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South Korea blasts pop music, propaganda over the border
NY Daily News ^
| Monday, June 7th 2010, 8:19 PM
| Joe Tacopino
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 ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; northkorea
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South Korea had threatened to do this several weeks ago. The North immediately said they would shell the speakers. There was also an implied threat to take hostages of the several hundred South Koreans working at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea. It will be interesting to see what the North's response is today, especially given their recent internal power shifts this month.
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:51:37 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: hennie pennie
Did Lee just up the ante?
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:52:32 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
North Korea kills 46..South Korea broadcasts a pop song...
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:55:10 AM PDT
by
rman04554
To: Pan_Yan
That’s inhumane. At least they’re not using Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad”. Yet.
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06/08/2010 3:56:18 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(No matter where you go there are always more stupid people.)
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: rman04554
Khobar Towers, Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, USS Cole, Beruit Marine Barracks, First World Trade Center bombing ... we didn’t always retaliate swiftly either.
And our capitol city and millions of our citizens are not in artillary range of a madman.
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:58:36 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:59:44 AM PDT
by
Daisyjane69
(Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
To: Pan_Yan; TigerLikesRooster; fieldmarshaldj
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06/08/2010 3:59:54 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: Pan_Yan
There was also an implied threat to take hostages of the several hundred South Koreans working at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea.I never understood why South Korea was so foolish as to allow its citizens to go to this place while the Kim regime was still in power. Didn't anyone in Seoul think that these people could be used as bargaining chips?
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posted on
06/08/2010 4:01:23 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: Pan_Yan
Playing "Suicide is Painless" 24/7 would be ironic.
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posted on
06/08/2010 4:02:57 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
To: Pan_Yan
Gimme a big enough sound system and some Motorhead and we can take the NKs in a day!
To: rman04554
North Korea kills 46..South Korea broadcasts a pop song...
Well if they are being forced to listen to 24/7 Lady GaGa that could be fairly severe.
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posted on
06/08/2010 4:05:41 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Pan_Yan
Just play some Yoko and they'll surrender.
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06/08/2010 4:06:17 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
To: F15Eagle
That’s not funny, you.
Some of us were cheerleaders and on dance teams and we HAD to practice to that stuff 9309234 times in order to get our
performances right.
Or risk the wrath of The Dance/Cheerleading Coach, whose name shall not be revealed. But she was like G.S. Patton.
;)
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06/08/2010 4:07:27 AM PDT
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Daisyjane69
(Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
To: Pan_Yan
If the situation continues to deteriorate, South Korea has threatened to use the ultimate weapon of mass destruction: the Time-Life Disco collection.
To: Pan_Yan
How about a little classical? I’d vote for Messaien’s Turangalila Symphonie, or maybe Charles Ives’ 4th...
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06/08/2010 4:13:56 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: pnh102
It was part of the Sunshine Policy, which like many of America's policies over the years ran on the premise that if you are just nice enough to maniacal genocidal dictators their hearts will melt and they will cry and free everyone.
This policy has been highly successful in dealing with ... uh ... give me a minute...
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06/08/2010 4:15:42 AM PDT
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Pan_Yan
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