Kim Jong Un abruptly reappears after 36 days out of the spotlight; orders N Korea to prepare for war
Source: Business Insider, via Yahoo! News
Business Insider
Kim Jong Un abruptly reappears after 36 days out of the spotlight and orders North Korea to 'prepare for war'
Sophia Ankel
Tue, February 7, 2023 at 7:16 AM EST · 2 min read
-- Kim Jong Un had not been seen in public for 36 days, fueling speculation about his health.
-- But North Korea's leader attended a meeting with military officials on Monday, reports said.
-- He was discussing war strategies as tensions rise around the Korean peninsula, the reports said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un abruptly reappeared after 36 days out of the spotlight as he ordered his country to "prepare for war," according to multiple reports.
Kim was photographed presiding over a meeting of the central military commission of the ruling Workers' Party on Monday, Reuters reported. ... His presence marked the first time he was back in the public eye after more than a month for reasons that have not been made public.
His disappearance raised questions about his health from multiple news outlets. Kim's Jong Un's longest-ever break from the spotlight was in 2014, when he was not seen for 40 days.
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Before reappearing on Monday, Kim was last seen in another government meeting on January 2, where it was announced that a top military official, Pak Jong Chon, had been fired and replaced, Reuters reported at the time.
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That's just great.
FredGarvin
(503 posts)Are as credible as Trump is in trouble headlines...
AngryOldDem
(14,065 posts)Never know if hes bloviating to remind the rest of the world that hes a big, bad dictator whos still in charge, or if hes batshit crazy enough to follow through on his threats.
ProudMNDemocrat
(17,265 posts)And not for the right reasons.
2naSalit
(87,769 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Turbineguy
(37,565 posts)the North's misery and poverty.
FalloutShelter
(12,037 posts)Ukraine.
housecat
(3,130 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,705 posts)From the Kyiv Post:
North Korea to Send Military Affiliates to Ukraines Occupied Donbas
A South Korean news outlet reports that North Korea will be sending personnel to ostensibly help Russia with reconstruction efforts in the occupied Donbas.
The first group of North Korean citizens, upwards of 500 people, are expected to arrive in the occupied regions of Ukraine by mid-February or March.
FredGarvin
(503 posts)A source cited by Daily NK said the government order that required the deployment of young men between the ages of 19 and 27 was issued on January 20.
Nonsense Russian/NK propaganda
>>The report cited an agreement between Pyongyang and Moscow that allegedly contained a clause protecting North Koreans from being involved in military actions. Thus, the selected personnel would likely participate in the reconstruction works and restoring buildings and roads destroyed during the war.
FredGarvin
(503 posts)Unless you believe Russian propaganda clown shows
EX500rider
(10,952 posts)http://strategypage.com/qnd/korea/articles/20230207.aspx
chowder66
(9,221 posts)oldsoftie
(12,881 posts)chowder66
(9,221 posts)NickB79
(19,355 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,729 posts)chowder66
(9,221 posts)louis-t
(23,374 posts)isn't getting enough attention, they post a new picture of their ass online.
oldsoftie
(12,881 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Same high level wind currents! China got them on that cheap trick!
Warpy
(111,804 posts)Sirens sound periodically, then the glorious revolutionary army has repelled the enemy. It's how he stays in total power.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Or the new bases being constructed Philippines. Or the many atolls and islands dotting the Pacific, trophies of other wars.
Purely defensive, I digress.
Lot of sirens sounded in America this past week
over a balloon..
Warpy
(111,804 posts)unlike the previous ones that have sailed overhead during previous administrations.
Republicans are nothing if not predictable.
I think it's pretty obvious why that thing wasn't shot down over land, the instrument package was huge. Republicans were frothing over the ICBM sites, the decommissioned ones, not caring about property damage and death on the ground.
It will be interesting to see what that thing (and previous ones) was carrying. In any case, ET did not phone home this time, unlike during TFG's misadministration.
EX500rider
(10,952 posts)Feel free to link to where the US has "massive" naval exercises "every few months near NK shores"
Guess you can't due to that being BS.
The US does train with allies in the Pacific usually annually and nowhere near NK shores.
NickB79
(19,355 posts)Because that's what you're implying.
And if that's what you're implying, you're probably on the wrong site.
oldsoftie
(12,881 posts)ESPECIALLY N Korea; who cant even feed their people.
When do we ever have massive naval exercises near NK?
Igel
(35,522 posts)and sometimes others. And being near South Korea, they're near North Korea.
Then again, when you have a neighbor that basically says your territory is *his* territory, you'd be a fool not to think maybe he's serious. Esp. when he starts working on ballistic missiles, has a huge army, and has developed nuclear warheads.
soryang
(3,299 posts)Huge military air exercises. B-2 bombers, stealth aircraft etc. Aircraft Carrier strike group returns to South Korea. On top of this the US and South Korea firing artillery and missiles near the DMZ. Nothing to see here. Then there are the public threats of decapitation exercises, preemptive attacks, etc., by the US and South Korea. The South Korean leader proposed the reintroduction of US nuclear weapons to South Korea, or in the alternative South Korea making their own.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)The balloon-mania, after all, comes only a few days after Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, sent out a memo to his subordinates predicting war with China within two years: I hope I am wrong, he wrote. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025. Sounding like one of the unhinged generals in Stanley Kubricks Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove, he advised his airmen who operate and maintain cargo aircraft to fire a clip into a 7-meter target and aim for the head.
From Max Boot article in WAPO
Never heard a Chinese General say such things.
soryang
(3,299 posts)....he's got a testosterone problem, it's not as sexy as Top Gun. He should have been fired.
Torchlight
(3,667 posts)And what sources are we citing?
EX500rider
(10,952 posts)Unless you count Russia, but they are more friendenemies..... and of course Myanmar & North Korea, great company.
soryang
(3,299 posts)...than ally. President Yoon fits in perfectly with the earlier dictatorships, a corrupt far right lap dog basically. His corrupt phalanx of prosecutors are targeting opposition politicians, labor leaders, media critics, activists in civic organizations.
Hopefully Yoon will be impeached soon and the South Koreans can put him in prison where he belongs.
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soryang
(3,299 posts)babo
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,729 posts)Seems the poster knocked you out with accurate info.
Carry on now.
EX500rider
(10,952 posts)If the S Koreans aren't happy with him they will vote in someone else....unlike China
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,729 posts)Right on cue.
So predictable.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)CrabbyAppleton
(44 posts)42
Crabby
AverageOldGuy
(1,607 posts). . . have been ordering their people to "prepare for war" since at least the early 1960's.
LudwigPastorius
(9,499 posts)Kim needs to lose the bluster and go back to penning love letters to his orange soulmate.
SunSeeker
(52,205 posts)BradBo
(546 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,334 posts)yardwork
(62,044 posts)PSPS
(13,706 posts)It's blasted over loudspeakers all day, every day, for 70 years. There have been posters all over NK with the same message for 70 years. All of their schools have been including the message in all of their curricula for 70 years.
I guess throwing in the shop-worn phrase into the headline gets more clicks.
Igel
(35,522 posts)We're sending a lot of munitions to Ukraine, and reports have said it would take quite a while to replenish our stocks.
Then again, we're stressing over Taiwan.
On the one hand, if there's a battle with S. Korea the US is less well equipped to deal with it than at any point in the previous few decades, odds are. And if we devote forces to S. Korea, that means Taiwan's open wide.
On the other, N. Korea's narcissism's not being fed because Ukr and Taiwan are soaking up the attention.
NutmegYankee
(16,235 posts)Taiwan would be a mostly Navy operation, North Korea would be army/marine corp heavy. But it wouldn't be easy.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,920 posts)No more love letters. Jilted at the alter.
BigmanPigman
(51,814 posts)Or he was at a fat farm? The last time he disappeared he reappeared about 50 pounds lighter.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(58,297 posts)North Korea's Kim Jong Un presides over big military parade
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his young daughter to a huge military parade showing off the latest
Link to tweet
mahatmakanejeeves
(58,297 posts)Kim Jong Uns Daughter Appears Again in North Korea, Spurring Succession Speculation
Kim Ju Ae accompanied her father to a military banquet this week, after previously attending a flight test of an intercontinental ballistic
Link to tweet
maxsolomon
(33,620 posts)He's #3 on my "I Wish He'd Just Die" list.
Although that wouldn't free NK from the Kim Family's paranoid grip.