North Korea threatens to shoot out lights over "provocations"

[Jacque67 7,328]

North Korea yesterday threatened to fire at lighting equipment used by provocative US and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.

The Norths Korean Peoples Army (KPA) accused US and South Korean soldiers of deliberate provocations by aiming their lights at North Korean guard posts at Panmunjom since Friday evening.

The KPA said in a statement that the soldiers actions have seriously threatened the safety of North Korean troops and disrupted their normal monitoring activities.

It said the activities have further raised the anger of North Korean soldiers at a time when the Korean Peninsula has reached the brink of war due to the start of annual joint military drills between the US and South Korea on Monday last week that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.

Floodlight directed at the KPA side at random is taken as an intolerable means of provocation and it will be the target of merciless pinpoint shots, the KPAs chief security officers at Panmunjom said in the statement, carried by the Norths state media.

The true aim sought by the provocateurs through their recent act is to seriously get on the nerves of the KPA soldiers, lead them to take due countermeasures and label them as provocation, it said.

The South Korean Ministry of National Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/08/28/2003654015

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

North Korea yesterday threatened to fire at lighting equipment used by provocative US and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.

The Norths Korean Peoples Army (KPA) accused US and South Korean soldiers of deliberate provocations by aiming their lights at North Korean guard posts at Panmunjom since Friday evening.

The KPA said in a statement that the soldiers actions have seriously threatened the safety of North Korean troops and disrupted their normal monitoring activities.

It said the activities have further raised the anger of North Korean soldiers at a time when the Korean Peninsula has reached the brink of war due to the start of annual joint military drills between the US and South Korea on Monday last week that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.

Floodlight directed at the KPA side at random is taken as an intolerable means of provocation and it will be the target of merciless pinpoint shots, the KPAs chief security officers at Panmunjom said in the statement, carried by the Norths state media.

The true aim sought by the provocateurs through their recent act is to seriously get on the nerves of the KPA soldiers, lead them to take due countermeasures and label them as provocation, it said.

The South Korean Ministry of National Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/08/28/2003654015

Hmm not clear on which Ditch this falls in. I will respond once I get a feel for which way I should

[Merle 458]

What we need here is a "reset button" to ease tensions between our two nations. Maybe Hillary can make that her first priorty when she becomes the supreme leader.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Same stuff, different month. North Korea needs to just stop the posturing. They don't have the cajones to undergo another attempt at war with the US and S. Korea. Those poor bastidges live in such horrible, abject poverty while lying to themselves that S. Koreans are the ones who suffer with nothing. Meanwhile, the differences only 20' either way across the border tells the true story.

Edited August 28, 2016 by ROYGBP

[Rob L 3,811]

North Korea yesterday threatened to fire at lighting equipment used by provocative US and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.

The Norths Korean Peoples Army (KPA) accused US and South Korean soldiers of deliberate provocations by aiming their lights at North Korean guard posts at Panmunjom since Friday evening.

The KPA said in a statement that the soldiers actions have seriously threatened the safety of North Korean troops and disrupted their normal monitoring activities.

It said the activities have further raised the anger of North Korean soldiers at a time when the Korean Peninsula has reached the brink of war due to the start of annual joint military drills between the US and South Korea on Monday last week that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.

Floodlight directed at the KPA side at random is taken as an intolerable means of provocation and it will be the target of merciless pinpoint shots, the KPAs chief security officers at Panmunjom said in the statement, carried by the Norths state media.

The true aim sought by the provocateurs through their recent act is to seriously get on the nerves of the KPA soldiers, lead them to take due countermeasures and label them as provocation, it said.

The South Korean Ministry of National Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/08/28/2003654015

I cannot imagine living in the Shadow of this nutcase's missile range

Edited August 28, 2016 by Rob L