Can one of these two stinking countries (although they’re truly one in the same people) bomb the crap out of the other one already? All this bragging and posturing has become boring. Please, just one of you, go ahead and bomb the other one so we can at the very least stop all this idle talk. We want action, not just talk… TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean soldiers boasted on state television they bombarded South Korea with artillery last month as immediate retaliation after the South fired first.
The two Koreas have ramped up their rhetoric since the Nov. 23 attack killed four South Koreans on front-line Yeonpyeong Island. North Korea has said it fired after South Korean shells landed in its waters, while the South has said its routine firing drill aimed away from the sea border and should not have provoked an attack.
North Korea’s war of words intensified around Saturday’s 19th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il’s appointment as the North’s supreme military commander. Kim’s military chief threatened last week to launch a “sacred” nuclear war against the South.
On Friday, North Korean soldiers appeared on a state TV program marking Kim’s appointment anniversary and bragged of participating in the artillery barrage.
“Our eyes were full of fire right after we saw the enemy’s shells being fired into our sacred waters,” soldier Kim Moon Chol said, clinching his fists and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with three uniformed colleagues. Their ranks were unknown.
“At the order of ‘fire,’ we poured our merciless thunderbolt of fire at the enemy,” he said in a loud, oratory-style speech.
A soldier whose uniform was full of military decorations expressed his loyalty to Kim Jong Il.
“Facing the enemy’s provocation, we shouted, ‘Let’s dedicate our lives to fighting the enemy and giving them a merciless death for our dear leader and supreme military commander,'” Kim Kyong Su said.
Their speeches constantly drew applause from the audience — mostly uniformed soldiers who vowed to get tougher with South Korea. They all later sang a military song together.
South Korea has staged days of military drills — including one on Yeonpyeong Island — in a show of force against the North, triggering an angry response. The South’s President Lee Myung-bak, during a visit to front-line troops Thursday, said that South Korea must make “unsparing” retaliation if it suffers another surprise attack.
A report released Thursday by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said that Koreas’ disputed maritime boundary and the volatility of North Korea’s internal politics have “created a serious risk that any further provocation might turn into a wider conflict.”
While the North would lose in an all-out war against the South and the United States, “Seoul is constrained in retaliating forcefully because it has so much to lose” economically and politically, the report said.
The two Koreas are still technically at war because their conflict in the early 1950s ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. In recent years, several bloody naval skirmishes occurred near their disputed western sea border — drawn by the U.N. at the close of the Korean War.
