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Iran - North Korea - Hotspots
May 30, 2003
South Koreans should take pride in "deterrent force" -- North Korea
Who said the North Koreans don't have a sense of humor? Yahoo! News: North Korea, taking a new tack in the nuclear crisis, has insisted that South Koreans should take pride in the Stalinist state's development of a "powerful deterrent force" in defiance of the United States. Casting itself as the fraternal protector of its southern neighbour, the Stalinist regime said South Korea owed its very survival to the North's drive for deterrence. Without that deterrent force, the United States would have already attacked North Korea and war on the Korean peninsula would have broken out 100 times, the official Korean Central News Agency said. The entire peninsula, including the bustling South, would have been reduced to ashes, it said. Posted by rjkoehler at May 30, 2003 08:56 AMComments
Looks like they took lessons from Baghdad Bob ... hey, maybe, it could be that he's found shelter in Pyongyang . .. Posted by: Lola at May 30, 2003 10:26 AMAnd without North Korea, the Pacific ocean would just gush straight into China and Russia. Posted by: putz at May 30, 2003 10:30 AMIf we reduced the ROK to ashes, where would get our LCD computer monitors? If we reduce the DPK to ashes, where would we get our heroin? Posted by: Dave Barnes at May 30, 2003 06:06 PMDave, There are no Americans in Korea. Posted by: Baghdad Bob at June 1, 2003 08:35 AMYeah, but the Koreans really want us out - bad. Posted by: Eve at June 5, 2003 09:39 AMActually, in real history, the US presence kept the ROK from attacking the DPRK quite a few times. Before the late '80s when they democratized, we had to hold them back from restarting the war a few times after North Korean incursions. Posted by: John Thacker at June 5, 2003 01:16 PMAs an old Land of Morning Calm hand, I can confirm the tenor of Thacker's scuttlebutt is true. I guess things have changed radically in the past decade. In earlier days, I remember periodically gray-haired men would salaam me on the the street ('70-'90's) to thank the Mee-gooks for intervening after the original DPRK incursion. I also remember one incident when a JAL airliner mistakenly flew too close to the Blue House and the battery commander was severely reprimanded. No for firing on a civilian airliner, but for not bringing it down. I guess our once hard corps warrior allies have mellowed. Posted by: Limpet at June 5, 2003 02:48 PMPost a comment
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