Fashion War

| December 28, 2010

According to a link from Old Trooper, North Korean soldiers have been spotted in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Korean peninsula with camouflage patterns similar to soldiers from the South.

Some North Korean troops stationed along the border have donned a camouflage uniform similar to that worn by South Koreans, apparently to practise intrusion drills, a defence ministry official said Tuesday.

The move prompted the South to advance the supply of new uniforms for its own troops to avoid confusion, the official told journalists in a background briefing.

“It’s been confirmed some North Korean frontline troops are wearing uniforms with woodland camouflage pattern which is similar to those of South Korean uniforms,” the official said.

“Our judgment is that the North’s special forces stationed there are staging intrusion drills wearing the uniforms.”

Sun Tzu would love this distraction, if he was ever a real singular person and if he was still alive. I would guess both sides in this impending conflict are regularly reading the Chinese philosopher’s tome since most of his observations are about combat between racially-similar opponents. Patterns on the uniform would only confuse the South Korean soldiers and get the Norks a couple of seconds advantage.

The article goes on to mention the imprisonment of Major Cho, a South Korean spy who is being held by the Chinese, which brings to mind another article from Old Trooper about China buying it’s first carrier-killer missile. Obviously Chine sees itself having a role in the intra-Korean conflict and the purchase of this missile might be an indication of it’s intent to keep the US out of the war.

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Old Trooper

North and South Korea are going to fiddle fuck around long enough to get into a real shooting war, at this rate.

I hope no one is holding their breath about a return to 6 party talks and re-unification hysteria.

The latest propaganda video out of the North was done to show the Norks, as well as the world, that the succession of power is in full swing.

PintoNag

Gawd, what a mess.
Much of what is sold in the US is made in China; and how will THAT work, exactly, if we get into a shooting war with them?
Oh, and let’s not forget the NK maniac threatening to use nukes. Lovely.
And how are we supposed to stay out of a conflict in Korea? If the NK start shooting, there are going to be Americans ducking lead, am I right?

Bob Izzaninja

We have been holding the line in Korea for more than 50 years. At this point we need to either go all in with a full scale invasion, or pack up and leave. If not, we will still be sitting there like this 50 years from now.