Saturday, October 07, 2006
An act of war, or an act of angling?
Five Nork soldiers crossed into the demilitarized zone that separates North Korea from South Korea, and the soldiers of the South fired off about 40 rounds as a "warning." Yes, the Norks were in violation of the ceasefire at a time when everybody is on edge waiting for the Pyongyankers to test a nuclear bomb, but maybe the soldiers were just hungry:
"It's not clear whether it was intentional or whether it was to catch fish," [a South Korean military official] said, adding that four of the North Koreans were unarmed, and the fifth carried a rifle.
Plausible? Yes. The Korean DMZ is a conservation habitat by default, abundant with wildlife that has not survived elsewhere in Korea. The species that flourish in the DMZ cling to a thin ribbon of undeveloped land that would not survive a renewal of the war or ultimate peace. The good fishing in the DMZ that lured* those soldiers is an artifact of the failure to end the Korean War once and for all.
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*I kill me.
1 Comments:
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GreenmanTim, at
Sat Oct 07, 01:59:00 PM:
TH received no goods or services of any kind for his donation of visitors to my site. Too bad I'm not a 501(c)(3) or he might have garnered a nice tax break for his generosity! (I kill me as well!)
