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N. Korean soldiers leave barracks en masse looking for food
Korea Times ^
| 01/01/11
Posted on 01/01/2011 8:30:01 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
01-01-2011 21:38
N. Korean soldiers leave barracks en masse looking for food
An increasing number of North Korean soldiers are showing AWOL behaviors to avoid intense physical training and look for food, the local daily, Chosun Ilbo, said Saturday, sourcing it to RFA.
AWOL is a military acronym for "absence without leave."
Its hard to punish them because there are too many of such soldiers, an unnamed North Korean informant, told RFA in the report.
Some of the soldiers display on-off AWOL behaviors, for example, leaving the barracks in the morning looking for food and coming back in the evening.
The en masse absence is even causing difficulty in carrying out training according to schedule, the source said.
The sorry state of the military even earned Kim Jong-uns ire, who reportedly said: Those incapable military commanders should resign.
The informant, introduced in the report as a soldier, put the low morale in the North Korean military this way. If there were 10 AWOL reports, the actual number would be about 50.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awol; nkorea; soldiers; starvation
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To: Dick Bachert
Wars have been triggered for less critical reasons.Nods
Agree with what you say. Desperation, if these accounts are true; could lead to a NORK troop crossing that is completely un-coordinated. It would be what sets it all off (starving NORK soldiers crossing the DMZ armed, SK lighting them up and the NORK's that are not aware of the crossing open up themselves. it's on.)
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posted on
01/01/2011 10:45:16 AM PST
by
Michael Barnes
(Guilty of being White.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They are on the verge of war so it could be war prep dis-information. On the other hand, NK has a lot of soldiers to feed.
To: Dick Bachert
The NK “locusts” might not have the strength to make it over the DMZ. Those that do might just surrender for a meal.
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posted on
01/01/2011 10:58:30 AM PST
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: dirtboy
I must have missed that. That would explain a lot, wouldn’t it? Collective countries have such supply shortage problems they never can deal with unexpected disasters.
No wonder NK is going nuts. They must have lost so many crops, etc.
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posted on
01/01/2011 10:58:34 AM PST
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: I still care
In Korea, they usually drain the rice paddys in mid-August and harvest in October. A typhoon in early September could well have severely diminished what rice it didn’t destroy.
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:03:05 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Michael Barnes
Crossing the world's most heavily mined stretch of land, the DMZ/MDL, 250 kilometers, Korean coast to coast, riddled with both DPRK and ROK land mines, will be no small feat by hungry deserters. 1.2mm landmines on the ROK control side alone, who knows how many on the DPRK side, maybe just as many, could be close to 2 million of these. Folks would have to navigate such terrain; the discouragements and impediments would be significant, IMHO. I just as soon think the Korean People would turn on Pyongyang instead and just raid that place en-masse, might even eat some of the plump Korean Central Television evening news announcers such as Pyongyang Patty, in a poshintang-like stew, half out of abject hunger and half out of unrestrained outrage.
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:03:22 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Years of putting N. Korea on the military/diplomatic back-burner may well precipitate nuclear war)
To: TigerLikesRooster
What if they were to throw a war, and the NK troops show up with their bowels and chop sticks?
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:05:05 AM PST
by
pallis
To: TigerLikesRooster
Chosun Ilbo is getting the idea. Running back to back photos of skinny, hungry KPA soldiers, against Opulent, Fat Boy "Youth General", Kim Jong Un, grandson of the terrible Kim il Sung who started the Korean War itself--who is now criticising the soldiers in the ranks.
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:08:39 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Years of putting N. Korea on the military/diplomatic back-burner may well precipitate nuclear war)
To: suthener
There was a show on tv about soldiers that serve near the DMZ. I think it mainly talked about the SK soldier. One of the requirements was that they had to be at least 6 ft to do duty up there. It might even pertain to US Marines also. The thinking behind this was that it be more intimdating to the NK army. I would also say that most if not all the NK army is conscripted and only those chosin to be in the special forces receive the best of the nutrition because with the NK old generals and Kim they use these special forces to control and protect their collective asses.
To: DTogo
I’d like to see them make a run for the border to Kimchi Bell!
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:09:22 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:10:03 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Kim Jong-un, North Korea's designated future leader, is building luxury homes for himself while the population goes hungry, intelligence reports indicate. The building spree is costing the impoverished nation more than $150 million, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday, citing satellite photos and South Korean intelligence assessments. Kim Jong-un last month was named successor to his ill father, Kim Jong-il. A house in central Pyongyang where Kim Jong-un grew up has been upgraded to luxury specifications. It is connected by a tunnel to his father's house. A new villa in North Hamgyong province, known for its hot springs and spas, also is believed to be for Kim Jong-un. Local residents were forced to build a railway line and road leading to it, the report said. A huge structure being built on the coast at Songdowon has an undersea gallery with a view of aquatic life 300 feet under the surface. South Korean intelligence says the Kim family has at least 33 villas served by their own private train stations. In November, the U.N.'s World Food Program said a third of North Korean children were chronically malnourished, along with many pregnant and nursing women.
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:17:09 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Years of putting N. Korea on the military/diplomatic back-burner may well precipitate nuclear war)
To: Michael Barnes; Dick Bachert
Maybe the South should put up signs at the DMZ, telling the N.K. soldiers that they will be fed & they’re welcome to cross over & defect if they lay down their guns.
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:18:50 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:29:44 AM PST
by
Dick Bachert
(2012 CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH FOR ME. HOW ABOUT YOU?)
To: ElkGroveDan
Some of the soldiers display on-off AWOL behaviors, for example, leaving the barracks in the morning ... and coming back in the evening. That is strange behavior, returning to their barracks at night when they could be sleeping outside in the weather. Strange indeed.
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:39:55 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; Cindy; All
OH OH crack in miltary regime PERHAPS????
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:41:09 AM PST
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
To: AmericanInTokyo
That very hyrorcritcal of Chia Chub doing that
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posted on
01/01/2011 11:44:42 AM PST
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
01/01/2011 12:19:32 PM PST
by
SeeSharp
To: Michael Barnes; Dick Bachert
“...starving NORK soldiers crossing the DMZ armed...”
Interesting theory. It could happen, but I am hard-pressed to think of any historical examples of such an event actually occuring. Do you know of any?
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posted on
01/01/2011 12:27:14 PM PST
by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
To: Pan_Yan
“North Koreas system is unsustainable and coming apart fast, which leads to the million dollar question: what are they willing to do in their desperation?”
If I were Kim and knew things were headed downhill and I wanted to make sure I didn’t go down quietly, I’d make sure my most trusted and loyal generals command the 170mm Kosan artillery brigades and all the MLRS batteries along the DMZ within range of Seoul (about 500 batteries all together)
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posted on
01/01/2011 1:34:45 PM PST
by
jhpigott
(North Korea - The land of lousy options)
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