Posted on 12/22/2010 5:00:45 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Giant Christmas tree stokes tensions on Korean peninsula South Korea has lit a massive steel Christmas tree that overlooks the world's most heavily armed border and is within sight of North Korea, prompting threats of attack from the communist state.
7:00AM GMT 22 Dec 2010
The lighting of the tree after a seven-year hiatus marked a pointed return to a tradition that is condemned in Pyongyang as propaganda. The provocative ceremony - which needed government permission to take place - was also a sign that President Lee Myung-bak's administration is serious about countering the North's aggression with measures of its own in the wake of an artillery attack that killed four South Koreans last month.
North Korea, officially atheist and with only a handful of sanctioned churches in Pyongyang with services for foreigners, warned that lighting the tree would constitute a "dangerous, rash act" with the potential to trigger a war.
As a precaution, dozens of armed troops took up position around the site during the lighting ceremony. Ambulances and fire trucks were parked nearby. Instructions placed on chairs at the ceremony advised participants to take cover in case of an attack from North Korea.
"The danger of the enemy's threat still exists," the leaflet read, suggesting that they hide behind concrete walls, crouch down between chairs and move quickly to shelters in case of an attack.
The event took place uninterrupted.
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Can you imagine the left blaming us forever if a Christmas Tree starts WW3?? or is it WW4 by now? The War with Islam could be WW3 I guess.
ROFL. Take this!
I thought the Cold War was #3 and the WOT was #4.
Or Seattle Washington
Better be careful lest they come after it with axes.
What about the war on poverty and the war on drugs?
We must be up to WW6 by now!
Last time it was the Americans and the ROKs trying to ax the tree - this time it's the Norks.
Make it tall, bigger, and brighter!
Forget Christmas trees. Put a giant roast turkey within view of North Korea and see what happens.
....Just goes to show commies are the same no matter where they come from...
LOL!!!!!
It also reminds me of the lives of the Martyrs of the Orthodox Church, which you can read on any Orthodox Church jurisdiction’s website. Pagan Romans and Persians, as well as Muhammadans, were so enraged by expressions of Christianity that they resorted to extremes of torture and warfare!!!!
a) It’s metal.
b) There are North Korean defectors who have formed their own military unit who would love to meet them dead on.
Someone more familiar with the subject than I posted in another thread about this that the lights of the tree could be seen many miles inside North Korea—a place that, as seen by satellite,
is light-handicapped at night.
It’s a huge embarrassment for the North; not to mention
that it has a glowing cross on the top.
I had to look at the source to see if this was written by the Onion.
Matthew 10:34-36
Excuse me, out of the way, please.
-Michelle’s War On Fat
Make way for the fcc war on free speech...
...step aside, ...sir, stay behind the yellow tape...
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