North Korea threatens 'sacred war' on South

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North Korea threatens 'sacred war' on South

By Jo Yong-Hak | AFP – 6 hours ago

North Korea threatened on Wednesday to launch " a retaliatory sacred war " against

South Korea for alleged slander as the two sides held rare talks on a stalled

joint tourism project.

A Pyongyang government spokesman accused the South's frontline army units of

displaying slogans slandering the North's " army, system and dignity " and said

they are " little short of a clear declaration of war " .

The spokesman, in a statement carried by the official news agency, vowed to

respond to any provocations with a " merciless retaliatory sacred war " .

The North's military command made a similar threat in a separate statement,

vowing retaliation for insults to the country's political leadership.

The South's Hankyoreh newspaper Monday quoted some of the slogans as reading

" Let's stick swords and guns into the hearts of North Korean enemy army! " and " A

club is the only medicine for a mad dog! "

The North made similar threats when South Korean reservists were found to be

using pictures of Pyongyang's ruling Kim dynasty as rifle-range targets.

That practice has since been stopped.

Tensions have been high for well over a year, since the South accused the North

of torpedoing a warship in March 2010, killing 46 sailors.

Pyongyang denied the charge but went on to shell a border island last November,

killing four South Koreans including two civilians.

The latest warning came as 12 South Korean government officials and

businesspeople travelled to a jointly run mountain resort in the North to

discuss the ownership of South Korean assets there.

The South's unification ministry, which handles cross-border affairs, said the

talks ended without any " substantial " discussions because the North unilaterally

explained its own position.

Mount Kumgang opened in 1998 as a symbol of reconciliation and helped the

impoverished communist state to earn tens of millions of dollars a year.

But the South suspended visits after a North Korean soldier shot dead a Seoul

tourist who had strayed into a restricted military zone in 2008.

Last year the North seized or sealed off several South Korean properties in

protest at the failure to restart the tours.

On June 17, Pyongyang warned it would dispose of properties in the zone, and

asked South Korean parties to visit Kumgang by June 30 to discuss the process.

The ministry said the North should respect all agreements with private

businesses and with Seoul's government, and protect the ownership rights of the

South's firms.

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This just goes to show that not all religious rely on an invisible God. Some of them declare a very visible human as a god and use the political system to worship them. This is particularly true of Communism which replaces God with the state in the first place.

That said, I do think there will be a war between those two nations one of these days. If the US isn't there to help out for whatever reason, I'm not sure South Korea would fare well. Technically they have an advanced army and all that, but it is not as advanced or well trained as the US army. Add to that that the South Korean people are not as dedicated to their country as they once were. I'm not sure an significant numbers will rush to its defense. Instead I think there will be a mass panic in the South that in itself will be terribly destructive. I'm not sure the South Korean Military would be able to withstand a massive artillery barrage followed by determined ground attack.

In a message dated 6/29/2011 1:35:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

The spokesman, in a statement carried by the official news agency, vowed to respond to any provocations with a "merciless retaliatory sacred war".

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This just goes to show that not all religious rely on an invisible God. Some of them declare a very visible human as a god and use the political system to worship them. This is particularly true of Communism which replaces God with the state in the first place.

That said, I do think there will be a war between those two nations one of these days. If the US isn't there to help out for whatever reason, I'm not sure South Korea would fare well. Technically they have an advanced army and all that, but it is not as advanced or well trained as the US army. Add to that that the South Korean people are not as dedicated to their country as they once were. I'm not sure an significant numbers will rush to its defense. Instead I think there will be a mass panic in the South that in itself will be terribly destructive. I'm not sure the South Korean Military would be able to withstand a massive artillery barrage followed by determined ground attack.

In a message dated 6/29/2011 1:35:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

The spokesman, in a statement carried by the official news agency, vowed to respond to any provocations with a "merciless retaliatory sacred war".

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"This just goes to show that not all religious rely on an invisible God. Some of them declare a very visible human as a god and use the political system to worship them. This is particularly true of Communism which replaces God with the state in the first place. "

It's the God-Emperor concept for the 21st century.

"That said, I do think there will be a war between those two nations one of these days. If the US isn't there to help out for whatever reason, I'm not sure South Korea would fare well. Technically they have an advanced army and all that, but it is not as advanced or well trained as the US army. Add to that that the South Korean people are not as dedicated to their country as they once were. I'm not sure an significant numbers will rush to its defense. Instead I think there will be a mass panic in the South that in itself will be terribly destructive. I'm not sure the South Korean Military would be able to withstand a massive artillery barrage followed by determined ground attack."

What you have on the one side is a country of people who have, for at least two generations, been brainwashed to believe that South Korea and the West are fervently and deviously out to get them. I saw a show on PBS that followed two families in North Korea. In Pyongyang, there were power outages quite often. These outages were not due to system faults, but rotated outages planned by the state, either to conserve energy or to exert even more propaganda over their citizens.

When this happened during a shoot, one of the family members said, "That's the Americans again." The person filming asked them what they meant by that comment. The family said they didn't mean that the Americans were invading or even sabotaging the electrical grid, and didn't mean that the Americans had a direct role in anything, but that somehow they did, but could not describe just how.

The North Koreans have been so whipped up with propaganda that they are just spoiling for a fight, and I am betting the way they would fight would be the way the Japanese did in WWII. To the last man and committing suicide before being taken.

On the other side, you have the South Koreans, who are not as industrious as the Japanese, and have grown quite lazy thanks to the luxuries that the influx of money into their marketplaces have given them.

Pit one against the other, and you can bet the South will start off by throwing its sophisticated weaponry at the North, and when the North ignores that bombardment the way folks in Dresden ignored the firebombing in WWII, you can bet the South will turn tail and run from the onslaught of impending hand to hand combat.

Then the US would step in and get itself involved in a Vietnam style war where we're carpet bombing some areas and using tunnel rats to go after everyone else. Bunker buster bombs would probably fail because the North buries their bunkers so deep, and we don't know where most of them are.

It would be one of those wars where we keep saying to ourselves, "Well, we cleared THAT village" only to have hundreds of the enemy come up out of their spider holes after we get done with that area.

I've read stories where some North Koreans were born underground to miners, mine tunnels and bunkers all their lives, and then die, having never seen the sun. I think this is the reason the US has let North Korea go nuclear. They may be the one nation in this century that we might not be able to beat.

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