North and South Korea officials to meet within hours amid tensions

Reuters ^ | August 22, 2015 | Ju-min Park

[JPX2011]

Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea will meet at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their military border at 0900 GMT (5.00 a.m. EDT) on Saturday to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula, the South's presidential office said.

[mkjessup]

You just gotta *know* that in the back of the minds of nearly all of the North Koreans meeting at Panmunjom, they're thinking "wonder if there's any way to defect and GTFO of this juche bag paradise?"

[JPX2011]

LOL! I would imagine so. Word is that NK requested the talks. More NK blackmail. I don’t think anyone wants an all-out war but I’m sure a lot of people are tired of waiting around for this regime to collapse on its own.

[justa-hairyape]

Both sides at their highest military alert status levels.

[Jim from C-Town]

North Korea a country so poor that many of their own people starve and a vast majority are malnourished can build an almost 200 mile long double fence and militarize it against the loss of their own people from escape and the protection of its land from encroachment from the South. However, a country with the highest standard of living and the largest economy in the history of the World finds itself stymied by the prospect of erecting an 1,800 mile fence through mostly open ground.

What a World!

[Jim from C-Town]

Aren’t they always.

When you live next door violent crazies it is always best to be on alert.

[justa-hairyape]

For some reason the stupid Europeans decided to educate the crazy up north. So we have a crazy educated by Europeans. That is probably why the South always responds now.

[Trueblackman]

China has let its little dog off the leash again and this is to deflect from the slow down in their economy, by focusing the world’s attention elsewhere.

[lulu16]

Is it shallow of me to worry about the fate of upcoming Korean dramas? (joking!) My best wishes and prayers to the good people of Korea.

[DB]

And all that suffering is so China can have a proxy against the US.

[Jim from C-Town]

I always thought that MacArthur had it right when he wanted to destroy the Communist Chinese regime during the Korean War. They should have removed that cancer on humanity when they had the chance.

[Mark17]

I wonder how much money the Norks want?

[deks]

I just heard that they are exchanging artillery fire across the border — does anyone know if that happens very often?

[Sacajaweau]

That little p*** pot in North Korea is a nut. The only people that get fed in the country is the army. His people eat dirt.

[flaglady47]

Ho hum. How boring. Another faux Korean crisis. President Trump should just flatten that tinpot dictator’s palace with him in it, shortly after The Donald moves into the White House.

[Thom Pain]

I predict that the North Koreans will be 30 minutes late or 30 minutes early; I forget which way they adjusted their clocks.