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[Loud Whispers]

hurray for happening

[Culise]

Time til NK declares war

Start the betting war.

It's... counting up?

That's because we're...8 and a bit hours behind schedule now.

[SirQuiamus]

...that's what they want us to believe!

[smjjames]

Well, they're in talks right now, but I don't think I've seen NK be this blatantly aggressive before. Pretty sure his father and grandfather never went and planted mines along patrol routes.

[Culise]

Well, there is precedent for such high levels of tension, but you have to go all the way back to Kim il-Sung and the DMZ conflict of the 60s, long before things like the Sunshine Policy.  That included the incident where 31 men from North Korea were sent across the DMZ to assassinate the President of South Korea which ended in a running battle outside the Blue House (for analogy, imagine a firefight right outside the White House or Westminster Palace), an attack by the North Koreans on an American spy ship, the hijacking of a passenger jet liner, assorted kidnappings, and several other more "minor" attempts at infiltration, attacks on patrols or other teams of soldiers sent out (engineers on construction duties or the like), or assaults on vulnerable fixed positions.  You are right, though, in that it's been a while, and it's not entirely precedented.  Kim il-Sung usually wasn't this indirect (the 2010 Yeonpyeong incident probably wouldn't have just been a matter of shelling the island, but actually landing fire teams), and Kim Jong-il was much softer; the 1999 naval engagement at Yeonpyeong could probably be attributed more to DPRK sailors exceeding their mandate to fire their guns in what had to date been a game of bumper cars conducted with corvettes and torpedo boats.   

[mainiac]

31 men from North Korea were sent across the DMZ to assassinate the President of South Korea which ended in a running battle outside the Blue House (for analogy, imagine a firefight right outside the White House or Westminster Palace)

Does asia just turn into an action movie universe when there aren't any white people around to killjoy?

[Guardian G.I.]

An interesting article by Andrei Lankov about the economic liberalization in North Korea of the 1990s and its impact on the country. Google Translated from Russian, but more or less readable.

[Loud Whispers]

North Korea will never cause wwiii

[Ddynamo]

North Korea will never cause wwiii

No, they'll cause World War Uno.

By far the worst joke I've ever made.

[LordSlowpoke]

* LordSlowpoke slaps ddynamo with a card

PLUS FUCKING TWO

[My Name is Immaterial]

By far the worst joke I've ever made.

Be proud of what you have accomplished here today.

[smjjames]

North Korea will never cause wwiii

Yeah, at this point, China would rather drop NK like a hot potato at the first chance it gets and it has nothing to gain and quite a lot to lose from joining into a war on NKs side.

[Loud Whispers]

By that point it wouldn't be best Korea, it'd be best east China peninsula

[redwallzyl]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/10/447462584/in-pictures-at-military-parade-north-korean-leader-says-hes-ready-for-war

Glorious best Korean parade!

totally don't look terrified and begging not to be killed!

[IronyOwl]

♪We represent-♪

That's probably racist but they look tiny.