re: Things are heating up again in Korea (UPDATE IN OP: US Mobilizes 2nd ID)

I'm not worried. This happens every time the food stores run low in the North. This time the South decides to play a little hard ball. I guess they are tried of this bs too. The international community puts up with this because every neighborhood has the aggrivating retard kid. They keep them around because they can say "At least we're not them." But at some point you have to put the pillow to the face and put them out of their misery. What would be wrong with a united Korea? The South could teach the North about religion and the outside world and the North can teach mankind how to live off of 500 calaries a day. South K. has one of the most advanced militaries in the world... Cause it's ours. Not worried about the North's nuclear bomb either. Even China isn't stupid enough to give their retarded cousins the real one. Let's hope it's one that when and if they push the button that it blows up in their faces turning all their dicks blue and gives everyone in the North orange afros. Just my 2 cents.

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North Korea threatened on Friday to launch a "very strong military counteraction" if South Korea refuses to halt propaganda broadcasts

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In all fairness to North Korea, it does suck when your neighbor won't turn down their radio.

Interesting Reddit comment on how the loudspeakers work:

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The initial announcements start with weather reports. Accurate weather reports that the NK neither has the manpower nor the computing power to gather and spread along the DMZ. This naturally convinces the NK soldiers to rely on the loudspeakers, if not for news and entertainment, for the weather. After some time, we can literally announce "DPRK soldiers, heavy rain is expected to fall in the evening, so please gather your laundry from the clotheslines" and they will come out of their little posts and start gathering their laundry. This is good rapport. Then come just vanilla news. Maybe the results of a soccer match or some shite that happened overseas. They might not believe it, but they'll find out in a week or when they read or hear it on some DPRK state media. They then subconsciously establish that the loudspeakers have fast, accurate news. Besides, the general NK population and common soldiers rarely ever get international news, if at all. So any international news is a mindfrick to begin with. Then the loudspeakers broadcast NK news. For example, they'll report that General X, Y, and Z were executed by their glorious leader KJU for whatever petty reason he kills people for. There is good chance many soldiers at this point would write this off as propaganda, but when they eventually hear about it through their own channels, that Gen. X,Y, and Z actually were executed for treason or whatever, you're starting to frick with their minds. Then we tell them how fricked up and idiotic the Kim family have been and are. Some may argue it's "propaganda", but seriously dudes.... the Kim family is frickED UP. They are beyond reason and honestly the absolute cockroaches of this planet.

Another crucial function of these broadcasts is they report news that the DPRK state media censors. And this is absofrickinglutely critical and what bugs NK the most. For example, there was a huge explosion at an NK train station in 2004.

Naturally, NK censored the shite out of the event. But the loudspeakers reported on the event, and soldiers at the DMZ wrote home asking if everyone was alright since the explosion was so huge. The loudspeakers nullified NK media censorship just. like. that.

Then they play kpop songs in between the news for entertainment. And this cultural infiltration is so effective, NK soldiers literally sing these kpop songs to congratulate fellow soldiers when they're done with their service. And mind you, singing those kinds of songs in Pyongyang can put you in a concentration camp in a heartbeat.

The loudspeakers reach about 7~8 miles during daytime, which definitely covers the DMZ, and at night can reach up to 15~18 miles, which reaches Kaesong (home to the Kaesong Co-op industrial complex), a pretty large city that has a pretty sizeable civilian population (approx. 200,000).

Hundreds of soldiers and thousands of civilians that have defected have cited the loudspeakers as an crucial role in their decision to come south, and NK absolutely despises the loudspeakers because it is such an effective tool against their soldiers, and naturally disrupts their populace by bypassing their media censorship.

It pisses them off so much, they are willing to fire 2 rockets across the DMZ, and are now demanding a complete stop to these loudspeakers in 48 hours or risk total war.

I think we should keep going.

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Graphic has incorrect base names, so i'm disinclined to believe they have their facts in order.

Iwakumi???

Iwakuni

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No idea, i think it was made by a country that isn't America.

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Can't even get a graphic made in Merica anymore, even importing those

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Can't even get a graphic made in Merica anymore, even importing those

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Damn shame.. i'll look for one

So when is the deadline?

The ol No Dong doesn't stay up for very long, I see

Just like Mad Dog Tannin. He does his killin before breakfast.

Anyone want to summarize what the hell is going on?