Posted on 04/02/2009 5:11:55 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
A Japanese rebroadcast tonight of North Korea TV. HERE is a link to Japanese site from Japanese TV which has short streaming video.
Go there first, then hit the arrow in the little orange box, just below the screen shot photo of the rabid North Korean TV female announcer spitting forth the threat.
One of the many "wonderful" aspects of Obama will be that the US commitment to defend Asia will diminish and the US commitment to defend Europe will also diminish. So, what will happen? Japan will re-arm, and her neighbors will arm up also. Everyone knows China is a threat -- if the US won't do anything, then all the other Asian countries will need to get prepared. Same thing in Europe. Russia is right there. There are tensions and unhappiness all around, and if the US isn't going to keep a lid on it, then a lot of countries will start beefing up their military.
From a budgetary standpoint, it might be nice to see other countries actually pay for their own defense. But realistically, a world-wide arm race is not a good thing.
this thread is not for my personal recollections of visiting every place you mentioned and each one in fact on multiple occasions and talking at length with many first hand victims of Imperial Japan of the Past ;-)
Well, there was this invasion under Hideyoshi Toyotomi in 1591. The “mound of ears,” Mimizuka, is where the Japanese buried their trophies from Korea (Samurai were head-hunters - did you know that?).
Then there was another invasion in late-19th century and an occupation lasted until after WWII.
There’s a little history there, yeah.
I even know a PRC-born woman whose family fled what is now NK in the thirties to escape the Japanese. There are a few hundred thousand ethnic Koreans living in China from that same group.
Japan used Korea as a pool odf two things, men for forced labor and women for sex. They exported the thousands of Korean women to wherever their troops were deployed and used the remaining to service Japanese troops who were rotated in and out of Korea for R&R.
It is mostly unknown but there are few if any groups who suffered more in the 20th Century.
AiT -
The DPRK have their very own YouTube Channel. Have you ever seen it? It’s a trip! TOTAL propaganda. VERY creepy.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Songunblog
Japan will have to resist, or to capitulate
until obama and his ilk are gone, or an alternative world order is formed - whichever comes first
I get nothing but a blank page, I’m guessing the server is going apesh*t, and I never did see an orange box with an arrow, I just tried clicking first on the 56K then the 300K feed speeds, but no dice.
...rots of ruck!
Go Go Godzilla!!!
i do have to add in context here that Pyongyang Radio/TV/wire serves is always warbling on like this with various threats toward South Korea, Japan and the USA, but rarely is it elevated to this level like tonight...in one sense it is a joke, and in another sense, is not.
do you dismiss them as hot smoke and nothing else?
or do you dig in and get ready to perhaps face an unparalleled, no holds bar scorched earth battle, which they by their own words seem to want to start
"Godzilla Shat"
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When was Emperor Showa hung?
we are (probably) crashing it by now, this thread itself has soared into the hundreds of views...i am sure a lot of folks everywhere are trying to access it . you might try a little later.
Oh, come on! I know you think she’s hot!!!
I’m thinking there is a segment of our population that wants to invade NK, just so they can get captured...
I know I am going to hell for this...hehehe
BRILLIANT!
Koreans in general hate Japan, starting with the first Japanese invasion in 1579 where a surprise attack by the Japanese took Hanyang the Korean capital within one month of landings in Pusan. Upon capture of the city 10,000 Korean civilians were rounded up and sacrificed to the Japanese God of War so they can cut the noses and ears off the slaughtered civilians, stuffed into baskets and sent back to Japan as gifts to the shogun. During that war many Korean artisans were sent to Japan to upgrade their porcelein, medicine, crafts and etc. Many of these artisans never returned to Korea after the Imjin War. 1885 brutal assassination of Queen Meoyeong (who attempted to stop Japan’s colonization attemtps) by ronin assassins after Japanese troops invaded the imperial place and the Japanese later attempted to blame it on internal Korean politics. The annexation of Korea in 1911 and the assassination of the last Korean king as he tried to warn Europe during post World War I that Japan had imperial designs in Asia against the European interests. King was arrested and later died from poisoning. Koreans had to endure a two tier legal system under Imperial Japanese rule, harsher penalties for Koreans vs Japanese subjects for the same crimes. Attempts by Japan to wipe out the Korean culture thru Japanese runned public school system. Forced conscription of Korean women to serve as comfort woman (provide sex) for Japanese troops during World War II. From 1911 thru 1945 Korea was under Japanese rule, but the colonization of Korea by Japan began in 1880’s. In other words there is alot of bad blood between Japan and Koreans.
I’m sure they are more enlightened now but in the 20th c the Japanese harbored an extreme contempt for Koreans; and acted on it when opportunity presented itself.
So who are we supposed to be rooting for?
The COMMUNIST NORTH KOREANS THAT HAVE SLAUGHTERED MILLIONS OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE ABOVE AND BELOW THE DMZ
or the Japanese who have become the milquetoasts of all Asia’s military and are the predominant force for peace in the far east?
Me, it makes me feel more like wretching, hurling, hollering for hewie, praying to the porcelin god...you get the picture.
Although Japan doesn’t currently posses nukes , I suspect it would take about 3 hours to put the components together....
I’ll try it later, I want to see if that gal’s leather get up is anything worth looking at, LOL
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