# North Korea strikes "mercilessly without notice" on your FAX machine **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827 "2013-12-20T16:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/1 "2013-12-20T16:26:08Z")
Its official: North Korea has threatened to strike South Korea “mercilessly without notice”. Via their FAX machine. > **[North Korea threatens to 'strike South Korea mercilessly' | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/20/world/asia/north-korea-threats/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)** > > North Korea sent a fax to South Korea on Thursday, threatening to “strike mercilessly without notice” after protests against the secretive regime in Seoul. Around The Globe… As We Speak… The Collective Mighty Powers of Every Nation On Earth are AT THIS VERY MOMENT… …filling their FAX machines with paper. “Og Dammit…! You get anything Bob!?” “…Today’s lunch special is a Gyro with white sauce…” “No, you Idiot! From Kim Jong-un…!” “Are they new…? Do they deliver…?” Don’t risk having your sovereign nation threatened with old tired rhetoric! Get the Kim-FAX Today!!! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/2 "2013-12-20T16:29:47Z")
Title should be: North Korea strikes “mercilessly without notice” on your FAX machine. If a Mod could fix? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/3 "2013-12-20T16:33:34Z")
If the North Korean government were a TV show instead of a government, wouldn’t they be the funniest show going right now? This one is hilarious. > [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Title should be: North Korea strikes “mercilessly without notice” on your FAX machine. If a Mod could fix? Thanks! Done. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/4 "2013-12-20T16:38:18Z")
God Bless our crazy little dictator - he’s a big man in his own country and the laughingstock of all of the rest. I do agree that I would love to get a fax from “The Marshal” to hang on my cubicle wall at work just to prove to my friends that I mean something! Kim Jong Un is Un Cool! To comment fax me at 555-KIM-DORK ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/5 "2013-12-20T16:41:57Z")
“I must show my displeasure with the Capitalist Dogs of the South. Send another FAX…” “Dear Leader… I cannot…” “What…!? You _dare_ defy me…?” _puts down XBOX controller_ “But…but…Dear Leader…the number is… busy!” “…” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/6 "2013-12-20T17:06:45Z")
Maybe he’s just ronery. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/7 "2013-12-20T17:13:49Z")
Step 1 for striking without notice: Send a fax telling them you’re going to strike them. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/8 "2013-12-20T17:22:50Z")
I’d love to clog the north side of that fax line with menus for take-out places… ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/9 "2013-12-20T18:04:39Z")
He could have at least increased the impact by sending it via ZapMail! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/10 "2013-12-20T19:17:08Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Maybe he’s just ronery. > > Regards, > Shodan YouTube link, probably NSFW:[_I’m So Ronery_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/11 "2013-12-20T19:40:37Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > He could have at least increased the impact by sending it via ZapMail! Oh man, I feel old…I knew exactly what you were talking about without having to look it up. I still recall a meeting with a FedEx sales rep telling us excitedly about ZapMail…um, no, we were the payroll department, we couldn’t fax our paychecks to our remote locations. This was back in the day when “direct deposit” meant a clerk - me - writing “for deposit only” on the back of the employee’s paycheck, and mailing it to the employee’s bank along with one of their deposit slips. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/12 "2013-12-20T20:26:55Z")
Let the FAX proxy war begin! ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-strikes-mercilessly-without-notice-on-your-fax-machine/676827/13 "2013-12-20T20:33:00Z")
If the protestors don’t back down, North Korea will start sending a bunch of black pages and use up all of South Korea’s ink.