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| N.Korea’s Kim Says Air Force Ready to Beat ’Enemy’ |
| 2003-04-11 |
| Kimmie mouths off - edited for length and the scary parts SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visited an air base just hours after Iraq's leadership crumbled and told pilots he was confident they could "beat back the enemy," the North's media reported on Friday. Kimmie came out of his hole! Wait⊠something about that just sounds off⊠Pyongyang says it will be Washington's next target once the war in Iraq is over, something the United States denies. A top Russian official said Moscow would reconsider its long-standing policy of opposing international sanctions against North Korea if Pyongyang developed nuclear arms. Russia would oppose sanctions as long as North Korea maintained common sense, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov told the Interfax news agency. *Gasp* Losyukov actually thinks North Korea is capable of common sense?! In the United States, North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations gave the North's first reaction to Saddam's fall. "The result of the Iraq war gives the DPRK a kind of determination and the will to take assured measures to defend its territory against possible U.S. attacks," Radio Free Asia quoted Han Song-ryul as saying on Thursday at a seminar in Cambridge, Massachusetts. âYour victory scared the pee out of us, and we are embarrassed, so we feel the need to be stern and unreasonable!â The radio station, which is funded by the U.S. Congress but not government-run, said Han had also told the seminar that, if Washington accepted its call for bilateral talks on its suspected nuclear weapons program, it could expect "many positive steps." Back in North Korea, it was unclear what kind of planes were at the unit Kim visited. The choice of base was no coincidence. The Iraqi air force has played no role in the war in Iraq. "Seeing the pilots fully ready to cope with the moves of the enemy for aggression, he noted with great satisfaction that they are always maintaining a high degree of revolutionary vigilance and fully prepared to courageously beat back the enemy any time if he comes in attack," the official KCNA news agency said. I think âjucheâ is Korean for run-on sentance⊠North Korea's Radio Pyongyang, aimed at a domestic audience, unlike Han's comments, kept up its rhetoric against the United States, saying it "would not hesitate to push the entire Korean peninsula to nuclear disaster," Yonhap news agency reported. Holy shnikeys â is Kimmie really nuts enough to push things that far?! I need a JDAM with his name on it⊠|
| Posted by:Tadderly |
| #15 My understanding is that the average NKorean pilot gets about 12 hours flying time a year. Not only that but the aircraft have limited fuel to prevent defections. Worried about the NK air force? I'd say they are in the same league as Iraq, perhaps less combat ready. Still they have a massive army, and their troops ar tough. Their weakness is lack of oil. One other problem, the ROKs are about the toughest troops on earth. |
| Posted by: TJ Jackson 2003-04-12 01:09:27 |
| #14 Baghdad Bob landed a job advising Kimmy on dealing with the Western press. |
| Posted by: Mark 2003-04-11 22:22:57 |
| #13 *holds up card* 6.8 bah! Too much rational foreign commentary interspersed with the jewels. maintaining a high degree of revolutionary vigilance and fully prepared to courageously beat back Fairly good, but too little to salvage a lamentable performance. In the United States, North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations gave the North's first reaction to Saddam's fall. "The result of the Iraq war gives the DPRK a kind of determination and the will to take assured measures to defend its territory against possible U.S. attacks," This gentleman, though showing some promise, apparently has been rendered limp-wristed living too much among the decadent whores and pimps resident at the United Nations. Living in the midst of the opulently decadent Metropolis of New York City has robbed him of that subterraneously concealed desperation that finely hones the revolutionary fervor of Juche that comes from living in the Fatherland. *blinks* shit. Did I just write all that??? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-11 20:59:15 |
| #12 Whoops. You're right, Old Pat. Last overflight was a MiG-19... |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-11 20:52:50 |
| #11 So let me get this straight...now the NKors have an "air-force-based policy"? Won't that tick their Army off? I'm so confused! |
| Posted by: Hodadenon 2003-04-11 20:24:28 |
| #10 The last time we faced off with NKor our pilots scored about 20:1 kills against them. The USAF isn;t stupid. They train against skilled professional pilots who are actively trying to teach them how to kill other pilots and how they can be killed by them. Any type of showdown against NKor would be bloody, but ruthlessly pursued. I seriously doubt that NKor pilots have half the training and skill that USAF pilots do. However, there would be casualties on all sides and the going would not be easy by any account. Those moles and underground bunkers would be dug out or rendered useless within days, if not hours, of any US action against NKor. The biggest risk is that the NKors would go nuclear and blast Seoul off the map. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-11 20:14:39 |
| #9 Old Patriot makes an accurate assessment, however, Mentally Il Jong (I wish I had come up with that myself) needs one more thing to fly his planes - fuel. One other passing thought. I wonder who taught who to think like a gopher - Iraq of Nkor? |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2003-04-11 20:00:01 |
| #8 The NKors are not happy unless they are burrowing. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-11 19:36:08 |
| #7 The airfield was probably Sunan. ALL the hangars and support areas are inside a mountain, and only the runway is exposed. Fred, you need to update your database: North Korea has Mig-23 Flogger and Mig-29 Fulcrum aircraft, as well as SU-25 Frogfoot ground support aircraft similar to the US A-10 Warthog. North Korea's air defense system is also significantly stronger than Iraq's, and includes the SA-5 strategic surface-to-air missile system. What's worse, the North Koreans are human moles. Anything that can be dug in and hidden has been. They have radar systems on elevators inside mountains, so they can be raised and lowered at will. The tunnels along the DMZ are just a small part of what these people seem to enjoy carving inside their mountains, and they have LOTS of mountains. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-11 18:35:31 |
| #6 There is a gang of submarines lurking around North Korea, ready to delete the Hermit Kingdom off the face of the planet on a moment's notice...should the need arise. |
| Posted by: defscribe 2003-04-11 18:27:19 |
| #5 Ain't worried about the planes, babe. |
| Posted by: FormerLiberal 2003-04-11 17:45:12 |
| #4 Kimmy's air force is going to have a fine time, taking on the USAF while flying MiG-17's. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-04-11 17:29:08 |
| #3 Ptah, I await your rating on this. ;) |
| Posted by: Former Russian Major 2003-04-11 17:24:37 |
| #2 yes, the sawed-off little fucker really is nuts enough to send off a nuke. The old Soviet hierarchy may have been completely cynical in their approach to Stalinism-after-Stalin, but Kim Jong-be-illin' is basically a Pol Pot who loooooves missiles. On the tyranny/human rights issues, the DPRK lines up with Iraq quite nicely, but the resemblance ends there - Kimmie's zombies will fight without giving a fuck about the post-war consequence. |
| Posted by: FormerLiberal 2003-04-11 17:12:13 |
| #1 Kim beats off the whole of the USAF !! omg that has to be messy .. ohh have i got the XXX rated film confused with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il |
| Posted by: Biggus 2003-04-11 17:07:30 |