Posted on 06/08/2010 3:51:37 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
South Korea is waging war with pop music.
After the country formally accused North Korea of launching the torpedo that sunk their warship Cheonan, South Korea has declared psychological warfare in retaliation.
Their first missive into the hermit kingdom was a pop song.
Ended a six-year suspension against state-sanctioned propaganda, the South sent the message across the border through the airwaves.
Before airing a rebuke from South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, the broadcast features K-pop girl group 4minute singing their song "HuH (Hit Your Heart).
The song was specifically chosen to irk the repressive regime with its liberating lyrics: "Baby, you're kidding me? I do what I want and I do it my way.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Good Lord, Man! We had to put up with endless HT pics yesterday and now you burden us with this?
B. The sixtieth anniversary of the North's invasion is in two weeks...June 25th.
Send the one in the lower left to my house, stat.
“If the situation continues to deteriorate, South Korea has threatened to use the ultimate weapon of mass destruction: the Time-Life Disco collection.”
ROFL!
crikey! I just blew coffee out my nose!
Too late.
I would have opened up with some classic Judas Priest “Screaming for Vengance”.
I dunno.
Those screaming Disco Australians could set off heart attacks in older folks.
That...was ugly, my FRiend.
:)
I hate to say this but Asian women don’t age until they hit 40. I cannot tell the difference between a 16 yo asian woman and a 26 yo.
There is this vietnamese woman at my gym who is in her mid 30s but looks 23.
What this article is talking about is the broadcasting of pop music and propaganda over AM radio into North Korea. This is different from the propaganda speakers on the border which have not been turned on. South Korea has cancelled plans to turn on those speakers after the North threatened to shoot at them, Soeul backed down.
I missed that, thanks.
Was one of the tunes “Starving in the streets?” (Dancin’ in the streets)
Perhaps they should broadcast infomercials. Once they see that the outside world spends outrageous amounts of money on useless crap they will revolt.
Oh no.
I’d suggest waiting until the wind is just right and flying in specialist teams of experts from Texas or North Carolina and deploying....
barbecue.
You could do the same for prison hunger strikes, for that matter.
On a more serious note- the hell that the North Korean population lives under is mind-boggling.
Someday it’ll end. I hope I live to see it.
Culture wars, for realz
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