the advancement and well-being of their people and nation as a whole.
On the other hand, if you believe that their goal is maintaining the Kim family dynasty, and the power of the North Korea military elites, then it's not so strange.
... south korea: pick up a copy of whatever Biebers got out this year while you're at it...
Look, let's not go overboard, OK? I know, the set off a H-bomb, but we should be proportionate in our response.
Or you could know your history and remember why the Korean war ended the way it did.
Ah right, you mean how MacArthur advanced further into North Korea than Truman authorized which prompted a Chinese counterattack turning what was a victory into a retreat that lead to the eventual borders between North and South Korea.
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