North Korea Soldiers at DMZ Taunt Guards

[NVMojo]

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) -

Spitting across the demarcation line that separates the two armies. Making throat-slashing hand gestures. Flashing their middle fingers. Trying to talk to the South Korean troops. North Korean troops in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas have been more boldly trying to provoke guards on the other side since the North claimed to have detonated a nuclear bomb Monday, a U.S. military spokesman said.

"They're walking a little taller," Army Major Jose DeVarona of Fayetteville, N.C., told reporters during a tour of the zone Wednesday. "They're more confident about making contact." Still, he said the overall situation was calm.

North and South Korean soldiers face each other in the village of Panmunjom, a cluster of blue huts inside the 2.5-mile-wide, 156-mile-long buffer strip. About 200 U.S. troops are also stationed along the DMZ.

The DMZ is one of the world's most potentially dangerous flashpoints, but Panmunjom is also a tourist trap where buses disgorge thousands of visitors each year who come to gawk at the North Korean soldiers. The village is jointly overseen by the U.S.-led U.N. Command and North Korea, an arrangement established in 1953 to supervise the cease-fire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2006/oct/11/101102400.html

[htuttle]

1. "I fart in your general direction."

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!"

Haven't they been doing this for years?

:eyes:

[patrick t. cakes]

2. ah capitalism

only you could make disney land
out of a grave yard.

[JVS]

3. Useless without pics