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2006-07-19 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by DanNY 2006-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Look at me! Look at ME!

I'm an attention whore!

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-19 00:06|| 2006-07-19 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Guess the Enterprise moving into town, kinda got his attention!

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-07-19 00:34|| 2006-07-19 00:34|| Front Page Top

#3 What is it with these tinhorn dictators? The moment we shift our view to someone else, they throw a hissy fit, demanding to be the center of our attention. Also, Kimmy Boy better be careful : we may have 140000 or so troops committed to the ME, but that still leaves most of the US Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force free to inflict grevious bodily injury when and where necessary.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-07-19 03:03|| 2006-07-19 03:03|| Front Page Top

#4 I recently read an assesment of estimated casualties from an invasion by NKOR. It was something like 500,000 in just a few days. Would that not warrant a nuclear deterrent of our own? Our nukes are proven and our missiles are very reliable, their guidance systems super accurate. If we launched, it would hit and explode. He hasn't even proved he has nukes, just the shit to make them.

Posted by Flolunter Clemp1012 2006-07-19 08:21|| 2006-07-19 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 He sooo ronery.

Posted by newc">newc 2006-07-19 08:41|| 2006-07-19 08:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Launch an alert?? Most countries would Issue an alert. I have to wonder if it was as effective as his missle launch.

Posted by DonM 2006-07-19 10:37|| 2006-07-19 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Who they planning to attack, I wonder?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-07-19 11:04|| 2006-07-19 11:04|| Front Page Top

#8 The Sea of Japan. Apparently Kim finds it pretty threatening. :-)

Posted by Throluger Croling6954 2006-07-19 11:11|| 2006-07-19 11:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds like he's creating the fiction of an outside threat in order to keep everyone in his little fifedom in line.

You gotta wonder what some of the soldiers think when they hear how propserous S. Korea is. I mean they have FOOD! They have [non-militant] music! TV! iPods! Internet!

They can't block all the news from outside. Wasn't there a bit about smuggled phones, CD players, etc.. awhile back?

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-19 11:34|| 2006-07-19 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 The worst source of outside news is the Chinese-Korean trade along the border with China. Lots of cheap junk from NorKor gets taken north to China and traded for food, medicine, clothing, and the like. Plus when people come back, they talk about what China is like. Also the NorKors are having problems keeping Chinese cellphones out of North Korea, and people are able to get info using them especially the ones with Chinese Internet access.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-07-19 12:49|| 2006-07-19 12:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Aa Kimmy demurs, wishing for the days where he clicked glasses with MADam Albright.

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-19 14:33|| 2006-07-19 14:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe Kimmie has a valid reason for going on Alert. The Chicom repo man is coming for his Chicom trains that Kimmie abscounded with.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, Alaska">Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, Alaska 2006-07-19 15:01|| 2006-07-19 15:01|| Front Page Top

#13 How do the Norks use cellphones - surely there aren't that many masts in North Korea?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-19 15:13|| 2006-07-19 15:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Does this mean he's keeping the Chinese trains?

Posted by tu3031 2006-07-19 15:15|| 2006-07-19 15:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Send in Alec Baldwin to negotiate!

Posted by usmc6743 2006-07-19 15:51|| 2006-07-19 15:51|| Front Page Top

#16 The masts and service are in China near the NK border. Kimmie, in a fit of paranoia, shut off all NK cell phone service (such as it was).

Posted by ed 2006-07-19 16:06|| 2006-07-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

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