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[Guri Guy]

Oh and a beautiful picture of the two Koreas at night since we are off topic.

[Guri Guy]

An interesting article that can be found at: http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/031114-dprk-tunnels.htm

N. Korea's Ace in the Hole
The secretive nation is said to have thousands of underground facilities. They help keep weapons sites out of view -- and the U.S. military's reach
In-Depth Coverage By Barbara Demick

Like so many worker ants, the North Korean soldiers spent their days underground in a vast labyrinth of tunnels.

Their daily commute involved walking down four steep flights of stairs, then passing through a corridor that went nearly 800 yards into a mountain. They carried tightly sealed cartons, believed to contain raw materials for North Korea's secret weapons programs. Some days, especially if they were being punished, they were assigned simply to dig more tunnels.

K., a North Korean in his 30s, was recruited at age 17 into an elite military unit working for the agency responsible for weapons production. He took an oath to work underground for the rest of his career and was assigned to a cave in remote Musan County in North Hamgyong province, about 15 miles from the Chinese border.

"This is how we hide from our enemies. Everything in North Korea is underground," said K., who described the cave on condition that he be quoted using only his first initial and that certain identifying details be kept vague.

North Korea is riddled with caves like the one in which K. worked. Under its paranoid regime, virtually everything of military significance is manufactured underground, whether it's buttons for soldiers' uniforms or enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. A South Korean intelligence source estimates North Korea has several hundred large underground factories and more than 10,000 smaller facilities. Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., the author of three books on the North Korean military, puts the total number between 11,000 and 14,000.

Whatever the count, there are enough underground facilities that a popular joke has the country eventually collapsing not from the failure of its communist economic system but from so much burrowing in the dirt.

[The Man known as The Man]

kiwiboy, I like women.

HTH

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[Guri Guy]

Very well. It is possible it is fake. Here are some others:

[Swiss James]

where can you buy sour cream in Daegu?

[Summer Wine]

Why do we talk past each other and not to each other when we are in Venus.

[billybrobby]

People! People!

Can we get back to the subject at hand?

Japanese baseball is a whole different league than Korean baseball. It's also a little better (rimshot).

[lastat06513]

I really gotta hand it to you.

You created a thread where anything and everything can be discussed and fought over.

Awesome!

you've pulled it off!!~!

[Hanson]

Yeah, but that doesn't really answer my questions!!!

1) Where IS that stupid "Red Door" shop in Hannam???

2) Can I get a driver's license in Korea? How?

3) Why are there so many annoying baby avatars???

I often wonder why these IMPORTANT topics are NEVER discussed here on Dave's.

Pedro Martinez discovered he was gay after he left the almighty (and defunct ) Expos. GO WASHINGTON!

[Summer Wine]

Because the sun doesn't shine on the dark side of the moon. Thats why important topics are not discussed. Rather theuraputic this thread, don't have to answer anyone and no flames so far.

[seoulkitchen]

Has anyone here ever studied Zen? I've been thinking about it, but not sure how to go about it.......

[Hanson]

So, what's up with those ugly plastic sandals I'm seeing this spring? The ones that are weaved plastic - Ugh!

[just because]

has anyone ever eaten rice and smoky BBQ sauce mixed together for lunch...

Delicious