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North Korea Declares State Of War After Argument Over Loudspeaker Spirals Out Of Control
Kim Jong-un has declared a state of war following an escalation of hostilities across the DMZ. Here's Xinhua:
The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has ordered the country's frontline combined forces to enter state of war from 5pm (0830 GMT) Friday. the official KCNA news agency reported Friday, the official KCNA news agency reported early Friday.
Kim made the order at an emergency enlarged meeting of the central military commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, said the report.
He ordered the forces to be well armed to cope with any possible operations at any time. Kim also gave the order that the frontline area enter quasi state of war from 5 pm Friday.
During the emergency meeting, political and military countermeasures aimed to smash the enemy's war provocations were discussed while the military's combat plan of the frontline command was approved, according to the KCNA.
How did it come to this you ask? Below is the amusing backstory...
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un - the world’s sabre rattler par excellence - doesn’t like to stray too far from the spotlight when it comes to global conflict, which is why we weren’t terribly surprised when, a few days ago, the pariah state threatened to invade the US mainland and use "weapons unknown to the world."

Of course a lot of what goes on inside the country is "unknown to the world", much as the world is largely "unknown" to North Koreans and that’s just fine with Kim, whose regime depends on a combination of propaganda and censorship to keep the populace transfixed in a perpetual state of hypnotic hero worship. Of course the West and its allies - and now even China - have a tendency to dismiss Kim’s threats as the ravings of a delusional child, which is why occasionally, Pyongyang will actually fire a missile into the ocean or execute a member of the military top brass with an anti-aircraft gun just to remind everyone that the regime isn’t totally bluffing.
Given Pyongyang’s propensity for lobbing bombastic threats that, were they to emanate from virtually any other government on the planet would be met with a sharp rebuke, it’s something of a miracle that sour relations between Kim and US ally South Korea haven’t already produced an armed conflict, and as Bloomberg reports, the "maiming" of two South Korean soldiers along the DMZ and subsequent "blaring of propaganda through loudspeakers" by the South culminated in the exchange of artillery fire on Thursday, marking the worst escalation between the two countries in five years. Here’s more:
North and South Korea exchanged fire across the demilitarized zone between the two countries in one of the worst incidents since 2010, sparking fears that hostilities will worsen.
The incident started when North Korea fired a rocket at a South Korean border area, prompting Seoul’s forces to reply with an artillery barrage. It was unclear whether there were any casualties.
Tensions have flared in recent weeks across the so-called DMZ that bisects the Korean peninsula. Two South Korean soldiers were maimed on Aug. 4 by land mines that the Seoul government says were recently laid by North Korea. Pyongyang denied any role in the blasts.
Relations deteriorated further when South Korea started blaring propaganda at the North through loudspeakers along the DMZ. After today’s exchange, North Korea threatened to “start a military action” unless South Korea stops all propaganda broadcasts and withdraws the loudspeakers within 48 hours.
“The ball is in North Korea’s court now,” Koh Yu Hwan, professor of North Korea studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, said by phone. “If North Korea decides to fire back, that means the conflict will broaden, something probably neither Korea wants.”
Today’s exchange was among the most serious since North Korea shelled a front-line island in the south in 2010, killing two marines and two civilians. Last year, their ships exchanged warning fire near a disputed Yellow Sea boundary.
South Korea’s military remains on heightened alert after today’s incident and is closely monitoring the situation, the Defense Ministry said in an e-mailed statement. The exchange began when North Korea fired a single rocket across the border, the ministry said. South Korean troops fired “dozens of shells” back, the statement said.
And while the above would suggest that North Korea was largely responsible for the escalation by firing "a rocket" at South Korean positions, it looks like it's also possible that the North was shooting at a loudspeaker after its soldiers tired of an endless stream of broadcasted rheotric. Here's CNN:
South Korea also has accused the North of planting mines, an allegation that Pyongyang denies.
Seoul vowed a "harsh" response to the landmines and resumed blaring propaganda messages over the border from huge loudspeakers.
The move infuriated North Korea, which called the broadcasting "a direct action of declaring a war." Over the weekend, it threatened to blow up the South Korean speakers and also warned of "indiscriminate strikes."
And a U.S. official told CNN's Barbara Starr that the U.S. believes that North Korea fired a shot at a South Korean loudspeaker, and South Korea responded with 36 artillery shells.
So an eye for an eye, we suppose. You shoot at our loudspeakers, and we'll resort to heavy artillery fire. Here's a look at one of the loudspeakers South Korea installed along the border in the wake of the land mine incident:
We shall see, in the days and weeks ahead, if a pot-shot at a speaker system will go down in history as the event that triggered another war in the Korean Peninsula, but in the meantime, we would caution observers that determining whose account offers a more accurate description of when exactly things started to go wrong will be more difficult than usual this time around because thanks to Kim's move to establish his own time zone earlier this week, the two countries are half an hour apart.
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The guys more than a few cards short of a full deck.
Man that haircut is timeless...So cool
KIM GONE UN (corked)
Can we finally, officially start WWIII now?
It's still a few years away, so still you have time to prepare. It will be tough, but with preparation you and your family can make it. When China lets N. Korea off the leash after China's new weapon systems and navy come on line after 2020, that will be your cue to head to your strategic retreat.
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/threats.html
Oh well. Free haircuts. I mean financial type as more problems beset the geo-political balance all at once .
Coincidences, no? Or mismanagement? Like that town in Libya starts with a B?
A broader take on Tinjin
http://www.naturalnews.com/050863_cyber_warfare_China_destruction_of_Ame...
It would appear someone doesn't like any of the comments on this story. Kim, you're a ZH member?
This time is half (an hour) different !
It rill be tru rate my friends for uuuuuuuuuuu I have set all da crocks to turty mins to fas haaaaaaaaa! I BOM UUUUUU
starts with a B....
Bu-Fakhra
Batta
Bi'r al Ashhab
Brega
Baniwalid
Brak
Benina
Bin Jawad
I give up what could it possibly B
DPRK is developing a 3-stage Dong 2 missile that will be able to penetrate CONUS.
Sounds nasty
dats rayciss
A little penicillin will clear that nasty burning drip right up..
and use "weapons unknown to the world."
Too late, Sodium Cyanide is already in the news.
This my favourite NK propaganda clip against the 'West'...sadly I found most of it to be true...
?How The Masses Are Being Mind Controlled?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLU1JcoK5E0
Yep, the lady President of South Korea could definitely set off a war. Her mother was murdered by the North, and her ex-Prez father was assainated over policy by his head of security.
The Korean War never ended. They have a cease fire but they are still officially at war.
0bama will end that war!
The world respects him.
He has calmed the seas and reversed climate change. And we like him!
The Korean conflict was never listed as a "war"... Look it up...
Doesn't matter what label the US finds appropriate under which to commit its atrocities. The extensive and incessant carpet bombing of Noth Korea BY THE US for years with NAPALM was one of the worst crimes in the history of humankind by any standard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/books/22book.html?_r=1
When a nation (NK) loses its quarter of population during wartime, you can be sure that the only thing they do is preparing for war.
The experience the Koreans made of having to survive in caves while the surface is being bombed to make it ininhabitable still remains and will for many generations. And how hilarious it is, that the responsibles call the victims part of an "axis of evil".
North Korea invaded the South .... got their butts kicked .... were bailed out by China .... the real horror in the North .... began after the truce .... they have now been betrayed by Capitalist China and South Korea .... their head is in a Capitalist vice .... which gets tighter and tighter .... until crack .... squish !
There was no "invasion" but a civil war and there was and is is no reason for the US to carpet bomb another country, you bleeding, fucking asshole.
Start here, neocon-troll, then came back with specifics: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/books/22book.html?_r=1
Let the ignorant mofo have his Wah!
It won't last a week. No air force. Not much of anything except Chinese knock-offs of 50s Soviet weapons.
Hi Tech. Woo Hoo.
Remind us all how technogically advanced USSA fared in Afganistan. And Vietnam. And the original Korean war, against brand new 50's Soviet weapons.
So the USA nukes them. Turn North Korea into a desert of Nuclear Glass.
And I do not give a damn about Russia or China nuking us back.
Let all of the nukes fly.
I guess that is racist as I'd like to watch the extinction of the Human Race.
So I will stick around and watch for awhile. Maybe I can help it along.
Hell I have lived a long life. Have you?
It is funny and I am laughing. I will die laughing. I intend to die laughing.
How about you?
Let those angels of death have wings.
Master's sense of humor is atypical and occasionally worrisome. However, I do like the idea of so many cats dying in nuclear fireballs <wag>. Smug little twerps.
These guys aren't a bunch of goat botherers..
They have an airforce, plus they have a metric shitton of radars, AA guns and SAM sites.
Look at what the Novorossia rebels did to the Ukranian airforce using "obsolete" Soviet AA gear, low end stuff at that.
Looks like a pig with a black toupee.
Kimmy: "Squuuuuuuueeal, squeal, squeal, squeeealll! Oink, snort."
Announcer: "And that will be the end of his royal "hamming it up" for the day, thank you for your attendance at his Lil' Highness's Ho Down."
A Korean Ned Beatty?
That is one "Deliverance" of my meaning!
Yeah, he claims to have a Long Dong!
But I bet it's really just a Lil' Smokey sausage.
it's the latest fashion, called "black swan"
Black swine. We refer to the posturing as a "black swine event." He refers to events that are improbable that put his tail at a lot of risk.
He lands his drone on it.
+1 good play on words.
He must have wanted "11" on the volume knob...but got this wall-of-sound instead.
Rock on !
It was an accident. I don't know what you're talking about.
The only guy who can get away with wearing Groucho's moustache on the top of his head.
Its not a new time zone, its the time zone they were on before Japan invaded. South Korea moved back to this same time zone too but decided it was too much trouble and went back to the Japan inplemented time zone.
Japanese occupation (1910–45) Main article: Korea under Japanese ruleThree Koreans shot for pulling up rails as a protest against seizure of land without payment by the Japanese
The latter years of the Joseon Dynasty were marked by isolation from the outside world. During the 19th century, Korea's isolationist policy earned it the name the "Hermit Kingdom". The Joseon Dynasty tried to protect itself against Western imperialism, but was eventually forced to open trade. After the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Korea was occupied by Japan (1910–45).
Japan tried to suppress Korean traditions and culture and ran the economy primarily for its own benefit. Anti-Japanese, pro-liberation rallies took place nationwide on 1 March 1919 (the March 1st Movement). About 7,000 people were killed during the suppression of this movement. Continued anti-Japanese uprisings, such as the nationwide uprising of students in 1929, led to the strengthening of military rule in 1931. After the outbreaks of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and World War II, Japan stepped up efforts to extinguish Korean culture.
Koreans were forced to adopt Japanese names. Worship at Japanese Shinto shrines was made compulsory. The school curriculum was radically modified to eliminate teaching in the Korean language and history. Numerous Korean cultural artifacts were destroyed or taken to Japan. Resistance groups known as Dongnipgun (Liberation Army) operated along the Sino-Korean border, fighting guerrilla warfare against Japanese forces. Some of them took part in allied action in China and parts of South East Asia. One of the guerrilla leaders was the communist Kim Il-sung, who later became the leader of North Korea.
During World War II, Koreans at home were forced to support the Japanese war effort. Tens of thousands of men were conscripted into Japan's military. Around 200,000 girls and women, many from Korea, were forced to engage in sexual services for the Japanese military, with the euphemism "comfort women".
Here's what I want out of our favorite psychotic peninsula.
1. End the Korean War. Just go all out, destroy both sides, and get it over with.
2. Pull out all US troops.
3. DO NOT HAVE THE US PAY TO REBUILD THE COUNTRY.
That's it.
Probably would be best to pull out all US troops first there Colonel Shitbrains.
... From Japan, Taiwan, et. al., boyo.
Damn right, then we'd have the men to reinforce the Ukraine.
(humming America the Beautiful)
We destroyed North Korea 1950-53 when we bombed them into dust. Armchair destroyers will continue until they run out of bombs or until a bomb lands on their head.
Thats an interesting definition of "destroyed".
Dust, you say.
Nuclear armed medium ranged missiles certainly means the enemies of America have much to fear.
The ghost of Paul Klipsch.
That was my first thought after seeing the loudspeaker image.
Big Sound. No Bullshit.
Nuttier than squirrel shit
duplicate post
So good it deserved another pos rep.
The Disney Dictator does not want to hear Dreamworks propaganda.
North Korea - the only place on earth where dear leader tell joke and you die (not) laughing.
Wonder what Lil' Kim did with the soldier who fired the shot at the speaker?
Look at that speaker rack!
Eat your heart out homeys ;-)
You waff? Deeuh Weeder bewwy you in Kim Chi, Wound Eyes!
It is a used
surplus "harsh interrogation" device
from Gitmo.
Good Lawd but that kid is a lunatic.
Lil Kim posturing for yet another U.S. handout
Don't you have it backwards?
It is SOUTH Korea that gets the US handouts, is still occupied by the US military,
and whose government is under US direction.
Walk softly and carry a big loudspeaker.
Like the old brother boom box decade
EVERY TIME that Tubby fails another Diet Plan - he executes somebody. It must be h*ll to be the proprietor for Jenny Craig in Pyong Yang.
So what does he want now?
Ever see the movie Spirited Away with the gargantuan baby that threw tremendous tantrums?
It's like that.
In a very small sense this is like my 97 year old German neighbor who plays old German military (40's) type marching music late some nights whist wheeling about (used to strut, then march, then hobble, now down to a wheel chair painted Wehrmacht gray) in his back yard, crying.
lol. I got the visual of that Knuks.
Very poetic description Knuckles...
You should interview him on tape!
His days are passing and history needs to recognize his craziness ..... or dedication.
Get the fucking drones - if they can nail those skinny bearded terrorists, this fat little fuck should be easy target practice.
Obama, whose regime depends on a combination of propaganda and censorship to keep the populace transfixed in a perpetual state of hypnotic hero worship
He was arrested for wearing a loud shirt in a built up area, the officer said.
Ever see the documentaries Vice did in North Korea? Holeeee Shitballllz.
That place is batshit.
I would nuke these turds.
Now Donald, just stop. He is littler than you, his hair is weirder than yours. Play nice, don't be a bully.
Nuke 'em.
Gonna need a bigger microwave.
I would SATURATE nuke north korea, then tell the iranians they are next unless they submit to ouster of islamic cult leaders and imposition of new regime.
World peace thru military conquest = EXACTLY the principles of islam.
The most funny man in the world doesn't always start a war everyday but when he does... One day he will be for real and who'll know til the yellow starving fuckers stagger across the DMZ.
He must be one funny mofo, everybody around him is always laughing or smiling. Except for the ones getting eaten by dogs or shot with artillery rounds.
fact: the war in Korea never ended. It's still an active war. North Korea has been asking to sign a peace agreement for decades but it's USA that has ALWAYS declined.
/fact
"Facts are stupid things." ~Ronnie(I can't recall); the actor who played a president
Yes. Nk is great. They are about peace. They care for their people so well.
Yes. Just like 'Merica cares bout their peeps and their wantabe fuckin' empire.
We come in peace but will leave you in pieces!
the south korean's fault.. I would shoot at a blaring speaker too...
dumb asses don't have any sense...
NK should float balloons that say FU
Soko should shoot some of the brain eating ameba into the waters of noko and that would pretty well fry their brain. No wait, that is the fact there already.
Howz the bass in those things? I want one in my hummer...
Go to hell you fucking slant-eyed midget. If you knew you weren't going to be turned into a radioactive wasteland in 27 seconds you'd already done something.
But wait. I thought that The Interview was a Documentary?
Isn't "Un" dead? (Or is that Undead?)
So North Korean shoots at the speaker, and S.Koreans responded by artillery fire. How is this Norths fault? Disproportionate response. If it was the other way around, people would be screaming for war against the North. I may not like what the Kim dynasty has become and done (undone a lot of what Kim Il Sung done), but lets be real here folks.
I like disproportional responses.
Fair Chase in military arenas is a political decision, not a military decision.
North Korea is way ahead of the West.
First create cultural history to support war and fascism by suppressing mistakes, failures, those involved in Treason and support for the enemy.
Then make everyone poor, select the Zaibatsu or Keretsu corporations which will support your national power, provide only them with financial power.
Then depopulate through disease, poverty, war, and watering down the public culture and public education, make people dumb and dependent so you can use them or foreigner for labor while keeping the option to simply wipe them out.
we're catching up fast
As you are aware North Korea is China's Israel, and therefore it is as obnoxious and evil as the Jewish State.
Is North Korea more militarized than Israel? I don't think so. Take away the double, maybe triple digit billions of dollars Israel has extorted from the American taxpayer since 1948 and Pyongyang and Tel Aviv would look like sister cities.
As China and Russia are playing catch-up ball with the US, it is incumbent on them to use North Korea to its max.
its refreshing to see there are still idiots bigger than us in the US
Has Un put on a few pounds?
The stresses of being a malignant, muderous dictator must be tellings? Comfort foods like baby flesh can really add the weight.
Apparently he has a taste for French cheese. Cannot blame him. Really yummy although can be quite smelly. Maybe he can be shipped some with a deadly form of bacteria incorporated into it but perhaps he has people pre-tasting his food first.
Some poisons kill months after ingestion.
Chivas bloat.
What they don't tell you is that the South Koreans were blasting gangnam style at 160 decibels. I would have shot the speakers too. Or at least requested some Ozzy.
Hilarious! With a looping holographic projection of the dancing Kim Jong video?
I'm reminded of a very funny movie about a tiny country that declares war on the U.S.
Peter Sellers plays Lil Kim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film)
It's typically considered bad form to taunt and toss insults at a guy with a nuke.
Old technology compared to LRADs
Some countries do work a budget.
Looks well maintained for sixties all weather tech.
The emerging economic downturn is going to destabilize NK and when those soldiers start going hungry, there won't be much left to lose. Kim Jong Un is obviously a total nut job. The best thing that could happen would be for a few of those NK generals to solve the problem, and then make a pitch to the south for relief aid.
Anyone that invites Dennis Rodman over as a diplomat has more than a few screws loose.
It's really scary that North Korea has nukes. The leaders would do do the world a favor if they killed un.
Get our troops out NOW!
I'm against Empire and an out of control U.S military, but this fucker needs to be V-A-P-O-R-I-Z-E-D!
Where's the entertainment value in that?
Its so good , at least there is someone to openly challenge the evil American regime.
That's a good commie. Here, boy. Here's a biscuit.
Announced state of war? The war never formally ended.
"Announced state of war? The war never formally ended."
That was my first thought.
Maybe it's double secret probationary state of war. Ooooooooooooooo!
Good (New Zealand?), Bad (America), Ugly (North Korea)
Nuke New Zealand while we are at it...
I heard they were blarring John Kerry mash patato speak.
Love my KIA Soul base model .... call me when North Korea makes something !
NK is blaring HRC's maniacal laugh and SK is ready to surrender if they stop....