December 29, 2006
The Korea Times reports that the South Korean government has lifted a ban on certain military games.In recent times, tites like Ghost Recon 2 and Mercenaries, which dealt with the tense political situation between North and South Korea, have been barred. But Kim Key-man of the Korea Media Rating Board said those restrictions will be relaxed in the interest of freedom of expression.
In the past, North Korea has seized on such game content for propaganda purposes. The Korea Times report cites one such diatribe:
"Through propaganda, entertainment and movies, Americans have shown everyone their hatred for us," North Korea's Tongil newspaper said about Ghost Recon 2. "This may be just a game to them now, but a war will not be a game for them later. In war, they will only face miserable defeat and gruesome deaths."
Source: GameSpot U.K.
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You are forgetting that a good army does not mean alot of soldiers alone. It also means equipment and deployment options, and of course weaponry. The US have way better equipment, deployment and weaponry.
Fighting a war is something the US is good at. Holding the peace when winning is another thing.
North Korea is not threat.
Holy inflammatory comments, Batman!
Man that is the best thing ever said on the subject of games ever in history.
Sounds a lot like when Saddam predicted that the Americans would "swim in pools of their own blood" right before the 1991 Gulf War. Boy, he sure hit the nail on the head with that one, didn't he, folks?
Exactly. On top of all that, I seem to recall that Iraq previously held the positon of military strength that NK holds today (#4 or 5 in the world) when it went into the Gulf War. However, just like DoggySpew said, that numerical advantage was rendered useless against the U.S.'s superior tatics and technology. Would an operation against NK be tougher? Maybe, if the commanders were smart and the troops at peak form. However, from what I've heard, their soldiers (many of them conscripts) are not that well-trained or disciplined, and their commanding officers aren't much better. Even if that isn't true, America's more advanced air and sea power could easily take out most of the KPA's important positions on the ground, therby weakening and demoralizing them.
And Marshie is correct, we should worry more about China's military. Not only do they have overwhelming numbers, but they are developing modern warfare systems to compete with the rest. Compared to them, NZ is just a bug waiting the be squashed.
In Ian Flemming's legendary novels, the bad guys were SMERSH and the KGB. In the movie adaptations, they were switched to evil secret societies and terrorist orginizations like SPECTER. This was done to avoid offending the Soviet Union. (One of John F. Kennedy's favorite books was reported to be On Her Majesty's Secret Service.)
Anybody's going to have a huge army when they have over 1 in 4 citizens in some service in the military. The United States, for reference, has roughly 1 in 100 citizens in some military service.
If anything, I'd be worried about China. They have a standing army of over two million soldiers and only 1 in 200 citizens are enlisted in some form of military service.
December 29th, 2006 at 10:22 am
That’s the kind of trash talk you like to hear on XBox Live."
LOL! Nice one.
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But remember that toward the end of World War II in 1945, Hitler still had many millions of soldiers in the field. Did not help/save him.
Also, the Russians lost literally 20 million soldiers against the Germans alone.
Numbers are less important in modern warfare (WWII - present).
Screw NK, they are a joke and if we can take out *truly* bad-ass armies (like Germany's and Japan's), they are fucking dreaming thinking they can hold their own with our military (or the UK's for that matter).
I mean, did they forget the Koren War? We are the reason their nation is divided into North & South. NK is fascist.