CNBC: North Korea Urges Military and Citizens to "Be Ready For War"

CNBC | February 25, 2003

[Timesink]

Developing...

[Bogie]

Then, when NK is tied up with the US, China can finally get Formosa back.

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent home page and in particuliar this section: Blessed be the Peacemakers

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent home page and in particuliar this section: Blessed be the Peacemakers

[Happy2BMe]

"Hey, Kim Jung ill....you goofy looking little weasel."

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—Responding to mounting pressure and increasingly confrontational rhetoric from the outside world, North Korean president Kim Jong Il unfolded into a 70-foot-tall, 62-ton giant robot Monday.

"The DPRK's nuclear program is very much its own business, as is its right to determine its own path of security," said Kim, his torso splitting along ventral seams as clusters of Taepo-Dong ICBMs rose from his shoulders. "Any attempt by Washington to decide our fate will surely result in a sea of fire being unleashed upon them."

Above:A South Korean border soldier eyes Kim Jong Il in the Demilitarized Zone.

During a visit Monday to the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Korean peninsula, Kim stressed that his transformation was not an act of aggression, but rather an attempt to defend his nation's autonomy.

"The DPRK must not be subject to the whims of an international coalition with no regard for the welfare of the Korean people," said Kim before stomping the ground with his foot, unleashing a devastating ring of energy that vaporized nearby reporters and military vehicles. "Catastrophic Valiant Kim-Chee Earthquake Stomp-Kick!"

[ScholarWarrior]

300 medium range ballistic missiles and several thousand fishing boats might be able to do it, so long as China is prepared to take 50% casualties and can keep the American carriers away.

[budwiesest]

This guy's international relations skills remind me of Asian driver's skills in general.

[ChicagoRepublican]

HEY! Don't make fun of DWO (Driving While Oriental) drivers ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

You left out one very interesting phenomenia that has been happening between Taiwan and the ChiComs which really backs up your thesis.

I have been on a personal boycott of the ChiCom products since the Clintoons/Gorons struck it rich via the ChiComs.

I read the label where any product is made. If it was made in ChiCom land, I don't buy it.

In the last about 2 years, I keep running into all types of products made in both countries or in one country and marketed by the other country. So they are blending together to make and market products to be exported.

In ten years most of the old hard line commie will be buried and replaced with capitalists.

[jgorris]

I have sick feeling NK might gamble to launch an attack into SK as soon as we go into Iraq.

I pray I'm wrong.

[budwiesest]

HEY! Don't make fun of DWO (Driving While Oriental) drivers ;-)

Hey! I can make fun of anyone I want as I believe there is virtue in being an equal-opportunity bigot. /:^)

[maestro]

Right!

When is the NK social 'order' NOT ready for war?

:-(

[The KG9 Kid]

Quite true, Grampa Dave.

There is often no distinction between many Taiwanese companies and mainland Chinese companies. They're often one in the same. You're right; I did forget to mention that.

Be they communist, or capitalist, it all comes in second behind the fact that they're Chinese first.

Apologies to those readers that are making a supplementary living off of Red Chinese scaremongering, but I don't see any evidence other than it's a load of BS at the moment.

[Jeff Head]

That's been the very scenario for my book series for the last two years.

In my fictional account, it turns into a very nasty world war. I'm justy finishing volume III for release next month.

I pray it doesn't go that way.

[Grampa Dave]

I'm still concerned about the old and soon to be old Commies in China.

If they die off in the next 10 years, hopefully the Chinese people can be together. Then, this will be a horrible nightmare that they and the rest of us lived through re Communist China.

We will see a test on how they handle and help us handle the situation in North Korean which get ugly when we start attacking Iraq. If Uncle Soddomite goes to live in Russia, the NKs will fade away. Hopefully their country can be reunited and another long nightmare caused by the communists will be over.

[Grampa Dave]

Correction: "which can get ugly when we start attacking Iraq

[Yardstick]

Interesting that you say that. I was in AutoZone the other day browsing through a rack of cheapo car accessories (simulated carbon-fiber shift knobs, inexpensive bolt-on exhaust tips, etc), and I noticed that several items had "Made in China or Taiwan" on their packaging. It struck me as a little odd that there would be a connection between the two.

BTW, has anyone noticed that you can tell when stuff has been made in China without even looking at the "made in" label? I'm so conscious of avoiding Chinese stuff that I can now tell if something was made there just by the texture of a box's cardboard, or the feel of a plastic blister pack, or the quality of the printing. Chinese packaging has a uniquely cheap look and feel to it.

[maestro]

I think you're right. When we go against Iraq, NK makes a move against the South and China uses the regional instability to take Taiwan. This could be a real mess. We'll see soo enough.

If so,...then,...China AND NK,...and Canada and Cuba,... launches'...ON the U.S.A.,.....right?

:-(

[Newbomb Turk]

Hope he told em to duck and cover when they see the flash.

[Jeff Head]

Well, having spent a lot of time over there helping US manufacturing companies set up shop ... I will say that there are many, many Taiwanese who do not go along with the thesis you project.

The fact is, they have many relatives on the mainland who are not a part of the 8-10% who are really profiting from the bonanza economy. Those that are, happen to be members of the old communist party. It still exists and has just found a new way to bring in the hard currency to develop the infrastructure that there maoist ideology could not produce. They are using the cheap, manual labor of one billion to fund the growth and retention of power of 100 million. And they are taking the proceeds and preparing for that future (both infrastructure wise and militarily) when they will ultimately challenge us.

And in my estimation they are doing it for the same reason they were trying to push the Maoist philosophy. They ultimately want hegonomy in Asia. They want to control those Asian markets and feed the European ones. Make no mistake, when they have placed themselves in a position to do that, and in doing so have tied up the majority of our manufacturing capability ... I believe they will move.

I don't believe it will be successful anymore than the Japanese attempt at the same goals 60 years ago was. But it could lead to the same results, and if so, it will be very costly and dangerous to roll it back.

Don't get me wrong ... there are plenty of Taiwanese manufacturors and businesses who are grasping the opportunity to set up shop in China ... but it will not lead to liberty, the pursuit of happiness and freedoms we take for granted here. There are plenty of citizens of the Republic of China who know this ... but they have a tough time trusting us after what we did under Carter.

Anyhow, those are my thoughts.

Is the PRC ready to do this now? No way ... it's still very premature. But stranger things have happened and if N. Korea can get the South without a fight ... and if Taiwan continues on the path they are on ... they might not need to start fighting until later anyhow ... if at all ... to accomplish that goal.

Fregards.

[mathurine]

Hot damn, Uncle Sam's comin' to give us Spam. Hallelujah; this is what we've been waitin' for.