# N. and S. Korea firing artillery at each other

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**Created:** [December 9, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-and-s-korea-firing-artillery-at-each-other/563483 "2010-12-09T00:27:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 24, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-and-s-korea-firing-artillery-at-each-other/563483/271 "2010-12-24T21:52:02Z")

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> [@Tristan](#):
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> Unlike North Korea, Belarus, the former Soviet Union, or China, we have a free and open press. The press is free to report or not report on what it likes.
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> The vast majority of the readership could care less what the DPRK does, unless it’s killing people or saber rattling.
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> The US does wargames and exercises constantly. The paper doesn’t report those either.
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> So yes, for the vast majority of wargames that may be conducted in the DPRK, they are non-news events.
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> I begin to get the impression you have no idea how a military functions. This is not a surprise.

I’m not buying your argument. My default Western news source is BBC News; hardly a day goes by without a highly critical “news” article about North Korea. Most recently, I read an article entirely dedicated to unsupported rumor-mongering about alleged DPRK nuclear facilities. Given that the BBC seems to enjoy spreading anti-socialist propaganda, you really expect me to believe that it chooses to ignore the low-hanging fruit of near-border military exercises? Even when it takes ecstatic joy in reporting every single South Korean military exercise that takes place? Just take a look here: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=south%20korea%20military%20exercise](http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=south%20korea%20military%20exercise)

Do you still wish to argue that military exercises are non-news? Very ignorant of you, my friend.

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