Pyongyang threatens to blow up South Korea’s propaganda loudspeakers near DMZ

[yuiyoshida]

Source: japantimes.co.jp


Members of the Korean Disabled Veterans Association by Agent Orange in Vietnam War shout slogans as they hold mock North Korean flags and defaced images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally denouncing North Korea in front of the Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, Thursday. South Korea restarted propaganda broadcasts across the border with rival North Korea on Monday for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for the North allegedly planting land mines last week that maimed two South Korean soldiers. The North on Saturday threatened to blow up the loudspeakers. | AP

SEOUL – North Korea on Saturday threatened to attack South Korean loudspeakers that are broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages across their shared border, the world’s most heavily armed.

The warning follows Pyongyang’s earlier denial that it had planted land mines on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone that injured two South Korean soldiers last week. Seoul retaliated for those injuries by restarting the loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years and suggested more actions could follow.

The authoritarian North is extremely sensitive about insults of its leader, Kim Jong Un, and tries to isolate its people from any criticism or suggestions that Kim is anything other than powerful and revered.

North Korea’s army said in a statement that the broadcasts are equivalent to a declaration of war and that a failure to immediately stop them and take down the loudspeakers would result in “an all-out military action of justice to blow up all means for ‘anti-north psychological warfare'” on the front lines.

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[Kennah]

1. And they are preparing to invade Spokane

[longship]

2. "King Jong Un is Kaput." "DPRK is kaput."

Signed Dagwood Soeul.

[walkthewalkorstfu]

3. NK should just build a bigger speaker!

SK flys a big flag at the border so NK go and puts up a bigger flag.

SK Gets a taller flag pole so NK erects an even bigger one in response.

The proper response from NK is to build a bigger and more powerful speaker.

[davidpdx]

4. North Korea has a taller flag poll though

It's to compensate for Kim Jong Um's small *bleep*

[davidpdx]

5. The government really is a bunch of idiots

A war is the last thing they'd want because South Korea would bomb them back into the stone age if they started anything. The last war they started didn't end very well for them and would have been worse if China and the Soviet Union hadn't entered the war to bail them out.

[7962]

6. It would have been OVER if the Chinese hadnt flooded across the Yalu.

There wasnt much "North Korea" left when that happened. For some reason Truman didnt believe the Chinese would get involved. If that hadnt happened we'd only have ONE Korea

[Reter]

10. Well, yes they bailed out the North, but we bailed out the South

In a fair fight of just North vs. South in that war, the South would not have had a chance.

[marble falls]

7. One thing I learned from Viet Nam: do not screw with the ROKs. They were the toughest of the tough.

[GGJohn]

8. Yup, those SK soldiers were some tough, mean fighters,

as were the Aussies that were in country also.

[marble falls]

9. They had a strange, strange sense of humor especially after drinking. I was Navy and didn't get....

all that much interaction with them, but my Marine friends respected the ROKs and loved the Aussies.