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South Korea's loudspeaker broadcasts aimed at North Korea push the rivals to the "brink of war," a top North Korean official has told a propaganda rally, in the isolated country's first official response to the sonic barrage across its border.
The broadcasts, in rolling bursts from walls of loudspeakers at 11 locations along the heavily militarized border, blared rhetoric critical of the Pyongyang regime, as well as "K-pop" music. North Korea later responded with its own broadcasts.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/09/north-korea-propaganda-k-pop-barrage-pushes-us-to-brink-of-war.html[/url]
Doesn't this break the Geneva convention?!
[QUOTE]North Korea later responded with its own broadcasts.[/QUOTE]
I hope it was DPRK-pop.
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;49493642]Doesn't this break the Geneva convention?![/QUOTE]
It should do. I would imagine it's more terrifying than nuclear, biological and chemical warfare all put together.
South Korea has been doing some really clever stuff with their giant speakers for many years now
[QUOTE]People usually think all the loudspeakers play are kpop songs and downright propaganda. If you look more into it, the loudspeakers are a carefully crafted psychological warfare.
The initial announcements start with weather reports. Accurate weather reports that the NK neither has the manpower nor the computing power to gather and spread along the DMZ. This naturally convinces the NK soldiers to rely on the loudspeakers, if not for news and entertainment, for the weather. After some time, we can literally announce "DPRK soldiers, heavy rain is expected to fall in the evening, so please gather your laundry from the clotheslines" and they will come out of their little posts and start gathering their laundry. This is good rapport. Then come just vanilla news. Maybe the results of a soccer match or some shit that happened overseas. They might not believe it, but they'll find out in a week or when they read or hear it on some DPRK state media. They then subconsciously establish that the loudspeakers have fast, accurate news. Besides, the general NK population and common soldiers rarely ever get international news, if at all. So any international news is a mindfuck to begin with. Then the loudspeakers broadcast NK news. For example, they'll report that General X, Y, and Z were executed by their glorious leader KJU for whatever petty reason he kills people for. There is good chance many soldiers at this point would write this off as propaganda, but when they eventually hear about it through their own channels, that Gen. X,Y, and Z actually were executed for treason or whatever, you're starting to fuck with their minds. Then we tell them how fucked up and idiotic the Kim family have been and are. Some may argue it's "propaganda", but seriously dudes.... the Kim family is FUCKED UP. They are beyond reason and honestly the absolute cockroaches of this planet.
Another crucial function of these broadcasts is they report news that the DPRK state media censors. And this is absofuckinglutely critical and what bugs NK the most. For example, there was a huge explosion at an NK train station in 2004. Naturally, NK censored the shit out of the event. But the loudspeakers reported on the event, and soldiers at the DMZ wrote home asking if everyone was alright since the explosion was so huge. The loudspeakers nullified NK media censorship just. like. that.
Then they play kpop songs in between the news for entertainment. And this cultural infiltration is so effective, NK soldiers literally sing these kpop songs to congratulate fellow soldiers when they're done with their service. And mind you, singing those kinds of songs in Pyongyang can put you in a concentration camp in a heartbeat.
The loudspeakers reach about 7~8 miles during daytime, which definitely covers the DMZ, and at night can reach up to 15~18 miles, which reaches Kaesong (home to the Kaesong Co-op industrial complex), a pretty large city that has a pretty sizeable civilian population (approx. 200,000).
Hundreds of soldiers and thousands of civilians that have defected have cited the loudspeakers as an crucial role in their decision to come south, and NK absolutely despises the loudspeakers because it is such an effective tool against their soldiers, and naturally disrupts their populace by bypassing their media censorship. It pisses them off so much, they are willing to fire 2 rockets across the DMZ, and are now demanding a complete stop to these loudspeakers in 48 hours or risk total war.
I think we should keep going.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3hrxg3/kim_jong_un_orders_north_korea_military_to/cuae7ih[/url]
I know K-Pop could push me to the brink of war.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;49493633]This is how the world ends, not with a whimper, but with a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ips2mM7Zqw]BANG BANG BANG[/url][/QUOTE]
Every time I see a South Korean music video, I instantly remember this video
[video=youtube;Q9v1UikfewA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9v1UikfewA[/video]
As an editor, I'd pretty much hate myself if I had to do something like this.
North Korea have a pop group right? I would love if this ended up as the most passive aggressive cross border pop competition.
You know and uh, not indiscriminate shelling or mine planting.
tbh i'd fire up that H-bomb if i was best korea
US Marines used Metallica and Slayer to get Taliban soldiers to give in without firing a shot.
The practice was ended because it was seen add disrespectful.
[QUOTE=Swilly;49494534]US Marines used Metallica and Slayer to get Taliban soldiers to give in without firing a shot.
The practice was ended because it was seen add disrespectful.[/QUOTE]
So we gave up a way to fight people with less bullets and bombs because it was 'disrespectful'? That's dumb, I can't help but think lobbying from military arms manufacturers didn't at least sway that decision somewhat.
Let the war be decided with the ultimate dance off
[QUOTE=soulharvester;49494669]So we gave up a way to fight people with less bullets and bombs because it was 'disrespectful'? That's dumb, I can't help but think lobbying from military arms manufacturers didn't at least sway that decision somewhat.[/QUOTE]
Waging psychological warfare with music against the Taliban had other issues. The local, moderate populace would have had a hard time allying with the US Soldiers if they too were frightened by the music they played.
:snip:
[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;49494787]Waging psychological warfare with music against the Taliban had other issues. The local, moderate populace would have had a hard time allying with the US Soldiers if they too were frightened by the music they played.[/QUOTE]
That wouldn't be a problem if you aired it in advertisements. Enter Sandman playing while A-10s strafe an enemy compound and men are just blasting the fuck out of it.
Nobody would recognize that as not awesome and immediately join our cause.
[QUOTE=CoalTen;49493735]South Korea has been doing some really clever stuff with their giant speakers for many years now
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3hrxg3/kim_jong_un_orders_north_korea_military_to/cuae7ih[/url][/QUOTE]
Oh man this is fucking priceless, how this is worded would make any stark, cold tactician laugh.
[QUOTE=garychencool;49493949]Every time I see a South Korean music video, I instantly remember this video
[video=youtube;Q9v1UikfewA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9v1UikfewA[/video]
As an editor, I'd pretty much hate myself if I had to do something like this.[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing all editors don't have epilepsy in Korea then?
Why are they provoking North Korea?
[QUOTE=bisousbisous;49498241]Why are they provoking North Korea?[/QUOTE]
Because north Korea provoked everyone and this is actually a pretty tame response...
Then they shouldn't act surprised if North Korea responds to the provocation
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;49493633]This is how the world ends, not with a whimper, but with a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ips2mM7Zqw]BANG BANG BANG[/url][/QUOTE]
Damn, I thought I could sneak in that song.
[QUOTE=bisousbisous;49498888]Then they shouldn't act surprised if North Korea responds to the provocation[/QUOTE]
Likewise, if North Korea responded violently to non-violent action, South korea would have reason to escalate, It's not in North Korea's interest to fight a ground war.
one day I want headlines to read 'South Korean President Park Geun-hye Comments on North Korea Collapse - "Wow, fantastic baby" '
[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;49494120]a pop battle on the DMZ border, with south's kpop group dancing on their side of the line, and north's pop group on theirs, with all the guards and officers just standing there like they usually do, motionless.[/QUOTE]
Haha, you just reminded me of this
[video=youtube;MdiRRx9nZbc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdiRRx9nZbc[/video]
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