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North Korea

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Be afraid, very afraid
 
Apparently North Korea are going to scrap the armistice signed in 1953 if South Korea and the US don't end their joint training drills.
 
Reading a book about North Korea at the moment, focusing on real people's lives, it's called 'Nothing To Envy'.

During the famine in the 1990s, people would pick through animal feces, looking for undigested pieces of corn to eat, because they were so close to death. :(
 
Sam said:
Reading a book about North Korea at the moment, focusing on real people's lives, it's called 'Nothing To Envy'.

During the famine in the 1990s, people would pick through animal feces, looking for undigested pieces of corn to eat, because they were so close to death. :(
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Would like to know whether its a good read after you've finished
 
South Korea warns on North Korea threat

It would appear N. Korea has threatened to tear up the armistice agreement between themselves and S. Korea should any further sanctions be placed upon them. They've also given a date of 11th March for this to happen. Troubling times on the peninsula indeed :/
 
This is going to be a very long and ongoing thread if we're going to report every time North Korea makes a provocative statement.

It's called propaganda and has been going on for decades. A communist country by its nature is generally inward and will not attack first.

For example, there was never any threat to the west from the USSR, despite America's fabrication of the Cold War myth.
 
Was just coming in here to post this, beat me to it!

Yeah, I'm not really sure how they plan on delivering these to be honest?! I know they're a secret state, but surely they haven't been able to develop ICBMs in the dark :p

Tom said:
For example, there was never any threat to the west from the USSR, despite America's fabrication of the Cold War myth.
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Is that why they used to test out air defences on an almost weekly basis with their TU95s? :)
 
Yeah the Tupolev's were arguably better designed strategic bombers than anything the US had at the time - they were certainly better for attacking purposes.
 
There was never any unprovoked offensive actions from the USSR.

The United States was the first country to develop, test and use atmoic weapons to kill masses.It was entirely justified that other countries develop a defence against a nation which had displayed such disproportionate aggression.

Here we are countless decades later still regurgitating US rhetoric and fear-stirring about communist countries and how that anyone with nuclear weapons other than them or the UK is evil and cannot be trusted.

If we play a little game of linking to articles on North Korea that DON'T originate in the US, then it'd be interesting to see what we get.
 
The Russians were may more scared of the west than we were of them.
 
We should all be wise to the US' games. There were no Iraq WMDs, there's no nukes in Iran. North Korea know they can't touch the USA. It's just the well tried and tested method of scaring the west to justify spending more on the military and less on education, science, healthcare, and all the other things that actually matter.
 
BBC News said:
North Korea says it is scrapping all non-aggression pacts with South Korea, closing its hotline with Seoul and shutting their shared border point.

The announcement follows a fresh round of UN sanctions punishing Pyongyang for its nuclear test last month.

Earlier, Pyongyang said it reserved the right to a pre-emptive nuclear strike against its "aggressors".

The US said it took the threats seriously, but that "extreme rhetoric" was not unusual for Pyongyang.

The North Korean announcement, carried on the KCNA state news agency, said the North was cancelling all non-aggression pacts with the South and closing the main Panmunjom border crossing inside the Demilitarized Zone.

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The threatened pre-emptive nuclear strike seems more bluff than reality, since the North's leaders know it would be suicidal”

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It also said it was notifying the South that it was "immediately" cutting off the North-South hotline.

The hotline, installed in 1971, is intended as a means of direct communication at a time of high tension, but is also used to co-ordinate the passage of people and goods through the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone.

KCNA said the hotline, which has been severed several times before, "can no longer perform its mission due to the prevailing grave situation".
Read more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21709917
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