Korea- Too boring

[The Brain]

Will the war mine asteroids? No? Well there's your answer.

[Martinus]

Incidentally, the Providence conspiring to cause a nuclear holocaust of a whole country only to get Tim and Tyr: an overkill or a just retribution?

Discuss.

[Admiral Yi]

The Slavs and the articles is not good mix.

[The Brain]

Incidentally, the Providence conspiring to cause a nuclear holocaust of a whole country only to get Tim and Tyr: an overkill or a just retribution?

Discuss.

Like all Rhode Islanders it's stupid.

[jimmy olsen]

Anyone else finds it ironic that Tim, who normally posts about all kinds of stupid shit, posts about quesadilas but fails to post a story about the country he is in just getting war declared on it by a neighbor?

It doesn't mean anything. Technically the war never ended anyways.

However, just for special snowflakes like you, here's an article by the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/03/30/heres-north-koreas-official-declaration-of-war/

Here's North Korea's official declaration of 'war'

Posted by Max Fisher on March 30, 2013 at 12:49 am

A few notes about this document just released by North Korean state media.

First, North and South Korea have technically been at a state of war since the Korean War began six decades ago. So, while this "declaration of war" certainly sounds scary, the rhetoric alone does not change anything substantial.

Second, North Korea does not appear to have taken many concrete steps toward actual war. There have been no reports, for example, of the country massing its troops along the border. War is a big, complicated logistical undertaking, especially when you're a particularly poor country trying to shuffle 1.1. million troops into place. They're not exactly a lightening-response force.

And, third, the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a large facility staffed by South and North Korean workers just on the northern side of the border, is still running smoothly, according to Reuters. As I wrote earlier, the fact that North Korea is bothering to keep Kaesong open suggests that it does not think war will actually break out, which would seem to bolster skepticism about whether or not it has any intention of following through on its war threats.

OK, the full declaration is below. It's typical, chest-thumping North Korean rhetoric that hits the usual points. Do try to hang on until the end, if you can; it's a real roller-coaster ride of a propaganda piece. No one brandishes adjectives and verbs with more earnest fervor than North Korea's state media. We hope everyone is enjoying this "sacred war of justice" so far!

    The moves of the U.S. imperialists to violate the sovereignty of the DPRK and encroach upon its supreme interests have entered an extremely grave phase. Under this situation, the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu, convened an urgent operation meeting on the performance of duty of the Strategic Rocket Force of the Korean People's Army for firepower strike and finally examined and ratified a plan for firepower strike.

    The important decision made by him is the declaration of a do-or-die battle to provide an epochal occasion for putting an end to the history of the long-standing showdown with the U.S. and opening a new era. It is also a last warning of justice served to the U.S., south Korean group and other anti-reunification hostile forces. The decision reflects the strong will of the army and people of the DPRK to annihilate the enemies.

    Now the heroic service personnel and all other people of the DPRK are full of surging anger at the U.S. imperialists' reckless war provocation moves, and the strong will to turn out as one in the death-defying battle with the enemies and achieve a final victory of the great war for national reunification true to the important decision made by Kim Jong Un.

    The Supreme Command of the KPA in its previous statement solemnly declared at home and abroad the will of the army and people of the DPRK to take decisive military counteraction to defend the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of its supreme leadership as regards the war moves of the U.S. and south Korean puppets that have reached the most extreme phase.

    Not content with letting B-52 make sorties into the sky over south Korea in succession despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, the U.S. made B-2A stealth strategic bomber and other ultra-modern strategic strike means fly from the U.S. mainland to south Korea to stage a bombing drill targeting the DPRK. This is an unpardonable and heinous provocation and an open challenge.

    By taking advantage of the U.S. reckless campaign for a nuclear war against the DPRK, the south Korean puppets vociferated about "preemptive attack" and "strong counteraction" and even "strike at the commanding forces", openly revealing the attempt to destroy monuments symbolic of the dignity of the DPRK's supreme leadership.

    This clearly shows that the U.S. brigandish ambition for aggression and the puppets' attempt to invade the DPRK have gone beyond the limit and their threats have entered the reckless phase of an actual war from the phase of threat and blackmail.

    The prevailing grim situation more clearly proves that the Supreme Command of the KPA was just when it made the judgment and decision to decisively settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppets by dint of the arms of Songun, because time when words could work has passed.

    Now they are openly claiming that the B-2A stealth strategic bombers' drill of dropping nuclear bombs was "not to irritate the north" but "the defensive one". The U.S. also says the drill is "to defend the interests of its ally". However, it is nothing but a lame pretext to cover up its aggressive nature, evade the denunciation at home and abroad and escape from the DPRK's retaliatory blows.

    The era when the U.S. resorted to the policy of strength by brandishing nuclear weapons has gone.

    It is the resolute answer of the DPRK and its steadfast stand to counter the nuclear blackmail of the U.S. imperialists with merciless nuclear attack and their war of aggression with just all-out war.

    They should clearly know that in the era of Marshal Kim Jong Un, the greatest-ever commander, all things are different from what they used to be in the past.

    The hostile forces will clearly realize the iron will, matchless grit and extraordinary mettle of the brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu that the earth cannot exist without Songun Korea.

    Time has come to stage a do-or-die final battle.

    The government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK solemnly declare as follows reflecting the final decision made by Kim Jong Un at the operation meeting of the KPA Supreme Command and the unanimous will of all service personnel and people of the DPRK who are waiting for a final order from him.

    1.From this moment, the north-south relations will be put at the state of war and all the issues arousing between the north and the south will be dealt with according to the wartime regulations.

    The state of neither peace nor war has ended on the Korean Peninsula.

    Now that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have entered into an actual military action, the inter-Korean relations have naturally entered the state of war. Accordingly, the DPRK will immediately punish any slightest provocation hurting its dignity and sovereignty with resolute and merciless physical actions without any prior notice.

    2. If the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group perpetrate a military provocation for igniting a war against the DPRK in any area including the five islands in the West Sea of Korea or in the area along the Military Demarcation Line, it will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war.

    It is self-evident that any military conflict on the Korean Peninsula is bound to lead to an all-out war, a nuclear war now that even U.S. nuclear strategic bombers in its military bases in the Pacific including Hawaii and Guam and in its mainland are flying into the sky above south Korea to participate in the madcap DPRK-targeted nuclear war moves.

    The first strike of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will blow up the U.S. bases for aggression in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam and reduce not only its military bases in south Korea but the puppets' ruling institutions including Chongwadae and puppet army's bases to ashes at once, to say nothing of the aggressors and the provokers.

    3. The DPRK will never miss the golden chance to win a final victory in a great war for national reunification.

    This war will not be a three day-war but it will be a blitz war through which the KPA will occupy all areas of south Korea including Jeju Island at one strike, not giving the U.S. and the puppet warmongers time to come to their senses, and a three-dimensional war to be fought in the air, land and seas and on the front line and in the rear.

    This sacred war of justice will be a nation-wide, all-people resistance involving all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas in which the traitors to the nation including heinous confrontation maniacs, warmongers and human scum will be mercilessly swept away.

    No force on earth can break the will of the service personnel and people of the DPRK all out in the just great war for national reunification and of all other Koreans and overpower their might.

    Holding in high esteem the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu, the Korean people will give vent to the pent-up grudge and realize their cherished desire and thus bring a bright day of national reunification and build the best power on this land without fail.

[Syt]

It's harmless. See? The leadership is still preparing for their production of Phantom of the Opera.

[Josquius]

I was at the dmz today. It was all business as usual.

Met Tim yesterday. He took me to get Mexican food. It was good though again pricey for what there is to it. Guess I'm not used to paying for quality. Was sadly too super exhausted to do much. And my trousers were falling down, horrible case of good old afternoon slippage.

[jimmy olsen]

Tyr was not exactly the drunken party animal we were all lead to believe.

[Razgovory]

Maybe he's just like that sober.

[Razgovory]

It's harmless. See? The leadership is still preparing for their production of Phantom of the Opera.

I bet it's really hard to find a emulator to run old SCUD missile programs on a Mac.

[Syt]

Maybe some stuff can be re-used from the SAM Simulator?

[mongers]

I was at the dmz today. It was all business as usual.

Met Tim yesterday. He took me to get Mexican food. It was good though again pricey for what there is to it. Guess I'm not used to paying for quality. Was sadly too super exhausted to do much. And my trousers were falling down, horrible case of good old afternoon slippage.

Coolest country and timing for a Languish meet-up, yet ?   

List ?   

Or was it's presence in the back pocket and subsequent loss, the cause and consequence of the trouser accident ?

[jimmy olsen]

NEVER hiking with Koreans again.

My God, we're lucky nobody died, that was straight up mountain climbing.

[jimmy olsen]

All the money I saved on that sweet plane ticket was lost on lodging and more, fucking Japan and it's ridiculous prices. Anything reasonable is an hour from anywhere and would cost just as much to travel to and waste tons of valuable time as well.

[Josquius]

I always found hotels in Japan to be pretty cheap. What site are you using?