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So in case of an Attack from the North, what do you do?
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desultude



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf

PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I find out that I have to evacuate, I will not look out the airplane window and laugh. I will cry for a very long time for the wonderful people that will have to stay here because this is their country.

I know that my university students here are very frightened of what will happen if Our Dear Leader in Washington decides to turn his attention in this direction. It reminds me of one of those old sci fi flicks, where the monster is running amok in one direction, and suddenly veers off in another. I just keep hoping that the war in Iraq, spying on their own citizens, suspending habias corpus, and closing headshops and websites is enough to keep this administration busy for a long while.
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems like things have calmed down a lot in the past year or so...maybe someone realizes that Iraq is not easily conquered and does not yet have time to move on to other evils.

How do you all feel about it now? Is everyone still registered at the embassy with emergency bags packed and evacuation plans at hand? (I carried the blessed evacuation plan and a portable radio around for MONTHS! Embarassed )
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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OiGirl wrote:
Is everyone still registered at the embassy with emergency bags packed and evacuation plans at hand? (I carried the blessed evacuation plan and a portable radio around for MONTHS! Embarassed )


Was this ever the case for most people? A portable radio? Is your Korean that good? AFKN probably won't be on the air long.
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kangnamdragon wrote:
OiGirl wrote:
Is everyone still registered at the embassy with emergency bags packed and evacuation plans at hand? (I carried the blessed evacuation plan and a portable radio around for MONTHS! Embarassed )


Was this ever the case for most people? A portable radio? Is your Korean that good? AFKN probably won't be on the air long.

Well, since what AFKN was supposed to tell me was how to get to Kunsan air force base, I guess it would be useful as long as it were broadcasting!
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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the commies would launch missiles at the American bases first. Head for Mokpo then catch a slow boat to China.
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just because



Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My plan was just to swim to japan.
Just jump in the ocean and hope someone picks me up.

I've heard that drowning is a peaceful death
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desultude



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The prisoner abuse scandal has eclipsed everything else in the news, but I am still wondering if anyone has seen the "dear leader" since the explosion at the train station.

I think the U.S. has too much to deal with at the moment, in Iraq. But I worry about what Bush will do if he is elected in the fall. With a mandate and no neet to worry about being re-elected (two terms limit in States, unless the right decides to change the Constitution to ban gay marriages allow for a third term) he could do whatever he could get away with.

Anyway, I'm not worried at the moment, but I do try to keep cash on hand in case of any exigency that may arise.
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nev



Joined: 04 Jan 2004
Location: ch7t

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If North Korea Attacks I Would Get Out My God Damn Gun And Start Blasting Hell Out Of Every God Damn Last One Of Those 22 Million Satans.
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just because



Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nev,
How would you tell the difference between the North and South Koreans in a war situation????
It would be paronoid madness.
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Yesterday



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)

PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This topic over the last few years just keeps coming up again and again

and again

and again

Really....... if anything if EVER DID occur - I would just keep going about life as usual... work etc

I find it amazing that this topic keeps coming up again and again...

and again

and again

and wonder to myself - if all these people are so afraid.... and actually think that something will happen sooner or later... why did they so BOLDLY venture here in the first place?

Shouldn't you run now??


Last edited by Yesterday on Wed May 12, 2004 11:23 am; edited 1 time in total
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Zark



Joined: 12 May 2003
Location: Phuket, Thailand: Look into my eyes . . .

PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I lived in Pusan, I kept a backpack with clean underwear, several hundred US$ in cash and my passport in it - and a baseball bat.

The money was for the taxi driver to take me to Camp Hialeah (nobody would attack that little place) and the baseball bat was in case the taxi driver didn't cooperate.
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jurassic5



Joined: 02 Apr 2003
Location: PA

PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmmm...maybe i should register at the embassy.

i guess i would kind of blend in with everyone if anything did happen. Confused


well, i guess i would just head down to the local LG 25 and pick me up a lot of the green bottles.....
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As I've posted on a similar thread last year, I still think I'd liberate a fishing boat from a harbour here on the island or a pleasure craft from a marina in Busan and sail toward a South Pacific island with a couple of newly-found friends. (I've always loved islands and seafood.)
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ryleeys



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Columbia, MD

PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jurassic5,

When they storm across the border, head down to Icheon... it's a little podunk place nobody cares about and you and I can put away beers while the country goes to hell around us.
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jurassic5



Joined: 02 Apr 2003
Location: PA

PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ryleeys wrote:
jurassic5,

When they storm across the border, head down to Icheon... it's a little podunk place nobody cares about and you and I can put away beers while the country goes to hell around us.


sweet...thanks for the offer. i'll only be down if they have the 1.6 Liter bottles of Hite Prime. Laughing
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