leo-rcc wrote:FBM wrote:The Korean War was the red-headed step-child of wars. And technically, it's still going on. They never signed off on ending it. Politics...
They fight it out on the soccer field now.
The South just won 1-0 a few days ago in a WC qualifier. Today NK launched a "rocket" (read: missle test). Three months after I got here in '96, there was an incursion of 28 NK commandos who got stranded when their submarine crapped out off the east coast. They were chased for 2 months, living off roots, berries etc, before it was over. 27 killed, 1 captured wounded, 1 escaped back to the North. Of those killed, about half knelt and submitted to execution by their commander, who subequently offed himself. There have been smaller-scale repeat versions since, and there have been fatal naval clashes every other year or so in the Yellow Sea. It's a nagging, wimpy war, all things considered. Stubborn lot, these. I think they ought to shit or get off the pot, but nobody here is asking for my opinion. Tomorrow is just another day.
Genghis Khan vs China, c 1217. Glad I wasn't there. At least, not there
and Chinese.
Sorry if I rambled a bit. Nearing bedtime here.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
