Posted on 08/22/2015 2:47:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The talks, which were first proposed by North Korea on Friday, came an hour after the Pyongyang-set deadline for defusing the crisis passed.
On Thursday, North Korea gave a 48-hour ultimatum for South Korea to end propaganda broadcasts along the heavily fortified border and dismantle all loudspeakers, saying it otherwise will launch "a strong military action."
North Korea also warned Friday that it is prepared to engage in "all-out war."
Propaganda broadcasts have become a bone of contention between the two Koreas after South Korea resumed them earlier this month for the first time in 11 years.
South Korea took the measure in retaliation against North Korea for a recent land mine attack that maimed two South Korean soldiers. South Korea accused the North of planting the mines inside the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas, a charge denied by North Korea.
North Korea views the psychological warfare critical of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as an insult to its dignity. The isolated country is also concerned that an influx of outside information could pose a threat to Kim.
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The NORKS are feeling out a cash payout from Obama.
The Norks do this every year during the annual joint exercises. They like to feel relevent I guess.
On 15 August 1974, Park was delivering a speech in the National Theater in Seoul at the ceremony to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the ending of colonial rule when a man named Mun Se-gwang fired a gun at Park from the front row. The would-be assassin, who was a Japanese-born North Korean sympathizer, missed Park but a stray bullet struck his wife Yuk Young-soo (who died later in the day) and others on the stage.[12] Park continued his speech as his dying wife was carried off the stage.[13] Mun was hanged in Seoul prison four months later. On the first anniversary of his wife’s death, Park wrote in his diary “I felt as though I had lost everything in the world. All things became a burden and I lost my courage and will. A year has passed since then. And during that year I have cried alone in secret too many times to count.”
ROK president, Park Geun-hye mother was killed by NORK sympathizer.
I’m baffled why intelligence agencies have not gone in and assasinated this punk by now. A whole nation would be greatful to taste freedom.
I think NK’s bark is a whole lot bigger than their bite.
They want more money and food..
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