The Standoff Between the North and South Koreas

Slam Eagle

Fighting Falcon

We're at a standoff with North Korea, it seems, now that U.S. and South Korean war planes took to the air in a show of testosterone. The North Koreans have given South Korea a Saturday deadline to dismantle the loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda across the border into the north. 

It's upsetting Kim-the-Chubster-Dictator Um.

Four U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon jets and four F-15k Slam Eagle South Korean jets flexed their muscles as they simulated bombings from the South Korean eastern coast, moving toward the U.S. base at Osan, near Seoul.

According to the Associated Press, this latest ordeal between North and South Korea is the most serious one in years, and the U.S. is stuck in the middle at the demilitarized zone. But South Korea has vowed to keep the broadcasts going after 11 years of silence after the south accused the north of planting land mines that maimed two South Korean soldiers earlier this month.

South Korean officials will hold talks with the north today in Panmunjom to defuse tensions between the two countries. The talks will begin 30 minutes after the deadline they were given by the north.

In preparation for a negative outcome, South Korean officials have advised residents of the border-towns Yeoncheon, Ganghwas Island and Paju to seek shelter and keep their heads down.

In spite of the 5 p.m. Pyongyang deadline, it was business as usual today as over 240 South Koreans went to work at a jointly-run industrial complex in Kaesong, a North Korean border city. 

However, it is highly likely that hard stares, perhaps glares from both sides were shared.

Kim, making believe

On Thursday, South Korea retaliated to North Korean artillery fire by firing dozens of rounds back at them. 

The fear is, Kim Jong Un is clueless when it comes to tit-for-tat and the egotistical lardass may start a war.

But the larger question is: why isn't this a top headline in the media?





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