WAR North Korea's “State of War” Declaration Is a Faulty Translation

[jonnybones]

I have no idea how true this report really is,...but wanted to share,...just in case it is factual :

DPRK’s “State of War” Declaration Is a Faulty Translation: Not an Official Policy Statement from Kim Jung Un

http://www.globalresearch.ca/dprks-...ial-policy-statement-from-kim-jung-un/5329687

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Partial quote :

“from that time” becomes “from this time on” and “from this moment“… little change, big difference

As much as our leaders would like them to have taken the bait, North Korea has not declared war on the South or the U.S. in response to our unprecedented provocations.....

The much touted “state of war” declaration is not a declaration of war from Kim Jung Un but rather a statement of support for whatever decision he has too make from the “the government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK.” It claims only they will declare themselves in a state of war WHEN their leader makes that decision showing they are completely behind him. It is a statement of support from the people and perhaps a warning to the South that the North will not fold under their attack. But not a declaration of war from Kim Jung Un.

There is a campaign of propaganda underway this week in Korea and I will show you that this latest crisis is nothing more than a continuation of that warmongering effort......

 

[Scotto]

That fits in with what we are hearing from people in South Korea who are unconcerned about this.

 

[Mr. Gravy]

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[pete5555]

is there any verification or proof that this is correct

 

[Be Well]

This was a surprising article, so I did a search on the author.

It was an edifying search. He's sort of a nutcase and associates with others. Just a few examples, he's a truther, appears to be an anti-Semite holocaust denier or at the very least associates with same, and wants to "criminalize war". Yeah, making war against the law will really help. The site he is especially associated with has an artilce (not by him, although he writes many of the articles) that state:

North Korea and the “Axis of Evil” By Brian Willson, April 04, 2013

It important for Americans to place themselves in the position of people living in targeted countries. That North Korea, a nation of 25 million people, a land slightly larger than Pennsylvania, continues to be one of the most demonized nations and least understood, totally perplexes the Korean people.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/news

IOW, take the OP article with a grain of salt. Looks like the Global Research is one of the organizations that think "The US is the Great Satan and all the other countries who are "bad" like Nork are only that way because the Great Satan is mean to them."

 

[Melodi]

I might actually believe this if it had come out with 24 hours of the original declaration - since it didn't, I simply don't accept it as valid. There are just too many Korean Americans and others (including in the military and State Department) who are fluent in both languages and would have picked this up - it would have been all over facebook from folks in the Korean-American community in Los Angeles in a heart-beat.

I will accept an attempt to "re-spin" the declaration to "tone it down" by either the North or the South as a way to "safe face." That's an old Asian technique along the lines of "What Dear Leader really said was..." If so, perhaps the North itself is looking for a way to back out gracefully before becoming a sheet of glass (or at least the generals lose their BMW's).

South Korea is "unconcerned" I think do to a combination of "normalcy bias," they "believe" their government when it tells them it everyone is fine (because they want to) and because in the past North Korea has been all bark an no bite, at least since 1950.

I hope they are correct, but lately things have seemed a little more intense than is usual, even for North Korea.

 

[Mr. Gravy]

This was a surprising article, so I did a search on the author.

It was an edifying search. He's sort of a nutcase and associates with others. Just a few examples, he's a truther, appears to be an anti-Semite holocaust denier or at the very least associates with same, and wants to "criminalize war". Yeah, making war against the law will really help. The site he is especially associated with has an artilce (not by him, although he writes many of the articles) that state:



http://www.globalresearch.ca/news

IOW, take the OP article with a grain of salt. Looks like the Global Research is one of the organizations that think "The US is the Great Satan and all the other countries who are "bad" like Nork are only that way because the Great Satan is mean to them."

Are they the ones who were saying the leader of Iran was "misquoted" and really didn't say he wanted to wipe Israel off the map?

 

[Jonas Parker]

The "Nork Dork" has to learn better grammar...

 

[Be Well]

Are they the ones who were saying the leader of Iran was "misquoted" and really didn't say he wanted to wipe Israel off the map?

It's always enlightening to see what other stuff authors have written, what their websites espouse, and who they hang out with, so to speak.

And Melodi's comment is spot on, too - if it was really a mistranslation, we'd have heard from other sources already.