North Korea said Wednesday it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to formally designate South Korea its principal enemy and codify new national borders.
While the moves were likely a pressure tactic, it’s unclear how they will affect ties with South Korea since cross-border travel and exchanges have been halted for years.
North Korea’s military said it will “completely cut off roads and railways” linked to South Korea and “fortify the relevant areas of our side with strong defense structures,” according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
This feels like boycotting a company you didn’t do business with previously.
Yes, add more fortifications to the DMZ, I am sure that’ll be a very productive expenditure of resources.
Eastern Germany also called the wall built to keep its citizens in an “antifascist bullwark”
They say the fences on their shor line are against beach landings. Absurd.
Which is accurate considering west germany was full of nazis in leadership positions.
As nobody tried to sneak in from the West that is silly. Also people from the West could easily visit the East as long as they exchanged some money.
The GDR calling the Wall to imprison its own people some sort of protection has nothing to do with the problems of Nazis making careers again in Western Germany. These spanned police, military, politics, administrations, judges…
It is a big problem of its own, especially now that it shows how little was learned from German history and with Nazis like Hans Martin Schleyer being glorified.
But none of these justifies the Wall in Berlin and the other border between East and West Germany.
nobody tried to sneak in front the west
If you did the slightest bit of reading about this topic, you’d understand this statement is patently false.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001109662.pdf
Between the beginning of 1951 and mid-1955, about 1.5 million persons migrated from East Germany to West Germany. During the same period, about 300,000 persons went from West Germany to East Germany.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:West_German_defectors_to_East_Germany
The wall was built in 1961
Mate, why are you selecting a timespan* like that? The Russian occupation started 1945, that’s when most fled. Something like 15 million fled to the West. Generally most wanted to get away from the Russians. A list of 16(!) defectors is rather irrelevant in this context.
*Huh, I wonder why:
By the 1950s, the GDR began to tighten its emigration laws and stigmatize Republikflucht in an attempt to curtail legal emigration, including requiring de-registration with East German authorities and permission to leave the country under threat of prison sentences up to three years. A propaganda booklet published by the GDR’s
Why would fascists defect to East Germany if West Germany was fascist? I don’t see a single fascist on that list of defectors, just socialists and communists
Who was not a member of the Nazi party at the end of WW2 and still alive and in any sort of position of power?
The entirety of east german leadership… to name one of many.
What did they do during WW2?
Lmao. They didn’t like our ‘immediate end to the Kim regime’ comeback after their shit talking a couple weeks ago. They’re gonna have a problem with that though after they start sending their meat into Ukraine to chew on drones. hey kim you get all those general’s bits back yet from last time.
“Confrontational hysteria” is certainly a phrase…
“Hysteria” seems to be chiefly used by bad actors.
A century ago it was what you diagnosed women who had unknown physical illnesses with, and blamed the symptoms on them.
nothing to see here :)
North Korea is a real stupid fucking country
Well with the empire inflicting a genocide on palestine, launching terrorist attacks against lebanon, bombing every state in the middle east, and threatening several nuclear holocausts…
This kim dude should be paranoid ffs.
