North Korea blocked South Korean access to a key joint industrial zone Wednesday, matching its angry rhetoric with action as Washington condemned Pyongyang's "dangerous, reckless" behaviour.
A South Korean soldier sets up a military check point on the road to the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, in this photo taken on Monday.
Any move on the Seoul-funded Kaesong complex - established in 2004 and a crucial source of hard currency for North Korea - carries enormous significance and will send tensions soaring.
Neither of the Koreas have allowed previous crises to significantly affect Kaesong, the only surviving example of inter-Korean cooperation and seen as a bellwether for the stability of the Korean peninsula.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
I have this nagging feeling that this is a play. Lil Lil Kim was visited by fat Bill Richardson a few weeks ago and then he appears to go off the reservation. Now what could Bill have promised him that would make him appear to want to start a war?
What?
"I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightening....."
Quote: The_Nevadan wrote in post #3I have this nagging feeling that this is a play. Lil Lil Kim was visited by fat Bill Richardson a few weeks ago and then he appears to go off the reservation. Now what could Bill have promised him that would make him appear to want to start a war?
I've been wondering if this is another ploy to get more loot aka foreign aid from the US.
Quote: Palinista wrote in post #1Bangkok Post April 3, 2013
North Korea blocked South Korean access to a key joint industrial zone Wednesday, matching its angry rhetoric with action as Washington condemned Pyongyang's "dangerous, reckless" behaviour.
A South Korean soldier sets up a military check point on the road to the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, in this photo taken on Monday.
Any move on the Seoul-funded Kaesong complex - established in 2004 and a crucial source of hard currency for North Korea - carries enormous significance and will send tensions soaring.
Neither of the Koreas have allowed previous crises to significantly affect Kaesong, the only surviving example of inter-Korean cooperation and seen as a bellwether for the stability of the Korean peninsula.
Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #5[ Thanks for the post. I had been unaware of this cooperative venture.
I do not understand it, myself.
No one could compensate me enough to cross that border.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
I understand the NK has the 9th biggest army in the world, and a wide assortment of various types of weapons, from chemical to biological to nuclear to traditional weaponry. I hope someone in DC is taking them seriously.
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #7I understand the NK has the 9th biggest army in the world, and a wide assortment of various types of weapons, from chemical to biological to nuclear to traditional weaponry. I hope someone in DC is taking them seriously.
I believe it's the 4th largest Army, but I could be wrong.
"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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