More than 1.4 million youth and students in DPRK volunteer in Korean People's Army
More than 1.4 million youth and students in DPRK volunteer in Korean People's Army
Many Youth and Students in DPRK Volunteer to Join or Rejoin KPA
Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- The whole DPRK is full of the will to annihilate the scum of the ROK who violated its inviolable sovereignty and security.
Millions of young people have turned out in the nationwide struggle to wipe out the ROK scum who committed a serious provocation of violating the sovereignty of the DPRK through a drone infiltration into its capital city to push the tense situation to the brink of war, which precipitates their self-destruction, and are now making impudent remarks like a guilty party filing the suit first.
If a war breaks out, the ROK will be wiped off the map. As it wants a war, we are willing to put an end to its existence.
The passionate young people are determined to turn out in a sacred war of destroying the enemy with the arms of the revolution. Their great enthusiasm for joining the army is being displayed in all the places of the country, including worksites where a campaign for increased production is underway, construction sites, farms having a bumper harvest, and educational institutions.
According to data available, more than 1.4 million youth league officials and youth and students across the country volunteered to join or rejoin the Korean People's Army on October 14 and 15.
The young people's zeal for joining the army is an eruption of the hatred and retaliatory spirit of the younger generation who are determined to punish the scum who committed a hideous crime to ignite a war at any cost, and end the horrible evil relationship.
Youth and students across the country signed the petitions for joining or rejoining the army out of the pledge to find out the heinous confrontation maniacs and criminals to the last one and cut off their windpipes.
The commanding officers and members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade, the young people of the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the Taean Heavy Machine Complex, the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill and many other working youth across the country volunteered to join the army with the spirit to resolutely wipe out the sworn enemy seeking to bring down their socialist system that represent their life and soul, and their dignified life and happiness.
At the universities across the country, including Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Phyongbuk University of Technology and Sariwon Kye Ung Sang University of Agriculture, many students, including discharged officers and men, vowed to make the lunatics experience the real war and showers of fire.
The number of the angry revengers of the rising generation determined to plunge the heinous enemy into an abyss of final ruin, those who volunteered to join or rejoin the KPA, is on the increase with the passage of time. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.10.16.)
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/338cd4183c5fe5a58c98cd14e59b99af.kcmsf
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You think NATO leftists were bad when it came to Russia? North Korea would really expose their asses
North Korea would really expose their asses
They're already extremely racist when it comes to the DPRK, it will just become more annoying.
Yes it's me, who thinks blaming sanctions and the war fought 75 years ago for all of DPRK's problems is the epitome of rose-tinted glasses.
What's that thing where you can't tell if someone is serious or not? I'm having that, because this is sort of true?
I think the DPRK probably has some internal contradictions that I don't understand contributing to their society in a negative way, but the sanctions and (so far) endless war and aggression against them is most of the reason for everything we see from the outside looking in. Is that the Rose-tinted glasses? Or are the libs the ones claiming that (and are wrong)?
I remember two years ago when I dismissed practically out of hand the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine. I would not have in a million years predicted that in the two years since, the Zionist regime would find itself in a multifront war, or that we would now find ourselves likely just days at most from an outbreak of a Second Korean War. I would always hear about the tensions between countries, think a war was about to break out, get called foolish, and eventually each incident would resolve without escalation to war, and I would feel foolish, until I learned to simply expect nothing to come of incidents from the moment I first heard of them.
But indeed, in the wise words of Doctor Gregory House, or rather episode scriptwriter Michael R Perry, "At the end of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the wolf really does come, and he eats the sheep, the boy, and his parents."
What happens when a Nothng Ever Happens object meets a Weeks When Years Happen force?
dialectics
I found some free wifi again.
Should I open a dead pool on whether or not something wild happens while I'm here in Korea or not?
Let's vote
I make it back home and nothing happens gang
Alaskaball's trapped when ww3 kicks in the door, good luck bozo! gangImportant details needed... How long are you there?
You must be our political liaison after defecting to the DPRK in the event it happens.
alaska noooooooooooooooo plz be safe
You see, nothing ever happens. Therefore you'll be fine
I was talking with a comrade from hexbear about this, it feels like the USA wants a proxy war with China thru the DPRK, right?
Let's go through the options for a China-USA proxy war:
-Indian-Chinese border: geographically impossible, politically way too dangerous
-Xinjiang region: tried it already lol, local Muslim population cannot be swayed to USA's side
-Taiwan: this is the one the military-industrial complex really wants, it would be very cool for everyone operating killer drones (less cool for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who would die). Pros: lots of $$$ for contractors. Cons: crosses a big red line vs. China. Not happening.
-Korea: this is the most likely place for something to pop off, instigated by the USA. South Korea is completely corrupt and tied to the USA, North Korea is very closely tied to China. US military is 100% willing to "fight to the last South Korean," like in Ukraine. Pros: Attacking China without directly attacking China. Cons: calling the North Korean nuclear bluff, possibility that millions in South Korea are vaporized or inflicted with nuclear induced burns and cancers. Really depends if state department thinks North Korea is a paper target or not. Attacking a nuclear power is insane, but there's not that many places left for the USA to go... IMHO a 1% chance of something popping off there in the next 10 years, higher than Taiwan (0% chance).
IMO for both Taiwan and Korea, the question becomes whether the US is going to bite the bullet and actually go for open conflict with China (in both cases). When you look at what the US does to North Korea- or China- or honestly even Russia and the historical Soviet Union, etc... it really is a game of it constantly swinging its fist full force at other countries' faces, only to metaphorically pull back at the last second.
Western media and politicians, and even military officials are not exactly hiding their plans/considerations- they expect a war with China, sooner (5~ years max) than later, because the longer the wait the further China and the rest of humanity develops (ie. the harder it will be to slaughter and enslave the entire planet and destroy China and the BRICS nations again, as the unspoken but obvious reasoning).
Whatever happens won't be an accident- it won't be a "chance," basically- if it happens it will have been nigh inevitable, if it is avoided it will be through masterful statecraft/containment on China and the rest of humanity's part upon the US to prevent the west from lighting the fuse. And it will not so much be due to the west "calling North Korea/China's bluff," or even giving two shits about what the comprador regimes of the RoC and South Korea have to say, much less the people- it will be a matter of the US brunt forcing the issue with full knowledge of what will come about (even up to possible MAD- not like they overly care about their own citizens, though of course they will try to keep the bulk of the destruction contained in Asia). Like with Ukraine, if the South Koreans or RoC governments get cold feet, the US will push further (and then it'll be a matter if they succeed in that regard). If the KMT is in the way (due to not being suicidal), the DPP will be brought in their place. If the DPP is in the way, some other group of maniacs will be brought in, and so on. The same goes for South Korea, the Philippines, and Japan- they all might try to wriggle free of the control but their chances are pretty bleak, and their institutions are heavily compromised from the ground up.
Obviously as a TL,DR I think it's already more than in the works and with full bipartisan support (the only pesky issues getting in the way are things like their "project Ukraine" being a disaster, or the Muslims getting "uppity" rather than peacefully allowing the blood-crazed Anglo-franchise of Isntreal to continue genocide as usual). It's more likely to happen than not (unless things continue throwing major wrenches in the plan- which is likely) and everyone knows- the world knows, western citizenry knows, etc, etc... that as the opportunity to push the "terrorism/WW3" button closes in on the US, they (the neocon uniparty) will push it, unprovoked, rather than accept equality and peace. The only question is if that window of opportunity can be closed before they do (through any variety of reasons- from civil war/a coup by the non-suicidal elements of the US, things simply catching up with the US faster than they can prepare, etc)
Attacking a nuclear power is insane, but there's not that many places left for the USA to go
I don't think the US would give a single fuck if DPRK nuked ROK, and they almost certainly wouldn't do that unless existential I think
-Taiwan: this is the one the military-industrial complex really wants, it would be very cool for everyone operating killer drones (less cool for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who would die). Pros: lots of $$$ for contractors. Cons: crosses a big red line vs. China. Not happening.
It's not happening because no one who matters in Taiwan wants it to happen. Taiwanese capitalists want to continue dealing business with the Mainland. The military is not rushing to die so that the DPP leadership can take a one-way flight to Tokyo and DC.
I posted my belief that this was a possible way into a war/proxy-war with China several months ago. Not sure if it was me you talked to.
Just like last time.
Forgive my ignorance, but where are you getting this impression?
My take is
India through its addition to the Quad alliance (Japan, Australia, India, USA) an 'Indo-Asia-Pacific' alliance designed to be a counterweight to China in military cooperation (intra alia). India has its own hands full in Kashmir and elsewhere, and in the border with China they fight in tough terrain with sticks and stones due to mutual agreement to not use firearms, so I don't think it's a feasible attack corridor.
Xinjiang was the US boosting the East Turkistan Islamist Movement (ETIM) read: ISIS. ETIM has been all but quashed through China's deradicalisation efforts and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, cutting off the pathways for etim fighters to cut their teeth.
Taiwan because the US explicitly says they expect it to be a flashpoint by 2027 (RAND article), by which some commentators here say the US will have effectively lost peer-power status against China.
US has been prodding Philippines to goad China into using live fire against boats in the SCS. Not much has eventuated except some turnarounds by the PLAN
Can anyone give me a rundown on how this situation got so hot so fast?
I'm not sure how far you want me to go back. The US and ROK (South Korea) do military exercises on the border of DPRK 2 times every year since at least the 1970s to provoke the DPRK. One of the larger military exercises is called Ulchi Freedom Guardian. During Biden's presidency, the Biden regime has been increasing the size of the military exercises on the DPRK border.
In July 2023, the US deployed a nuclear armed submarine to the coast of Korea. This was the first time since the 1980s that a US nuclear weapon had been deployed to the Korean Peninsula.
Over the span of 2024, there were several exchanges between the North and the South. The south would send anti-DPRK propaganda leaflets to the North by balloon. The North sent balloons carrying garbage back to the South.
At the 2024 NATO summit in July, Biden hinted that he wanted to expand NATO into Asia, potentially adding South Korea to NATO. DPRK has also released press statements saying that Biden is trying to create the "Asian-version NATO".
On October 11, DPRK spotted a drone in DPRK airspace which was filmed dropping anti-DPRK propaganda leaflets. DPRK has been telling ROK all year to stop dropping propaganda into DPRK. http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/d5483a1b74ad535c0736a5751b9e1bf2.kcmsf
On October 15, DPRK announced that it had confirmed that the drone was owned by the ROK and promised to retaliate. "We secured clear evidence that the ROK military gangsters are the main culprit of the hostile provocation of violating the sovereignty of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by intruding into the sky over its capital city. The provocateurs will have to pay a dear price."
On October 16, DPRK demolished the roads and railways which connect from DPRK to ROK.
DPRK has been warning ROK to stop provocations for quite a while. The provocations are backed by the US. The US is doing provocations around the world by expanding NATO in Europe and arming Israel in the middle east. It seems to me that the US is trying to create as many conflicts as possible to maintain global power.
Thanks, the part about what's been happening since 2023 was especially helpful. Just what we need - a new global flashpoint...
One thing you're missing is the current president of the ROK is a completely shameless and servile vassal of US empire on top of being an union-busting reactionary. He's basically a Korean Ngo Dinh Diem. From an Guerrilla History interview I've recently heard, the current president is apparently even worse than Syngman Rhee in terms of being a servile comprador. Imagine willingly entertaining your US masters like a fucking monkey with no shred of dignity or decorum.
This is also a contributing factor to the DPRK's calculations. They can't negotiate with a dancing monkey who does what he's fucking told by his masters in DC.
That's uh... that's some strong language. Is the translation correct?
kcna.kp is an official website operated by the DPRK government. DPRK made the translation themselves. DPRK owns the .kp TLD. Every website that ends with .kp is a DPRK website.
As a side note, it is known that the DPRK uses their own Linux distro called RedStar. If you inspect the http headers of kcna.kp, it says the web server is running on "Apache/2.4.25 (RedStar4.0) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips PHP/5.6.2". The website says that it is running on "RedStar4.0".
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Where does the current military arrangement stand between DPRK and China? Are they in a defensive alliance? What are the commitments that exist?
historically, the chinese are always either invading the korean peninsula, or they're defending it. as of now, north korea is the only country with which china has a mutual defense treaty (of note here is that north korea recently signed a mutual defense treaty with russia back in june). political arrangements aside, it has been and will remain a major geostrategic imperative so long as china retains control of the northeastern provinces, one whose importance is comparable to or likely even exceeds that of taiwan.
Actually, they're all being held at gunpoint by, um,
By eachother! And they're kissing and they're boys and they're boys kissing uwu
Invisable Kim family ghosts.
I mean, in fairness, conscription by threat of deadly violence is a thing that can and has been enforced throughout history (eg Ukraine right now). There's no reason to think it applies here, but it's not an impossible thing to happen.
let's goooo DPRK about to retake korea from the occupying capitalist scum! woooo.
Think that there'll be a MASH reboot that's somehow to the right of the original, a show with a black character named a slur?
It needs an air of deniability, like Kingsley Shacklebolt
The end of the end of history
this is just strategic posturing to prevent dprk forces from intervening in europe, those 1.4 million dudes are all gonna end up in belarus
considering they just set up nato northern land command in finland last month, it seems manifestation of the finno korean hyperwar continues apace
I don't understand this comment. The link is to an official press statement from the DPRK government saying that more people are joining the KPA.
Who is posturing? What is the posturing? Are you saying that the DPRK is posturing when they themselves are saying that DPRK is preparing for a full war with ROK?
We’ve only got three pens, so don’t lose them.
"Look at how resource-starved the DPRK is!"
Their pen game may not be up to much (I don't know), but they're certainly better at producing artillery shells than the US. Just ask Ukraine
dude i need the DPRK to win just to wipe the smug shit off your face
