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North Korean state media has been touting new claims of mass enlistments amid “an atmosphere of war” and urgent defense preparedness in response to ongoing joint US-South Korea drills, which are the largest in five years.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) initially over the weekend cited a figure of 800,000 citizens having newly signed up for military service, most of them young people, while other state-linked sources are saying it’s well over one million enlistees. By Monday the number jumped significantly to claims of around 1.4 million people enlisting.
“Amidst soaring anger and hostility toward the US imperialists and the South Korean puppet traitors going mad over the reckless nuclear war provocation targeting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the ranks of hot-blooded youths bravely and vigorously set out to defend the homeland are growing day by day is growing,” a Pyongyang statement said.
The reports follow the North Korean government holding a major new recruiting drive, hosting events across the country while conducting near daily test launches of projectiles – including the latest on Sunday which included a ‘mock nuclear warhead’ as a warning to Seoul and Washington.
State media described that “youth college students from universities in various places as well as high-end middle school students from all over the country” expressed their determination “to join forces in the fight…”
The KCNA report additionally cited citizens’ willingness “mercilessly wipe out the war maniacs” – in what’s also clearly a propaganda blitz and bit of signaling aimed at the south and at the west. Kim Jung Un had promised a fierce response to the major US-South Korean drills which have lately included American B1 bombers and stealth jets joining the drills, dubbed Freedom Shield joint exercise.
But it seems Kim hasn’t gotten the reaction or attention from Washington that he hoped for, and thus could be daily ramping up the threatening missile launches and rhetoric.
The South Korean military, for its part, promised to continue undeterred with the US drills: “The South Korea-US alliance maintains the best-combined defense posture in the face of North Korea’s continued regional instability,” a press release said. “Going forward, we will realize ‘Peace through Strength’ and enhance the credibility of the US extended deterrence based on the solid capabilities and posture of the alliance,” it added.
King John Aeon!
I voted upvote and it went down! It changes like Mount Pataku in the mists!
Keep joking, extinct piece of useless paper money. Lanças os foguetes, fazes a festa e vais apanhar com as canas. Prepara o corpinho.
With the long list of bad things the US has done to other countries, the name “imperialist” fits well.
poor guys enlist in the army so at least they can get a meal … and not starve to death . If there is one country that really needs new leadership, that shithole north korea is it.
Have you eaten some shit recently in your fly over state?
feel free to move to NK and join the army , be a slave to Kim fuktard
Alternatively, move to JUSA and join the army, be a slave and die for Joe fuktard and his Ziomasters in wars of human enslavement.
that’s the dprk to ass fucks like yourself
Yeah, that is why I call that POS the FatAss. Look how fat his daughter is, too. Meanwhile, the people of North Korea continue to starve. They literally are living how people lived centuries ago. People need to listen to North Korean defectors more, like Yeonmi Park.
Its because of your american government they starve to death. Another nazi freak.
The problem is North Koreans have never seen a casino with hookers. This is how it is to live in a dictatorship.
North Korea propaganda is all it is. In North Korea, the entire “army” is forced conscription. People can’t even feed themselves in that country, while the FatAss gets fatter. Look at the bloated blimp he has turned his daughter into, while the rest of the country is starving to death. Fuck the Kim regime.
You’re not there so you’re just a lying pos. And it’s not like your mom was forced to suck dicks. She loves to suck Nazis dicks but she should’ve had swallowed you.
“But it seems Kim hasn’t gotten the reaction or attention from Washington that he hoped for”
That’s because everyone knows that the Norks don’t have the resources to raise and more importantly sustain an army of that size.
Kims military has been stompin mudholes in murcunts collective asses for years and years,neither they nor the faggot elves from rainbow war fuckforce advertise this fact as murcunts are ashamed to be faggots and peodos,and kims men take no pride continuously emasculating the rainbow whore gloryhole bois
Evidence of Kim’s awesome power of stompin murcunts?
Go for it Kim. You can do it if you can dream it.
As far as I recall North Korea has a standing army of around 1 million in itself a sizeable military force in any future conflict. The added numbers will cause the south Korean regime and their US backers concern not to mention Japan….
And China is enlisting military reservists.
North Korean military enlistments are a joke. Their emaciated ”army” has already has cut food rations in half. Seeing that eating of feces is high on the food rations, it is a sad joke. There are only two fat arsed people in North Korea, Kim Un and his porky little daughter. People in North Korea see the bloat on his daughter’s face and body and wonder how can she be so exempt from starvation as everyone else is not.