North Korea

[Humodour]

North Korea was prepping it's military for full-scale war 10 days before the launch:

 

REGIONAL meetings of military officials in North Korea were explicitly told last month to prepare for an intercontinental ballistic missile test and the potential conflict it might provoke, a defector now living in Seoul has told the Herald.

 

The revelation was made as the South Korean Government hinted at a harder line in response to the firing of a rocket over Japan on Sunday, which North Korea said was the launch of a satellite.

 

After a meeting on Monday with opposition parties, South Korea's President, Lee Myung-bak, announced his Government would "actively consider" joining the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative, which aims to curb the global trade in weapons of mass destruction.

 

Membership in the program would oblige Seoul to intervene if it knew North Korean vessels passing through its waters carried weapons technology.

 

Reports in Seoul yesterday said North Korea had threatened an armed response should South Korea join the program, calling it a "declaration of war".

 

North Korea has been mobilised for a regional conflict for the past 10 days, according to a 35-year-old defector from Jagang Province in North Korea.

 

"They had a special officers meeting throughout the country. It was held on March 26," the defector said in Seoul yesterday.

 

"They officially announced they will test ICBM missile which could attack the centre of the United States.

 

"Last week before the launch, I talked to someone who attended this officers' meeting. He personally confirmed it, but it has also been confirmed through other channels of other defectors."

 

The defector, who did not want to be named, escaped in 2006 and now helps gather information on his homeland for an independent South Korean news service.

 

"Before the actual launch, it was officially announced that the US and Japan were going to shoot defence missiles, and North Korea was going to retaliate," he said.

 

"From April 1 they declared a wartime operation. That means you get all the veterans together and they are being trained."

 

On Monday, Mr Lee told the National Assembly the Government was adjusting its timetable for entry to the counter-proliferation program.

 

"We are actively considering joining it," the Government's spokesman, Lee Dong-kwan, said yesterday.

 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-wa...90407-9zm5.html

 

Morons.

[ouiouiwewe]

There still may be a chance that NK will go crazy in the recent future. Kim Jong Il had a stroke last year and he's pretty much nearing the age of passing on. Since he is a nut-case, it's possible that he'd like to achieve "something grand" before he finally succumbs to his health.

[ouiouiwewe]

There still may be a chance that NK will go crazy in the recent future. Kim Jong Il had a stroke last year and he's pretty much nearing the age of passing on. Since he is a nut-case, it's possible that he'd like to achieve "something grand" before he finally succumbs to his health.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

My mom who lives in Seoul, called me up the other day and had this to say. "Aren't the North Koreans so cute? I mean they try so hard."

 

[Walsingham]

NK may have an obsolescent military, but killing all of them would be a bloody business. I for one hope we don't have to.