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.)
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'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)?
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".
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 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.
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).
Both Australian parties also have specifically said that they're not going to war for Taiwan, so not having that regional support also puts another strike against it. War in Taiwan would be an absolute last resort.
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.
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