North Korea threatens South Korea via Fax

[Klefairy]

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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea sent a fax to South Korea on Thursday, threatening to "strike mercilessly without notice" after protests against the secretive regime this week in Seoul.
The message warned that North Korea would strike if "the provocation against our highest dignity is to be repeated in the downtown of Seoul."

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Earlier this week, on the second anniversary of the death of former North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, conservative protesters rallied in Seoul, burning effigies of the country's leaders as well as its flag. Such protests are common during North Korean festivals and anniversaries.
The South Korea's Ministry of National Defense said it sent a response.
"The reply was sent through wired message and in the fax message, we warned that if North Korea is to carry out provocation, we will firmly retaliate," said Kim Min-seok, the spokesman for South Korea's Ministry of National Defense.

He added that there have been no significant military movements in North Korea.
Pyongyang routinely threatens to retaliate after what it considers "provocations" including protests or balloon launches to the north by South Korean groups.
Relations between the Koreas have seesawed this year, verging on hostile earlier this year amid a nuclear test in February.

This month, the execution of Jang Song Thaek, an advisor and uncle of North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong Un unsettled its neighbors, prompting speculation about instability in the country's leadership.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/20/world/asia/north-korea-threats/index.html?hpt=ias_c1

Now I'm not the type to actually post and only lurk but THIS was too good to pass up.
ALSO I can't believe they really sent a fax threatening to strike without notice.... doesn't the fax just ruin the point in the strike being WITHOUT WARNING?!

I really just can't believe they sent a fax in general.

[Its A Crystal]

I believe they are trying to intimidate South Korea with their Fax Technology.

[GarbagePailAdult]

I'm starting to believe that North Korea is China's proxy through which they cleverly troll our Asian allies. They just can't be serious.

[Chris ex Machina]

>Fax
Wow... such advanced technology
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Wait, how did they phrase it?
Be warned: We will attack without warning.

[USS_Galactica]

Wow, a fax, that's only a few steps above the pony express or carrier pigeon.

[Keltoi Samurai]

They're rattling their sabres, probably hoping to negotiate another food deal, since their primary source of income is offering not to shoot people in exchange for money for food ( which they promptly spend on guns and bombs ).

Ultimately, nothing will come of this, much as nothing has ever come of it before.

[Alexander J Luthor]

Quote:

Pyongyang routinely threatens to retaliate after what it considers "provocations" including protests or balloon launches to the north by South Korean groups.

Gonna nuke another country for throwing balloons at you?

[Andy Partridge]

GarbagePailAdult

I'm starting to believe that North Korea is China's proxy through which they cleverly troll our Asian allies. They just can't be serious.

Even China barely knows what goes on in there. That's how freaky NK is.

It's kind of like China owns this crazed rapid pitbull that it keeps around to scare off the American sphere of influence. But at the same time China barely controls the thing and is kind of scared of it itself.

[Azkeel]

Keltoi Samurai

They're rattling their sabres, probably hoping to negotiate another food deal, since their primary source of income is offering not to shoot people in exchange for money for food ( which they promptly spend on guns and bombs ).

Ultimately, nothing will come of this, much as nothing has ever come of it before.

Did you forget about that one war they had?

[Keltoi Samurai]

YahuShalum

Keltoi Samurai

They're rattling their sabres, probably hoping to negotiate another food deal, since their primary source of income is offering not to shoot people in exchange for money for food ( which they promptly spend on guns and bombs ).

Ultimately, nothing will come of this, much as nothing has ever come of it before.

Did you forget about that one war they had?

You mean the pissing fit, the hissy fit, the childish tantrum, the pissing match, the other hissy fit, or that war that ended sixty years ago, which incidentally, their military hasn't improved technologically at all since?

[Andy Partridge]

YahuShalum

Keltoi Samurai

They're rattling their sabres, probably hoping to negotiate another food deal, since their primary source of income is offering not to shoot people in exchange for money for food ( which they promptly spend on guns and bombs ).

Ultimately, nothing will come of this, much as nothing has ever come of it before.

Did you forget about that one war they had?

No he's right. They rattle their sabre all the goddamn time, and it never means anything. Never.
The war you're talking about existed during completely different circumstances in the world and the Koreas, and it was 60 years ago.

A 60 year old war in entirely different circumstances doesn't whatsoever invalidate his statement.

[Keltoi Samurai]

Andy Partridge

YahuShalum

Keltoi Samurai

They're rattling their sabres, probably hoping to negotiate another food deal, since their primary source of income is offering not to shoot people in exchange for money for food ( which they promptly spend on guns and bombs ).

Ultimately, nothing will come of this, much as nothing has ever come of it before.

Did you forget about that one war they had?

No he's right. They rattle their sabre all the goddamn time, and it never means anything. Never.
The war you're talking about existed during completely different circumstances in the world and the Koreas, and it was 60 years ago.

A 60 year old war in entirely different circumstances doesn't whatsoever invalidate his statement.

Back when we fought that war with 'em, they had a bright, upstanding military force with the best tactics, training and technology that 1950 had to offer.

Now, though? Well, they have a bright, upstanding military force with the best tactics, training and technology that 1947 had to offer.

I'm pretty sure we only tolerate them to keep up appearances, and because we don't want to force China into the kind of tight spot where we attack their ally and they have to explain why they aren't doing anything about it without letting on that they're really rather relieved that those crazies are gone.

[Andy Partridge]

Keltoi Samurai

Andy Partridge

YahuShalum

Keltoi Samurai

They're rattling their sabres, probably hoping to negotiate another food deal, since their primary source of income is offering not to shoot people in exchange for money for food ( which they promptly spend on guns and bombs ).

Ultimately, nothing will come of this, much as nothing has ever come of it before.

Did you forget about that one war they had?

No he's right. They rattle their sabre all the goddamn time, and it never means anything. Never.
The war you're talking about existed during completely different circumstances in the world and the Koreas, and it was 60 years ago.

A 60 year old war in entirely different circumstances doesn't whatsoever invalidate his statement.

Back when we fought that war with 'em, they had a bright, upstanding military force with the best tactics, training and technology that 1950 had to offer.

Are you kidding? They launched a surprise attack which worked until we got our s**t together, and then we kicked their a**.

The reason it turned into a stalemate after that is General Idiot Mcarthur pushed them too far and looked like he was going to go into China. And that brought the Chinese into the war.

[Keltoi Samurai]

Andy Partridge

Keltoi Samurai

Andy Partridge

YahuShalum

Keltoi Samurai

They're rattling their sabres, probably hoping to negotiate another food deal, since their primary source of income is offering not to shoot people in exchange for money for food ( which they promptly spend on guns and bombs ).

Ultimately, nothing will come of this, much as nothing has ever come of it before.

Did you forget about that one war they had?

No he's right. They rattle their sabre all the goddamn time, and it never means anything. Never.
The war you're talking about existed during completely different circumstances in the world and the Koreas, and it was 60 years ago.

A 60 year old war in entirely different circumstances doesn't whatsoever invalidate his statement.

Back when we fought that war with 'em, they had a bright, upstanding military force with the best tactics, training and technology that 1950 had to offer.

Are you kidding? They launched a surprise attack which worked until we got our s**t together, and then we kicked their a**.

The reason it turned into a stalemate after that is General Idiot Mcarthur pushed them too far and looked like he was going to go into China. And that brought the Chinese into the war.

I never said that the tactics, training and technology were distinctly Korean in origin, merely that they had it.

I know full-well that it, much like most everything in the modern age, came to them from China. In fact, that's why I appraised their current readiness as equivocal to 1947: They aren't making it themselves, and China's just not as generous without threat of having the crazy thrust upon them.