DPRK top leader Kim Jong Un orders frontline army to enter state of war from 5pm Friday

Xinhua ^ | 8-21-2015 | Xinhua

[catnipman]

“a “State of War” will exist. “

A state of war technically still exists anyway. What will Kim do, declare a Double Secret State of War?

[tumblindice]

But this time the war lasts about a week or two, like Iraq I.

[driftdiver]

SK doesn’t give a shit about Obama any more. He’s thrown them under the bus several times and burned that bridge.

[tcrlaf]

Shanghai Index down 4.5% again, right now. It’s dropped 40+% in the last 6 weeks. So the Chinese could very well tell the Norks it’s ok to go.

[DB]

I few cruise missiles would solve this problem once and for all.

[Skybird]

As they say, “...it’s five o’clock somewhere.”

Terrible time to start a war while interrupting cocktail hour...

[tcrlaf]

From Yonhap, about 20 minutes ago:

(URGENT) S. Korea warns North of strong retaliation against any attack

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2015/08/21/33/0301000000AEN20150821004100315F.html

[gaijin]

Thank u for your reporting.

[Politicalkiddo]

Hm...do troops fare well after they’ve been starved?

[SunkenCiv]

It'll be great when he's at the end of a rope.

[Mr Apple]

Shanghai Index down 4.5% again, right now.

This 4 foot tall delusional filthbag Kim Jong needs to get back to his bathroom, lock the door and resume drooling and frothing over the porn mags and tapes his dad left him. He's not going to win any wars. What a truly perverted and unstable little mind this midget has.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

does anyone have confidence in Obama, if Kim restarts the Korean War?

No. Not even a little bit.

[PA Engineer]

I believe this is coming from China.

Tiagin was catastrophic on many levels. Economically they may have lost their competitive edge with the loss of the port. I think politically they are facing their greatest political crisis since Tiananmen. They have lost legitimacy with their citizens.

The communist party is dealing with this from an outdated paradigm. All they know and the only tools they have is repression and censorship. I don't think it is going to work this time.

Finally, much of their economy is Potemkin and is beginning to collapse. The economy coupled with an inverted demographic population is leading to a very dangerous instability.

This could end up in a full blown conflict. China will be the only country that will benefit from removing South Korea as a trading competitor.

[Mr Apple]

Could be something big coming along. Gold is up $31.00 in the past 24 hours and continuing to go up now in the World Spot market / up $8.80 in the past 6 hours. I’m watching kitco.com as it spirals upwards this morning /might be time to buy krugerrands just in case. I wish I had big money to invest instead of my pennies outa my glass jar.

[mkjessup]

Miserable North Korean Soldier #1:
"did you hear? state of war at 5:00 pm friday!"

Miserable North Korean Soldier #2:
"ahhh crap, i was gonna take the wife and kids on a tree bark picnic this weekend!"

Miserable North Korean Soldier #1:
"yeah i know, the tree maggots are plump this season"

Miserable North Korean Soldier #2:
"kinda makes me miss the Dear Leader"

Miserable North Korean Soldier #1:
"dude, that IS really f**ked up".

[Thunder90]

Meanwhile Russia takes the whole of Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuana, and Estonia...

[Mr Apple]

Over the past hour and 1/2 gold on the World market is now down to 40 cents below New Yorks close. So, in the past hour and 1/2 gold has dropped almost $12.00 from it’s high in this morning in Europe/London. Very fickle market this morning with N K making noise.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Nice “Strangelove” sub-reference

[Bryanw92]

>>Both times I was stationed there we “joked” that we were there to keep the South from invading the North. And that was over 30 years ago.

I thought that our troops in SK were just there as a speed bump to insure American casualties so the people in the states would be willing to fight a war there again.

[SampleMan]

South Korea can handle the Norks on their own. Shouldn’t have to, but they can.