Ooooh..! Punishing them with that TROOP DEPLOYMENT...!
Veerrrrrry tough, gosh, where is my KEVLAR...?!!!??!
I can’t believe people are falling for this.
You’re right, this is actually a good sign that tensions are easing.
1. Deploying troops
2. Canceling leaves
3. Putting on their fatigues
4. Kissing their girlfriends
T-H-A-T is on a WAR FOOTING..? You gotta be KIDDING ME..!
Two things I believe in:
1. Extreme treachery of the DPRK
2. Appeasement of same by GuvSouthKorea
They’re only doing this much because they know that this time around enough people are (rightfully) honked-off about the sinking that they cannot get away with doing absolutely NOTHING back to Kim.
What is happening now IS rare, but it is HARDLY unprecedented.
The fix is in -those poor boys took the long swim and their guv is going to sell them out. Kim wants his dough, and the South simply wants to avoid having to deal with a huge collapse up there, with their tattered populace staggering around, asking the SK’ans “where all the new riches of this much-touted private economy”.
Same with China —fine that the Norks starve, but God help them if they should have to absorb phalanxes of refugees.
WON will Seoul retaliate meaningfully? NEVER.
1. SK doesn’t want it
2. China doesn’t want it
3. Obama admin doesn’t want it
And so it shall not be.
TOTALLY DISGUSTED.
Oh, that’s just a stupid journalist’s take on it - and probably a bad translation to boot.
“Ooooh..! Punishing them with that TROOP DEPLOYMENT...!
Veerrrrrry tough, gosh, where is my KEVLAR...?!!!??!
I can’t believe people are falling for this.”
You are kidding, right? You think S. Korea mobilizing forces to the DMZ is going to lessen tensions and ease the crisis? Falling for what - things haven’t been this tense on the Korean peninsula in a long long time. It wasn’t even this bad after the nuke tests a couple years back.