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North Korea warns of all-out strike against South
2010-06-13
[Al Arabiya Latest] North Korea warned of an all-out military strike to destroy South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda tools along their fortified border, according to the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency.

South Koreas preparation for psychological warfare, is a direct declaration of a war against the North, the general staff of the communist states military said today in a statement on KCNA. The Norths military retaliation may turn Seoul into a sea of flame, the statement said.

The Korean peninsula has been on edge since the sinking of a South Korean warship off the western coast, killing 46 sailors, in late March.

Seoul has accused the North of torpedoing its navy corvette, the Cheonan.

In what it called a "crucial declaration", North Korea's army general staff said it would shoot down the loudspeakers and all other means of psychological warfare if South Korea resumes its propaganda broadcasts.

"From a military point of view that a psychological warfare is one of the basic operational forms for carrying out a war the installing of such means for the above-said warfare is a direct declaration of a war against the DPRK," the North's official KCNA news agency said, referring to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The heightened tensions and exchanges of rhetoric have rattled Seoul's financial markets, pushing foreign investors already jittery over Europe's debt crisis out of South Korean assets.

South Korea announced punitive measures over the incident in May, including the installation of loudspeakers to resume broadcasts of propaganda messages against Pyongyang. It has yet to start such broadcasts.

"The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will launch an all-out military strike to blow up the group's means for the psychological warfare against the DPRK," Saturday's KCNA statement said, repeating similar threats made in recent weeks.

It warned South Korea that any military action on its part would risk turning Seoul "into a sea of flame".

South Korea has said it would be able to contain any military action by the North.

Seoul's Yonhap news agency quoted officials from the South's joint chiefs of staff as saying there were no unusual movements spotted along the border.
Posted by:Fred

#35  Group hug!
Posted by: gorb   2010-06-13 23:29  

#34  Kim Jong Il wins the thread, too. And Shipman. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-06-13 21:51  

#33  I denounce your game as a religion! There is only one god - me! In my grorious second year in the Earth realm I created this game which running capitalist dogs have stolen and call soccer! Vuvuzelas will burn in a sea of flame!
Bwahahaha!

Posted by: Kim Jong Il   2010-06-13 21:03  

#32  Infielder basics 101 - get your body completely in front of the ball.

Meterball is one of those games which does not translate well through the TV. Especially if it sounds like there is a swarm of flies in your living room.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2010-06-13 20:17  

#31   I think they shot Sea of Fire Guy.

Shot and dead is a capitalist construct. He's doing field guidance in glory land.
Posted by: Shipman   2010-06-13 18:53  

#30  Actually, the soccer flamewar is just the same comments over and over again

But they'll be gone when the metric football-thingy is over.

Then we're left with nothing but KCNA.
Posted by: Pappy   2010-06-13 18:51  

#29  Kimmie-boy has been looking a bit pudgy lately....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2010-06-13 18:09  

#28  I think they shot Sea of Fire Guy.
Posted by: Fred   2010-06-13 17:25  

#27  Gromky wins the thread. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-06-13 17:22  

#26  That re-started the soccer debate which, IMNSHO, is a lot more interesting than reading oft-repeated NorK proclamations.

Actually, the soccer flamewar is just the same comments over and over again. Much like KCNA, in fact.
Posted by: gromky   2010-06-13 15:39  

#25  iv) Consider the shape of the can while having a fine lunch during the first day

E. Replace the tires on the can and hope for the best.

17. Put the can in the nearest trash can or recycle bin. Tin cans are multi-use objects. No doubt there's a novel in there somewhere.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-06-13 13:38  

#24  1) Kick it down the street
2) Pick it up and run with it somewhere
3) Look for someone who has a bat so you can throw it to him

iv) Consider the shape of the can while having a fine lunch during the first day

E. Replace the tires on the can and hope for the best.

Posted by: Shipman   2010-06-13 13:28  

#23  Now if you want a REAL game, you gotta go for original rules Ulama. Losing team is beheaded. Winning team gets to steal from any member of the audience they can catch.

Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-06-13 13:27  

#22  Soccer - a game that lasts three hours and ends in a score of '0 - 1'. Yeah, exciting, woohoo ...

Now, basketball, THAT'S an exciting sport.
Posted by: DMFD   2010-06-13 12:26  

#21  in 50 years soccer will dominate the US

Yes, the day after all American males get neutered. Don't get me wrong, I liked to play soccer as a kid, up to around ten. Then my pubes grew in.
Posted by: ed   2010-06-13 11:47  

#20  here's a picture of their strongest supporter
Posted by: Frank G   2010-06-13 10:56  

#19  North Korea is in the World Cup 2010
Posted by: badanov   2010-06-13 10:42  

#18  Didthis get munged from another thread?

No. A preference was expressed that the "revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK" blow up those damned vuvuzelas at the World Cup instead.

That re-started the soccer debate which, IMNSHO, is a lot more interesting than reading oft-repeated NorK proclamations.
Posted by: Pappy   2010-06-13 10:07  

#17  ... or they introduce lingerie soccer.
Posted by: Fred   2010-06-13 09:57  

#16  Is there a database error or something? I came here to talk about the sea of fire and found the standard US/Euro soccer flamewar. Did this get munged from another thread?

So anyway I searched KCNA for the sea of fire thing and didn't find anything. Apparently they haven't used the phrase in years.
Posted by: gromky   2010-06-13 09:54  

#15  I like soccer, but it will never be mainstream in the US until it mixes with the UFC.
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-06-13 09:27  

#14  Since Soccer has already outlawed use of the keenest mind to appendage connection (e.g. the hand), why not just put all but the goalies in straight jackets and proclaim that you can only advance the ball with your a$$? At least it would be entertaining watching while no one could score.
Posted by: WacoINMN   2010-06-13 08:57  

#13  BTW we have opposable thumbs use them
Posted by: Beavis   2010-06-13 03:49  

#12  2) Pick it up and run with it somewhere

Yes, William Webb Ellis who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it.

I've peed on that pitch lol
Posted by: Beavis   2010-06-13 03:43  

#11  @abu do you love

Ah that might explain a lot. In that case soccer takeover will need more time
Posted by: European Conservative   2010-06-13 03:38  

#10  @badanov

Tell you something: Offside is faaar more complicated than that. But without offside rules the game would look stupid.
Posted by: European Conservative   2010-06-13 03:36  

#9  When you see a can in the street, what's your first impulse

usually, i wonder when the sheriff will get the inmates out on this area for the chain-gang/community service cleanup.

(i live in the south)
Posted by: abu do you love   2010-06-13 03:35  

#8  Beavis, consider this:

When you see a can in the street, what's your first impulse to do with it:

1) Kick it down the street
2) Pick it up and run with it somewhere
3) Look for someone who has a bat so you can throw it to him

Football (soccer to you) is big business and one day all your bases are belong to us. Mwahaha
Posted by: European Conservative   2010-06-13 03:27  

#7  i lost several "e"s there sorry
Posted by: Beavis   2010-06-13 02:03  

#6  badanov i understand the rule but it's couterintuitive to Americans. You never force a Jerry Rice a Randy Moss or any other great receiver to give up ther touchdown because through there atleticism they got behind the d-back befor the ball got there.
Posted by: Beavis   2010-06-13 02:02  

#5  Soccer is great, but the point is north Korea is full of lies, all lies i tell you!!!!!!!

don't those folks at KCNA ever get tired of spinning this "We are about to attack" crap?
Posted by: anon1   2010-06-13 01:52  

#4  Gotta get rid of the offides rule

Not hard to understand

Not hard to explain:

An attacking player can't be closer to the opposing team's goal than the ball once the ball passes the defending teams half of the field.

It doesn't get any easier than that.
Posted by: badanov   2010-06-13 01:47  

#3  EC your claim that in 50 years soccer will dominate the US is wrong. Gotta get rid of the offides rule, Look for Rugby 7's to catch hold especially with the introduction into the Olympics in 2016. I 've been to 3 RWC you'd never see my ass at pro soccer game. My daughter has played soccer on Atlanta travel teams for several year so I understand the game it's awful. Any pathetic poor ass country can play soccer all you need is a ball. A gentleman's sport played by hooligans....

And to stick another knife in you I just came from my son's baseball tournament, at least something is going on in baseball.

lol
Posted by: Beavis   2010-06-13 01:39  

#2  OK if they destroy the vuvuzelas in South Africa that will be fine by me.
Posted by: European Conservative   2010-06-13 00:52  

#1  "The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will launch an all-out military strike to blow up the group's means for the psychological warfare against the DPRK," Saturday's KCNA statement said, repeating similar threats made in recent weeks.

You are going to blow up their loudspeakers? They can make more.
Posted by: gorb   2010-06-13 00:38  

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