QuoteNorth Korea warned Thursday it plans to conduct more long-range rocket launches and carry out a "high-level" nuclear test targeted at the United States in response to a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning its December rocket launch and expanding sanctions.
The National Defense Commission, North Korea's top military body, denounced Tuesday's U.N. resolution to censure and sanction the regime for conducting missile activity that violates U.N. rules, according to a Reuters report.
The commission reaffirmed in its declaration that December's rocket launch was a peaceful bid to send a satellite into space, but also said the country's rocket launches have a military purpose: to strike and attack the United States.
"We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the DPRK one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-U.S. struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the U.S., the sworn enemy of the Korean people," the commission said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"Settling accounts with the U.S. needs to be done with force, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival," the commission added.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/24/north-korea-warns-that-nuke-test-may-be-imminent/#ixzz2IuJryy48
I want to make fun of them but that would be like making fun of a drunk starving guy with a loaded gun.
They must be running low on rice and cognac. They always put on this crazy Nork act when they need something.
Quote from: LongBlade on January 24, 2013, 11:29:36 AM
They must be running low on rice and cognac. They always put on this crazy Nork act when they need something.
They are quite good at playing that game.
We should cut off all foreign aid, let the communist ******** starve.
They should develop a smart bomb that will coat everyone in the DPRK, wearing a suit or a uniform, in a thick layer of sweet BBQ sauce and rice. THAT should sort out their problems quickly enough.
The gateway is China. Nobody farts in Norkland without permission from Beijing.
The way to fix things it to flood the country with AK-47s and a bunch of 7.62.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on January 24, 2013, 11:41:50 AM
Quote from: LongBlade on January 24, 2013, 11:29:36 AM
They must be running low on rice and cognac. They always put on this crazy Nork act when they need something.
They are quite good at playing that game.
They would learn a new game if the best players of that old one start shredding.
How many more decades of blackmail will everyone endure? Get it over with.
We tried killing them off once but it didn't work out.
Quote from: Longdan on January 24, 2013, 06:24:28 PM
We tried killing them off once but it didn't work out.
I suspect we're a bit better at it today. Problem is they can cause some problems until we shut down all the arty tubes in range of Seoul.
They can make a lot of trouble. My Dad told me it was hard to kill those buggers.
My part of Vancouver is infested with Koreans. I've lived in and worked in a lot of countries around the world. The Republic of Korea is the only one where I really have to struggle to come up with anything positive to say about the place. Some of the food was quite good. That is all.
They have lots of VD!!
The Costco Kimchi is F*ing awesome.
Quote from: LongBlade on January 24, 2013, 03:08:00 PM
The gateway is China. Nobody farts in Norkland without permission from Beijing.
The way to fix things it to flood the country with AK-47s and a bunch of 7.62.
Well ... it seems even that relationship is getting very strained.
Quote from: Zulu1966 on January 25, 2013, 07:53:35 AM
Quote from: LongBlade on January 24, 2013, 03:08:00 PM
The gateway is China. Nobody farts in Norkland without permission from Beijing.
The way to fix things it to flood the country with AK-47s and a bunch of 7.62.
Well ... it seems even that relationship is getting very strained.
Is it? China could have slapped him down. If they don't they are using the norks. The norks wont be using their weapons against the US directly, they will funnel the tech to Iran, who will supply it around the middle east. The Arabs will use it, wanting the blame to go back to Iran. They are all using each other.
The tech must not get out.
Quote from: LongBlade on January 25, 2013, 07:49:21 AM
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on January 25, 2013, 12:28:58 AM
The Costco Kimchi is F*ing awesome.
Thanks for the tip. :)
I read a list of the top 10 broad spectrum nutrient dense foods. Kimchi was at the top along with onions.
The costco stuff is in a plastic peanut butter size jar with a plastic red lid. The lid has a flip up arc handle built in. The kimchi is not very hot, maybe like a mild salsa. Somehow you just want to eat more.
F&$k kimchi. I actually liked the stuff initially but Korea's innate ability to make every thing suck reared its ugly head.
I had to eat breakfast and lunch with my students. We had kimchi with every god-damned meal. If I went out for dinner, I was guaranteed a heaping helping of kimchi with every meal. I would even get kimchi in the pubs as a side for the excrable beer they serve in Korea. I was given a 5 litre bucket of the stuff as a welcoming gift. I was given a litre bucket for my birthday. I was given 10 litres for "teacher appreciation day."
The town I worked in was an industrial hellhole with about 5 guys for ever girl. All the knuckl dragging factory workers would immediately head to the nearest bar as soon as they got off shift and would drink themselves stupid as quickly as possible. By 8pm, you'd have to play hopscotch over the kimchi and noodle vomit landmines that littered the sidewalks every night. Then the seagulls would come and eat the puke and fly off drunkenly into windows. Paradise.....
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on January 26, 2013, 01:15:24 AM
F&$k kimchi. I actually liked the stuff initially but Korea's innate ability to make every thing suck reared its ugly head.
I had to eat breakfast and lunch with my students. We had kimchi with every god-damned meal. If I went out for dinner, I was guaranteed a heaping helping of kimchi with every meal. I would even get kimchi in the pubs as a side for the excrable beer they serve in Korea. I was given a 5 litre bucket of the stuff as a welcoming gift. I was given a litre bucket for my birthday. I was given 10 litres for "teacher appreciation day."
The town I worked in was an industrial hellhole with about 5 guys for ever girl. All the knuckl dragging factory workers would immediately head to the nearest bar as soon as they got off shift and would drink themselves stupid as quickly as possible. By 8pm, you'd have to play hopscotch over the kimchi and noodle vomit landmines that littered the sidewalks every night. Then the seagulls would come and eat the puke and fly off drunkenly into windows. Paradise.....
...NOW we know where your handle came from! What happened to the "Silent" part? ;)
My dad went to Korea in 1950. He didn't like it either. Said the whole place smelt like poop.
My dad said the same about Egypt when he was there (in 8th Army) - said it smelt like thousands of years of camel piss
Quote from: Longdan on January 26, 2013, 11:22:53 AM
My dad went to Korea in 1950. He didn't like it either. Said the whole place smelt like poop.
My uncle was there with Lord Strathcona's Horse (not as lame as it sounds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Strathcona%27s_Horse_(Royal_Canadians)_(2nd_Armoured_Regiment)
He said that it was either too f&^%ing hot, or too f^&*ing cold, and the mountains went the wrong way.
Bob, this will probably sound very politically incorrect, but my grandfather was involved in World War I. He told a few stories, not many, but one that sticks in my memory was how the german trenches smelled.
They had good field hygiene, and weren't unclean. But their food rations, or something, made the trenches smell noticeably. Until they took the trenches, the troops weren't sure where the smell came from.
Did your father mention anything about that in North Africa?
I'm betting there's cabbage involved.
Sauerkraut farts is what inspired war gasses.
Quote from: besilarius on January 26, 2013, 09:10:27 PM
Bob, this will probably sound very politically incorrect, but my grandfather was involved in World War I. He told a few stories, not many, but one that sticks in my memory was how the german trenches smelled.
They had good field hygiene, and weren't unclean. But their food rations, or something, made the trenches smell noticeably. Until they took the trenches, the troops weren't sure where the smell came from.
Did your father mention anything about that in North Africa?
Yuk - I have heard silmilar stories. Dad said that pretty much everything ponged in North Africa, although you got used to it. He also said that after a while, the most prevasive smell was that of petrol. One of the reasons being that gasoline was more plentiful than water, which was rationed, and was often used for washing clothes and even hands. He told me that the main method of cleaning mess gear was with sand - and there was plenty of that.
The most unoleasent thing, however, and the most hated duty, was recovery of knocked-out tanks (from both sides) especially when this entailled the removal of dead crewmen, and after the vehicle may have been in the hot sun for several days. He said the you knew you had a bad one well before you got to it, even if you made an 'up-wind' approach.
He did spend some time in the line at Anzio, and said that after a while, no matter how careful you tried to be with hygene, after a while, it did get a bit 'ripe' in the trenches.
Like most vets, he had lots of strories to tell. Sadly, he's been gone now for 10 years and I still miss him a lot. Not only a great farther, but a good friend.
In Vietnam, there would often be firefights near the Mekong River. There was a type of grass that probably was a bamboo offshoot, that we called elephant grass. It could easily be eight feet tall, and grew almost overnight after a rain.
Sometimes, it was necessary to wait a day or three to find the dead by the decomposition smell in that grass.
When I find a dead mouse and get a whiff of the scent, sometimes it brings me right back to the Plain of Reeds.
Not an pleasent experience I imagine, and centainly not one that I would like to have had. I don't envy you at all.
No shit! Makes some of my more unpleasant memories seem... somewhat pleasant.
They are still at it.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/north-korea-turns-call-duty-world-bizarre-propaganda-194213089.html
A rather blithe reply with regard to the latest out of NK.
QuoteAsked Tuesday morning whether she expects a strong condemnation from the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said: "We'll do the usual drill."
It was a surprising response to an international incident that was largely seen as a threat to the U.S. and one that prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an emergency meeting of world representatives.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/12/us-initial-response-to-north-korea-nuclear-test-seen-as-blase/
Actually, that would piss the norks off more than anything since the regime hungers (!) for some kind of international significance:
Norks: "We Bad, yes we is!"
US: "Whateves... ::)"
Remember Blazing Saddles? "And the little bastard shot me right in the ass."
"Nuclear test monitors in Vienna say the underground explosion had double the force of the last test, in 2009, despite the use of a device said by the North to be smaller.
If a smaller device was indeed tested, analysts said this could take Pyongyang closer to building a warhead small enough to arm a missile."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21429544
So people are going to wait to negotiate when they can load a missile with this thing?
How Fing stupid is everybody?
This is the lesson of the boy who cried WMD!
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 12, 2013, 07:23:45 PM
Actually, that would piss the norks off more than anything since the regime hungers (!) for some kind of international significance:
Norks: "We Bad, yes we is!"
US: "Whateves... ::)"
Indeed. More than anything else, the Nork leadership can't stand to be ignored. They're like that brat who misbehaves just for the attention.
Quote from: Martok on February 13, 2013, 08:07:33 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 12, 2013, 07:23:45 PM
Actually, that would piss the norks off more than anything since the regime hungers (!) for some kind of international significance:
Norks: "We Bad, yes we is!"
US: "Whateves... ::)"
Indeed. More than anything else, the Nork leadership can't stand to be ignored. They're like that brat Azz who misbehaves just for the attention.
Fixed.
[chuckle]
*Belly Laugh*