North Korea’s star newsreader back to announce nuclear test success

Hindustan Times ^ | Sep 09, 2016

[TigerLikesRooster]

North Korea’s star newsreader back to announce nuclear test success

AFP, Pyongyang | Updated: Sep 09, 2016 14:20 IST

North Korea deployed its most trusted newsreader on Friday to herald the success of its fifth nuclear test on state television.

The special broadcast was aired at around 1:00 pm Pyongyang time (0430 GMT) without prior notice, coming a few hours after South Korea said its neighbour had conducted another nuclear test.

Wearing her trademark pink and black traditional Korean dress, veteran announcer Ri Chun-Hee smiled as she told viewers of KCTV — and the world — that the latest test had put the North’s nuclear programme on a “higher level”.

Using the country’s full, formal name — Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) — Ri said the test confirmed the country was capable of producing a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on strategic ballistic missiles.

“The standardisation of the nuclear warhead will enable the DPRK to produce at will... a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power,” she intoned.

The star announcer — believed to be in her early 70s — has appeared whenever North Korea wants to boast of its latest achievements or needs to make an important announcement.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ri Chun-Hee

[rickmichaels]

Not that I REALLY want to know, but did she have an orgasm like she does when she announces missile tests?

[mikey_hates_everything]

USGS reports a magnitude 5.3 earthquake at 0.0km depth at Sungjibaegam, NK at 00:30:01 UTC. Yep, they’ve probably pulled it off.

[clearcarbon]

"One thousand points of light."

Perhaps it will be a description for the Nork crew that worked on the project. Maybe they'll appear in new satellite night images of North Korea.

[SecondAmendment]

Oh joy.

Literally the same crew that negotiated the N. Korea nuke deal penned the latest one with Iran.

Yet another golden opportunity for Trump to take down Chairwoman Hillary™.

[csvset]

Not hot. Can’t the NK’s can find a fine ho for the newsreader position?

[TigerLikesRooster]

The job requires the sufficient display of belligerence, which she does it bar none. They have not found a younger more belligerent one who can meet your standard of beauty.:-)

[peeps36]

Little Berry the sissified fairy warned North Korea that he would get really mad if they do that again. He promised to roll around on the ground kicking and screaming.

[AppyPappy]

Here’s hoping the radiation swoops into China.

[COBOL2Java]

Pyongyang Patti!

[TigerLikesRooster]

I want to see that woman living long enough to announce the occupation of Pyongyang by allied forces on TV, when the regime goes down. That should be something.

[AmericanInTokyo]

She will have committed ritual suicide along with thousands of others at KWP workplaces around the country, by that time.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Not sure that Kim Jong-un inspires such loyalty, who I suspect is no longer viewed as a deity his father or grandfather used to be.
Some might, but the rest will flee in all directions clutching their ill-gotten stash of cash.

[AdmSmith]

South Korea has already developed a plan to annihilate the North Korean capital of Pyongyang through intensive bombing in case the North shows any signs of a nuclear attack, a military source in Seoul said Sunday.

“Every Pyongyang district, particularly where the North Korean leadership is possibly hidden, will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosive shells as soon as the North shows any signs of using a nuclear weapon. In other words, the North’s capital city will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map,” the source said.

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2016/09/11/0200000000AEN20160911000500315.html

[TigerLikesRooster]

I saw that, too. It is rather unusual that S. Korea raise their rhetoric so high.

[AdmSmith]

Jeffrey Lewis suggested something similar in 2013:
The message of sending a cruise missile into Kim Jong Il’s office is very clear: If you push us, we can kill your entire leadership before you have a chance to retaliate.

http://38north.org/2013/02/jlewis022613/

[AdmSmith]

Jeffrey Lewis:
So if you’re South Korea, what’s your plan? Do you think you can go hunt and kill all the missiles? The answer is no.

They talk about missile defense. But I think what they’re really planning on doing, and you see this in their really sophisticated ballistic missile and their cruise missile programs, is that they’re going to try to kill Kim Jong Un.

Their goal is going to be to kill him so that he can’t shove his fat little finger on the proverbial button.

So both North Korea and South Korea have approaches that, I think, push them to use their forces in a conflict — to go first. That would be the textbook definition of “unstable.”
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/9/12863700/north-korea-nuclear-test-five-bad

[TigerLikesRooster]

I think we are seeing a mind game pursued by S. Korea, who decided to rattle N. Korean regime, especially Kim Jong-un.
I don't know what goal they exactly have in mind. My speculation is that they believe this kind of confrontation will unnerve those around Kim Jong-un enough to act: either abandon or neutralize him.

[AdmSmith]

It might work.