South Korea Lifts Ban on Military Games
South Korea Lifts Ban on Military Games
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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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:02am
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
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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.