• Kim Jong-un gives rare public speech, calls for an end to north-south 'confrontation'
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/g6be.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/01/korea-north-idUSL4N0A605020130101[/url] [quote=Reuters][B]North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for an end to confrontation between the two Koreas, technically still at war in the absence of a peace treaty to end their 1950-53 conflict, in a surprise New Year speech broadcast on state media.[/B] The address by Kim, who took over power in the reclusive state after his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, appeared to take the place of the policy-setting New Year editorial published in leading state newspapers. But North Korea has offered olive branches before and Kim's speech does not necessarily signify a change in tack from a country which vilifies the United States and U.S. ally South Korea at every chance it gets. Impoverished North Korea raised tensions in the region by launching a long-range rocket in December that it said was aimed at putting a scientific satellite in orbit, drawing international condemnation. North Korea, which considers North and South as one country, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is banned from testing missile or nuclear technology under U.N. sanctions imposed after its 2006 and 2009 nuclear weapons tests. "An important issue in putting an end to the division of the country and achieving its reunification is to remove confrontation between the north and the south," Kim said in the address that appeared to be pre-recorded and was made at an undisclosed location. "The past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war." The New Year address was the first in 19 years by a North Korean leader after the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un's grandfather. Kim Jong-il rarely spoke in public and disclosed his national policy agenda in editorials in state newspapers. "(Kim's statement) apparently contains a message that he has an intention to dispel the current face-off (between the two Koreas), which could eventually be linked with the North's call for aid (from the South)," said Kim Tae-woo, a North Korea expert at the state-funded Korea Institute for National Unification. "But such a move does not necessarily mean any substantive change in the North Korean regime's policy towards the South." The two Koreas have seen tensions rise to the highest level in decades after the North bombed a Southern island in 2010 killing two civilians and two soldiers. The sinking of a South Korean navy ship earlier that year was blamed on the North but Pyongyang has denied it and accused Seoul of waging a smear campaign against its leadership. Last month, South Korea elected as president Park Geun-hye, a conservative daughter of assassinated military ruler Park Chung-hee whom Kim Il-sung had tried to kill at the height of their Cold War confrontation. Park has vowed to pursue engagement with the North and called for dialogue to build confidence but has demanded that Pyongyang abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions, something it is unlikely to do.[/quote]
Could this be the olive branch people were expecting at the start of his reign?
[quote]technically still at war in the absence of a peace treaty to end their 1950-53 conflict[/quote] I wonder how many people know of this technicality
Homefront
I bet hes bluffing to reduce the south's awareness, then strikes.
he wants more to eat
He's going to attack them at their strongest point to lull them into a false sense of security.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;39055437]I wonder how many people know of this technicality[/QUOTE] Nearly everyone?
title is too descriptive 5/10 might read again
[QUOTE=Tuskin;39055437]I wonder how many people know of this technicality[/QUOTE] Everybody unless you live under a rock.
He's the internet generation of North Korean leaders. Probably secretly a forum member on all the major ones, including this one. Waiting to see what people think next....
[QUOTE=slamex;39055635]He's the internet generation of North Korean leaders. Probably secretly a forum member on all the major ones, including this one. Waiting to see what people think next....[/QUOTE] Kim Jong-un is actually glaber
Maybe he sincerely means it, pretty sure all of his previous choices were done by that group of generals and shit that want to be on top
[QUOTE=slamex;39055635]He's the internet generation of North Korean leaders.[/QUOTE] nknknknknk gib piec plz, i bomb u huehuehue
[QUOTE=slamex;39055635]He's the internet generation of North Korean leaders. Probably secretly a forum member on all the major ones, including this one. Waiting to see what people think next....[/QUOTE] Isn't Kim Jong Sung on here?
[QUOTE=EzioAuditore;39055678]Isn't Kim Jong Sung on here?[/QUOTE] there isn't a kim jong sung
Kim Jong-un for best Kim Jong?
Maybe he isn't following his fathers footsteps after all. Maybe his younger mind is less closed minded about the western countries, and wants korea to be more modern. It would be great, really. It would make sense, too. He studied in Switzerland, which would make him less subjective about the western nations. He'd try to turn Korea into a modern country step by step, maybe taking even decades, because if he'd suddenly start to change everything at once, his life would most likely be at danger.
[QUOTE=G71tc4;39055439]Homefront[/QUOTE] Suddenly the the united Korea explodes into civil war.
OK so, um hopefully they don't deceive south Korea and become one big Korea ?
[QUOTE=smileykiller447;39055878]OK so, um hopefully they don't deceive south Korea and become one big Korea ?[/QUOTE] Ok-so-um. Kim Jong Un's nephew.
Why did I instantly think of the homefront trailer.
At any rate, if South and North Korea unite, the South will be leading. The only reason the North Koreans obey their leaders are because they're fed constant lies, should the two countries ever unite the SK government would whip the shit out of the NKs for being an appalling breach of human rights for the last 60 years. Ooh dear, dumbs from smurfy and NoDachi. Now I feel like I've upset the gods of SH. /genuine
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;39056077]At any rate, if South and North Korea unite, the South will be leading. The only reason the North Koreans obey their leaders are because they're fed constant lies, should the two countries ever unite the SK government would whip the shit out of the NKs for being an appalling breach of human rights for the last 60 years.[/QUOTE] I don't know about SK doing it but nato will likely intervene in any formation of a new korean government
-I guess this was dumb?-
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39055657]Kim Jong-un is actually glaber[/QUOTE] Why does this sound so plausible
[QUOTE=laserguided;39056055]Why did I instantly think of the homefront trailer.[/QUOTE]Because anything involving North Korea, no matter how small the relation, will spawn a Homefront reference. [sup][sup][sup]It really should be bannable, but that's for another thread.[/sup][/sup][/sup]
King Jong.
[QUOTE=racerfan;39056321]OH GOD IT'S HAPPENING [sp]In all seriousness, it's odd how a lot of recent events are following the game's backstory[/sp][/QUOTE] No. They aren't. What the dicks.
On wikipedia page i read North Korea and South Korea's ultimate purposes are to unite,but North Korea wants full autonomy
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