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MadHound

(34,179 posts)
10. Oh geez, stop with the hysteria.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 11:29 AM
Apr 2013

Let's see here,
2012
http://www.gazettenet.com/home/5464092-95/north-korea-threatens-nuclear-attack-on-us
2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/27/north-korea-threatens-attack-south-us_n_828749.html
2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/24/north-korea-nuclear-war-threat
2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/north-korea-threatens-to-_3_n_220001.html
2008
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2008/10/28/korea-norththreat.html
2007
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-08-21-nkorea-military_N.htm
2006
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HG07Dg01.html
2005
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-03-25/rest-of-world/27833932_1_pyongyang-north-korea-hostile-policy
2004
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/25/world/fg-koreas25
2003
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/jan-june03/korea_1-10.html
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1993
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-25/news/mn-14811_1_north-korea
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I could go on and on here, but then I have to start digging into, and digitalizing paper copies, and I simply don't have the time for that. Hopefully you get the idea, North Korea throws a hissy fit as regular as rain, generally during the US-S. Korea joint exercises. This is simply another in a long line, and the fact of the matter is we're exacerbating the matter by giving it actual credence.

Meanwhile, what is actually going on inside N. Korea?
"On the streets of Pyongyang, the focus was less on preparing for war and more on beautifying the city ahead of the nation’s biggest holiday. Soldiers laid blankets of sod to liven up a city still coming out of a long, cold winter; gardeners got down on their knees to plant flowers and trees, and students marched off to school — ordinary springtime activities belying the high tensions.

Downtown, schoolchildren headed toward the towering statues of the two late leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, dragging brooms behind them. The brooms are used to sweep the plaza where the bronze statues stand on a hilltop overlooking Pyongyang. A group of women with coats thrown over traditional dresses rushed through the spring chill after leaving a rehearsal for a dance set to take place for Kim Il Sung’s birthday celebrations.

At the base of Mansu Hill, a group of young people held a small rally to pledge their loyalty to Kim Jong Un and to sing the Kim ode “We Will Defend the Marshal With Our Lives.”
http://world.time.com/2013/04/09/talk-aside-n-korean-capital-shows-calm-not-panic/

No civil air raid drills, no military parades, life is going on like no war is coming.

This is just more hot air and rhetoric, and at the end of the month, when the US and S. Korea end their joint military games, the hot air and rhetoric will also end, at least until next spring or so.

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