North Korean Sabre Rattling 2013 We Nuclear Baby!

[archibaldcrane]

Have EMPs ever been used in war before?

[Tarage]

Have EMPs ever been used in war before?

I want to say no, because most of the countries we've fought have been backwards sand people.

But anyway, even using a nuke as an EMP is still using a nuke. I don't think we want to be the ones to use another nuke in warfare.

[Cail]

That and I'm sure SK, the Chinese, Russia, and Japan wouldnt appreciate being sent back to the stone age

[archibaldcrane]

Seriously though that's not a terrible idea Guartz, given their huge fucking military.

[quannum]

South Korea needs to tech to Ghost Academy

[Kerberoz]

It's relatively easy to shield military hardware against EMP, and most bunker designs include passive shielding. Most of NK's communications probably consist of stone-age buried copper wire, anyway, and EMP doesn't do jack shit to prevent their trebuchets artillery from damaging the South. No need for communication when it's already aimed. Not to mention the fact that EMP devices that can be precisely aimed and don't produce tons of fallout are pure sci-fi.

Stop getting your ideas from Michael Bay.

[MaachaQ]

Was extremely low key with the whole ongoing hacking thing going on, but:

http://english.sina.com/world/2013/0317/572426.html

Oh dammit, that's not far from me >.> I'm in Chuncheon, if you look at a map it's a bit southwest of that place. The cyberattacks are still really annoying too, I was trying to look up some random information about Korean Jindo dogs and couldn't access the government website about them today and it pissed me off... There's a small military base on the mountain on my way to school that I pass every day and I always see the soldier boys out training their dogs in the mornings, makes me sad to think about these 18-19 year old kids having to go fight when they are only there because service is mandatory.

People here still don't seem very worried, but it's getting increasingly inconvenient. I'm also making sure to have my "panic bag" with passports, first aid kit, water, non-perishable food, etc ready in case for whatever reason we need to head for the hills. Hell, there could be a zombie apocalypse and I would still want my panic bag so it's better to have it ready than not right?

[Silenka]

If I lived next to North Korea, I'd probably want more than a panic bag, I'd want a panic fallout shelter.

[MaachaQ]

Surprise surprise...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/21/wo...html?hpt=wo_c2

Hacking attack on South Korea traced to Chinese address, officials say

[BaneTheBrawler]

why doesn't china just buy NK from the Kims and get it over with?

[noblemountain]

china doesn't want the expense of rebuilding that shithole. they like having them as "the crazy friend" that keeps everyone worked up. for that matter, i doubt skorea wants to clean it up either, though they would...with a ton of help from the west.

[Viq]

There's very little support for reunification here in SK, especially among younger generations (sub-50 years old). Being a couple generations removed from the war, the pull of family ties to the north is all but gone. Many people just feel that reunification would set SK's economy back too much to be a worthwhile investment.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

You guys should watch the Vice's Guide to North Korea with Shane Smith. Even the supposed "luxurious" areas of NK are freaking ghost towns, shits nuts.

I'm currently watching the second part. Holy shit, the whole video carries this surreal atmosphere, like, holy shit. The idea that the whole place is like that is so fucking absurd.

[Cail]

Surprise surprise...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/21/wo...html?hpt=wo_c2

OOPS

In an embarrassing twist to a coordinated cyberattack on six major South Korean companies this week, investigators said Friday they wrongly identified a Chinese Internet Protocol address as the source.

A joint team of government and private experts still maintains that hackers abroad were likely to blame, and many analysts suspect North Korea. But the error raises questions about investigators' ability to track down the source of an attack that shut down 32,000 computers Wednesday and exposed big Internet security holes in one of the world's most wired, tech-savvy countries.

South Korean investigators said Thursday that a malicious code that spread through the server of one of the hackers' targets, Nonghyup Bank, was traced to an IP address in China. Even then it was clear that the attack could have originated elsewhere because hackers can easily manipulate such data.

But the state-run Korea Communications Commission said Friday that the IP address actually belonged to a computer at the bank. The IP address was used only for the company's internal network and happened to be identical to a public Chinese address.

"We were careless in our efforts to double-check and triple-check," KCC official Lee Seung-won told reporters. He blamed the error on investigators' rush to give the public details on the search for a culprit.

Yonhap news agency, in an analysis Friday, called the blunder "ridiculous" and said the announcement is certain to undermine government credibility.

Yonhap criticized officials for failing to dispel public anxiety in a country where people's lives are closely interwoven with services provided by media and financial institutions.

An initial assumption that the attack came from abroad may have made investigators jump to conclusions, said Lee Kyung-ho, a cybersecurity expert at Seoul's Korea University.

"They rushed," he said. "They should've investigated by checking the facts step by step."

The investigation will take weeks. Investigators have said the attacks appeared to come from "a single organization" and suspect the hackers were from outside the country. Lee Seung-won, the KCC official, discounted the possibility that the attack could have come from within South Korea, but he didn't elaborate.

[Niiro]

There's very little support for reunification here in SK, especially among younger generations (sub-50 years old). Being a couple generations removed from the war, the pull of family ties to the north is all but gone. Many people just feel that reunification would set SK's economy back too much to be a worthwhile investment.

I imagine it would be like acquiring a conjoined twin with Down's.

[Kerberoz]

I imagine it would be like acquiring a conjoined twin with Down's.

errr... but conjoined twins are always ide... not sure if being whooshed.

[Plow]

errr... but conjoined twins are always ide... not sure if being whooshed.

one of an identical twin having down's doesn't mean both will, only like 20% of the times 1 has it will both have it

[archibaldcrane]

http://walkonthehappyside.files.word...9/p1010316.jpg

[MaachaQ]

New propoganda video, but I embed the video since I can't visit the Youtube page, it's blocked by Korean government blocks >.>
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...viWE0NpOBKvYD2

http://www.nknews.org/2013/03/north-...n-south-korea/

North Korea’s Unification War Scenario – Video Here

Full Translation by Yeseul Loaiza

The First Day

On the first day, once the order is given, the North Korean people’s army will fire 240mm MRL (Multiple Rocket Launcher), 250,000 Medium/ long-range ballistic missile, and 1000 SSM (Surface-to-surface missile) for the first 30 minutes toward South Korea and the U.S. combined bases, like a shower from the heavens.

We will launch a preemptive attack by surprise with hit-and-run raids.

Meanwhile, 50,000 Special Forces infantryman will make a surprise attack to South Korea and the .U.S combined air force base, naval base , missile bases and other power plant.

North Korea’s special forces will enter Seoul and take 150,000 Americans living in South Korea as prisoners of war, which will be a decisive blow.

We will attack Air forces with missiles and bombs. South Korea and America’s combined air forces will be in a panic, without even one plane having taken off.

The Second Day: North Korea army’s powered offensive

10,500 North Korean air force paratroopers will drop from a 80 m high altitude.

Meanwhile, 4600 tanks and 3000 armored cars will head to South Korea.

Our infantry troops will approach South Korea’s city and sweet them out.

Of course, right after the War has began, we will strike the U.S.’s pacific ocean’s bases first and wipe them out.

The Last Day (The Third Day)

South Koreans including from Seoul and other cities will be in a state of confusion without any food supply, water supply, communications network, and traffic network.

On the last day of war, there will be no battle but North Korea army will occupy South Korea and make a stability operations such as restoring provision systems in South Korea.

Like this, we have a Unification War scenario that will be finished in just 3 days. Even though the U.S. keeps practicing the invasion of North Korea” War scenario with computer simulations, they are trembling with fear and can’t open the scenario to the public.

[Chamaan]

I like the part where North Korea comes in and feeds the hungry South Koreans. Actually I liked the whole thing. It's actually more well written and better paced than the Red Dawn remake with its slapdash "Turn all the Chinese soldiers into North Korean ones or China might get mad and stop making our iPhones."