North Korean Sabre Rattling 2013 We Nuclear Baby!

[BaneTheBrawler]

all of my wat.

if you know the numbers and timeline are exaggerated, how can you say it's a strategic bungle to use them in a propaganda video?

[Eurell]

The idea behind it is hilarious. How are you not getting this? Stop making me shit this thread up with you

[Harajuku]

Yeah. It is pretty exaggerated. With my comment, I didn't actually imply it'd happen. I just don't see how someone is so oblivious to even make the video. Lol. "During these 3 days our military is the only one on the move, while everyone sits and does nothing. Master plan, rawr!"

I guess that's what comes from a nation of brainwashed retards. Let them wave their centimeter-weiners. They'll soon get smacked by a big ol' dong.

[Callisto]

they're going to be sorry for all the empty threats after we send in Biden to impregnate all their women

[Byrthnoth]

they're going to be sorry for all the empty threats after we send in Biden to impregnate all their women

He's just the ol' boy for the job. Goddamned Biden. He even has his own comedy series now.

[Guitarman]

This'll piss them off royally:

South Korea Considers Surgical Strike On Statues Of Kim Jong-il

If North Korea provokes South Korea on the third anniversary of the ROKS Cheonan sinking, the South may respond with a military strike on statues of the North’s nation founder Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il, according to the Chosun Ilbo.
Apparently this would be a big deal. From the Chosun Ilbo:
The statues are considered sacred in the North, and any damage to them could deliver a huge psychological impact. "If North Korea launches another provocation, our military has developed a plan to respond with air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missiles to strike not only the source of provocation as well as support and command forces, but also some statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il," a government source here said Sunday.
A surgical strike within North Korea would also remind the North that the South enjoys clear air supremacy, even if its army is less than half as big as the North's 1.2 million strong force.
The Ilbo reports that there are 35,000 statues and other ornaments deifying the two leaders in the North. One potential target might be the two huge bronze statues atop Mansudae Hill in Pyongyang revealed last year:

http://www.businessinsider.com/south...statues-2013-3

[Harajuku]

This'll piss them off royally:

South Korea Considers Surgical Strike On Statues Of Kim Jong-il

That works. As we'll need somewhere to setup the new Biden statues. Lol.

[Tarage]

Awfully provocative on SK. Somehow I doubt they will follow through on it, even if NK does the retarded thing and attacks.

[MaachaQ]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ot-less-scary/

A photo that makes North Korea look a lot less scary

Posted by Max Fisher on March 25, 2013 at 4:27 pm
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Kim Jong Un inspects “new” military technology made by unit 1501 of the Korean People’s Army. (REUTERS/KCNA)

North Korea loves to threaten to start World War III. In the last week alone, it has warned Japan that it might launch a preemptive nuclear strike against it and released a video detailing its plan for a three-day invasion of South Korea.

The threats – turning Seoul into a sea of flames, eradicating the American military presence and maybe America itself – are empty, of course. And not just because North Korea doesn’t actually have any incentive to start a second Korean War (it has every incentive to make empty threats). They’re also empty because the North Korean military is just not that powerful anymore.

The photo at the top of this page helps to make my point, but first a bit of background.

It is true that the North Korean military is very big, one of the world’s largest standing armies: 1.1 million troops! 4,200 tanks! 820 fighter jets! It’s also, by virtue of Pyongyang’s “military first” policies, perhaps the most privileged and best funded arm of the state, maybe outside of Kim Jong Un’s personal piggy banks.

Even the military’s size and political backing, though, can’t make up for North Korea’s isolation and impoverishment. Most of those fighter jets, for example, will never take off because the regime can’t afford enough fuel to fill them up. Even if they could somehow procure enough jet fuel, the fighters “would have been shot out of the sky in the first few hours of a conflict,” Dartmouth professor and North Korea-watcher Jennifer Lind told NPR recently. The tanks, likewise, are old and inferior.

North Korean propaganda frequently tries to make the case that, not only is their national army fearless and enormous, but it’s also breathtakingly advanced. This propaganda is for domestic consumption, of course, but seeing it from the outside is a nice reminder of the wide technological gap between North Korea and its neighbors South Korea and Japan, not to mention the United States.

Take the above photo, just released by North Korean state media from leader Kim Jong Un’s big trip to visit Unit 1501 of the Korean People’s Army, which is reportedly developing new and exciting military technology.

Now, it’s possible that this computer – encased in a giant metal box, looking very retro – does something amazing. But note some of the environmental details: the dining room chair, the consumer desktop keyboard and Logitech mouse. None of those really scream “advanced military computing technology” so much as they suggest “we should put an old Dell in this metal box to show to Dear Leader.”

If you’ve been spending a lot of time reading about North Korea’s recent flurry of threats and provocations, apparently edging right up to the line of starting a war, perhaps it will ease your mind a bit to glimpse the technology and leadership behind its million-man army.

The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Gara tweeted, “North Korea appears to have crossed a dangerous threshold and developed a fully-functioning calculator.”

The ever-obsessive blog North Korea Leadership Watch of course has notes on the trip. Apparently, this military unit also manufactures playground equipment, such as plastic slides.

They also allegedly made this bit of equipment, in the photo below, which looks like it might be some sort of range-finder or infrared sensor, perhaps of the kind meant to use with guided munitions. It’s difficult to tell what it’s resting on top of: a vehicle of some kind? The hatch suggests it’s maybe an armored personnel carrier, although that armor looks awfully thin. It could also possibly be a submarine, given that other photos appear to show a long series of top-side hatches that might be launch tubes.
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(REUTERS/KCNA)

Of course, the point of this photo is less about the maybe-infrared viewfinder and more about having Kim Jong Un leaning jauntily against it, alongside some poor general who looks like he doesn’t really understand what pose he’s supposed to take. But that’s North Korea for you: irreverence in the service of militarism, itself in the service of dictatorship.

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[Harajuku]

Ok. Who introduced them to pong?

[Fodder]

He looks like he's trying to figure out get it to dispense some fried chicken or something.

[Harajuku]

Dat surge protector.

Also note the creeper in the back.

[BaneTheBrawler]

lol that powerbar looks like something i might find half disassembled and stuffed into a box in my parents' garage. also, DAT TRACKBALL. my friend had one of those in like 2002, i think.

[Waraji]

The lone power Switch at the bottom right... Fuckin... It just might be the elusive Cake switch he is trying to find though.

[dejet]

And they want nukes. shit would blow up on the launch pad. God let them have it lol

[BadKarma]

And they want nukes. shit would blow up on the launch pad. God let them have it lol

Fallout would harm SK if it was of any significant yield.

Also I have a feeling this coming war will be almost exactly the same as the Falklands

[Ashmada]

You guys aren't trembling in your boots? Shucks. Great Leader will be depressed to hear it.

[BadKarma]

You guys aren't trembling in your boots? Shucks. Great Leader will be depressed to hear it.

Even if they had a long range missile. They'd probably have one. And only one. And a stone age one that would be picked up by every sensor and detector we have the minute it went up on the pad.

[Ragnus]

Funny note: NPR actually referred to the latest threats as "saber rattling" this morning.

[Waraji]

Not long now before BG becomes the next global news super power.