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| N.Korea Backtracks Over Yeonpyeong Drills |
| 2010-12-21 |
| [Chosun Ilbo] Having issued dire threats of "merciless retaliation" only this weekend, the North Korean military now says it was "not worth reacting" to a South Korean artillery drill on Yeonpyeong Island on Monday. The armed forces of the North "did not feel any need to retaliate against every despicable military provocation," the North Korean Army's Supreme Command said in a statement. This implied that the North will not attack South Korean territory immediately as it did on Nov. 23, experts speculate. The reaction came about two hours and 30 minutes after the drill ended. But the North Korean state-controlled media kept up the martial rhetoric, threatening to "annihilate the strongholds of the U.S. and South Korean warmongers." Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the North's official Rodong Sinmun said South Korea's plan to switch a floodlight tower overlooking the demilitarized zone back on as part of the resumption of psychological warfare "is a dangerous rash act that could ignite a fresh armed clash." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Mental Picture of an ant screamin at a skyscraper. "YOU'RE COMING DOWN" Yeah, right. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-12-21 12:07 |
| #3 "We could moiderized ya, but we decided not to. Despite our fierce threats" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-12-21 09:48 |
| #2 "Merciless retaliation? Oh no, no, no, we said Mertz-less retaliation, that we'd cut off the 'I Love Lucy' reruns if the imperialist puppets tried provoking us. We are still gonna annihilate the strongholds of the U.S. and South Korean warmongers tho, so watch yerselves." Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2010-12-21 06:13 |
| #1 Again, IMO the DPRK wants to observe + likely test the reaction of both the US + CHINA, etc. to the DPRK-desired set-up of VIETNAM-STYLE INTERNATIONAL = "NON-NOKOR/CHINESE/ASIAN" ECON [Political?] PRESENCE inside North Korea, espec as DPRK's "hedge" agz the new SINO-DPRK FTA setting up Chinese-controlled or dominated Freeports = EEZ-FTZ enclaves inside the North. KIMMIE + REGIME > IMO desire not only to preserve the POST-WW2 "STATUS QUO" = KIM-FAMILY DYNASTIC POWER but also NORTH KOREAN-STYLE COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM, ETC. AGZ ALL COMERS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BEIJING = CHINESE COMMUNISM, as interpreted + practiced by Kimmie + La Familia. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-12-21 00:30 |