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On June 20 2015 13:45 Foblos wrote:


Agreed. The imperial system is still used because there is willful blindness to the idea of american exceptionalism. How many jokes about how the world doesn't want us butting in all the time? Yet, America still feels the need to be the loudest and most controlling. It isn't that the metric system is harder (it's not) or the people are dumber, its just a refusal to condescend to anyone for any reason because murica

On June 21 2015 01:38 Mecha King Ghidorah wrote:


I wouldn't say that and more because peopel don't want to relearn a fundamental part of tehir lives. Just like joystick cars. They had way better handling then a car with a steering wheel but they failed because people fucking hated it and everyone kept crashing because everyone was used to the wheel and thus they kept it. I know they tried switching to metric several times but the older people wouldn't have it. Hell driving across the U.S I saw one or two older road signs from those failed attempts that read in kilometers rather than miles.

On June 21 2015 01:45 shid0x wrote:



you can buy those in kao san road

On August 08 2015 07:38 andrewlt wrote:
They should also set their calendar 30 years back.

U.N. Command denounces N.K. mine blasts in DMZ as violations of armistice

SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) -- The United Nations Command Monday denounced North Korea's detonation of land mines in the demilitarized zone last week, calling the blasts violations of the armistice agreement.

The UNC also said it plans to propose a general officer level-dialogue with North Korea.

"The UNC condemns these violations of the Armistice Agreement, and will call for a general officer level-dialogue with the Korean People's Army," the UNC said, without elaborating on when the proposal will be made.

Three North Korean wooden-box land mines were the cause of the explosion on the southern side of the DMZ on Aug. 4, South Korea's military investigation showed earlier in the day. The detonation injured two South Korean staff sergeants.

The South Korean military said that North Korean soldiers secretly buried the mines around a South Korea military-guarded door leading out to the DMZ between the two Koreas.

"The North Korean People's Army violated paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 of the Armistice Agreement by emplacing wooden box land mines along a known Republic of Korea patrol route in the southern half of the DMZ," the UNC said in a statement.

The concerned paragraphs prohibit the two sides from any acts of aggression in the DMZ, unauthorized crossing of the military demarcation line in the middle of the DMZ and entering into the territory controlled by the other side.

The UNC also came up with the same conclusion as the South, saying that "the devices were recently emplaced" by the North.

From Aug. 5-6, a special investigation team, composed of officials from the UNC, South Korea, the U.S., New Zealand and Colombia, conducted an examination of the blast under the UNC's Military Armistice Commission, it also said.

The UNC also reiterated its commitment to "maintaining the Armistice Agreement" and the preservation of peace on the Korean Peninsula.

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South Korea blames North for DMZ mine blast

South Korea has warned of a "pitiless penalty" for North Korea, after blaming it for a landmine blast in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) last week.

One South Korean soldier had both legs amputated after the blast, while another lost one leg. South Korea initially said there was no indication of North Korean involvement. But a defence ministry official said on Monday that Seoul was "certain they were North Korean landmines planted with the intention to kill".

Officials said North Koreans had snuck across the heavily protected border to plant three mines close to a South Korean border post. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it was "a clear violation of the armistice agreement and the non-aggression agreements between the South and the North".

"As previously warned on many occasions, our military will make North Korea pay the equally pitiless penalty for their provocations," it said.

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On August 10 2015 20:37 Taf the Ghost wrote:
Depend on where in the DMZ the patrol route is. You can do a lot of things under the cover of darkness. The DMZ runs along a bunch of rivers, through forests and up the side of some mountains. While they've cleared out a lot of the areas, it's not the hardest thing to move around in.

South starts an operation in DMZ

To respond to mines, trees cleared in reprise of 1976 Bunyan plan

South Korea’s military decided Tuesday to carry out a so-called Second Operation Paul Bunyan at the heavily fortified border in the wake of the land mines planted by the North Korean army maiming two soldiers last week.

The operation will use patrol soldiers at the demilitarized zone to trim trees and bushes in the southern part of the DMZ to gain a clearer view of the movements of North Korean solders to prevent infiltrations.

“The DMZ has been a no-man’s land since the [1950-53] Korean War and is filled with dense forests,” an official at the Ministry of National Defense told the JoongAng Ilbo, an affiliate of the Korea JoongAng Daily. “[These forests] often block the view from the observation and guard posts. So we have decided to get rid of them [by cutting them].”

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said dense forests inside the DMZ made it almost impossible to detect movements of North Koreans.

“Since North Koreans approached our fence [after crossing the military demarcation line] and planted land mines by taking advantage of the blocked view, our decision [to strip the trees and bushes] is one of our countermeasures [against future provocations by North Korea].”

The decision was made after the military determined that North Korean infiltrators crossed the border sometime between July 23 and Aug. 3 using blind spots in the southern part of the border. The explosions of three land mines placed by North Koreans on the southern side of the DMZ near Paju, Gyeonggi, badly injured two staff sergeants. One lost both legs while the other had his foot blown off.

Defense Minister Han Min-koo on Tuesday vowed to strengthen the patrol missions at the border, saying that the South Korea forces would retain strategic dominance at the border area.

Following a closed-door meeting with the ruling Saenuri Party at the National Assembly, the defense chief said the military would deploy strategies to “actively seek dominance in the DMZ.”

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