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Reblogged from cozmonaughty-deactivated2011060
Residents of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island have been ordered to evacuate to shelters and safe areas on the island.
Sirens blared Sunday morning and announcements ordered residents to take shelter.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that one artillery round was heard Sunday from a North Korean military base north of the sea border dividing the two Koreas. It was not immediately clear where the round landed.
I still don’t feel safe. North Korea you are being really petty right now. I’m pretty sure this is all happening because Kim Jong Il is pretty much done for and his son is moving in. Why are you planting missiles just because we are doing drills? Come on now. This is really childish.
There seems to be an arms race around Yeonpyeong-do now. I really do wish North Korea would quit being such assbags “On Saturday, North Korea accused the South of using civilians as human shields on Yeonpyeong island.” I also hate how NK is spreading pure lies into the media to make SK look bad. On top of this, China is a useless tit giving a consistent position of wanting “the situation to be under control” instead of taking a stance against NK’s actions. China receives absolutely no benefit in having a relationship with NK. Ugh!
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"…a real war situation wasn’t like a game of StarCraft…"
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ROK Defense Minister Kim Tae-young in response to criticism for the delay (13 minutes) in South Korea’s retaliatory shelling . (via chiam)
[I was surprised by the criticism that they had received. I thought that it was amazing for them to assemble a force and fire 80 shells back in 13 minutes.]
(Source: news.naver.com)
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BREAKING: South Korea attacked by North Korea
(Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, setting buildings on fire and prompting a return of fire by the South, Seoul’s military and media reports said.
I might have invested slightly more interest into the relationship between these two countries, but it’s something that everyone here should be at least cognizant of. There was a similar attack earlier this year on some South Korean submarines, but this leaves me with slightly more anxiety than that did.
Fucking North Korea
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“Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion ($75 trillion) in compensation for six decades of hostility.”
hahahaha, these guys are such a joke
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Get your North Korea wife here!
It was confirmed by my co-teacher that it is an advertisement for lonely Korean men who want to be married with a North Korean woman. In similar news, North Korean women are unfortunately trafficked in China. There isn’t a lot of information on how these women got here, as it remains a mystery for me and Google…
Does anybody else have the answers?
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Cash-short North Korea opens up to U.S. Tourists
North Korea, which had restricted U.S. tourists to visits that coincided with its mass games that usually run from August to October, will institute the change this year… continued here
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60C18720100113
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Hey, money talks right? ^^
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N. Korea publicly executes Christian
N Korea is nuts
From MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32116646/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea publicly executed a Christian woman last month for distributing the Bible, which is banned in the communist nation, South Korean activists said Friday.
Ri Hyon Ok, 33, was also accused of spying for South Korea and the United States and organizing dissidents. She was executed in the northwestern city of Ryongchon near the border with China on June 16, according to a report from an alliance of several dozen anti-North Korea groups.
Ri’s parents, husband and three children were sent to a political prison camp in the northeastern city of Hoeryong the following day, the report said, citing unidentified documents it says were obtained from North Korea. It showed a copy of Ri’s North Korean government-issued photo ID.
It is virtually impossible to verify such reports about secretive North Korea, where the government tightly controls the lives of its citizens and does not allow dissent.
On Thursday, an annual report from a state-run South Korean think tank on human rights in the North said that public executions, though dropping in number in recent years, were still carried out for crimes ranging from murder to circulating foreign movies.
North Korea claims to guarantee freedom of religion for its 24 million people but in reality severely restricts religious observances. The cult of personality surrounding national founder Kim Il Sung and his son, current leader Kim Jong Il, is a virtual state religion.
Citizens barred from churches
The government has authorized four state churches, one Catholic, two Protestant and one Russian Orthodox, but they cater to foreigners and ordinary North Koreans cannot attend. However, defectors and activists say more than 30,000 North Koreans are believed to practice Christianity secretly.
The U.S. State Department reported last year that “genuine religious freedom does not exist” in North Korea.
“North Korea appears to have judged that Christian forces could pose a threat to its regime,” Do Hee-youn, a leading activist, told reporters, claiming public executions, arrest and detention of North Koreans are prevalent.
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