North Korea - WTF?!?!?! (Page 2)

Yeah most of his rhetoric is to boost his tough-guy image to his people. It seems he's overcompensating for his shortcomings by showing off his alleged nukes.

He is doing pretty much what his father and grandfather did in the past.  Fortunately, they knew how far they could push without starting a war (although they have technically been at war since the '50s).  The uncertainty lies with whether the new guy knows when to back-off.  Unless he has a way of dragging the U.S. several thousand miles further west, there is no chance his wobbly missiles will reach us.  Luckily for me, I heard that the officials in Austin are prepared - there must be some sort of defense shield I don't know of.

Edited by Hook'em 2013-04-04 11:25 AM

You are worthress Arec Barrwin.

(Team America)

Huh? No. Not even in the ballpark.

Weird.

He doesn't have to actually hit mainland US. We've got a pact with S Korea so all he has to do is punch them in the nose to get the US's attention.

You are wrong.

I fall in the camp that he's just rattling the saber to get more of my tax dollars.  Sadly, it will probably work.  :-/

He's already punched them in the nose a few times. He already has our attention. What are you trying to say?

Again, huh?

They've had cross border skirmishes since the '50s. high explosives on a ship or similar isn't going to start much of anything.

Now a rocket into Seoul is a different story.

Thanks everyone!

I feel sorry for the countries that are within reach of his bombs.

Red Dawn says otherwise.

Wolverines!

Calling a rocket into Seoul a punch in the nose would be an understatement.

Thing is, he won't use them on those countries.

China would just turn NK into dust and if you look at the history of Japan towards the Chinese and Koreans during war time you see why it's not such a hot idea to launch anything at them.

South Korea they would rather reconcile with and move all the resources to NK and "share" the wealth of the Koreas.

But the US will rebuild all of NK and will give the people food and clothing etc if he annoys us.

So, we get threatened with nukes and videos like this published in NK about what American life is all about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Kq78G2nxA

Pardon me I've got some birds left over from Tuesday to eat with my snow.

Hate to tell ya, but the video while real, the voice over translating is not.

But dang it is funny!

Dunno, I speak enough Korean to get my face slapped and find a bathroom.
I've seen much worse propaganda and this one's not even outside the realm of probable and that makes it even funnier.

I'm positive the voice over translating is a real voice, though.

(edit) Oh I see what you're talking about. No, it's not US specific but that is an actual propaganda film about western culture and does say a lot of what this version says.



Edited by DanielG 2013-04-04 12:24 PM

The voice over was done by a journalist as a joke. So yes, it is a real guy, but what he's saying the lady is saying is all a joke. I read it after MSN posted the link to the video a couple of weeks back. I was very upset that what he said, wasn't what the lady was sayinng.

Did you see that Packers fan's ice fishing shanty? That thing rocked-- I'm going to call the American Red Cross and order mine right now!

Here's the "offical" translation:

Published on Mar 1, 2013

Here is a rough translation:
"In capitalist societies of America and Europe, the extreme gap between the rich and the poor, racism, chaos and disorder proliferate, leaving the workers in starvation, poverty, anxiety and fear. Amid snowstorms, the number of homeless people are increasing in the Western countries. Numerous Americans who lost their homes from Hurricane Sandy are still without homes, shivering in the cold for more than three months. Although American government promised to reconstruct the homes before the election, it no longer cares after the election is over. In Wisconsin, although the temperature is below negative 10 Celsius, many homeless people roam the streets, some of whom became homeless recently because they could not afford the soaring rent. America currently has more than 1.5 million homeless children.

The situation is also very grave in Europe, which is also hit by severe cold. In Bucharest, Romania, the homeless people line up early in the morning to receive just a piece of bread from charities. The 5,000 homeless people of Bucharest survive by rummaging through the trash. All of them say that during the socialist times, there was no one who was without a home. More than 300 die from the cold and related illness every winter. The same is true in Budapest, Hungary. The homeless shelters are so full that many have to resort to cardboard boxes and ragged blankets. Although the homeless lie exposed in front of tourists, the government cannot do anything. Hundreds of homeless people roam the public spaces of Budapest. The government built two new shelters in Budapest, but they are not nearly enough to house the rapidly increasing homeless population.

The foreign press say that although Western countries speak of welfare programs and civilization, the wealth gap, inequality and the nation's apathy toward the social weak are incurable diseases of capitalism.
Social anxiety and fear are peaking in America as mass murders with guns are occurring rampantly since the new year. [Lists off Sandy Hook, Aurora, shooting in a high school in California, a community college in Missouri, a 15-year-old boy in New Mexico killing his five family members.] Although the criminals are diverse in age, occupation, gender, etc., they are uniformly a product of America's inequality and other social ills. The American public's demand of gun control is louder than ever, but the NRA and weapons manufacturers bribe and pressure the key governmental officials from responding to the public demand. After President Obama announced a new gun control law, the protests for and against the new law are sweeping across America. Experts say that even if the guns are controlled, crimes will not stop unless America's extreme inequality, variety of social ills and the American system itself are changed completely."
- translation by NKNews

Don't see why. That's like getting mad at Weird Al for putting out another album.