DPRK fighter crosses into ROK airspace for two minutes

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-20 03:06am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2782533.stm

This one is silly enough to be funny. DPRK fighter crosses into ROK airspace for two minutes...ROK calls it a provocation and intends to lodge "a strong protest."

A phrase about 'mountains' and 'molehills' comes to mind here....

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-02-20 03:20am

This shit happens all the time over there. The fact that we peeps over here in the west are actually hearing about it is significant (to me anyway...)

Heck, when I was over there in 95-96, no one here in the states had heard about the minisub that ran aground with the captain killing the crew, or the 20000+ manhunt for NK infiltrators who came over the border looking for a spy that stopped reporting in...(the guy said FU and decided it was better living in S. Korea...Go figure.)

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-02-20 03:21am

It is almost funny, but since the NK's and the SK's occasionally get into fights, the timing could be better.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-20 03:23am

EmperorMing wrote:Heck, when I was over there in 95-96, no one here in the states had heard about the minisub that ran aground with the captain killing the crew, or the 20000+ manhunt for NK infiltrators who came over the border looking for a spy that stopped reporting in...(the guy said FU and decided it was better living in S. Korea...Go figure.)

This stuff doesn't go completely unmentioned. The minisub incident and the resulting minicrisis was well reported in the Canadian media here. I don't recall hearing about a manhunt except for the one associated with looking for agents who might have been delivered by the minisub, though.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-02-20 03:24am

EmperorMing wrote:This shit happens all the time over there. The fact that we peeps over here in the west are actually hearing about it is significant (to me anyway...)

Heck, when I was over there in 95-96, no one here in the states had heard about the minisub that ran aground with the captain killing the crew, or the 20000+ manhunt for NK infiltrators who came over the border looking for a spy that stopped reporting in...(the guy said FU and decided it was better living in S. Korea...Go figure.)

I remember that, it made the news here. It was not big news but it still made the papers.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-02-20 03:35am

Must have made it on one of the back sections. Everyone I asked after I had come back from overseas didn't seem to know anything about it.

Figures you guys would still remember...

And that is a compliment.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-02-20 03:39am

EmperorMing wrote:Must have made it on one of the back sections. Everyone I asked after I had come back from overseas didn't seem to know anything about it.

Figures you guys would still remember...

And that is a compliment.

I think it is safe to say that some of us on the board would remember simply because we are interested in such stuff.

I really liked Larry Bond's "Red Phoenix" book.

But to be fair to the public around here, there is a decent sized South Korean population in the South Bay. So that also might be why it made the local news.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-02-20 03:54am

EmperorMing wrote:This shit happens all the time over there. The fact that we peeps over here in the west are actually hearing about it is significant (to me anyway...)

Heck, when I was over there in 95-96, no one here in the states had heard about the minisub that ran aground with the captain killing the crew, or the 20000+ manhunt for NK infiltrators who came over the border looking for a spy that stopped reporting in...(the guy said FU and decided it was better living in S. Korea...Go figure.)

I read about it here in NZ