Happy Halloween
Doogle
Posted on 10/11/2006 12:59:47 PM PDT by SmithL
PANMUNJOM -- Spitting across the demarcation line that separates the two armies. Making throat-slashing hand gestures. Flashing their middle fingers. Trying to talk to the South Korean troops. North Korean troops in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas have been more boldly trying to provoke guards on the other side since the North claimed to have detonated a nuclear bomb Monday, a U.S. military spokesman said.
"They're walking a little taller," Army Major Jose DeVarona of Fayetteville, N.C., told reporters during a tour of the zone Wednesday. "They're more confident about making contact." Still, he said the overall situation was calm.
North and South Korean soldiers face each other in the village of Panmunjom, a cluster of blue huts inside the 2.5-mile-wide, 156-mile-long buffer strip. About 200 U.S. troops are also stationed along the DMZ.
The DMZ is one of the world's most potentially dangerous flashpoints, but Panmunjom is also a tourist trap where buses disgorge thousands of visitors each year who come to gawk at the North Korean soldiers. The village is jointly overseen by the U.S.-led U.N. Command and North Korea, an arrangement established in 1953 to supervise the cease-fire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
North Korean troops were not seen engaging in provocative antics during the reporters' tour.
Seven North Korean soldiers, wearing olive green uniforms and tall, round-brimmed hats, guarded U.N. buildings where meetings between the two sides are sometimes held.
South Korean soldiers in black helmets and sunglasses stood in their traditional pose: legs wide apart in a martial-arts stance with arms at their sides, fists tightly clenched and ready to strike.
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Happy Halloween
Doogle
LOL Probably keep them healthy with hot meat injections.
Take-out food like a container of Happy Family, and eating it out of the box while raising your eyebrows up and down. That'll get them.
Good to know that North Korean soldiers are so happy. They may not get fat living off mice, but at least their government keeps them well provisioned with Kool-aide.
That's been what I've been wondering, too. But I think it just seems that way whenever an unusually large number of non-amiable dunces grab the limelight and mug for the camera.
Roger that! Stay safe! Stay armed!
This reminds me of that Dr. Suess's cartoon skit where those two "Zaks" (the north-going one and the south-going one) refuse to budge for each other when their trails intersect.
She probably weighs about 60 pounds. She looks like an anorexic. I am amazed how thin these NK soldiers are. The supposedly get the best food, apparently not good enough. Compare them to the RoK soldiers, who are in generally in very good shape, these NK soldiers are tiny. An no armor of any kind. I like the food idea. Have massive picnics where they can see.
Hmm... Well lets see. The AKM (i'm assuming, I'm not too good at IDing) sans bayonet equals roughly 2.9 feet so, yeah, I guess she's small. Not super abnormally so, though.
Well fed by what standards? IMHO, rice hardly counts as food. It has to be the most useless foodstuff cultivated by man. Sure it's plentiful, but when bleached, etc. it's lacking in nutrients. All it does is take up space in your stomach. Well, enough of my anti-rice rant.
While well fed in comparison to their civilian brethren, I'm confident that NK soldiers are not receive the proper amounts of nutrients.
Well, considering that ANSWER is a front for the Worker's World Party, and the WWP is a mouthpiece and front for North Korea, that would make sense.
She doesn't look anorexic to me. The guys don't look that thin either. A bit rangy perhaps, but not emaciated. Also, how do you know they're tiny? There's really nothing in the picture to base them on. Have you seen any elsewhere?
I know that they have their tallest folk go to Panmujon, as does the ROK (5' 10" is the requirement I think) and even the U.S. (6'+ IIRC).
That said, in any conflict the ROK would wipe the floor with the NKs. Superior training, equipment, morale, logistical system, everything that matters.
LOL!
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