Posted on 10/11/2006 12:59:47 PM PDT by SmithL
PANMUNJOM -- Spitting across the demarcation line that separates the two armies. Making throat-slashing hand gestures. Flashing their middle fingers. Trying to talk to the South Korean troops. North Korean troops in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas have been more boldly trying to provoke guards on the other side since the North claimed to have detonated a nuclear bomb Monday, a U.S. military spokesman said.
"They're walking a little taller," Army Major Jose DeVarona of Fayetteville, N.C., told reporters during a tour of the zone Wednesday. "They're more confident about making contact." Still, he said the overall situation was calm.
North and South Korean soldiers face each other in the village of Panmunjom, a cluster of blue huts inside the 2.5-mile-wide, 156-mile-long buffer strip. About 200 U.S. troops are also stationed along the DMZ.
The DMZ is one of the world's most potentially dangerous flashpoints, but Panmunjom is also a tourist trap where buses disgorge thousands of visitors each year who come to gawk at the North Korean soldiers. The village is jointly overseen by the U.S.-led U.N. Command and North Korea, an arrangement established in 1953 to supervise the cease-fire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
North Korean troops were not seen engaging in provocative antics during the reporters' tour.
Seven North Korean soldiers, wearing olive green uniforms and tall, round-brimmed hats, guarded U.N. buildings where meetings between the two sides are sometimes held.
South Korean soldiers in black helmets and sunglasses stood in their traditional pose: legs wide apart in a martial-arts stance with arms at their sides, fists tightly clenched and ready to strike.
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Space Balls big?
Big Screen HDTV with NFL Sunday Ticket and some nice tailgate BBQ. NO man can resist, not even Euroweenies.
I like the rock, and we can get them off the rock with much less expenesive technology.
Strange, she looks like a liberal.
That was a cool video, I liked that one!
We should wheel out a tactical nuke just to show them what one looks like.
I'd propose a BBQ, The North may be wise arses, But guess who is the bigger man with the food? While they eat Donated Rice, Lets see the North get access to succulent BBQ Prime Ribs with a Spicy BBQ Sauce, Spare Ribs, Filet Mignon and Fine Wine. Leave them gaze...And smell that beautiful aroma of mouth watering BBQ Sausage cooking on the BBQ rotating and crisping just right!
oh...please...shorts and black socks....no....can't look...hurts.....
I do the same several times a day in Meccas general direction.
Good job.
he's the other "Lil' Kim"...
Shoot them.
On the road to panmunjon from Seoul there are huge white-lettered signs on each side (similar to the HOLLYWOOD sign but smaller). On the North side they disparage the parentage of the ROK leadership. On the South side they read "We have 20,000,000 cars".
Look at her size relative to the AK-47...that is truly scary. She's severely undersize for an adult.
I had the good fortune of researching in the field at Bonifas with the Battalion Scouts (In Front of Them All!)
Take away the AK and she looks like your normal ANSWER protester...
Kim Jong-Il is instantly recognizable in a photo, even one shot at a distance...
He's the only fat North Korean.
No doubt good buddy, if need be I will do what my father did when he was over here kicking some commie a$$ back in 1952-1953. Like Father like son.
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