North Korea Cutting All Communications & Ties With South Korea

[Obama 2012 1,714]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/25/AR2010052500416.html

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea declared Tuesday that it would sever all communication and relations with Seoul as punishment for blaming it for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

The North also announced it would expel all South Koreans working at a joint factory park in the northern border town of Kaesong, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Seoul late Tuesday.

Tensions were rising on the divided Korean peninsula in the wake of an investigation report blaming North Korea for a torpedo attack that sank the Cheonan warship on March 26, killing 46 South Korean sailors.

South Korea's military restarted psychological warfare operations - including blaring radio broadcasts into the North and placing loudspeakers at the border to blast out propaganda - to punish the North for the provocation. The South is also slashing trade and denying permission to North Korean cargo ships to pass through South Korean waters.

North Korea struck back by declaring it would cut all ties with the South until President Lee Myung-bak leaves office. South Korean ships and airliners will be banned from passing through its territory and the North will resume its own psychological warfare, KCNA said.

Earlier, one Seoul-based monitoring agency reported that North Korea's leader ordered its 1.2 million-member military to get ready for combat. South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the report.

The North flatly denies involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan, one of the South's worst military disasters since the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, and has warned that retaliation would mean war. It has threatened to destroy any propaganda facilities installed at the heavily militarized border.

A team of international investigators, however, concluded last week that a torpedo from a North Korean submarine tore apart the Cheonan.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

That factory mentioned is owned by the south right?

[spookyturtle 9,465]

And severing ties will hurt N.Korea much more than it does South.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Good thing I am too old and too fat to go to war anymore. That used to be my unit's primary AO, should the balloon go up.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

[DEDixon 39]

LOL NK leadership are cowards. they said any retaliation would result in war.

[IndigoSkies 168]

Can we make a giant umbrella and cover North Korea for few years?

This idea is so kooky it just might work.

Edited May 25, 2010 by IndigoSkies

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

[alienlovechild 75]

And severing ties will hurt N.Korea much more than it does South.

The North Korean leadership could less about their nation as a whole. Why torpedo a South Korean ship in the first place? At least 2.5 million people starved to death in North Korea in the 1990s and the country is still a mess.

Edited May 25, 2010 by alienlovechild

[IndigoSkies 168]

Since most of NK is dark already, my umbrella idea isn't going to work. Drats.

Can sending lots of iPad help?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Since most of NK is dark already, my umbrella idea isn't going to work. Drats.

Can sending lots of iPad help?

Perhaps we could build a giant magnifying glass in space, and focus the sunlight on Pyongyang

[spookyturtle 9,465]

The North Korean leadership could less about their nation as a whole. Why torpedo a South Korean ship in the first place? At least 2.5 million people starved to death in North Korea in the 1990s and the country is still a mess.

Quite true, but the North always cries about UN sanctions and such and now they cut off their nose to spite their face. The North Korean economy is miniscule as it is, throwing the South out will have a big effect.

[evli1966 88]

No worries our fearless President Obama will invite the North Korean leadership here so that they can tell us how bad our country is. Obama will agree them of course.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

No worries our fearless President Obama will invite the North Korean leadership here so that they can tell us how bad our country is. Obama will agree them of course.

I don't think even Mr. Obama can bow low enough to kiss that midget's buttocks.

[evli1966 88]

I don't think even Mr. Obama can bow low enough to kiss that midget's buttocks.

But I bet he brings in an expert on North korean food to cook for them.