[callmejoe]

It was the anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. And they have had rallies this large in the past. But they don't have them every anniversary. And I'm not exactly sure how common a rally this size would be (how many of these there have been the past few years? a handful? several? or just a few?)

In any case, the timing is noteworthy.

[Sometimes A River]

Was Hugo Chavez there?

[Jet Jaguar]

ping

[callmejoe]

ping

[SteveMcKing]

Plan B:

Human wave = 'weapon'

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Given that half the country has to eat grass to stay alive, they should be really thankful that they live in a communist country.

[tet68]

Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans staged a massive anti-U.S. rally in Pyongyang on Sunday, the North's state media reported, as regional tension has risen over the communist state's reported plan to launch a long-range missile.

Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung Square "shook with their voices denouncing the U.S. imperialists, the sworn enemy of the Korean people," the (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in an article.

Reports of promised food handouts later remain unproven.

[Mears]

Man ! Now my day is ruined. (sarcasm off)

[pleikumud]

Communist slaves rally for Boss Kim (or die Comrades).

[Sisku Hanne]

I'm sure attendance was totally voluntary. Rally? or prison camp?...decisions, decisions!

[Redleg Duke]

The operative word is "staged". It was probably a catered affair.

[rfreedom4u]

Any video of the NK police forcing people to attend the rally?

[Hawk1976]

I'm following the Goebbels rule here. The louder they screech about how they will destroy us, the closer they are to collapsing themselves.

North Korea has a one million man army, which apparently does everything from farming to factory work. Undoubtedly a few do some actual soldiering but how many?

They are also chronically short of such military niceties as fuel and food.

They have an Air Force that would scare a 1950's Air Force. Given that it was the Air Force of a small country with a 1950's era Air Force.

They have 10,000 artillery tubes, with 500 pointed at Seoul. Most of these are in fixed positions along the border. I'm going to guess that their artillerymen don't get much of a break from all that farming and factory work to practice such mundane things as counter battery fire or fire support or rapid movement.

Everything I've seen leads me to believe that the large North Korean infantry force would find itself without air support or effective artillery support after they got South of Seoul and maybe before. They would get cut to ribbons in modern warfare. Of course that leads me back to my first point, the louder they howl the sooner they fall.

[John Semmens]

Poll Says North Korean People Favor Annihilating America

In the midst of the diplomatic stand-off over its nuclear weapons and missile development programs, a poll of North Koreans revealed that 99.4% favor using their nuclear missile to annihilate America.

“Kim is a genius,” said one respondent. “Any weapon he has designed will be fearsomely destructive. We should use it before the American imperialists steal it from us.”

While Kim Jong-il’s government expressed general satisfaction with the poll results, it said it found the lack of unanimity “troubling.” An investigation has been initiated to root out the sources of dissent despite pollsters’ assurances that the 0.6% who didn’t endorse an immediate attack on the United States is negligible and that for all intents and purposes, Kim has the people squarely behind him.

“We are concerned if even one sheep strays from the flock,” said Sen Sum-Sens, deputy secretary for indoctrination. “We will find and tend to these sheep.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

[yankeedame]

With the promise of a steamed dumpling each...Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans staged a massive anti-U.S. rally in Pyongyang on Sunday,

[tcrlaf]

You get a cup of rice if you show up, and tortured horribly if you don't......