NKorea vows to blow up South propaganda facilities

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"North Korea vowed Saturday to launch an all-out attack against South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along their heavily fortified border, warning it could even turn Seoul into a "sea of flame."

The rival Koreas ended decades of propaganda campaigns in 2004 as their relations warmed. However, South Korea resumed radio broadcasts to North Korea last month and installed a dozen propaganda loudspeakers along the border to punish the North for allegedly sinking a South Korean warship.

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young told a parliamentary hearing Friday that loudspeaker broadcasts would begin after the U.N. Security Council decides on any new measures against the North, Yonhap news agency reported."

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"The General Staff of the Korean People's Army said in a statement Saturday that North Korea would launch an "all-out military strike" to blow up any propaganda facilities along the border, and that its retaliation would be "a merciless strike foreseeing even the turn of Seoul ... into a sea of flame."

The statement was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100612/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_ship_sinks

[dipsydoodle]

1. I've got visions

of snipers using loudpeakers for target practice. Better than shooting people I suppose.

[Ex Lurker]

2. I think that was a MASH episode n/t

[Poll_Blind]

3. The radio propaganda I can understand. The loudspeakers, are those for NK soldiers?

I'm not sure what utility they're really going to get out of those loudspeakers and they seem to just needlessly exacerbate the problem. I guess in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter.

[MilesColtrane]

7. DPRK has had the same on their side for years.

24/7 propaganda and stirring musical tributes to the Dear Leader

[Turbineguy]

4. Sounds like more

propaganda to me.

[Fokker Trip]

5. Information in North Korea..

I read an article the other day..might even have been linked through DU..that had interviews with a number of North Koreans who were in China. So sad to read their stories.

They hear so very little of the rest of the world and most they literally don't know that any other country has it better than they do, most think that they are better off than other countries. They are living in the world of "1984".

Their radios and TVs are permanently soldered to the state broadcast frequencies.

Thankfully the black marketeers have cellphones that hook up with the Chinese cell network so that some info is getting through to the North, that and those who leave and come back...bit by bit the populace is hearing about the difference between what they've been told and what is.

In an interview with one of Dear Leader's childhood tutors (who has since left the North) he spoke of a doctor who was a friend of his. This doctor confessed to him in tears one night that during some festivity (can't remember what it was) in the 80's he had been instructed to put out the word that those with certain visible disabilities were going to get special medical treatments. So all these people showed up and they put them on a boat. Then they sailed to an island, dropped the people off and left. They didn't go back for these folks. Out of sight , out of mind.

It was in an effort to beautiful the streets of the capital. Ahhhh the purity of it all....

Reading about the concentration/labor camps in the North is nauseating, and in my heart I often think that rabid right wingers all over the world look at a system like that and sigh with the thought that it could be their system too...

[RedRoses323]

6. Wow..

:cry:



Welcome to DU!! :hi:

[Fokker Trip]

11. Thanks RedRoses323...

[Demstud]

8. The disabled North Koreans...

I remember a report on one of the major network news shows awhile back where the reporter got to visit the capital. It was seriously creepy... in addition to the traffic cops directing non-existant traffic, the reporter also made a comment wondering where all the disabled people were. For such a large population, they didn't see a single one.

[caveat_imperator]

10. Yup.

Reading about the concentration/labor camps in the North is nauseating, and in my heart I often think that rabid right wingers all over the world look at a system like that and sigh with the thought that it could be their system too...

That's what I think when I hear glen beck and dick cheney talking.

[deputy797]

9. Rhetorical Fear Tactics

Personally, I have neither fear nor worry over the whole rhetoric coming out of Pyongyang. To me it's all "Saber Rattling" for their own amusement. Apparently there is nothing Pyongyang is going to do to the southern peninsula over this entire situation but wag the tongue. This is nothing new coming from North Korea. Remember, these are the same folks that aimed their scare tactics at the U.S. by their launching of missiles into the Pacific Ocean. Funny people these North Koreans. With the capabilities of the U.S. Navy to knock out any missile threats from that region, I think the North Korean government would be further ahead to shut down their propaganda efforts. All they are doing is trying to get a rise out of the US; something they really don't want to pursue.