Two Koreas exchange warning shots near maritime border amid tensions

[BeatMan]

SEOUL: North Korea fired 10 artillery shells off its west coast on Monday (Oct 24), the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, in response to South Korea's warning shots fired at a North Korean boat that crossed the two Koreas' maritime border.

North Korea fired 10 shells of multiple rocket launchers at around 5.15 am (4.15am Singapore time) after the South Korean military fired warning shots at around 3.50am citing patrol activities, a spokesman for the General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army said.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asi...ts-near-maritime-border-amid-tensions-3022081

 

[SubzeroGirl]

I often wonder what the point of this is. It isn’t as if S. Korea is going to say “that show was scary, we’d better surrender before they launch more missiles into the defenseless ocean”.

 

[oggbashan]

The point is that the Korean War has never ended. It was only a ceasefire that has been broken multiple times since hostilities paused.

 

[JohnEBbad]

I don't find that to be terribly new news...

 

[ll74]

They've been doing this shit pretty much every other year.

 

[oggbashan]

The point is that North Korea is a client state of China. they don't do anything without China's agreement.

Xi might be sending a message now he has been re-elected.

 

[JohnEngelman]

I cannot understand the hold the North Korean dictatorship has over the North Korean people. The standard of living is much higher in the South than in the North. The average height is shorter in the North than in the South because of malnutrition. Nevertheless, the dictator is obviously well fed. The average IQ in the North is 105. The North Koreans are intelligent enough to be able to figure out that their lives could be much better.

 

[oggbashan]

I cannot understand the hold the North Korean dictatorship has over the North Korean people. The standard of living is much higher in the South than in the North. The average height is shorter in the North than in the South because of malnutrition. Nevertheless, the dictator is obviously well fed. The average IQ in the North is 105. The North Koreans are intelligent enough to be able to figure out that their lives could be much better.

The DMZ is an effective wall. North Koreans can't approach it without being shot - like the Berlin Wall in East Germany but much, much wider.

 

[SubzeroGirl]

The point isn’t if the war ended or not, it’s the meaningless show around it. Don’t point your gun at someone if you’re not going to use it.

 

[ll74]

The point isn’t if the war ended or not, it’s the meaningless show around it. Don’t point your gun at someone if you’re not going to use it.

North Korea likes to fire a few off when they aren't getting enough attention

 

[HisArpy]

At least we don't have any mean tweets...

 

[SubzeroGirl]

North Korea was warned on Wednesday that there would be an "unparalleled" response from the U.S., Japan and South Korea if it conducted a seventh nuclear test this year.

This is that mom telling her misbehaving kids in the store “I’m going to count to 3…” and she hasn’t stopped counting.