North Korea spilled beer on South Korea’s suit. SK said, “WTF dude?” UN stepped up behind SK and said, “Let’s not get crazy here, it was probably just an accident and NK is probably sorry. Right NK?” to which NK replied, “Yeah, I’m sorry…oh, SK your shoe is untied, let me get that for you.” And promptly head-butted SK. SK tweaked NK’s nose in return. China executed a 10/10 facepalm at NK and made vaguely agreeable gestures to scattered comments regarding the undesirable nature of the altercation. Half a world away, the US interrupted its rape of the Middle East and said, “What’s all that racket?!”
War is funny.
I believe we have several board regulars in South Korea, including at least one guy who is an artilleryman there awaiting possible recall. You might want to make your thread titles a bit clearer, this isn’t a particularly hilarious situation, especially for them.
A different take on this thread? 
enigmatic I do take your point but for someone like me who cannot (as a result of choosing to focus on other things) devote much time to understanding foreign policy Inigo’s analysis is easier for me to understand than anything I’ve heard on the radio so far.
It does embarass me that I’m not better informed, but other things embarass me more. I’ll get to it when I get to it.
I appreciated Inigo Montoya’s take on the subject, but I’m really looking forward to Glenn Beck’s insightful yet hard-hitting analysis. From what I hear, he’s going to explain the conflict using tears and interpretive dance.
Must see TV.
“In recent news the communist Moslem state, North Korea, launched a vicious attack on innocent south Korean Christians for no other reason than The North fears and hates freedom. After South Korea’s valiant repulsion of the onslaught, alleged US president, Barak Obama, shocked the world with an encrypted urge to North Korea to utilize their newly developed nuclear arsenal to subdue The South and prepare it for conversion to Mohammedism…”
NK has officially become an embarrassment to the Chinese. This is the kind of shit you expect from your drunk uncle on Thanksgiving - except with fireworks rather than howitzers. I can’t help thinking China was behind getting Kim to finally pick a successor. With that out of the way, the only thing left to do is get the timing right on his exit (stage left). Remember guys, death first, THEN the obituary. You can write off a few bullet holes to someone having fallen down in the shower, but there really isn’t any good way to explain a premature obituary.
I was in the Army back in 1976, and stationed in Korea. Believe me, talking about a war is no joke. While I was there and incident occured up on the DMZ that brought us within shouting distance of war. Two American officers leading a work party of South Koreans were killed. They’d gone to chop down some trees in an area the NK’s said they shouldn’t be, so NK soldiers took the axes from the work party and killed the Americans.
I called home on a MARS radio call during the tense period following this, and before being allowed to speak I was told “If anyone asks how things are going over here, just say they are fine.” That’s when I started to get nervous.
It would be way funnier if it involved lots of hot naked Korean girls and pillows.
Yep, the Axe Murder Incident is a significant item in the history of the Korean conflict.
A war? Between the two Koreas? Really? Wow, that’s unheard of!
OK, now that I got the sarcasm out of my system, I’m ready to ask serious questions. Like I’m wondering if this war will be anything like the Korean War we all know and love (oops, looks like I still had some residual sarcasm) from the 1950s? I know people will bring up “well, yeah, N. Korea more than likely has “the bomb” and is run by a looney toon”, but back in the 50s the Soviets (allies of the North) had “the bomb” (and the US (allies of the South) definitely had “the bomb”) and Kim Il-Sung wasn’t exactly on his medication.
I think the big deal-changer this time is that the North has far fewer allies than before, the Soviet Union is gone (I believe Russia is either neutral or gives minimal support to one of them (can’t remember which)), China, while I think an official ally of the North (Communist comrade and all that) is trying its best to stay out of it, but the South’s powerful friends (Japan and the US) are still powerful and still the South’s friends. I think the North Korean policy of Juche (self-reliance) is pretty much a necessity now, and won’t help them at all if worst comes to worst, but if it does come to that, despite the North being pretty much on its own, it ain’t going to be pretty at all.