by Scott Creighton
Russia Today is reporting that the South Koreans have admitted they fired artillery rounds into North Korean territory which has in fact started this entire conflict.
This is backed up by early reports from the Times and Business Insider (reported by this site as well earlier this morning)
The official North Korean news agency said in a brief statement Tuesday night that the South had started the fight when it “recklessly fired into our sea area.” New York Times
North Korea’s reason for going on the offensive seems to be anger over a military drill it said was “simulating an invasion of the North,” according to the NYT.The military drill, called Safeguarding The Nation, is a annual exercise involving 70,000 troops along with some American forces. Business Insider
As the truth of this whole thing starts to creep out, the TruCasters from propaganda companies like Burson-Marstellar are apparently working double-time to keep the gears of war moving toward regime change. Youtube and Reddit and other social media sites seem to be over-run with anti-North Korean propaganda, some of it subtle, some of it less so.
“I don’t care who started what. There is no way in hell I would support DPRK. Even if the South Korean invaded and started a war with the North I would never support the North. The communist regime there is reason enough to denounce the DPRK. So screw this video segment that sympathizes with the DPRK. Communist Freaks.” Youtube comment
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This is not a surprise, is it?
Linked it on my blog. I hope you don’t mind.
no that’s great. get the word out there since the US MSM isn’t going to. Just like South Ossetia. Notice what the Russian guy said about the Cheonan?
[…] det bättre ut om USA inte deltar i just den här övningen. Syd-Korea har också medgivit att man avfyrat skott först. Inte konstigt om Nord-Korea känner sig hotade och är skärrade, man har ju bl.a. kallats en av […]
Unemployment is up, third level has no prospects of helping get over that, the armed forces beckon!
Emotionally driven, they march toward glory, only to find blood and terror and innocent victims.
Hollywood and gaming industry have an obsession with unrealistic violence. Baqck from war, they will be crippled.
Wait, wait…I thought it really wasn’t artillery fire. Didn’t your last post say this was all faked?
or…
they provoked a response from the North Koreans by firing close to their shoreline in their undisputed waters, and when the response wasn’t meaningful enough to justify an all out attack, someone decided to spruce it up a bit (notice no civilians died?)
Kinda like the Gulf of Tonkin event
… so it isn’t “either or” is it?
Now, if your logic is that this really doesn’t matter simply because Kim Jung il “starves his own people” I think you might be missing the point.
You yourself mentioned Iraq. Saddam starved many of his own people. Will actually, our sanctions starved many of his people.
In fact, Albright was asked about the 500,000 starved children on national television in 1996… she said it was “worth it”.
Kim Jung iL is “starving” his people in much the same way.
You want to take a look at how many people are starving in Yemen right now? A country our CIA is helping to secure for the 30 year dictator puppet we have in place there?
How about a little history.
Bil Clinton called Suharto of Indonesia “our kind of guy”… he was a brutal dictator who hated democracy and ruled over a starving people while his own family became the wealthiest in the world from 1965 til 1998 or so when he finally had to be replaced.
And that is to say nothing of Saudi Arabia and all our friends over there.
In case you haven’t noticed, I am not “defending” Kim Jung iL in this article.
I didn’t even mention him.
It is apparent though that he is certainly on your mind. I guess you really do see this as justification for regime change, which of course is exactly what I was talking about.
But thanks for your comment. I love it when you guys show up over here. It shows me I am still relevant in the eyes of Burson-Marstellar, so I must be doing something right.
Way to go off-topic in a hurry. I never said anything about regime change, Iraq, Suharto, or Saudi Arabia. I just pointed out that you make stuff up as you go along, and you continued to do so in your response.
Oh, and don’t flatter yourself about being important, you just have good SEO. Google took me here and thought I should comment.
Just what ‘part’ was made up?
serious and funny ? You don’t know about the sanctions against N Korea? Where wheat and food is prohibited to enter N Korea ? Guess the N Koreans are being starved by America.
“Search engine optimization”?
That’s funny. I don’t have any SEOs. I’ve just been running this site for 3 and a half years so I guess I get some Google hits. But honestly I don’t get many of those either.