From All Headline News:
According to South Korean reports released Wednesday, North Korea has issued an order of high readiness to its armed forces following the launch of its missile tests two weeks ago. Citing the South Korean government sources in Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported that the alert was issued to North Korean forces on July 5 as the country fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan.
A press report stating that issuance of mobilization order by the reclusive communist nation, however, could not be confirmed, a South Korean Reunification Ministry spokesman said.
Joongang daily, quoting an anonymous government source said, Kim Jong-II, head of the communist country issued an order, placing the North Korean army on a war footing, hours before the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea’s missile tests last week.
Soldiers were called to barracks and civilians were place under travel restrictions, the daily reported, citing intelligence source, adding that the order was not broadcast via official North Korean media, but spread quietly through military and civilian emergency networks.
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The last general mobilization by the North came in 1993 during tensions over the North Korean nuclear program.
I suppose this could be significant—and I think South Korea is right to be concerned—but if I had to guess, I’d say that Kim Jong Il is preparing his troops to wage war against the giant shrieking spider monkeys that live inside his disproportionately large skull.
After all, he is kinda cuckoo.
Worth keeping an eye on, though.
(h/t GR Faith)
Probably done in response to the U.S. exercises in the Pacific recently, trying to show that NoKo can also quickly organize for battle. For all the good it will do them…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200716,00.html
Maybe there’s been some kind of disturbance in the Peaceful Kingdom of Kim, and he needed to fire off missiles and put his army on war notice to make his people think they’re being attacked. It’s a theory.
Lil’ Kim and The Mullahs? Axis of Lunatics?
US says Iranians witnessed N.Korea missile test
The problem with insanity, of course, is that no one really knows if you’re serious or not. If you wave a gun around long enough, someone may assume you’re going to shoot it. Especially if they’re Japanese.
Talk about bad timing. This mother has got it in spades.
I just had to come here and share this with you all.
I was doing a little genealogical research on the web and stumbled across this.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=538815&GRid=10281903&
I love how the clip says he fired his missiles into the Sea of Japan as if that’s what he meant to do.
Why? What did the Sea of Japan ever do to you?
Lil Kim is building his missiles for bargaining leverage and economic supports. NK’s economy is in the shitter. Sooner or later the Supreme Wackjob will get the missiles to work and peddle them to Iran, well, unless the US can offer him a better deal. Then he’d probably sell them anyway. America has proven eternally gullible on these matters.
Japan is an entirely different proposition. All eastern asia is scared to death of a remailitarized Japan, with good reason. A nuclear armed Japan gives me pause.
As Kim Jong-iII slips on his pants suit and his shades each morning he starts his daily humming of “Trouble” by his idol. Then steps into his sunlight.
TW: fear. He has none.
Life imitates TEAM AMERICA WORLD POLICE. Anyone seen Alec Baldwin?
“There’s no one
Just me onry
Sitting on my rittle throne
I work very hard and make up great prans
But nobody ristens, no one understands
Seems that no one takes me serirousryyyyyyy….
TW: that image still makes me howl with laughter.
It’s been pointed out elsewhere (Corner?) that the timeline is a little off here. If the alert was issued on July 5, then it was more than “hours” before the UNSC passed the resolution. It was more like two weeks after the missile launches before the resolution was voted on.
Has anyone looked in Beirut? Dirka dirka.
BECAUSE OF THE DISPROPORTION!!!
Giant shrieking spider monkeys?
Do they dance on Friday?
I have it from a reliable source that one of those suckers killed a whale. Bastards.
Yes, the DPRK’s forces have been told to look for possible incoming Taepodong II missiles fired by the DPRK.
I kid now, of course, but I’ll bet the joke has a limited shelf life.
Is it me or has North Korea just become a parody of a communist threat.
I just have this mental picture of two N. Korean soldiers
NKsoldier#1 looking at the change in his hand.”How much do you think two lattes cost?”
NKsoldier#2 “What’s a latte?”
NKsoldier#1 “Do you think our money is any good over there?”
NKoreasoldier#2″What’s money?”
Well, duh.
If I was a two-bit dictator and made some whackied belligerent threat to the world, I think it would only be logical to put my very-own “People’s Army” on high alert. Crazed missile testing is no time for a weekend furlough to the Great Leader’s Personal Collection of Donald Duck memorabilia after all.
Which one? Mikely “Lumpy Reifenstal” Moore or Rosie O’Donnel?
That whole travel restriction part caught my eye. Because the N. Koreans have so many options for travel. As far as their little legs can carry them I suppose…but even that is restricted.
I suppose by restricted they mean not giving permission slips as is normal practice.
The comments here sure had me laughing though. Dirka Dirka is right!
I think I’m going to NK in October. Here’s hoping any war that is going to take place gets started while I can still get my deposit back.
Hmmm.
Hey!
My family came from Pyongyang and my birth name was “Kim Edward” so he’s a fricking relative man!
Oh and … Hands off the Buff-Do of Doom!
Sure the guy’s got a bouffant hairdo of a underdeveloped midget trying to equal the height advantage of Shacquille O’Neal. But that’s no reason to trip on the guy’s hair man.
Preemptively of course.
In case you do.
At some point in the future.
Perhaps.
**Must Credit “ed”**
If you do … well … trip on the guy’s hair.
uhh. gotta go.
“Joongang daily”…….somehow, that just sounds dirty.
Hmmm.
What a great name for a bar drink.