By I kid you not:
South Korea will display Christmas lights near its tense border with North Korea for the first time since 2004 following the regime’s deadly artillery attack last month, military officials said on Wednesday. The South has partially resumed a cross-border propaganda campaign since the March sinking
of a South Korean warship and the bombardment of a border island, which killed four people including civilians and sparked outrage.Since the attack, the first on a civilian area since the 1950-53 war, Seoul has also staged a series of military drills in a show of strength against Pyongyang.
The defence ministry said it has approved a request by the Seoul-based Yoido Full Gospel Church to set up Christmas lanterns on a steel tower atop a military-controlled hill.
The church is expected to switch on the lights on December 21 on the 155-metre hill, which is just three kilometres from the border and overlooks the North’s Kaesong city, it said. [Hindustan Times]
8:53 pm on December 20th, 2010 1
that will show them, you killed 4 of us we bombard you with Christmas spirit yeaaaah mother f*cker
9:16 pm on December 20th, 2010 2
Don't underestimate the power of Christmas over land of the dark and hopelessness.
9:43 pm on December 20th, 2010 3
Tom, no 5hit. Christmas lights must be an imaginable extravagance in North Korea. I've often thought of what the poor Nork guards manning the guard posts on the northern shore of the Imjin thought about the lights of Paju and then Ilsan and Seoul, glaring up against the clouds.
4:05 am on December 21st, 2010 4
NK officials hate that specific Christmas tree because it's visible to people in a pretty big city in NK. It makes the NK populace wonder what kind of place SK really is to keep such a bright light lit in the middle of nowhere when NK people themselves don't have electricity 24/7.
There is a reason NK specifically asked DJ to get rid of the lights.
4:47 am on December 21st, 2010 5
There is speculation that since the North backed down from direct confrontation during the artillery exercise, they will revert to their cowardly terrorist ways and retaliate by some means where they can hide their hand.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/21/k…
6:06 am on December 21st, 2010 6
Christmas Spirit wins again!
6:27 am on December 21st, 2010 7
Is a giant Festivus pole out of the question?
Lets go full bore on the Christmas thing as well. Why not introduce the norKs to Krumpus?
7:19 am on December 21st, 2010 8
'Twas the Night Before Christmas on the DMZ
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the DMZ
The darkness was stirred by a big Christmas tree;
Love gifts were hung from the balloons with care,
In hopes they'd pass north through the cold winter air;
The soldiers were nestled all snug in their bunks,
While visions of peaceful reunification gave them goose bumps;
With a ho in her hooker boots, and I in the buff,
I had just bent her over to treat her ass good and rough.
When out on the lawn arose loud banging and clicking,
I sprang from the bed to see whose azz needed kicking.
Away to the window I flew all in fear,
knocked over my soju and two bottles of beer.
The moon on the snow and the flares in the sky
Gave the luster of mid-day so I could not deny,
When, what to my wondering eyes should I see,
But a horde of Nork soldiers, tanks and artillery.
With pictures of Dear Leader and muzzle flashes aglow,
I wished for more combat training instead of briefings from EO.
They chattered like devils, I knew I was funked,
My Tagalog was great but my Hangookmal sucked.
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That's just a quickie off the top of my head… should I continue?
8:10 am on December 21st, 2010 9
#8 Bravo
8:38 am on December 21st, 2010 10
#8
That made my day
10:43 am on December 21st, 2010 11
#8 do you mind if I share your version of "twas" with my friends over on my favorite sports blog? I'll link to ROKDrop and give you credit, but it's just too good not to share. I know it's a sports blog, but we discuss a lot of topics (including Korea) now that NCAAF is winding down.
11:07 am on December 21st, 2010 12
BRAVO, BRAVO(Standing and clapping)
Encore…ENCORE!!!
11:21 am on December 21st, 2010 13
"Up on the bunker, click, click, click. Load another magazine it's ols Saint……………………………………………………………Dear Leader."
12:16 pm on December 21st, 2010 14
#8
Excellent
2:38 pm on December 21st, 2010 15
Chickenhead #8, OMFG You've outdone yourself with this one!
4:56 pm on December 21st, 2010 16
Here is a full version. I made a few changes from the last version. It certainly could do with some tuning to get the rhythm flowing.
Feel free to pass it around. Every year, I get several funny e-mails forwarded to me that I ACTUALLY WROTE. Go figure. Frequently, they have been changed a bit… although never for the better.
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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas on the DMZ
(c) 2010 ChickenHeadLab
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the DMZ,
the darkness was stirred by a lone Christmas tree.
Love gifts were hung from the balloons with care,
in hopes they’d pass north through the cold winter air.
The soldiers were nestled all snug in their bunks,
while visions of peaceful reunification gave them goose bumps.
With a ho in her hooker boots, and I in the buff,
I had just bent her over to treat her ass good and rough.
When out on the lawn arose loud banging and clicking,
I sprang from my bed to see whose ass needed kicking.
Away to the window I flew all in fear,
knocked over my soju and two bottles of beer.
The moon on the snow and the flares in the sky,
gave the luster of mid-day so I could not deny.
When, what to my wondering eyes should I see,
but a horde of Nork soldiers, tanks and artillery.
With pictures of Dear Leader and muzzle flashes aglow,
I wished for more combat training instead of briefings from EO.
They yelled threats and commands, I knew I was funked.
My Tagalog was great but my Korean skills sucked.
"Now, Kim! Now, Lee! Now, Park and Gong!
On, Choi! On Kwak! On, Nam and Song!
To the top of the hill! To the top of the wall!
Now kill the white devils, kill them all!"
And they hit the main gate the first time they tried,
where napping KATUSAs with empty guns died.
They attacked the wall of the BX and opened a chasm,
and looted the place, a black market orgasm.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard down the hall,
shooting and stabbing and harsh Han Gook Mal.
As I searched for a weapon and looked all around,
an evil Nork soldier came in with a bound.
He was dressed all in rags, from his head to his foot,
and his sockless toes could be seen through his boot.
A smoking AK he had flung on his back,
and I picked up my XBox to give him a whack.
His eyes — how they twinkled! Narrow and scarry!
But he looked like a teen who still had his cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up in rage,
and though I hadn't saved my game, I had to engage.
A rusty old knife, he held in his teeth,
as with hunger abound, he'd likely eaten the sheath.
He had a big square head and lacked any belly,
while I only passed my tape test on a diet of petroleum jelly.
I put down my XBox and said, "Here's the deal."
"If you don't kill me, I'll cook you a meal."
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his plate,
and gobbled Hamburger Helper like a trailer park date.
To get him to leave, I thought of more ploys,
"Why don't you take my hot juicy back to your boys?"
He sprang out the door with my juicy in tow,
and the last that I saw, they'd formed a line in the snow.
I hid under my bed with my XBox on,
And played Medal of Honor 'till the airstrike got here from Guam.
5:08 pm on December 21st, 2010 17
Chickenhead, you really need to do this professionally, you could get rich. BTW remember me for suggesting the idea, lol.
5:51 pm on December 21st, 2010 18
So, the North gets angry about the lights and the cars driving up and down that mountain? I'd put up lights 24/7 365 with a giant Santa Claus kicking KJI's butt. But that's just me; maybe I'm a radical when it comes to Christmas.
8:52 pm on December 21st, 2010 19
They may be on to something. Nothing says eff you to your neighbors like an obscene amount of Christmas lights, the tackier the better.
9:43 pm on December 21st, 2010 20
South Korea has begun "a three-day naval drill in the sea of Japan" and has scheduled "an exercise by the army and air force about 30 miles from [the DMZ]."
A "defense official in Seoul" said "there have been no unusual
movements by North Korean troops since the lighting of a 30-meter high Christmas tree …"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/asia/23ko…
I'm getting the definite impression that the ROK doesn't intend to yield to DPRK threats. I'm getting a less definite impression, but still an impression, that the DPRK has decided to be careful for a while.
1:29 am on December 22nd, 2010 21
ChickenHead #16: Excellent!
I think the Christmas lights are perfect. What a subtle response to NK's recent attacks. No bombs, no artillery. Just light. I would hate to be a NK peasant looking across the cold, snowy DMZ and knowing life must be better just a few miles to the south and then having to return to my cold, dark hovel. Or being a NK guard on the Z stamping your feet to get some feeling back in your toes while looking at the lights and thinking if I could just use that energy to keep me warm.
Did I miss it, or has there been a picture of the lights here on ROK Drop?
6:02 am on December 22nd, 2010 22
Am I the only one who skipped chickenhead's looooong damn post? Seems like he has way too much time on his hand.
11:20 am on December 22nd, 2010 23
#16 – Good stuff!
#22 – You fool, its good stuff!
They should grab a screen from an old drive through, put it on a hill over the DMZ and bombard them with the Muppet's Christmas Carols.