N. Korean Guard's More Threatening Look (caption the photo)

JoongAng Ilbo ^ | 06/02/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

N. Korean Guard's More Threatening Look

N. Korean guards at JSA before the Cheonan crisis (top right)

After the crisis (top left & bottom )

Difference: battle helmet, calluses on the knuckles of both hands, wound on the right hand near wrist

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[BigCinBigD]

Toss him a poison fish head and watch him jump.

[SAJ]

Similarities:

1) Both so malnourished that their uniforms look like they're hanging off a NY model;

2) Same remarkably stupid facial look;

3) Same knowledge that if they don't look stupid and subservient that their next meal may be a long time coming.

Other than that, grave threats to stray cats and dogs, both of them.

[Jack Hammer]

Guy top left: “Oh, man, another half hour on duty and I really gotta take a dump.”

[Jack Hammer]

Guy upper right: “If they find out I’m gay, I’m screwed.”

Guy lower center: “Those bastards got all the cold cream on the planet.”

[apillar]

Dang, that battle helmet looks circa 1950. You would think they would watch our soldiers in some Iraq war footage to see how modern army's dress.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yes, 1950-style Soviet helmet.

[Rappini]

First of all they are all sloppy looking and the last guy has been breaking to many bricks with his right hand. He should skip the Tae Kwon Do.

[Robe]

In pic #3, it looks like his holster is empty .....

[Thrownatbirth]

I've seen that kind of wound before. Maybe he moonlights as the night-shift kimchi slicer.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Sheesh. Sterlize a pin and pierce that massive, pus-filled BOIL on your frikkin right hand, boy!!

Or dont they have common medical treatment in the Korean Peoples Army?? LOL

[AmericanInTokyo]

East German knock off, just painted KPA piss green.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I suspect they intentionally prepared guards with “damaged hands” to look fearsome. The guy probably had to do 20 karate chops on bricks before placed on duty. It’s all so transparent.

[SevenofNine]

Hey Monk get in here you got photoshop this ROFL

[a fool in paradise]

Need to be careful taking a hot pocket sandwich out of the microwave. You can get third degree burns...

[gaijin]

My reaction is different:

I don’t like them, indeed I hate them. But...I am COMPLETELY confident that in a fight with no weapon (or just with blunt weapons or blades)they’d best MOST of our troops.

They have a really special type of tenacity born in them, and they’re brought up in a system that whips that up into a brain-washed frenzy. They are the Irish of Asia.

The Norks ARE into artificial displays, yes, but I don’t have the tiniest doubt that these guys are genuinely yearning for a fight; they think they have been deeply wronged —but US. That is why their knuckles are calloused; they have been told we are on the verge of coming over the wire to kill them, and for no reason at all.

I think they’re tough as hell and they have a flamboyant contempt for death.

They are not large, but Japan has taught me to doubt the value of large body size for a person who has been brainwashed that he’s somehow a victim and considers hate his friend.

If we have to fight them I’d advise casting aside ALLLLL MERCY, because we’d nnnnnnnnever get it from them.

[Little Ray]

Ya know, I sometimes wonder: What if the South Koreans put a bunch of stands just across the border in sight of the North Korean Army that said “Free Noodles! All You Can Eat!”

And served anyone who came up for them...

[Little Ray]

I agree with you.
That guy’s has been working the bags, and otherwise training. That’s how he got the ding on his hand.
I think he’s deadly serious.

[TigerLikesRooster]

They are indeed tough. It is just that the calluses and wounds on their hands were not seen in previous occasions. I suspect they used to make their guards put up best look. Tough and deadly for sure, but not with any signs of wear and tear.

Now guards show up with visible training wound. It is a change in what image NK regime want to convey to outside world at this juncture.