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North Korea military threatens to 'wipe out' the South
2009-01-18
North Korea's army said on Saturday it would assume an "all-out confrontational posture" against the South and wipe out the conservative government in Seoul for refusing to cooperate with them.

Ties across the heavily-armed border between the two Koreas have turned icy since President Lee Myung-bak came to office last year on a promise to get tough on his communist neighbour after 10 years of liberal leaders' efforts to engage Pyongyang.

"Now that traitor Lee Myung Bak and his group opted for confrontation, denying national reconciliation and cooperation, backed by foreign forces, our revolutionary armed forces are compelled to take an all-out confrontational posture to shatter them," the North's army spokesman said.

The spokesman said Lee and his "puppet military warhawks" have driven "our revolutionary armed forces to take a strong military retaliatory step to wipe them out", in comments carried by the official KCNA news agency.

South Korea's defence ministry did not immediately have comment. The army spokesman, appearing in full uniform on North Korea's state television, said provocations by the South's military including naval intrusions have cross the "danger line" and it could "no longer remain an onlooker to them".
Posted by:Fred

#7  Slippery Elm Bark is also used in throat lozenges and to relieve various intestinal disorders.
Posted by: lotp   2009-01-18 18:27  

#6  Not sure about Spice Bush but young Sassafras roots can be cut into 3-4 inch pieces and placed in a cheesecloth ball teabag for boiling. Makes an excellent hot drink. Sassafras tea enjoys a considerable reputation as a stimulant, and as treatment for rheumatism, skin disease, syphilis, typhus, dropsy (fluid accumulation), and so on." Studies are inconclusive regarding it's effectiveness against acute Obaminitis.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-01-18 14:50  

#5  Is tree bark eaten or smoked?

If it's cinnamon bark, it's rolled, dried, and added to other dishes for flavouring, either whole or ground. If cork oak, it's flattened and cut into pieces for pin board or flooring. If sassafras or spice bush, dried for steeping in hot water for tea. I believe slippery elm is used for a thickener in stews. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-01-18 14:34  

#4  In the last German offensive in WWI, the German advance suffred a crucial delay due to troopers stopping to eat the goodies they found in British positions. When ally resistance began to stiffen they realized that far from being reduce to falmine by the U-Boots the Allies were better spuplied than ever, while they themselves (and still more in the home front) had seen their rations gradually cut, with every year being worse than the preceeding one. That is when morale began to crumble.
Posted by: JFM   2009-01-18 14:13  

#3  When I was stationed at Yongsan AIG in the early 90's, I had a part-time job at Korea Broadcasting, doing editing of their English-language evening news simulcast, and I got to know the Korean broadcasters and translators that I worked with fairly well. We used to talk about the chances of the Norks invading the South - mostly because - well, it was something that the Southerners had been living with for decades. But even in the 90's it was pretty well clear that the Norks were isolated, militarily pretty backwards, and riddled by famines. We wondered if Nork discipline would hold in any but elite units much past the first big grocery store or electronics outlet ... if the sight of all they had been deprived of, and not told anything about would collapse their entire world-view, once they realized they had been lied to for decades about conditions in the South.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2009-01-18 08:45  

#2  Is tree bark eaten or smoked?
Posted by: European Conservative   2009-01-18 01:27  

#1  "South Korea's defence ministry did not immediately have comment."

Bring it on

Might be an appropriate comment. Maybe it is time to call their bluff.
Posted by: crosspatch   2009-01-18 00:16  

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