SOUTH KOREA ORDERS ALERT AFTER NORTH KOREAN THREAT!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... efer=japan
By Heejin Koo

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea placed its military on alert after North Korea threatened “strong military retaliatory steps” over the government in Seoul’s confrontational policies.

South Korea ordered its army, navy and air force to “strengthen their alert status,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement yesterday. “No particular movements by the North Korean military have been detected,” it added.

The General Staff of the North Korean army made its announcement two days ago in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency. South Korea’s Defense Minister Lee Sang Hee and other leaders met immediately after the declaration and discussed their nation’s readiness, the military in Seoul said.

North Korea imposed border restrictions with South Korea at the start of last month, accusing the government in Seoul of taking confrontation “beyond the danger level.”

North Korea has repeatedly called South Korean President Lee Myung Bak a “traitor” and a “sycophant to the U.S.” The regime has demanded South Korea stop civic organizations from launching balloons loaded with so-called propaganda leaflets criticizing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

North Korea and South Korea are still technically at war as their 1950-1953 conflict ended in a truce and not a peace treaty. The two nations are separated by one of the world’s most heavily fortified borders, with 1.7 million soldiers facing off each day.

Nuclear Program

North Korea, which tested a nuclear weapon in 2006, has rejected international demands that inspectors be allowed to remove samples from its Yongbyon reactor, the source of the regime’s weapons-grade plutonium. The refusal has stalled six- nation disarmament talks that also involve the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.

President Lee today nominated Hyun In Taek, a political science professor, to replace Kim Ha Joong as South Korea’s unification minister. The post is subject to parliamentary approval.

Hyun “played a key role in devising the current administration’s policy on North Korea, and is regarded as being well versed in North Korean matters as well as on defense,” presidential spokesman Lee Dong Kwan told reporters today. He didn’t specify why Kim was being replaced.

[Pitsaleh -]

Daft Commie relics of the Cold War bent on perpetual war. How amusing that nations scarcely able to feed their own people can acquire nukes.

A thousand prayers ascend daily to heaven in hopeful anticipation of release from Maoist tyranny. In dramatic contrast, South Korea luxuriates in Liberty, Prosperity, Bacardi Breezer and Brandy thanks in no small measure to the Great Satan. To us they remain eternally indebited.

What, Gentle Reader, may we learn from this?

Mess not with Pax Americana. 'Tis grave folly.

Turning to the next lesson of the day: prevent Islamo-Nukes.

[Padishah]

If it was up to the Americans, South Korea would still be Corporatist Right Wing Dictatorship. The idea of the American's providing South Koreans with liberty is patently hilarious.

The South Korean people said enough is enough, instituted a democracy, and got on with their lives. Now the American's have to contend with all the pesky inconveniences that come along with a democracy, like South Koreans deciding their own fate, anti-American sentiment and demonstrations, and an appalling tendency towards Unification that their strong man dictator usually kept under wraps.

Prosperity came about through their own hard work and ingenuity. If the Americans could take the credit for this, they would. Anything to put a flattering face on the Pax Americana that doesn't usually involved much in the way of peace at all.

You're going to have to try harder Pitsaleh.

[Pitsaleh -]

Padishah,

My history's out of whack from too long a communion with Brandy. Help me.

In the height of the Cold war, when Maoist tyranny ran amuck, driven to war against South Korea, by whom was the invasion repelled?