Posted on 08/14/2015 7:23:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The warning follows Pyongyang’s earlier denial that it had planted land mines on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone that injured two South Korean soldiers last week. Seoul retaliated for those injuries by restarting the loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years and suggested more actions could follow.
The authoritarian North is extremely sensitive about insults of its leader, Kim Jong Un, and tries to isolate its people from any criticism or suggestions that Kim is anything other than powerful and revered.
North Korea’s army said in a statement that the broadcasts are equivalent to a declaration of war and that a failure to immediately stop them and take down the loudspeakers would result in “an all-out military action of justice to blow up all means for ‘anti-north psychological warfare'” on the front lines.
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Nothing new here. Every time someone in SK even farts in the general direction of NK, the NK threatens all out war.
Between the military that SK can field, US troops in SK and on bases near and our fleet standing off shore I say BS.
So now the fat little bully is trying to bully South Korea. He will find out that they don’t scare as easily as the people in NK who have been bullied for 60 years.
Seems to me about every 6 month NK does something stupid and the US says: “We’re sorry...here’s $5 billion and it won’t happen again.” Six months later, they invent something else and stupid us coughs up another $5 billion. My thought: “Too bad...get over it.”
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Usually they start saber rattling about the time winter looms ... need cheap or free wheat and other foodstuffs to get them through the coming cold spell.
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