[TigerLikesRooster]

Well, Taiwanese are said to be all riled up over Taekwondo disqualifying scandal in Asian Games. I thought they would be rooting for N. Koreans.:-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

You are correct, the rumor is just that, rumor (stock market generated). Kim Jong il is alive and well, but the DPRK is taking a very agressive tone to South Korea this afternoon, and there are dead ROK servicemen as a result.

[AmericanInTokyo]

DPRK radio YESTERDAY evening, domestic service, in their evening broadcasts (around 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. time frame), were particularly virulently anti-ROK (as they are usually anti-ROK but they were really spitting the bile out virulently). This was even before the artillery shelling today of the island. So they seemed to be flipping out as recent as yesterday.

It must have been the South Korean Defense Ministers statement that ROK would accept tactical nukes on South Korean soil to protect against North Korea because they had gone ahead with the new light water work at Yongbyong Nuclear Center.

This is all cause-effect in my book, it seems.

[Tainan]

Right about the TKD incident. The locals are mad as hell about that. I just saw the beginnings of reportage about the NORK attack here on Taiwan new here. Useless babbling with no connection what-so-ever to reality.
TV (and print) news here bears a distinct resemblance to chickens with their heads cut off.

[driftdiver]

My wife thinks this is a response to the news about the tactical nukes yesterday.