This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
"Last Symbol Of Inter-Korea Cooperation" Falls As North Bans South From Gaeseong
While the world twiddles it thumbs, buys stocks, and ignores any and every risk, tensions continue to mount on Korea. Bloomberg is reporting that:
- *N. KOREA BANS S. KOREANS FROM ENTERING GAESEONG, S. KOREA SAYS
- *N. KOREA ENTRY BAN HINDERS 'STABLE OPERATION' OF GAESEONG: KIM
- *S.KOREA SAYS N. KOREA GAESEONG ENTRY BAN IS 'EXTREMELY SERIOUS'
The city of Gaeseong, due to its situation on the border, hosts cross-border economic exchanges ($2bn per year in trade for the impoverished North) between the two countries and is seen as "the last symbol of inter-Korean cooperation." In light of this, perhaps it is no surprise that the WSJ reports, the U.S. positioned a ship capable of shooting down ballistic missiles near the Korean peninsula amid South Korea demands that the military should "make a strong and swift response in initial combat without any political considerations."
- 19526 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -


mere posturing - or is daddy's last wish unfolding before our eyes???
Heir trigger apparent...
Methinks a little "bombing back to the stone age" is way overdue here...
I'd love to see that fat-shit Pillsbury dough boy reduced to running around in an animal-skin loin cloth.
South Korea has factories all over their country. Many of the most advanced are not even in the Seoul metro area. NONE of their bearing plants are even near Seoul.
So, yes, S. Korea would suffer grievously (Seoul burned down, that's over 20 million living in their metro area).
But that would mean the END of Communism in the Korean Peninsula. Would fat little MF Kim Jong Un even care? Looks like we will find out...
What the hell would you know about bearing factories in S. Korea?
Oh, um...... sorry. Nevermind.
North Korea is Best Korea.
Fat boy is backing himself into a corner with his "rhetoric". He either pulls the plug or he is politically toast.
Get off the pot or take dump, you fat punk.
http://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/
It's a good thing Dennis Rodman is black and played for the Chicago Bulls, or Mr. Peace Prize might send a drone after his ass for being a spy/terrorist/agitator/conspirator/commie.
The problem is he may not be painting himself in a corner, he may be doing exactly what he wants to do. And that is have a small war with the south and see if the US will jump in. Also China may be wanting this because if they didn't want it they could easily tell him to stop and North and him would quit. They are using the North to see what the US will do (China is).
Wouldn't hurt, either, to knock out some of that "for export" production in S. Korea that is competing with China. What away to get rid of some of the global over production as well as stimulate consumption, both in war goods and then rebuilding. That may be why China has decided not to curb its mad dog.
North Korea is controlled by the Chinese military. They wouldn't allow them to strike Seoul or spark a war with South Korea. Not until China finishes rolling out Phase 1 of its new imperial military: the drone fleets, stealth jet fleets, and multiple aircraft carrier groups they have in construction presently. A DPRK vs ROK war will surely involve direct US involvement and China isn't ready for direct engagement with the US yet.
One of China's long-term goals is to get US forces off the Korean peninsula. They're passing all this missile and nuclear technology to North Korea. Not to mention supplying them with hackers / information tech. This isn't being developed domestically in the DPRK (What? You expected sophisticated engineering labs ... Right next to the gasoline-less labor camps full of peasants scratching vegetables out of the soil? Next to the state-run construction sites that lack cement and rebar?). The US knows this.
That's the threat -- the US is watching the DPRK become a proxy/client/puppet state of the PRC, a geopolitical asset, just as it was under the USSR. And there isn't much the US can do about it lest it unleash economic chaos around the world. The US's long-term strategy is ROK-managed economic unification prior to political unification. China is trying to assert that isn't going to happen, and in fact South Korea will become part of the Sinosphere in the end.
Your analysis is interesting but totally agreed that North Korea is no more nor less than a complete puppet of Beijing and China's recent backing of sanctions was transparent subterfuge.
rattling sabers is going to attract more US power on the peninsula - and increase North Korea's bargaining position - including vs Beijing
I'm convinced this is all about *IRAN*
North Korea is Best Korea.
Oh Yeah? Do they have this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQHDzgGlK8
eh? eh?
Never been to either Korea, so not picking the sides here, but even watching from the sidelines it pays to observe Korean ability to take things to an absolute extreme. Capitalist South excels in consumerism and consumerist culture far beyond any Western society, while socialist / communist North goes far beyond Soviet Union in terms of sustaining hardline that even comrade Stalin would be impressed at their resolve. That seems like a laboratory experiment in one nation pursuing different ways as means for different systems and sets of values to compete with each other. Similar was the comparison between Eastern & Western Germany before reunification, one being display of capitalist way of life and the other one of the opposite system. System vs Antisystem, pure dialectics. However, unlike Germany, Korea is lacking its Gorbachev to allow for peaceful reunification, at least for now. I'm curious and mesmerized by this and glad I'm not living in either Korea, because when fireworks are about to begin, there will be little place at Korean peninsula to hide, whoever wins in the end. God bless them.
Fools; we'll never find twinkie king in his mountains, our bombs will hit every target left for them. SK and Japan will be hit HARD. Economies WILL collapse. Not to mention the whole Syria, Iran, NK, WW3 thing. All your friends and family, every one you've ever known, is going to suffer greatly from the actions of these sicko "leaders" of ours and theirs. And we make jokes about it. Anyways my money's out of the banks -thank you ZH ;)- and into my farm, food, shiny metals and death metals. F with me Obama you piece of shit
Wow, what a rant... and 30 up arrows. I'm sure Obama is really scared of you. I'll fade everything you said. None of it will happen.
Charlie Sheen said give him a call and he could hammer these issues out with NK.
Much more than you think. This is considred a last straw action by many NK analysts....
If North Korea Starts a War the United States Will Lose
4/2 20:25 – URGENT – North Korea holds up South Korean Workers Departure to Kaesong Complex
4/2 2120 EDT: Philippines puts 2 C-130 Transports on Standby to Evacuate Non-Essential Personnel from South Korea
4/2 22:18 EDT URGENT: S Korean Workers allowed to leave Kaesong Facility; Entry from South Blocked"If North Korea Starts a War the United States Will Lose"
The US never won the Korean War, which is only currently a cease-fire
US lost Vietnam, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, Afghanistan Sure the US blew up a lot of shit at fantastic cost but this did not change the end result.
The defense industry won.
the CIA made alot of dope $ in 'Nam and Afghanistan(and the morons in LE wonder why all the kids are lovin' them some H)
USA! USA! USA! I'm gettin' a patriot boner.
Anyone know how to invest in one of those Chinese companies that makes the little American flag pins?
Petty cash. The banksters raked in the big ones.
Never said that the US did. We will get our ass kicked however if Mini-It gets a lucky shot off at either/both Seuol and/or Tokyo. Economically the US is in such crappy shape that any disruption will crash our system.
Look, there's no fuckin' oil there, we send them rice, wheat. We cannot continue to pay for this shit, we got a recovery going. Now IF they DO have UNICORNS, as their scientists say, well, we may come back to the table, I'd think. Sell "unicorndogs" fried to fat NY banksters at $5K a stick???
Excellent Idea!!
Send them shipload after shipload of that nasty Monsanto GMO wheat.
Then they will all be short and fat!
Brahahahahahaha
They don't have oil, but they have $6 trillion in Rare Eart Metals. Who might want to get their hands on that?
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/08/21/rare-earth-metals-north-koreas-n...
Just in time supply vs. all those "stupid central planning" stockpiles sitting outside the Chinese power plants and factories. Say nothing about 'ghost cities' waiting to be occupied and strangely well maintained for the poorly planned, make-work projects that they are commonly believed to be. So much of the strangeness of Chinese economic activity disappears if you look at them as war preparations. Are they? Time will tell.
"Say nothing about 'ghost cities' waiting to be occupied and strangely well maintained for the poorly planned,"
Those are future bankster cities. When you see them being occupied, the end is near, and a world war final solution imminent.
But US won the coold war, didn't they?
The US would've won the Korean War, if China would not have entered that war. But they did the magic trick with these 400.000 soldiers and that tiny, tiny part of that river. Biggest loser in that war: American Reconnaissance. MacArthur boasted they would be home by Christmas. By Christmas they had lost everything they had gained in the first place.
Something you never want to hear as a soldier. They said the same to German soldiers back then too. Home by Christmas. And when Christmas came they had to celebrate it in a small church in Stalingrad.
Weihnachten im Kessel
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Berlin._Kaiser_Wilhel...
It ended after Stalin was murdered
No war. Obama doesn't have the ballz. Maybe Michelle does. But another Bush is coming in 2016. Watch for the false flag then.
The John C. Stennis is in the Malacca Straits now. Three days ago it anchored in the Maldives. No idea where it's headed.
probally Singapore for a visit.
The George Washington is in the Yellow Sea taking part in war games with SK now. It would be a dumb time to stir up trouble.
Is Stennis the one about to be decommissioned?.....and they rush it from hotspot to hotspot as a sacrificial lamb?
No. That is the Enterprise. Stennis is planned to be in service till 2040 or so.
Since it came online, it never was THAT SERIOUS... Un is not like his father... he's not full of shit... he follows on with most of his threats.
Someone needs to Bslap this chubby boy into reality.
Actually, I'm amazed one of those fuckers with the oversized hats hasn't offed the punk yet.
Is that real fur on their hats? Some motherfuckin PETA assasin is on his way right now.
Kim Jung un and Barry Soetoro should have a penis sword fight. Whoever wins... Wins. No nukes plwase save the banking system. No sarc / off. I fucking mean it. I fucking love it. Im also a LGBT tranny who loves gun control.
Jug: Barry got no penis. Only pussy lips. BTW.....I've got gay friends that are extremely conservative, gun nuts. While these guys like cock, they fucking LOVE America! I'm a Christian and I've got my own sins to deal with. I judge no one.
If you want a good low-down on what will probably happen in a major war that is escalated by N. Korea, you should read Op Plan 5027.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oplan-5027.htm
I don't buy the whole Chinese antagonism line, because China cares more for political and economic stability rather than trying to test the waters and muddy an important trading partner's relationship.
Everyone talks about how much bargaining power China has. What would happen when the companies whose trade secretes stolen in excess of $100 billion a year, start pulling out and returning back to a low tax environment under the next president?
China has more demographic and private property bumbs in their economic future than anyone cares to talk about. No one discusses the 70 year lease law that Mao implemented for residential property. The first batch of those 70 year leases are coming due in the next 7 to 8 years. All property is essentially still property of the state, therefore there are terrible land-use rights and the only way a company can purchase a plot of land is if they "bribe" the local municpalities; this is called a "gift" in their culture. It's apart of the whole guanxi and mianzi network that is complete BS in their culture.
okay I get it, time to bring in my tomato plants....
The telephone poles are gonna get it!
You should have brought in your tomato plants after Fukushima!
Post Fuk for Gardeners
http://www.naturalnews.com/037159_bentonite_clay_radiation_detoxificatio...
Kim Jong-un WILL be pushing the button ... as soon as they find a couple phone books so he can reach it.
Napoleon?
I'm working real hard for a reason to care about this story. He ain't pushing no buttons. He ain't starting no wars. All he can do is run to the end of his Chinese-forged chain and bark.
rodman goes kowea
shit starts happening there
whatever it is, ain't shit if rodman was the messenger
go back to watching judd dance on TV she might have a wardrobe malfunction
That was funny NoDebt. +1 The visual of that reminded me of the old 'Foghorn Leghorn' vs 'Chicken Hawk' cartoons, when they screw with the dog...
Baby Kim just needs a good fuck every day. Make love not war.
Best to ignore anything North Korea says. If they actually start a war, then I say remove them from the face of the Earth.
Yeah because genocide is so fun...
If they start a war, wipe out Pyongyang. Only the leadership and the most brainwashed live there. Cluster MOAB the capital, bomb the rest of the country with crates of food.
I think that is understood.
Why does the US gov continue to antagonize other countries with our military presence and wars in and around other countries?
How dare you question the actions of JPM and GS...sheesh.
relax and take a chill pill......this is all foreplay. When they pull the plug on this show it will be "All in BABY".....every patriotic stop will be pulled out with nothing left in the bag...babababbooooooooom
Closing that place down just cost them what? about 50% GDP?
A simple radar painting anywhere there and its 4th of jew lie
LULZ 50% of GDP.
Kaesong gives NKorea about $80 million a year... compared with $20 billion in GDP.
Banned to Gaeseong <ANAGRAM> Teenage gonad snob.
zzzzzzzzzzzzz...no story here. NK sank a SK navy ship killing 46 and neither the US nor SK did shit about it. All of a sudden war is going to start over some tough words? pffffffff
They recovered the torpedo propeller shaft .... I was impressed !
That torp looked like it had been underwater for years when they pulled it up, not months. The corrosion and encrustation was very advanced.
My Wok can rust in 5 minutes after I wash it !
Yep, but not as much as when they found the 9/11 hijackers passports at the bottom of the towers after they collapsed in the whole pile of rubble!
yet no black boxes-whowoodaknowed?
I don't think they were designed to withstand what happened ?
I would be surprised if they found even one passport ! The collapsing towers were the Guiness record for a paper shredder !
Except that NK didn't sink it.
German torpedo was blamed, but NK has no German torpedos
NK marking on torpedo claimed, but it's not a NK marking. They claim it's the same as markings used on NK torpedos in the past, but that is easy to disprove if you look at a NK torpedo recovered in 2003.
Explosive signature exceeded that of a torpedo and matched that of a landmine in 25m depth
Ship claimed by SK to be in 47m due to "findings", but all logs and witnesses put it at 25m
Ship lost steering control due to fishing nets
Area is heavily mined with US rising mines
Pigment (solvent blue 5) used to mark the torpedo is from SK
Pigment used to mark the torpedo is OVER a rusted surface, not directly on the smooth surface it should be
Surviving fragments of alleged torpedo are entirely inconsistant with an exploded torpedo, yet entirely consistant with one used for training
Torpedo would not have "cut the ship in half", but a mine in 25m most definitely would have
All contradictory evidence was admitted to in the report and IGNORED for the sake of "proving" it was a NK torp. In fact, the base assumption was that it was a NK torp and the entire report is based on proving that hypothesis with no other outcome allowed.
So, here's what happened: SK ship got tangled in a net, pulled a mine and went boom. SK dug around looking for *anything* to point a finger at NK with, found an old torpedo from a training exercise and slapped a marking on it that did not match one of their own and someone fucked up in doing it. NK didn't have shit to do with it, but the anti-DPRK propaganda mouthpieces (basically all mass media) will NEVER tell you that.
You sound pretty well informed or opinionated .... have some links .... so we can check it out ?
http://csis.org/files/attachments/100525_AMB_Briefing-2.pdf
The goodies are on page 30 for the marking inconsistancy. It simply does not match. And it fails to address the more hilarious issue of contradiction. On one hand, they claim that the advanced corrosion is due to all the paint being blasted off during the explosion. Yet, marker is there? Marker would have been blown off with the paint, or at least corroded along with the surface, but there is it, clean and perfect (and also wrong).
http://www.globalresearch.ca/shock-wave-and-bubble-the-untruth-about-the-cheonan/20408
http://blog.daum.net/purunsuninjang/694
It's honestly HARD to find links that would be deemed "credible". The joy of the internet as a news source is that it's a memory hole, when things become inconvenient, they revise the story, close comments, and let it die.
On May 6th, 2010 a report came out conducted by South Korea and others that said the torpedo's metal and explosive residue indicated that it had come from a German origin.
The team of South Korean and foreign investigators found traces of explosives used in torpedoes on several parts of the sunken ship as well as pieces of composite metal used in such weapons, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said quoting a senior government official.
… The metallic debris and chemical residue appear to be consistent with a type of torpedo made in Germany, indicating the North may have been trying to disguise its involvement by avoiding arms made by allies China and Russia, Yonhap quoted the official as saying. REUTERS News Agency
http://petermyersnewsletters.blogspot.com/2012/03/310-cheonan-salvaged-torpedo-does-not.html
http://www.koreabang.com/2012/stories/new-study-claims-cheonan-sinking-caused-by-mine-not-torpedo.html
Basically, it's bullshit. Reporting the truth would essentially be admitting to friendly-fire, at a time when SK is trying to suck up to the US, due mainly to the vast majority of South Koreans wanting the US to get out. What a wonderful false flag to use to try and scare citizens into doing what they want. I'm not saying it was deliberate sinking, it was an accident that was taken advantage of.
edit: here we go http://www.kpolicy.org/documents/policy/100721seunghunleejjsuhrushtojudgment.html
Hitler alive aboard Das Boot and recovering German Gold from Buenos Aires before the Yanks can snatch it. Going the South Sea route and hitting supposedly a SK vessel which was a US navy decoy. German torpedoes sank that ship, that is correct!
Yeah, but that is not all, Walkuere. They've totally forgotten about unsere Wunderwaffen. Next: Nazi invasion from Moon.
"German torpedo was blamed, but NK has no German torpedos"
What if it was an isreaelli german torpedo?
Sigh...
No, it wasn't "JEWS". The torpedo has nothing to do with it apart from being a ploy.
http://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-policy-forum/testing-north-korean-waters/#ixzz2PNWGDa1G
South Korea has not officially referred to the Russian conclusions. When I asked a well-placed Russian friend why the report has not been made public, he replied, “Because it would do much political damage to President Lee Myung-bak and would embarrass President Obama.”
The torpedo in question is an old piece of sea-junk left over from some other training mission.
As for the events leading up to the sinking...
Discourse over the events leading to the sinking of the Cheonan was tightly controlled by the South Korean government in the months after the incident. On 8 May 2010, a former senior presidential secretary who served under Roh Moo-hyun, Park Seon-won, was charged with libel by South Korea's Defense Minister, Kim Tae-young, over comments he made during a 22 April interview on MBC radio asking for greater disclosure from the military and government. Park Seon-won's response to the charge was: "I asked for the disclosure of information for a transparent and impartial investigation into the cause of the Cheonan sinking;" he added that "the libel suit seeks to silence public suspicion over the incident." South Korea's Minister of Public Administration and Security, Maeng Hyung-kyu, announced on 20 May 2010 that the government was stepping up efforts to prosecute people who spread "groundless rumors" over the internet: "Anyone who makes false reports or articles about the incident could seriously damage national security. We will not let these be the basis of any risks the nation faces." Moreover, he announced the government would step up efforts to prevent "illegal gatherings" regarding the sinking of the Cheonan.
A South Korean military oversight board, the Board of Inspection and Audit, has accused senior South Korean naval leaders of lying and hiding information. Said the board, "Military officers deliberately left out or distorted key information in their report to senior officials and the public because they wanted to avoid being held to account for being unprepared."
So... take that as you will. When you are presenting truth and it is attacked, you can back it up with more truth. When you present lies and bullshit and it is attacked, and the only response you have is to threaten the attackers, it is just too obvious what's going on.
The lynchpin is that the alleged torpedo was dredged up in May 2010, however experts stated that the corrosion was consistant with 6 months of exposure.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/11/11/59/0401000000AEN20091111004300315F.HTML
Look what was going on 6 months prior in that exact area. Care to guess how the torpedo got there?
One more bit of goodness is that the "official" story uses a blueprint of the alleged DPRK torpedo, which was wrong. They immediately countered that it was an accident that the wrong diagram was shown, yet NEVER corrected it. Nope, no new diagram. How simple that would have been, seeing as essentially all their proof relied on it. Yet, nothing.
They also claim that there's a military catalog, yet, again... http://blog.ohmynews.com/osta2000/354078 photoshoppery.
This leads to the question of WHOSE torpedo is it? But this is a pointless question to bother with, as it had been down there since November 2009 and had nothing to do with the rising mine that sank the Cheonan.
You forgot the most obvious tell tail sign it was most likely a mine in a training excerise gone bad - Hilary Clinton jumped out of her pant suit to point the finger at a North Korea torp before any investigation commenced.
Also, the initial annoucement from US and SK, right after it happened, was that it was a training accident and not to get crazy about it. That was later revised and redacted. It's bull. The simple fact of the matter is that mass media pretty much MUST report government press releases, they tend to be crafted as pre-assembled newsbits, are good time sinks for the 24-hour news channels, and choosing NOT to report or go against them is a quick way to cut off access to more of that cheap news and official access. "Annonymous officials" don't tend to "leak" to newsmedia they don't like, and getting the scoop is the game they all play.
The other problem is that if they go against the grain, they can and will be called out on it and derided. If they are not 100% accurate in their own version of events, they are screwed. That requires something called "journalism", which none of them practice. Whereas if they roll with the official story, if/when it proves to be false, they are vindicated because they are simply reporting what others said and the only fact-checking required or expected of them was to ensure that their video-clip is authentic... in so far as it coming from the source it's coming from. Government gets to play this card, others don't. So it's all just propaganda mouthpiece material in the end. Counter-stories only become a thing when mass media bothers to put in the time and effort to verify the counter-claims, and there's absolutely nothing to be gained by defending the DPRK, nothing, nothing at all. It's lose-lose if they even try. Insofar as profits and market share are concerned. And that's all that matters.
There is country on the meditteranean that is slightly larger than NJ that gets submarines from Germany.
Raeli!
Any excuse to sell gold and silver is a good excuse. Meanwhile, Bitcoin hit $119.8.
Silver down 6% since Cyprus crisis. Bitcoin up 160%. It is a bizarro world
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv
Excellent time to convert your Bitcon .... to bits and pieces of eight .... we await your anecdote .... of how the trade went ? Can you buy ammo with Bitcon ? Hmmm ?
I would imagine so. Take a stroll over to the darknet, you can get whatever your hearts desire is.... download TOR browser and begin your adventure.
they tried to crash bitcoin awwhile back and found it is not really possible after all
Well yes, you can sell bitcoins for money... then buy ammo.
I better hurry up .... the bombs start falling in 10 minutes ! Can Bitcon withstand a neutron bomb ? Gotcha !
Gangnam style
"You are worthress, Hirrary! Worthress!!"
Kerry-son, now, right?
So....is there a plan to depose the NK leadership and reunite the Korean peninsula? Or are we gonna kill a couple of million people first? A nice pork belly dinner in Seoul and a spot in the history books just might be good enough to entice a member of Kim's inner circle to deposit some lead and free the people. This could get a bit dicey.
never mind this silly north korea...people, you must stay focused on IRAN and its evil empire..keep listening to our leaders.....we seek freedom and democracy in IRAN.....IRAN is BAD.........and remember, its not about the oil............................
Good thing NKorea doesn't have oil then... oops
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/10/08/korea-north-oil-idUKSEO15687320...
The energy ministry official said there were various media reports and private documents containing information on the potential oil reserves in North Korea, including one from China putting North Korea's oil reserves at up to 6 billion barrels.
or rare earth minerals... oops.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/NH08Dg01.html
South Korea estimates the total value of the North's mineral deposits at more than US$6 trillion.
Or you know, millions of slaves to work for cheap...
@lol....thanks for the info...it gets interesting...
If North Korea convert their mineral deposits to Bitcoin... it'll be worth a bajillion-squillion dollars! They'll be able to take over the world! Someone turn off their internet or we're all dooooooomed!
Well done on the research, thank you.
KCNA official forecast for the Korean peninsula:
Monday: Mostly Sunny and breezy. High near 79 degrees.
Tuesday: Cloudy. As in mushroom-cloudy. Forecast High of 3,100,000 will smash the previous record of 91 degrees.
Wednesday: Wintry precipitation. Of the nuclear winter type. Seoul residents are urged to stay indoors. Preferably inside sturdy lead structures...
That move is substantive. What are the odds they give up $2 billion in trade for a symbolic gesture?
I was writing a poem about Korea and I am having trouble finding a word to rhyme with Korea. Does anyone have a word besides gonorrhea, diarrhea, or pyorrhea?
Corea ?
bacteria?
Yeast infection in vagina of Maria ? They hate us for our filthy minds ?
diphtheria ?
Urea ? Crimea ?
Mama-mia?
Historia?
Dear leader little fat boy is going to have a real hard time saving fat pudgy face shortly.
honey badger don't give a shit - people of NK do what honey badger says. you gotta hand it to the kid-staying in power after pops dies is usually hard to do.
The hardest part will be working out which one is him amongst the 50 look-a-likes they'll spread around the country.
The Korean war never ended, there is merely a truce. They can quickly solve their economic problems by an unconditional surrender to the South. After all what would they be giving up?
This is all about China and the BRICS bank...........make no mistake about it
"After all what would they be giving up?"
The North don't want the shitty South Korean pop culture, that's what this is all about.
The US positioned TWO ships capable of shooting down ballistic missiles.
that's bullshit-like years after gulf war I they admitted the Patriot missiles didn't shoot down 1 Scud or recently that Israel's Iron Dome was completely ineffective.
Completly ineffective? Bullshit. Iron Dome stopped 80-90% of Hamas's missiles... but they were short range missiles.
But yeah, I wouldn't put my life on the line based on these ``missile shield`` capabilities in real life conditions.
you mean those glorified bottle rockets? the IDF lies about as well as our military-where do you think we learned it from?
Not just bottle rockets. They also launch grad rockets which are a little better.
Couldn't extort anything from the US maybe the North can extort something from China.
http://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/
I was gonna fix up Otto .... with a "it's just lunch" date .... with a nice Jewish girl .... maybe it's not the right time ?
Holy Shit monedas!
You finally said something funny, maybe you are comical after all.
That's bullshit. Fuck off, disinformation troll. You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Youth and students across the country are petitioning to be allowed to join or rejoin the Korean People's Army.
Young workers of the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex evinced their resolution to come out to the outpost for a battle against the U.S., declaring: "Once a red signal flares, we will wipe out the mentally deranged enemies trumpeting about precision missile attack and the like with arms of Paektusan at a single strike."
University students in Kangwon Province climbed Chol Pass and vowed to join the army in order to display courage in the sacred war for national reunification just as the soldiers did in the 1950s.
Young people in the agricultural field also expressed their determination to devotedly defend their leader and annihilate enemies.
Jang Su Hyon, a farmer of the township cooperative farm in Sinphyong County, had this to say after petitioning to be allowed to rejoin the army:
All young people of the farm petitioned to be allowed to join or rejoin the army in hearty response to the statement of the KPA Supreme Command.
The important decision made by the dear respected Kim Jong Un at an operation meeting on the KPA Strategic Rocket Force's performance of duty for firepower strike marked a turning point in the action to put an end to the history of protracted showdown with the U.S.
The discharged soldiers who had fostered the courage and wisdom of each beating a hundred enemies during the period of their military service will rejoin the army, once the Supreme Commander gives an order, and conclude the confrontation with the U.S. with arms of Paektusan.
Secondary school graduates across the country passionately petitioned to be allowed to serve on the forefront in order to become human fortresses and shields for devotedly protecting the headquarters of the revolution and wipe out enemies.
Those in the Political "Work" Camps could not be reached for comment.
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have taken a practical military action to cope with the reckless nuclear war drills of the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces.
They have been automatically placed in a state of war where they can mete out a merciless punishment without any notice to those coming in attack to hurt the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK even a bit.
The service personnel and people of the DPRK regard the worst situation created by the U.S. hostile policy as a golden chance for fighting a do-or-die battle with the U.S.
A historic time is fast approaching when they will deal unlimited blows of justice at the hostile forces any time and blow up their citadels.
This will be confrontation of politics and ideology, military confrontation and nuclear showdown between the army and people of the DPRK responsible for the destiny of the country and the nation and the U.S.
There are subjective and objective factors of their victory in the battle.
They are led by the great brilliant commander of Songun with outstanding military wisdom and commanding art.
The Korean People's Army (KPA) is well known to be the most elite revolutionary army equipped with the strategy and tactics for winning one victory after another, bold offensive mode and strong combat capability.
The KPA Strategic Rocket Force units placed on maximum alert are waiting for an order after receiving the plan for firepower strike finally ratified by the Supreme Commander.
The capability of the KPA is tremendous as it has all the attack tactics and combat methods under any circumstances from the Korean-style strategy for a nuclear war to the guerrilla strategy.
All the field artillery units including strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units have the capability to blow up the U.S. mainland and its bases in operational theatres in the Pacific as well as all the enemy targets in south Korea and its vicinity at an initial strike if a war breaks out.
No one can imagine the width and depth of the KPA strike and the enemies can never be safe from its deadly strike wherever they are.
Steadfast is the will of all the service personnel, workers, farmers, youth and students to wipe out the enemies.
The army and people of the DPRK are fully determined to turn out in the sacred war of justice and become human bullets and bombs to mercilessly destroy the strongholds and war hardware of the enemies if the Supreme Commander issues an order.
The enemies run amuck after judging the DPRK on the basis of arithmetical calculation of territory, population, economic and military potentials. This is, however, as foolish an act as jumping into fire with faggot on one's back.
No wonder, the Chicago Tribune commented that north Korea is too strong to ignore in view of the present time.
The U.S. suffered the first shameful defeat in its history in the last Korean War but another Korean war will bring a final destruction to it.
"All the field artillery units including strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units have the capability to blow up the U.S. mainland and its bases in operational theatres in the Pacific as well as all the enemy targets in south Korea and its vicinity at an initial strike if a war breaks out."
Wow, the incredible genius of the Great Leaders weapons programme that can engineer, not only ballistic missles of uncanny accuracy and nuclear capability, but long range artillery that can cover the Distance from Pyongyang to Los Angeles which is is 9569 kilometers or 5946 miles or 5167 nautical miles.
It will be 911 X 100,000,000,000,000,000 which will be bad, very bad.
Juche Bitchez!
"This is, however, as foolish an act as jumping into fire with faggot on one's back."
What the fuck does this mean?
Faggot = stick. I suspect his expression means don't be stupid and jump into a fire with flammable fuel strapped to your back.
It's China.
China has drone bases on North Korean coasts, all aimed at Japan. As long as the central banks hold that oil price close to 100 and keep inflation pressure building in China (apart from their own insane policies). We got a war coming and it's all about nat gas, not oil. What America does will be meaningless. China could sink US markets in seconds, Fed or no Fed, once the USTs get dumped. Safe havens USD and YEN go hyper bid (means rates will go through the roof) chaos will ensure.
"...Additionally, officials have said drone bases are being set up in the South China Sea to monitor Scarborough reef, which is claimed by Philippines and China; Macclesfield Bank; the Paracel Islands; and the Spratly Islands. China also is using drone to monitor the Socotra Reef claimed by South Korea.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/26/china-stepping-drone-deployment/#ixzz2PMjukxUTAs much as I despise the Fed, I don't think they are being outsmarted by a group of central planners with a red book.
The Fed are dumb. In fact so dumb it is almost astounding. Within their means, anyone can print money, form a cartel with the ECB/BoJ, fund the EUR supports and get high from Wall Street leveraged mania.
China could crush the Fed like a f*cking ant, no problems. Force the USD bid and drive up rates. In fact rates are going up now.
Hmm, Bank of China is part of the FED banking system. Sorry, but the US and China are connected at the hip and have been since 1971. The real question is what was Schmidt from Google sent to North Korea to discuss.
Damn, I was about to go pick up my hot mail order NK bride...
In a few years people will be ordering yankee brides or Iowa farm girls.
I'll take two of each, both 13yr olds as is my god given right as a mormon.
And bitcoin passes $120.00 Fiat. While no doubt a heavy drop is coming, the fact that so many are willing to pay so much for safety and convience should give you pause.
http://Bestbitcoinsites.wordpress.com
every time I hear bitcoin mentioned I pause- but that's just to keep from vomiting
Too bad someone wouldn't say "but it only costs $5 to dig it out of the ground, or howeverthefuck its mined"
I don't have any problems with North Koreans, hell, I never even saw one. Am I supposed to be afraid or terrified?.....
Gee...
https://twitter.com/KyungLahCNN/
Ministry said all the workers would come out. So far only three cars came out...
Hard to see, but the gates on road to Kaesong are closed.
So... the North took hundreds of hostages or what?
I wil never be mistaken for a military genius. I know this.
But even though I'm not smart like a General Washington, or a Patton, or a Krugman, I am still a bit nervous about all of this. I guess what worries me is that North Korea "is the world's most militarized country, with a total of 9,495,000 active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel. Its active duty army of 1.21 million is the 4th largest in the world, after China, the U.S., and India.[17] It is a nuclear-weapons state and has an active space program..."
South Korea seems like they are less focused:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXXHD0CHxo
I don't know. I guess, just like the economy, I don't understand advanced military tactics, printing magic money, writing poorly written newspaper articles and owning a nobel prize even though you are a douche, virtually ruining economics, peace, The Nobel family name and crest forever...students hate you, yet you still are allowed to spew garbage at a once proud University....where was I...Oh well, I'll go back to TV where's I belong...
if each one of those has an AK,some ammo and a little training they can cause some problems.
A dozen people took airliners and ram them into buildings.
Imagine what a hundred special ops in the US could do ?? If they wanted, they could send teams of one special ops in 100 different schools across America at the same time and murder thousands of kids... Easily doable...and very hard to stop. Thanks to gun free zones... thanks to statist democrats.
The last time they did -- it was only 30 North Koreans.
The ENTIRE US 2nd Infantry Division (and this isn't a few dozen SF guys on holiday chasing goat fuckers in Tora Bora, it is over 10 THOUSAND US troops permanently stationed right up the road)
plus the ENTIRE South Korean Military ALL knew these guys had crossed the DMZ, and roughly where they were, and yet they were INCAPABLE of of finding and destroying 30 guys on foot...
Those 30 guys then took on the South Korean Presidential Guard and fought their way to within one block of the President's house...
But it's actually even easier then it used to be, since the North Koreans appear to have added nuclear devices and lead boxes to their repertoire that already included stealth border crossings and suicide missions...
Gold getting smacked further.
http://goldprice.org/spot-gold.html
Suppression before large move upwards? Dumping paper contracts and taking physical?
Any context would be appreciated
Dumping contracts and taking physical is the most likely move but then again I know nothing. Is gold back to backwardation yet?
The story of Croesus and the oracle comes to us from the Greek historian Herodotus. "Herodotus 1.92: Croesus sends messengers to Delphi. It is said that when the Lydian messengers reached Delphi and asked the questions they had been told to ask, the Priestess replied that not God himself could escape destiny. As for Croesus, he had expiated in the fifth generation the crime of his ancestor, who was a soldier in the bodyguard of the Heraclids, and, tempted by a woman's treachery, had murdered his master and stolen his office, to which he had no claim. The God of Prophecy was eager that the fall of Sardis might occur in the time of Croesus' sons rather than in his own, but he had been unable to divert the course of destiny. Nevertheless what little the Fates allowed, he had obtained for Croesus' advantage: he had postponed the capture of Sardis for three years, so Croesus must realize that he had enjoyed three years of freedom more than was appointed for him. Secondly, the god had saved him when he was on the pyre. As to the oracle, Croesus had no right to find fault with it: the gods had declared that if he attacked the Persians he would bring down a mighty empire. After an answer like that, the wise thing would have been to send again to inquire which empire was meant, Cyrus' or his own. But as he misinterpreted what was said and made no second inquiry, he must admit the fault to have been his own." University of Texas: Example of a Passage Analysis http://www.utexas.edu/courses/clubmed/examsourceanal.html
Now I understand why the NK people were seen wailing and crying hysterically when Dear Leader Sr. died last year. They knew the son was insane and things would get much worse. Poor folk those being born into that matrix.