The North Korea Thread

antlers · 2022-10-04T19:00:02.899Z

I would guess NK sabotage, funded by the Russians. As reported in the Russia thread, Russia will be turning to unconventional warfare to express it’s importance.

TheWombat · 2022-10-05T01:20:38.713Z

Djscman:

If it was a general attack by North Korea on South Korea, I would think they’d kick it off by using all those assets trained on Seoul. This could be a disastrous mishandling of munitions, though.

What, the ROK is employing Russians at their bases now?

Destarius · 2022-10-05T05:41:44.022Z

Missile blew up.

AP NEWS – 4 Oct 22

Seoul's reprisal blows up after North Korean missile success

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile blew up as it plowed into the ground Wednesday during a live-fire drill with the United States that was a reprisal for North Korea's successful launch a day earlier of a...

Tim_N · 2022-10-05T07:17:53.240Z

Quite the ‘reprisal’.

BennyProfane · 2022-10-05T13:16:52.290Z

Picking on the poor Mole People again!

Dejin · 2022-11-19T07:06:02.329Z

twitter.com

Jeongmin Kim

@jeongminnkim

This is big. Kim decided to bring his daughter to the Hwasong-17 ICBM launch day. This is the first time we are seeing her introduced on state media. https://t.co/LNBKFGlI9C

12:31 AM - 19 Nov 2022 630 200

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Jeongmin Kim

@jeongminnkim

Rodong confirms she’s his child: Kim “went out to the historic site of important strategic weapon test-firing, a crucial milestone in strengthening the nuclear force of DPRK, together with his beloved child & wife” Child & wife (자제분과 여사님-Madame) are honorifics in Korean https://t.co/jpn6PZeDPd

12:44 AM - 19 Nov 2022 65 15

twitter.com

Jeongmin Kim

@jeongminnkim

From these sort of humanizing angles and posing, I’m getting a lot of “I’m doing all this to keep you safe” vibe, in line with how Kim has been justifying nuke/missile development to the domestic public + “one day…” vibe https://t.co/ww0YtLMeZZ

12:57 AM - 19 Nov 2022 87 18

Jaws_au · 2022-11-19T09:15:21.543Z

Jesus that is one comically large Transporter Erector Launcher - hope someone mods it into Mudrunner…

TheWombat · 2022-11-19T11:43:51.912Z

Awww, “Take Your Daughter to Work Day,” murderous tyrant version!

strategy · 2022-11-20T11:23:49.522Z

The picture were they all lovingly gaze at him in awe as if he is God-came-to-earth is the best.

Must have taken some work to get there. Anyone with a teenager in the house knows what I mean.

TheWombat · 2022-11-20T12:19:16.097Z

Yeah, but you probably can’t threaten to strap your teenager to the muzzle of an AA gun and fire it off if they don’t behave, can you?

KevinC · 2022-11-20T12:29:51.528Z

Why not, it works for extended family!

I think the only thing that has saved other teenagers is the Mom and Dad didn’t own an AA battery.

strategy · 2022-11-20T12:36:38.182Z

Sometimes I’m not sure that threatening to strap my teenager to the muzzle of an AA gun would work - and my kids are not terribly unreasonable.

I just imagine there is a big, neon “Brain under construction” sign plastered across their forehead, heh.

ChiTownBluesFan · 2022-11-20T16:54:44.951Z

KevinC:

Why not, it works for extended family!

I think the only thing that has saved other teenagers is the Mom and Dad didn’t own an AA battery.

I swear, I read this as the type of AA battery you put in a remote control, or clock, or something of that nature.

TheWombat · 2022-11-20T18:11:39.280Z

ChiTownBluesFan:

I swear, I read this as the type of AA battery you put in a remote control, or clock, or something of that nature.

Clearly you don’t have the makings of a bloodthirsty dynastic tyrant, then!

Tortilla · 2022-11-20T18:48:19.304Z

ChiTownBluesFan:

I swear, I read this as the type of AA battery you put in a remote control, or clock, or something of that nature.

There’s an argument made that the right . . . appliances . . . can, when properly supplied with batteries, help prevent unwanted children.