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N. Korean Military "Further Lower Height Limit for Fresh Conscripts"(to 53.9 inch)
Free North Korea Radio ^ | 03/17/10 | Kim Eun-ho

Posted on 03/17/2010 8:38:23 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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N. Korean Military "Further Lower Height Limit for Fresh Conscripts"

Military: anybody who can shoot qualifies regardless of his height

N. Korean military recently instructed military mobilization department of the local authorities to lower height limit for this year's fresh conscripts from 140cm (55.1 inch) to 137cm(53.9 inch.)

On March 16, our sources in Chongjin, N. Hamkyong Province, quoting a figure from provincial military mobilization department, relayed information that, for conscription for this year which started in March, height limit for conscripts which used to be 140cm was lowered to 137cm (by 3cm,) following the directive from N. Korea’s Defense Ministry issued in early March.

He explained, "In recent years, conscription efforts have had trouble fulfilling the planned quota due to height requirement, which prompted this decision, but only 80% of quota is being filled now. After 'March of Suffering'(great famine,) kids have not had enough to eat, and the resulting malnutrition stunted (physical) growth, leading to drastically lowered height. The average height of graduating class of high school has lowered to 134cm(52.8 inch,) causing severe height and weight discrepancy to the level that makes one wonder if entirely new race is being born."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conscript; height; military; napl; nkorea
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1 posted on 03/17/2010 8:38:24 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 03/17/2010 8:38:53 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

War’s secret weapon is women I hear, can’t he just make his military 100% female?


3 posted on 03/17/2010 8:41:15 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Salamander; Slings and Arrows; Markos33; humblegunner; Eaker; Jet Jaguar

They’re gonna stack ‘em two high and play “Horses”!

(Any smaller and they won’t be able to get on the rides at Disneyland.)


4 posted on 03/17/2010 8:42:01 PM PDT by shibumi ("..... then we will fight in the shade." (Cool Star - *))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Malnutrition?


5 posted on 03/17/2010 8:42:29 PM PDT by GeronL (I said it yesterday and I'll say it today and everyday: Tomorrow I stop being so lazy!!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

One is freightened. My God if this is what can happen when politicians take over. God Save the Republic.


6 posted on 03/17/2010 8:44:17 PM PDT by Bhoy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

She is more than 1 foot taller than the required height.

7 posted on 03/17/2010 8:45:22 PM PDT by TokuMei
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Four feet, six inches??!!!

It’s not just the stunted growth that childhood malnutrition causes, there’s also the mental retardation.

Plus now there are the rumblings that they don’t get fed decent even while they’re IN the army.

I think it’s time to cease playing make-believe. This army couldn’t invade a Wal-Mart parking lot.


8 posted on 03/17/2010 8:45:36 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: TokuMei

Whereas the unfortunate Goliath would probably break five bones if you tripped him.


9 posted on 03/17/2010 8:47:00 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: TokuMei
Is the top of her head flat?

You need somewhere to put down your beer.

Me bad...

10 posted on 03/17/2010 8:47:21 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Obamunism, the fatal cure for Bush Derangement Syndrome.)
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To: ansel12
Before they go female, they're gonna call Willy!


11 posted on 03/17/2010 8:47:46 PM PDT by shibumi ("..... then we will fight in the shade." (Cool Star - *))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I recall that New Yorker article from ‘04 that contended that (given identical diet and lifestyle) ALL the races of humanity would average the same height.


12 posted on 03/17/2010 8:48:50 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Being short is no sin, but being short on compassion and high on cruelty and arrogance is. Pray for those under him yoke.


13 posted on 03/17/2010 8:49:32 PM PDT by daniel1212 ("Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“The average height of graduating class of high school has lowered to 134cm(52.8 inch,)”

If my math is correct, that works out to an average height of about 4’5” - more than a foot shorter than the average South Korean male and nearly 8 inches shorter than a typical South Korean female.

Good lord.


14 posted on 03/17/2010 8:49:56 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: sinanju

But it is also a mistake to piss-off someone who is hungry and angry.


15 posted on 03/17/2010 8:52:45 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Eating a steady diet of grass will stunt ones growth, it would appear.


16 posted on 03/17/2010 9:04:27 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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Gonna need ladders for their fox holes.


17 posted on 03/17/2010 9:05:27 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

"How tall are you, private?"

"Sir, four feet six, sir!"

"Four feet six?!? I didn't know they could stack kimchi that high!!!"

18 posted on 03/17/2010 9:08:59 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: Eccl 10:2

LOL!!!

Just Damn- Thats priceless!!!


19 posted on 03/17/2010 9:12:24 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (What a fool believes, No wise man has the power to reason away)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I was once in a military surplus store with my (then) eight year old son, and I found well-used a German military cap, the kind with a bill on the front, that fit him perfectly. The only thing I could conclude is that the German army had at least one enlisted man with a head the size of an eight year old boy.
20 posted on 03/17/2010 9:14:44 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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